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Ellis Island

Title
  1. Ellis Island [videorecording] / conceived and directed by Meredith Monk ; produced and co-directed by Bob Rosen ; music by Meredith Monk and Collin Walcott (waltzes)
Published by
  1. West Germany : ZDF, 1982.
Format
  1. Film, slide, etc.

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Additional authors
  1. Monk, Meredith
  2. Turner, Gail
  3. Sverdlik, Daniel
  4. Goodman, Andrea, 1953-
  5. Een, Robert
  6. Blevins, Tone
  7. Lemon, Ralph
  8. Vela, Pablo
  9. Nagrin, Lee
  10. Moseley, Monica
  11. Cummings, Blondell
  12. Hoek, Mieke van
  13. Shultz, Mary
  14. Langland, Paul
  15. Fisher, Ellen
  16. Clorfeine, Steve
  17. Rosen, Robert
  18. Walcott, Collin
  19. Meredith Monk/The House (Company)
  20. DHCA.
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (28 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. At the turn of the century over twelve million immigrants were examined at Ellis Island for their fitness for entry to the United States. The institution is now a crumbling ruin in New York harbor, visited by occasional bands of tourists. The film is an evocation of Ellis Island as a passage in time and national experience. Sequences of this film were originally shown as part of the theater-dance work Recent Ruins. This briefer version may be seen on *MGZIC 9-257 Dance journeys (Videotape).
Uniform title
  1. Ellis Island (Choreographic work : Monk)
  2. Recent ruins (Choreographic work : Monk)
Subject
  1. Nationalism in dance. - [Browse in index]
  2. Television. Ellis Island. - [Browse in index]
Genre/Form
  1. Dance.
  2. Video.
Call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-5806
Language
  1. English
Credits (note)
  1. Costumes, Steve Clorfeine.
Event (note)
  1. Telecast on ZDF, West Germany, on January 21, 1982.
System details (note)
  1. DVD, transferred from Digital Betacam cassette.
Local note
  1. Former call number: *MGZIC 9-435.
Performer
  1. Performed by Meredith Monk/The House, including Tone Blevins, Steve Clorfeine, Blondell Cummings, Robert Een, Ellen Fisher, Andrea Goodman, Paul Langland, Ralph Lemon, Monica Moseley, Lee Nagrin, Mary Shultz, Daniel Ira Sverdlik, Gail Turner, Mieke van Hoek, and Pablo Vela, with 52 additional performers.
Added title
  1. Container of (work): Ellis Island (Choreographic work : Monk)
  2. Container of (work): Recent ruins (Choreographic work : Monk)
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