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The frail quarry [excerpt]

Title
The frail quarry [excerpt] [electronic resource] / choreography, Agnes de Mille ; music, Christoph Willibald Gluck ("Dance of the blessed spirits" from Orpheus and Eurydice), arr. by Paul Nordhoff.
Publication
1990.

Details

Additional Authors
  • De Mille, Agnes
  • De Mille, Agnes.
  • Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 streaming video file (NTSC) (10 min.) : sd., col.
Summary
Rehearsal of a duet from the ballet The frail quarry, originally titled Tally-ho. The rehearsal is supervised by choreographer Agnes de Mille, who is occasionally glimpsed on camera. The duet is performed three times, the first two times by a man and a woman in jazz shoes, the third time by the same man and a different woman in ballet slippers.
Donor/Sponsor
Agnes de Mille Collection.
Uniform Title
Tally-ho (Choreographic work : De Mille)
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Dance rehearsals.
Note
  • Title from data on original container.
Access (note)
  • Permission required.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in studio rehearsal, probably at the studios of American Ballet Theatre in New York, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, on April 16, 1990.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-8432
OCLC
NYPY97-F183
Title
The frail quarry [excerpt] [electronic resource] / choreography, Agnes de Mille ; music, Christoph Willibald Gluck ("Dance of the blessed spirits" from Orpheus and Eurydice), arr. by Paul Nordhoff.
Imprint
1990.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Event
Videotaped in studio rehearsal, probably at the studios of American Ballet Theatre in New York, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, on April 16, 1990.
Performer
Dancers not identified.
Restricted Access
Permission required.
Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-5221.
Added Author
De Mille, Agnes, choreographer.
De Mille, Agnes. Depicted
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Composer
DHCA.
Added Title
Tally-ho (Choreographic work : De Mille)
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-8432
*MGZIC 9-5221 (former)
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