Research Catalog

Title

Steve Paxton and Simone Forti [videorecording] / presented by The Kitchen and Improvisation Festival/NY.

Publication

c1995.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Paxton, Steve
• Forti, Simone
• Gould, Glenn.
• Gibson, Jon.
• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750.
• Mazzola, Michael.
• Holub, Johannes.
• New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
• Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film, and Literature (New York, N.Y.)
• Improvisation Festival/New York.
• DHCA.

Description

2 videocassettes (U-matic, NTSC) (103 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Jackdaw songs (Choreographic work : Forti)

Subjects

• Dance
• Improvisation in dance
• Video

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Note

• Accompanied by house program.
• Recording made possible by the cooperation of Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, The Kitchen, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.

Credits (note)

• Lighting, Michael Mazzola.

Performer (note)

• Danced by Steve Paxton and Simone Forti.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in performance at The Kitchen, New York, on December 9, 1995, by Johannes Holub.

Funding (note)

• Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Contents

• Cassette 1. Ply (ca. 21 min.) / music, collage ; danced by Steve Paxton.
• Still life [and] Jackdaw songs (ca. 18 min.) / music for Still life, Jon Gibson (Framing music) ; danced by Simone Forti.
• Some English suites #1 (ca. 15 min.) / music, J.S. Bach, played by Glenn Gould ; improvised by Steve Paxton.
• Cassette 2. Animations (ca. 16 min.) / danced by Simone Forti.
• Some English suites #2 (ca. 20 min.) / music, J.S. Bach, played by Glenn Gould ; improvised by Steve Paxton.
• Animations (ca. 11 min.) / danced by Simone Forti.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-5049

OCLC

NYPY96-F205

Title

Steve Paxton and Simone Forti [videorecording] / presented by The Kitchen and Improvisation Festival/NY.

Imprint

c1995.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Credits

Lighting, Michael Mazzola.

Performer

Danced by Steve Paxton and Simone Forti.

Event

Videotaped in performance at The Kitchen, New York, on December 9, 1995, by Johannes Holub.

Funding

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Added Author

Paxton, Steve, choreographer, dancer.

Forti, Simone, choreographer, dancer.

Gould, Glenn. Instrumentalist

Gibson, Jon. Composer

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Composer

Mazzola, Michael. Lighting designer

Holub, Johannes. Videographer

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

Kitchen Center for Video, Music, Dance, Performance, Film, and Literature (New York, N.Y.)

Improvisation Festival/New York.

DHCA.

Added Title

Jackdaw songs (Choreographic work : Forti)

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-5049