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Billboards

Title
Billboards / music by Prince ; directed for television by Derek Bailey.
Publication
New York, NY : Warner Reprise Video, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Prince
  • Scott, Robin
  • Somerset-Ward, Richard.
  • Arpino, Gerald
  • Bailey, Derek
  • Dean, Laura, 1945-
  • Moulton, Charles (Choreographer)
  • Sappington, Margo
  • Pucci, Peter
  • Joffrey Ballet, performer.
  • Warner Reprise Video (Firm)
  • NVC Arts (Firm)
Description
1 videocassette (75 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
Summary
Billboards is a full-length rock ballet of a collaboration between Prince and the Joffrey Ballet dance company.
Alternative Title
Joffrey's rock ballet : billboards
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Filmed ballets.
  • Documentary films.
  • Rock music.
Credits (note)
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • VHS.
Contents
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
Sc Visual VRA-434
OCLC
30710028
Title
Billboards / music by Prince ; directed for television by Derek Bailey.
Imprint
New York, NY : Warner Reprise Video, 1993.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
video
Type of Carrier
videocassette
Performer
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
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.
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
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
VHS.
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Added Author
Prince, composer.
Scott, Robin, producer.
Somerset-Ward, Richard.
Arpino, Gerald, producer.
Bailey, Derek, director.
Dean, Laura, 1945- choreographer.
Moulton, Charles (Choreographer)
Sappington, Margo, choreographer.
Pucci, Peter, choreographer.
Joffrey Ballet, performer.
Warner Reprise Video (Firm)
NVC Arts (Firm)
Note
At head of title: Joffrey's rock ballet : billboards
Publisher No.
38369-3 Warner Reprise Video
Research Call Number
Sc Visual VRA-434
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