Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Prince
2. Scott, Robin
3. Somerset-Ward, Richard.
4. Arpino, Gerald
5. Bailey, Derek
6. Dean, Laura, 1945-
7. Moulton, Charles (Choreographer)
8. Sappington, Margo
9. Pucci, Peter
10. Joffrey Ballet, performer.
11. Warner Reprise Video (Firm)
12. NVC Arts (Firm)

Description

1. 1 videocassette (75 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Billboards is a full-length rock ballet of a collaboration between Prince and the Joffrey Ballet dance company.

Alternative title

1. Joffrey's rock ballet : billboards

Subject

1. Rock music
2. Ballet
3. Documentary films
4. Filmed ballets

Genre/Form

1. Filmed ballets.
2. Documentary films.
3. Rock music.

Contents

1. 1. Sometimes it snows in April. Sometimes it snows in April ; Trust ; Baby I'm a star / choreography by Laura Dean -- 2. Thunder/Purple rain. Thunder ; Purple rain / choreography by Charles Moulton -- 3. Slide. Computer blue ; I wanna melt with u ; The beautiful ones ; Release it ; computer blue reprise / choreography by Margo Sappington -- 4. Willing and able. For you ; The question of u ; It ; Willing and able / choreography by Peter Pucci.

Call number

1. Sc Visual VRA-434

Credits (note)

1. Music by Prince ; choreography, Laura Dean [and others] ; producer, Richard Somerset-Ward ; executive producer, Robin Scott ; editor, Ross Macgibbon ; Warner Reprise Video ; produced by NVC Arts [and others] ; Gerald Arpino production.
2. Scenes and costume supervision, and set design for Slide, Campbell Baird ; billboard designs, Herbert Migdoll ; costumes, Charles Atlas, Christine Joly, George Ramos, and Rosemarie Worton ; stage lighting, Howell Binkley.

Event (note)

1. Recorded in Aug. 1993 at the S.U.N.Y. Performing Arts Center, Purchase, N.Y. ; telecast on Great Performances: Dance in America by Thirteen/WNET on April 20, 1994.

System details (note)

1. VHS.

Title

1. Billboards / music by Prince ; directed for television by Derek Bailey.

Imprint

1. New York, NY : Warner Reprise Video, 1993.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videocassette

Performer

1. Performed by the Joffrey Ballet: Deborah Dawn, Nicole Marie Duffy, Jodie Gates, Cynthia Giannini, Laura Jarrell, Suzanne Lopez, Cheryl Madeux,Valerie Madonia, Rita Martinez, Fern Miller, Elizabeth Parkinson, Beatriz Rodriguez, Kim Sagami, Lissette Salgado, Jenny Sandler, Johanna Snyder, Maia Wilkins, Kyle Ahmed, Pascal Benichou, Alexander Brady, Carl Corry, Philip Gardner, Glen Harris, Calvin Kitten, Pierre Lockett, Tom Mossbrucker, Brent Phillips, Roger Plaut, Gregory Russell, Joseph Schnell, Adam Sklute, Gregory Taylor, Tyler Walters, and Lin Zhen.

Credits

1. Music by Prince ; choreography, Laura Dean [and others] ; producer, Richard Somerset-Ward ; executive producer, Robin Scott ; editor, Ross Macgibbon ; Warner Reprise Video ; produced by NVC Arts [and others] ; Gerald Arpino production.
2. Scenes and costume supervision, and set design for Slide, Campbell Baird ; billboard designs, Herbert Migdoll ; costumes, Charles Atlas, Christine Joly, George Ramos, and Rosemarie Worton ; stage lighting, Howell Binkley.

Event

1. Recorded in Aug. 1993 at the S.U.N.Y. Performing Arts Center, Purchase, N.Y. ; telecast on Great Performances: Dance in America by Thirteen/WNET on April 20, 1994.

System details

1. VHS.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Prince, composer.
2. Scott, Robin, producer.
3. Somerset-Ward, Richard.
4. Arpino, Gerald, producer.
5. Bailey, Derek, director.
6. Dean, Laura, 1945- choreographer.
7. Moulton, Charles (Choreographer)
8. Sappington, Margo, choreographer.
9. Pucci, Peter, choreographer.
10. Joffrey Ballet, performer.
11. Warner Reprise Video (Firm)
12. NVC Arts (Firm)

Note

1. At head of title: Joffrey's rock ballet : billboards

Publisher no.

1. 38369-3 Warner Reprise Video

Research call number

1. Sc Visual VRA-434