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With sword drawn he dances (or the education of a gentleman)

Title: With sword drawn he dances [videorecording] : (or the education of a gentleman) / written and directed by Catherine Turocy.
Publication: c1998.

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1 videocassette (65 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Uniform Title

With sword drawn he dances (Choreographic work : Turocy)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Plays.
Dance.
Video.

Note

Accompanied by house program. Contents and program order are slightly different from actual performance.
Recorded by the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Collection, The New York Public Library with the cooperation of the Jarvis Conservatory, Leticia and William Jarvis, Baroque Ballet Workshop, Concert Royal, and the New York Baroque Dance Company.

Credits (note)

Commissioned by the Jarvis Conservatory ; choreography, Catherine Turocy and others (see below) ; music director, James Richman ; artistic adviser and editor of play, William Jarvis ; set, David Huddleston ; costumes, Marie Anne Chiment, Marilyn Skow, Mary Meyers ; masks, Jane Stein, Stanley Alan Sherman, Bonnie Kreuger ; lighting design and technical direction, Michael Barney ; rehearsal director, Carlos Fittante.

Performer (note)

(in order of appearance) Joe Lewis (Père Guillaume, a Jesuit priest and expert in public spectacle and dance) ; Michael Hewer (Monsieur Coupé, a fencing master) ; Rance Green (Paul de Maine, a student) ; Carlos Fittante (Charles Beauregard, a student) ; Marc Ozanich (Monsieur Dulong, a dancing master) ; Deda Cristina Colonna (Mademoiselle Dulong, his niece).

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the Jarvis Conservatory, Napa, Calif., on August 8, 1998 ; director/camera, Johannes Holub ; edit directed by Catherine Turocy and Johannes Holub.

Funding (note)

This project was made possible by a grant from the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), a program under the umbrella SAVE AS: DANCE, underwritten by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Recorded with the assistance of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Contents

Dance scenes: Scene I. The fencing lesson.
Scene II. The dancing lesson. Minuet / choreography, Catherine Turocy ; music, Louis-Claude Daquin (Rondeau "Les bergères") ; danced by Deda Cristina Colonna and Rance Green.
Scene III. The letter. Sarabande / choreography, Guillaume Louis Pécour, publ. 1704 ; reconstructed by Carlos Fittante ; fencing and stage combat, Michael Hewer ; music, Louis de Lully and Marin Marais (from the opera Alcide) ; danced by Derek Clifford, Rance Green, Philip Meiring, Marc Ozanich.
Scene IV. Lesson by Père Guillaume. The visit / choreography, Catherine Turocy ; music, Jean Philippe Rameau (La Cupis) ; danced by Catherine Turocy and Carlos Fittante -- Mr. Shirley's minuet / reconstructed by Deda Cristina Colonna ; music, Rameau (from the prologues of Les Indes galantes and Castor et Pollux) ; danced by ladies of the Baroque Ballet Workshop -- Sarabande / choreography by Pécour, publ. 1704 ; reconstructed by Caroline Copeland and Carlos Fittante ; music, André Campra (from the opera Tancrede) ; danced by Caroline Copeland and Carlos Fittante -- Passacaille d'Armide / choreography, Pécour, publ. 1716 ; music, Jean Baptiste Lully (from the opera Armide) ; danced by Catherine Turocy -- The peasant in the basket / choreography and music, Gregorio Lambranzi, publ. 1716 ; staged by Catherine Turocy ; danced by Derek Clifford -- The tennis dance / choreography and music, Gregorio Lambranzi, publ. 1716 ; staged by members of the Baroque Ballet Workshop ; danced by students of the Baroque Ballet Workshop.
Scene V. The final rehearsal. Dance suite from Les sauvages / choreography, Catherine Turocy ; music, Rameau (from Les Indes galantes) ; Dance of the great peace pipe danced by Carlos Fittante ; Minuet for the Amazons danced by Laura Barton, Deda Cristina Colonna, Sarah Edgar, Catherine Turocy ; Chaconne danced by all.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3296

OCLC

NYPY99-F266

Title

With sword drawn he dances [videorecording] : (or the education of a gentleman) / written and directed by Catherine Turocy.

