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Alicia Markova recreating excerpts from Le chant du rossignol

Title: Alicia Markova recreating excerpts from Le chant du rossignol [videorecording] / The George Balanchine Foundation ; project director, Nancy Reynolds ; [video] director, Ross MacGibbon ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music by Igor Stravinsky.
Publication: U.S. : The George Balanchine Foundation, Inc., c1995.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (116 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Dame Alicia Markova reconstructs George Balanchine's choreography for the role of the Nightingale, which she created in his ballet Le chant du rossignol (The song of the nightingale) for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1925. She begins by describing the action (based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen) as the music is played, then works intensively with dancer Iohna Loots on the nightingale's variation and pas de deux with Death, a role intended to be performed by a female dancer. Historians Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, who assisted in the reconstruction, appear briefly on camera.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of The George Balanchine Foundation.

Series Statement

George Balanchine Foundation Archive of Lost Choreography.

Uniform Title

Song of the nightingale (Choreographic work : Balanchine)

Alternative Title

Dame Alicia Markova recreating excerpts from Le Chant du rossignol

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Title on list of The George Balanchine Foundation video archives: Dame Alicia Markova recreating excerpts from Le chant du rossignol.

Credits (note)

Camera, Catherine Becque ; sound, Peter Davey ; editing, Virginia Brooks ; reconstruction advisers, Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer.

Performer (note)

Introduction by Nancy Reynolds.

Event (note)

Videotaped at Markova House, London, England, on January 30-February 3, 1995.

Contents

The nightingale's entrance -- The nightingale's variation (complete) / danced by Iohna Loots -- Recreating the variation, Part I -- The variation, Part II -- The variation, Part III -- Pas de deux: Nightingale and Death (excerpts).

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3017

OCLC

NYPY98-F1390

Title

Alicia Markova recreating excerpts from Le chant du rossignol [videorecording] / The George Balanchine Foundation ; project director, Nancy Reynolds ; [video] director, Ross MacGibbon ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music by Igor Stravinsky.

Imprint

U.S. : The George Balanchine Foundation, Inc., c1995.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

George Balanchine Foundation Archive of Lost Choreography.

Performer

Introduction by Nancy Reynolds.

Danced by Iohna Loots.

Credits

Camera, Catherine Becque ; sound, Peter Davey ; editing, Virginia Brooks ; reconstruction advisers, Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer.

Event

Videotaped at Markova House, London, England, on January 30-February 3, 1995.

Local Subject

Choreography -- Reconstruction.

Interpretation in dance performance.

Literature and dance.

Added Author

Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004. Commentator

Loots, Iohna, dancer.

Balanchine, George, choreographer.

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Composer

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875. Author

Hodson, Millicent. Consultant

Archer, Kenneth. Consultant

Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- Speaker

MacGibbon, Ross. Director

Becque, Catherine.

George Balanchine Foundation.

DHCA.

Added Title

Song of the nightingale (Choreographic work : Balanchine)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3017

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