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Complexions--A Concept in Dance

Title: Complexions--A Concept in Dance [electronic resource] / presented by the Joyce Theater Foundation, inc. in the series Altogether Different ; artistic directors, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson ; choreography, Dwight Rhoden.
Publication: c1997.

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Description

2 streaming video file (NTSC) (95 min.) : sd., col.

Uniform Title

Gravel (Choreographic work : Rhoden)
Global warming (Choreographic work : Rhoden)
Diction (Choreographic work : Rhoden)
Cake (Choreographic work : Rhoden)
Grapes of wrath (Choreographic work : Rhoden)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Accompanied by house program.
Recording made possible by the cooperation of Complexions--A Concept in Dance, the Joyce Theater, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, on January 10, 1997 ; video director, Johannes Holub ; camera, Jenny Holub and Penny Ward.

Funding (note)

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Contents

Reel 1. Gravel (ca. 15 min.) / music, Antonio Carlos Scott ; costumes, Epperson ; lighting, Betsy Herst ; danced by Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson.
Fractal boundaries (excerpt from Global warming) (ca. 10 min.) / music, Antonio Carlos Scott ; costumes, Ricky Lizalde ; lighting, Dwight Rhoden and Tricia Tolliver ; danced by Alicia Diaz, Ricky Lizalde, Miho Morinoue, Deanna Mullis, Jeffrey Polston, Desmond Richardson, Rebecca Rigert, Antonio Carlos Scott, Sarah White, and Sheri Williams.
Diction (ca. 16 min.) / music, Art of Noise, Falco, Pat Metheny, and Antonio Carlos Scott ; costumes, Ricky Lizalde ; danced by Miho Morinoue, Jeffrey Polston, Desmond Richardson, Ruthlyn Salomons, Antonio Carlos Scott, and Sheri Williams.
Reel 2. Cake (ca. 44 min.) / music, Antonio Carlos Scott, Future Sound of London, and Mark Weber ; vocalist, Phillip Hamilton ; text, Aubrey Lynch and Dwight Rhoden ; American Sign Language translation, Aubrey Lynch ; costumes, Cesar Galindo ; lighting, Betsy Herst ; performed in five sections: 1, The ultimate, danced by Adrianna Suarez and Desmond Richardson ; 2, Countertop, danced by the Company: Sarita Allen, Alicia Diaz, Jodie Gates, Ricky Lizalde, Aubrey Lynch, Jae Man Joo, Christina Johnson, Miho Morinoue, Aldawna Morrison, Deanna Mullis, Jeffrey Polston, Ruthlyn Salomons, Antonio Carlos Scott, Andre Tyson, Tomoko Wakamatsu, Sarah White, and Sheri Williams ; 3, Mixing bowl, danced by the Company ; 4, Batter, danced by Leonora Stapleton, Aldawna Morrison, Sarah White, Ricky Lizalde, Alicia Diaz, and Jae Man Joo ; 5, Pour, bake, serve, danced by Andre Tyson, Christina Johnson, Antonio Carlos Scott, Desmond Richardson, and the Company.
Reverance: Ave Maria (excerpt from The grapes of wrath) (ca. 7 min.) / music, traditional ; costumes, Lamour ; original lighting design, Collier Woods, recreated by Betsy Herst ; danced by Christina Johnson and Donald Williams.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 2401

OCLC

NYPY97-F52

Title

Complexions--A Concept in Dance [electronic resource] / presented by the Joyce Theater Foundation, inc. in the series Altogether Different ; artistic directors, Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson ; choreography, Dwight Rhoden.

Imprint

c1997.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Danced by Complexions--A Concept in Dance.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, on January 10, 1997 ; video director, Johannes Holub ; camera, Jenny Holub and Penny Ward.

Funding

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

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-5267.

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Added Author

Rhoden, Dwight, choreographer, dancer. Director. Lighting designer

Richardson, Desmond. Director

Richardson, Desmond, dancer.

Diaz, Alicia, dancer.

Lizalde, Ricky, dancer.

Lizalde, Ricky, costume designer.

Morinoue, Miho, dancer.

Mullis, Deanna, dancer.

Polston, Jeffrey, dancer.

Rigert, Rebecca, dancer.

Scott, Antonio Carlos, dancer. Composer

White, Sarah, dancer.

Williams, Sheri, dancer.

Salomons, Ruthlyn, dancer.

Suárez, Adriana, dancer.

Stapleton, Leonora, dancer.

Allen, Sarita, dancer.

Gates, Jodie, dancer.

Lynch, Aubrey, dancer.

Joo, Jae Man, dancer.

Johnson, Christina, dancer.

Morrison, Aldawna, dancer.

Wakamatsu, Tomoko, dancer.

Hamilton, Philip. voc

Epperson. Costume designer

Herst, Betsy. Lighting designer

Toliver, Tricia. Lighting designer

Falco. Composer

Metheny, Pat. Composer

Weber, Mark. Composer

Galindo, Cesar. Costume designer

Lynch, Aubrey. Author

Lamour. Costume designer

Woods, Collier. Lighting designer

Holub, Johannes. Videographer. Editor

Holub, Jenny. Videographer

Ward, Penny, videographer.

Complexions (Dance company)

Art of Noise (Musical group)

Joyce Theater Foundation.

Joyce Theater (New York, N.Y.)

Altogether Different (Festival)

DHCA.

Added Title

Gravel (Choreographic work : Rhoden)

Global warming (Choreographic work : Rhoden)

Diction (Choreographic work : Rhoden)

Cake (Choreographic work : Rhoden)

Grapes of wrath (Choreographic work : Rhoden)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 2401

*MGZIC 9-5267 (former)

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