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Great performers

Title
  1. Great performers [videorecording]
Published by
  1. 1984.
Format
  1. Film, slide, etc.

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AccessUse in libraryCall number*MGZIC 9-2903Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional authors
  1. Way, Jennifer
  2. Burns, Louise Ann
  3. Johnson, Kate
  4. Ipiotis, Celia
  5. Komar, Chris
  6. Weksler, Teri
  7. Parks, Mama Lu
  8. Kahn, Hannah
  9. Atlas, Charles
  10. Bush, Jeffrey C
  11. Tharp, Twyla
  12. Cunningham, Merce
  13. Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  14. Twyla Tharp and Dancers
  15. ARC Videodance (Firm)
Description
  1. 1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (28 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. Guests are dancers Jennifer Way of Twyla Tharp and Dancers, Louise Burns of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and Kate Johnson of the Paul Taylor Dance Company. They discuss various aspects of the performing experience: what differentiates it from dancing in class or rehearsal, the qualities that make for a good performance, feelings of ambivalence about a performing career, thoughts about second careers, and typecasting and the need to break out of a mold. Each guest is seen performing in brief recorded excerpts: Burns with Chris Komar and other members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in Channels/inserts, a cinedance by Cunningham and Charles Atlas; Way with members of Twyla Tharp and Dancers in Tharp's Short stories; and Johnson with Teri Weksler in Hannah Kahn's Near and spar. In Esoterica balletica, Mama Lu Parks reminisces about the heyday of the Savoy Ballroom and the rage for the lindy hop. She demonstrates a step from the applejack called "spank the baby."
Series statement
  1. Eye on dance ; 111
Subject
  1. Savoy Ballroom (New York, N.Y.)
  2. Lindy (Dance)
  3. Applejack (Dance)
Call number
  1. *MGZIC 9-2903
Language
  1. English
Note
  1. Produced by ARC Videodance as part of the television series Eye on dance. Recorded on March 1, 1984 at the studios of WNYC, New York. Telecast on March 12, 1984. Producers: Celia Ipiotis and Jeff Bush. Video director: Richard Sheridan. Program director: Celia Ipiotis. Technical director: Jeff Bush. Host: Celia Ipiotis.
Local subject
  1. Television. Great performers.
  2. Television. Eye on dance.
  3. Motion pictures. Channels/inserts.
  4. Television. Short stories.
  5. Television. Esoterica balletica.
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