Research Catalog

Letter

Title: Letter, 1972 and 1988 / performed by the Martha Graham Dance Company ; choreography by Martha Graham.
Publication: 1988.

Details

Additional Authors

Found In

Contained in (manifestation): Martha Graham Dance Company collection.

Description

1 online resource (1 video file) (109 min., 27 sec.) : sound, color and black and white

Summary

A video recording compilation of Letter to the world performances by the Martha Graham Dance Company. The first recording is a black and white studio rehearsal film from August 1972. The second recording is a stage performance at New York City Center in 1988.

Alternative Title

Letter to the world

Genre/Form

Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.

Note

Title from videocassette label.
Cast and date information from videocassette label.
Patrons can access streaming video file online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Event (note)

Recorded at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance in New York, NY in August 1972.
Recorded at New York City Center in New York, NY in 1988.

Contents

A rehearsal film of Letter to the world / filmed for the Jerome Robbins archive dance collection The New York Public Library ; choreography by Martha Graham ; music by Hunter Johnson ; pianists: Stanley Sussman, Louis Stewart ; set by Arch Lauterer (One Who Dances: Pearl Lang ; One Who Speaks: Jean Erdman ; Lover: William Carter ; Ancestress: Armgard von Bardeleben ; March: David Hatch Walker ; Fairy Queen: Phyllis Gutelius ; Young Girl: Takako Asakawa ; Two Children: Judith Hogan, Yuriko Kimura)(August 1972)(starts at 00:00, 52 min.) -- Letter to the world / stage performance at New York City Center (performed by Terese Capucilli, Christine Dakin, Donlin Foreman, Peggy Lyman, Kenneth Topping, Kathy Buccellato, Camille Brown, Theresa Maldonado, Miki Orihara, Debra Kantor, Daniela Stasi, Myra Woodruff, Mark Borneman, Christopher Dolder, Floyd Flynn, Young Ha Yoo)(1988)(starts at 52:30, 56 min.).

OCLC

1375583431

Title

Letter, 1972 and 1988 / performed by the Martha Graham Dance Company ; choreography by Martha Graham.

Production

1988.

Country of Producing Entity

United States

Playing Time

014927

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Event

Recorded at the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance in New York, NY in August 1972.

Recorded at New York City Center in New York, NY in 1988.

Added Author

Container of (work): Graham, Martha. Letter to the world.

Container of (work): Johnson, Hunter, 1906-1998. Letter to the world. Suite.

Sussman, Stanley, musician.

Stewart, Louis, 1944- musician.

Lauterer, Arch, 1904-1957, set designer.

Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009, dancer.

Erdman, Jean, dancer.

Carter, William, 1936-1988, dancer.

Von Bardeleben, Armgard, dancer.

Walker, David Hatch, dancer.

Gutelius, Phyllis, dancer.

Asakawa, Takako, dancer.

Hogan, Judith, dancer.

Kimura, Yuriko (Dancer), dancer.

Capucilli, Terese, dancer.

Dakin, Christine, dancer.

Foreman, Donlin, dancer.

Lyman, Peggy, dancer.

Topping, Kenneth, dancer.

Buccellato, Kathy, dancer.

Brown, Camille, dancer.

Maldonado, Theresa, dancer.

Orihara, Miki, dancer.

Kantor, Debra (Dancer), dancer.

Stasi, Daniela, dancer.

Woodruff, Myra, dancer.

Borneman, Mark, dancer.

Dolder, Christopher, dancer.

Flynn, Floyd, dancer.

Yoo, Young-Ha, dancer.

Martha Graham Dance Company, dancer.

Martha Graham Dance Company, donor.

Other Title

Letter to the world

Found In:

Contained in (manifestation): Martha Graham Dance Company collection.

Other Form:

Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Letter. 1 videocassette (109 min., 27 sec.) : sound, color and black and white ; 1/2 in. (SPEC AMI ID)529826 (OCoLC)1375583660

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