CONTENTS. - Reel 1 (53 min.): The seasons. Chor: Shimazaki. Mus: "Spring": Franz Liszt, Valse oubliée no. 1; "Summer": Maurice Ravel, Oiseaux tristes; "Autumn": Liszt, Nuage gris; "Winter": Claude Debussy, Des pas sur la neige; "Spring": Johannes Brahms, Walzer, Op. 39, nos. 1 and 2. - Three tangos. Ito tango (chor: Michio Ito; mus: Isaac Albéniz, Tango in D). Mertz tango (chor: Anneliese Mertz; mus: Erik Satie, Tango from Sports et divertissements). Shimazaki tango (chor: Shimazaki; mus: Igor Stravinsky, Tango). - Journeys with Satie. Chor: Mertz. Mus: Satie ("Passacaglia": Passacaglia; "Pastorale": Gnossienne no. 3; "First flight": Petite ouverture à danser; "Piano solo" [instrumental only]: Gnossienne no. 2; "Portrait": D'edriophthalma, D'holothurie, #2). Lighting: Ruth Grauert. - Reel 2 (30 min.): Dance of the Fury, Flute solo, and Dance of the blessed spirits (chor: Isadora Duncan, restaged by Julia Levien; mus: Christoph Willibald Gluck, from Orfeo ed Euridice). - Rachmaninoff Prelude in B flat major, Op. 23, no. 2. Piano solo played by Dmitry Rachmanov. - Revolutionary (chor: Duncan, restaged by Levien; mus: Alexandre Scriabin, Revolutionary étude, Op. 8, no. 12). - Pizzicati (chor: Ito; mus: Léo Delibes, from Sylvia).
Call number
*MGZIDF 7938
Language
English
Note
Videotaped in performance on Nov. 18, 1983 at the Riverside Dance Festival, Riverside Theatre, New York, by Virginia Brooks.
Lighting (except Journeys with Satie): Jon Garness.
Performed by Satoru Shimazaki. Pianist: Dmitry Rachmanov.
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Funding (note)
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.