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Isadora Duncan dance technique and repertory

Title
Isadora Duncan dance [videorecording] : technique and repertory / Dance Horizons Video ; presented by DanceArts Foundation ; producer, Tamme Irby, DG Associates, Inc.
Publication
Pennington, NJ : Princeton Book Company, Publishers, c1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Mantell-Seidel, Andrea.
  • Levien, Julia
  • Lewis, Daniel, 1944-
  • Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927
  • Irby, Tamme.
  • Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble (Miami, Fla.)
  • New World School of the Arts.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (58 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
Performance of excerpts and four complete works drawn from the repertory of Isadora Duncan, interspersed with a discussion of the Duncan dance schools, and a technique demonstration.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Gift of Marilyn Dean Schwalm, additional copy.
  • Gift of George Dorris, additional copy.
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Credits (note)
  • Choreography by Isadora Duncan, as performed by Julia Levien in the companies of Anna Duncan and Irma Duncan, staged by Andrea Mantell-Seidel ; director of photography and editor, Raul Acosta.
Performer (note)
  • Narrator: Dr. Andrea Mantell-Seidel.
Event (note)
  • Filmed on location at the New World School of the Arts and the Colony Theater, Miami, Florida.
Contents
  • Southern roses [excerpt] / music, J. Strauss (Waltz).
  • Mother [excerpt] / music, Scriabin (Etude, Op. 2, no. 1) ; danced by Andrea Mantell-Seidel.
  • Nocturne in E [excerpt] / music, Chopin.
  • Narcissus [excerpt] / music, Chopin (Waltz, Op. 64, no. 2).
  • Harp etude [excerpt] / music, Chopin (Op. 25, no. 1).
  • History of the Duncan dance schools / by Julia Levien ; illustrated with still photographs.
  • Under the scarf [complete] / music, Schubert (Waltz).
  • Commentary by Daniel Lewis, dean of the New School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
  • Class technique as taught in the Duncan schools from 1904 / demonstrated by the Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble, seen working with Julia Levien ; includes slow movements, walking, running and leaping, the skip, Dionysian, a Bacchic dance movement, and polka.
  • Water study [excerpt] / music, Schubert (Waltz).
  • Three Graces [excerpt] / music, Schubert (Waltz).
  • Balspiel [excerpt] / music, Chopin.
  • Sisters' mazurka [excerpt] / music, Chopin.
  • Slow mazurka [complete] / music, Chopin (Op. 17, no. 4).
  • Rosepetals [excerpt] / music, Brahms (Waltz, Op. 39, no. 15).
  • Dance of the blessed spirits [complete] / music, Gluck (Orpheus and Eurydice).
  • Cherubim [excerpt] / music, Gluck (Orpheus and Eurydice).
  • Bacchanale [excerpt] / music, Gluck (Iphigenia).
  • Revolutionary [excerpt] / music, Scriabin (Etude, Op. 8, no. 2).
  • Dubinushka, from Impressions of Revolutionary Russia [complete].
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-2210
OCLC
  • 32276727
  • NYPY96-F257
Title
Isadora Duncan dance [videorecording] : technique and repertory / Dance Horizons Video ; presented by DanceArts Foundation ; producer, Tamme Irby, DG Associates, Inc.
Imprint
Pennington, NJ : Princeton Book Company, Publishers, c1995.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Performer
Narrator: Dr. Andrea Mantell-Seidel.
Danced by the Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble: Niurka Anaya, Stephanie Bastos, Delasie Browne, Tatiana Castro, Maribel Gonzalez, Andrea Mantell-Seidel, Nikki Rollason, Michelle Vazquez, and Tamara Welch, with apprentices Cynthia Gonzalez and Karen Mathews ; artistic director, Andrea Mantell-Seidel ; artistic advisor, Julia Levien.
Pianist: Sergio Gonzalez.
Credits
Choreography by Isadora Duncan, as performed by Julia Levien in the companies of Anna Duncan and Irma Duncan, staged by Andrea Mantell-Seidel ; director of photography and editor, Raul Acosta.
Event
Filmed on location at the New World School of the Arts and the Colony Theater, Miami, Florida.
Local Subject
Duncan dancing.
Added Author
Mantell-Seidel, Andrea. nrt, dancer.
Levien, Julia, dancer.
Lewis, Daniel, 1944- Commentator
Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927, choreographer.
Irby, Tamme. Producer
Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble (Miami, Fla.)
New World School of the Arts.
DHCA.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-2210
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