Title

Athleticism in dance: Acrobatics of the 18th century [videorecording]

Publication

1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• ARC Videodance (Firm)
• Bush, Jeffrey C.
• Ipiotis, Celia.
• Pierce, Ken,
• Turocy, Catherine,
• Turocy, Catherine.
• Wagoner, Dan.

Description

1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (29 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Eye on dance ; 134

Subjects

• Acrobatic dancing
• Brambles (Choreographic work : Wagoner)
• Ballets russes
• Television > Eye on dance
• Lambranzi, Gregorio, active 1700 > Nuova e curiosa scuola de' balli theatrali English, German, & Italian
• Television > Athleticism in dance
• Baroque dancing
• Ballet technique
• Television > Esoterica balletica
• Camargo, Marie Anne de Cupis de, 1710-1770
• Commedia dell'arte
• Weaver, John, 1673-1760
• Montgomery, George
• Social dancing > Etiquette

Note

• Produced by ARC Videodance as part of the television series Eye on dance. Recorded on November 1, 1984 at the studios of WNYC, New York. Telecast on November 11, 1984. Producers: Celia Ipiotis and Jeff Bush. Video director: Richard Sheridan. Program director: Celia Ipiotis. Technical director: Jeff Bush. Host: Celia Ipiotis.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-2926

Title

Athleticism in dance: Acrobatics of the 18th century [videorecording]

Imprint

1984.

Series

Eye on dance ; 134

Summary

Catherine Turocy, artistic director of the New York Baroque Dance Company, discusses athleticism in dance as manifested in the 18th and subsequent centuries. She notes how costume, etiquette and decorum, and different aesthetic sensibilities affected dance technique. She and company member Ken Pierce demonstrate batterie and pirouettes of the baroque period, and she also displays a corset and panniers of the type worn by 18th-century dancers. Other topics include acrobatic dances from Lambranzi's New and curious school of theatrical dancing, the costume innovations of Camargo, the introduction of pointe work, the commedia dell'arte and Italian virtuosity, Weaver's ideas on spectacle, and the sports ballets of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In Esoterica balletica, Dan Wagoner describes Brambles, a conceptual work created in collaboration with poet George Montgomery.

Local Subject

Television. Athleticism in dance.

Television. Eye on dance.

Baroque dancing.

Commedia dell'arte.

Television. Esoterica balletica.

Ballet technique.

Social dancing -- Etiquette.

Acrobatic dancing.

Added Author

Turocy, Catherine. Interviewee

Turocy, Catherine, dancer.

Pierce, Ken, dancer.

Ipiotis, Celia. Host. Producer. Director

Wagoner, Dan. Commentator

Bush, Jeffrey C. Producer

ARC Videodance (Firm)

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-2926