Martha Bowers Dance/Theatre/Etcetera [electronic resource] / presented by Dance Theater Workshop as part of the Spring Events 1988 ; choreography and text by Martha Bowers.
2 streaming video files (NTSC) (59 min.) : sd., col.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Martha Bowers.
Uniform title
Sirens of the stoop (Choreographic work : Bowers)
Fine art of sauntering (Choreographic work : Bowers)
Decoy (Choreographic work : Bowers)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Contents
Reel 1. Sirens of the stoop (premiere) (ca. 27 min.) / music designed and composed by Scott Lehrer ; additional music, Gluck (Dance of the blessed spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice) and Puccini (Humming chorus from Madame Butterfly) ; set, Michael Deal ; costumes, Robin Klingensmith ; performed by Florence Benevento, Martha Bowers, and Clare Maxwell ; voice-over interviews with Stella Simpson, Beatty Rappaport, and Maria DeConcillio.
The fine art of sauntering (premiere) (ca. 15 min.) / music, Ry Cooder (Area code 615) ; sound engineer, Michael Mansfield ; text based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau ; performed by Martha Bowers and Hank Smith.
Reel 2. Decoy (New York premiere) (ca. 17 min.) / music, Christopher Hyams-Hart ; costumes, Robin Klingensmith ; performed by the Dance Alloy: Elsa Limbach, Bernard DeLucAntonio, Ginny Adams, Scott Timm, Danny Cunningham, Christine Jowers.
Call number
*MGZIDF 3355
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video files only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
Lighting, Roma Flowers.
Event (note)
Videotaped in performance at Dance Theater Workshop's Bessie Schönberg Theater, New York, on April 16, 1988, by Video D Studios.
Funding (note)
Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.
Title
Martha Bowers Dance/Theatre/Etcetera [electronic resource] / presented by Dance Theater Workshop as part of the Spring Events 1988 ; choreography and text by Martha Bowers.
Imprint
c1988.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Credits
Lighting, Roma Flowers.
Event
Videotaped in performance at Dance Theater Workshop's Bessie Schönberg Theater, New York, on April 16, 1988, by Video D Studios.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming video files only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.