Imprint

c1998.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Cast

(in order of appearance) Joe Lewis (Père Guillaume, a Jesuit priest and expert in public spectacle and dance) ; Michael Hewer (Monsieur Coupé, a fencing master) ; Rance Green (Paul de Maine, a student) ; Carlos Fittante (Charles Beauregard, a student) ; Marc Ozanich (Monsieur Dulong, a dancing master) ; Deda Cristina Colonna (Mademoiselle Dulong, his niece).

Performer

Danced by members of the Jarvis Conservatory Baroque Ballet Workshop: Laura Barton, Sarah Edgar, Dana Kotler, Lynn Wyckoff, Michael Hewer, Philip Meiring, Marc Ozanich.

Danced by the New York Baroque Dance Company: Deda Cristina Colonna, Caroline Copeland, Catherine Turocy, Derek Clifford, Carlos Fittante, Rance Green.

Music played by Concert Royal: James Richman (harpsichord and director) ; Judson Griffin (Baroque violin) ; Wendy Rolfe (Baroque flute) ; Alyssa Pava (Baroque cello).

Credits

Commissioned by the Jarvis Conservatory ; choreography, Catherine Turocy and others (see below) ; music director, James Richman ; artistic adviser and editor of play, William Jarvis ; set, David Huddleston ; costumes, Marie Anne Chiment, Marilyn Skow, Mary Meyers ; masks, Jane Stein, Stanley Alan Sherman, Bonnie Kreuger ; lighting design and technical direction, Michael Barney ; rehearsal director, Carlos Fittante.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Jarvis Conservatory, Napa, Calif., on August 8, 1998 ; director/camera, Johannes Holub ; edit directed by Catherine Turocy and Johannes Holub.

Funding

This project was made possible by a grant from the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance (NIPAD), a program under the umbrella SAVE AS: DANCE, underwritten by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Recorded with the assistance of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Local Subject

Baroque dancing.

Choreography -- Reconstruction.

Mask dances.

Stick dances.

Added Author

Lewis, Joe, actor.

Hewer, Michael. Performer

Green, Rance, dancer.

Fittante, Carlos, dancer.

Ozanich, Marc, dancer.

Colonna, Deda Cristina, dancer.

Copeland, Caroline, dancer.

Clifford, Derek, dancer.

Griffin, Judson. Instrumentalist

Rolfe, Wendy. Instrumentalist

Pava, Alyssa. Instrumentalist

Turocy, Catherine. Director

Turocy, Catherine. Author

Turocy, Catherine, choreographer.

Turocy, Catherine, dancer.

Richman, James. Conductor. Instrumentalist

W. I. (William Jarvis), gent. Producer

Huddleston, David, set designer.

Chiment, Marie Anne. Costume designer

Skow, Marilyn. Costume designer

Meyers, Mary. Costume designer

Stein, Jane Alois. Costume designer

Sherman, Stanley Allan. Costume designer

Kreuger, Bonnie. Costume designer

Barney, Michael.

Holub, Johannes. Director

Pécourt, Guillaume Louis, 1653-1729, choreographer.

Shirley, Mr, choreographer.

Lambranzi, Gregorio, active 1700, choreographer. Composer

Daquin, Louis Claude, 1694-1772. Composer

Lully, Louis de, 1664-1734. Composer

Marais, Marin, 1656-1728. Composer

Rameau, Jean Philippe, 1683-1764. Composer

Campra, André, 1660-1744. Composer

Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 1632-1687. Composer

New York Baroque Dance Company.

Concert Royal (Musical group : U.S.)

Jarvis Conservatory.

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Baroque Ballet Workshop.

DHCA.

Added Title

With sword drawn he dances (Choreographic work : Turocy)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3296

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