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Glen Tetley Pierrot's tower

Title: Glen Tetley [videorecording] : Pierrot's tower / produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in association with Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) ; produced and directed by Michael Blackwood.
Publication: U.S. : Michael Blackwood Productions, c1995.

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1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Profile of Glen Tetley, dancer, choreographer and teacher, as told in his own words. The program centers on Tetley's restaging of his ballet Voluntaries for Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam at the invitation of artistic director Wayne Eagling, and there are numerous scenes of Tetley in rehearsal with the company. Tetley looks back on his long career, spanning ballet and modern dance, which began when Jerome Robbins engaged him to dance in the musical On the town. Film clips show him dancing an excerpt from John Butler's Carmina burana and the slip jig from Agnes de Mille's musical Juno. Tetley also discusses his many choreographic works, beginning with Pierrot lunaire (1962) ; his creations for Nederlands Dans Theater and Ballet Rambert ; Field figures (1970) for the Royal Ballet ; his collaborations with designers Nadine Baylis and Rouben Ter-Arutunian ; his works for the National Ballet of Canada and other classical ballet companies. In scenes from his private life, he is seen at dinner with colleagues Eagling, Jaap Flier, Toer Van Schayk, Rudi Van Dantzig, and Augustus Van Heerden, and at home in his medieval tower in Spoleto, Italy, which he equates with the tower in Pierrot lunaire.

Uniform Title

Voluntaries (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Pierrot lunaire (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Sargasso (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Circles (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Mutations (Choreographic work : Manen and Tetley)
Field figures (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Greening (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Ricercare (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Rite of spring (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Tempest (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Alice (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Carmina burana (Choreographic work : Butler)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Autobiographical films and programs.
Video.

Note

Original container labeled "titled version" ; copyright date given as c1997.

Credits (note)

Executive producer, Harro Eisele ; editing, Elizabeth Long ; photography, Nils Post ; sound recordist, Paul Veld.

Contents

Dance excerpts choreographed by Tetley (in order of appearance): Voluntaries / music, Francis Poulenc (Concerto for organ, strings and percussion) ; sets and costumes, Rouben Ter-Arutunian ; lighting, John B. Read ; danced by Het Nationale Ballet: Nathalie Caris, Alan Land (pas de deux), Coleen Davis, Boris de Leeuw, Jahn Johansen (pas de trois), others ; Muziektheater Orchestra conducted by Tibor Varga -- Pierrot lunaire / music, Arnold Schoenberg ; sets and costumes, Ter-Arutunian ; danced by Rambert Dance Company: Christopher Bruce, Leigh Warren, Lucy Burge -- Sargasso / music, Ernst Krenek ; danced by Nederlands Dans Theater: Gat Galya -- Circles / music, Luciano Berio ; danced by Nederlands Dans Theater -- Mutations / music, Karlheinz Stockhausen ; danced by Nederlands Dans Theater: Johan Meyer [Meijer] -- Field figures / music, Stockhausen ; danced by the Royal Ballet: Rudolf Nureyev, Deanne Bergsma -- Greening / music, Arne Nordheim ; scenery and costumes, Nadine Baylis ; danced by the Royal Danish Ballet: Mette Honningen -- Ricercare / music, Mordecai Seter ; danced by Nederlands Dans Theater: Joke Zijlstra, Nacho Duato -- The rite of spring / music, Igor Stravinsky ; danced by National Ballet of Canada: Owen Montague -- The tempest / music, Nordheim ; danced by Norwegian National Ballet: Ketil Gudim, Per Lie -- Alice / music, David Del Tredici ; danced by National Ballet of Canada: Karen Kain, Rex Harrington, Kimberly Glasco, Peter Ottmann, others.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4919

OCLC

34829513
NYPY01-F231

Title

Glen Tetley [videorecording] : Pierrot's tower / produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in association with Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) ; produced and directed by Michael Blackwood.

Imprint

U.S. : Michael Blackwood Productions, c1995.

Credits

Executive producer, Harro Eisele ; editing, Elizabeth Long ; photography, Nils Post ; sound recordist, Paul Veld.

Local Subject

Musical comedies. Juno.

Added Author

Tetley, Glen. ive, choreographer, dancer.

Caris, Nathalie, dancer.

Land, Alan, dancer.

Davis, Coleen, dancer.

Leeuw, Boris de, dancer.

Bruce, Christopher, 1945- dancer.

Warren, Leigh, dancer.

Burge, Lucy, dancer.

Zijlstra, Joke, dancer.

Duato, Nacho, dancer.

Meijer, Johan, dancer.

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer.

Bergsma, Deanne, dancer.

Montague, Owen, dancer.

Hønningen, Mette, dancer.

Gudim, Ketil, dancer.

Kain, Karen, dancer.

Harrington, Rex, dancer.

Glasco, Kimberly, dancer.

Ottmann, Peter, dancer.

Flier, Jaap.

Schaijk, Toer van.

Dantzig, Rudi van.

Van Heerden, Augustus.

Baylis, Nadine. Designer. Costume designer

Ter-Arutunian, Rouben, 1920-1992. