Giaconda and Si-Ya-U
- Title
- Giaconda and Si-Ya-U [videorecording].
- Published by
- 1981.
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Status | Vol/date | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance. | Vol/datedisc 2 | FormatDVD | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZIDVD 5-2560 disc 2 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance. | Vol/datedisc 1 | FormatDVD | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZIDVD 5-2560 disc 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 2 videodiscs (NTSC) (57 min.) : sd., b&w; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Theater piece incorporating dialogue, music, movement, shadow plays, puppets, and tableaux vivants based on works of art. The plot, based on a story by Turkish writer Nazim Hikmet, depicts an imaginary romance between Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) and a Chinese man.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Call number
- *MGZIDVD 5-2560
- Note
- Presented by Dance Theater Workshop's Economy Tires Theater.
- Credits (note)
- Created by the Talking Band: Sybille Hayn, Ellen Maddow, Tina Shepard, Arthur Strimling, and Paul Zimet; music, Sybille Hayn and Ellen Maddow; songs, Paul Zimet; text, Nazim Hikmet; translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk with the permission of Persea Books; puppets and screens, Julie Taymor; costumes, Mary Brecht; lighting, Arden Fingerhut.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in performance by Video D Studios at the Bessie Schönberg Theater, New York, on Nov. 27, 1981.
- Funding (note)
- This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
- System details (note)
- DVD.
- Title
- Giaconda and Si-Ya-U [videorecording].
- Imprint
- 1981.
- Country of producing entity
- United States.
- Credits
- Created by the Talking Band: Sybille Hayn, Ellen Maddow, Tina Shepard, Arthur Strimling, and Paul Zimet; music, Sybille Hayn and Ellen Maddow; songs, Paul Zimet; text, Nazim Hikmet; translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk with the permission of Persea Books; puppets and screens, Julie Taymor; costumes, Mary Brecht; lighting, Arden Fingerhut.
- Performer
- Performed by the Talking Band.
- Event
- Videotaped in performance by Video D Studios at the Bessie Schönberg Theater, New York, on Nov. 27, 1981.
- Funding
- This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
- System details
- DVD.
- Local note
- Former classmark: *MGZIC 9-3851.
- Added author
- Hayn, Sybille. Performer
- Hayn, Sybille. Composer
- Maddow, Ellen. Performer
- Maddow, Ellen. Composer
- Shepard, Tina. Performer
- Strimling, Arthur. Performer
- Zimet, Paul. Performer
- Zimet, Paul. Composer
- Blasing, Randy. Translator
- Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, 1944- Translator
- Brecht, Mary. Costume designer
- Nâzım Hikmet, 1902-1963. Author
- Taymor, Julie, 1952- designer.
- Fingerhut, Arden, lighting designer.
- Talking Band (Company)
- Economy Tires Theater.
- Dance Theater Workshop.
- Video D Studios.
- Research call number
- *MGZIDVD 5-2560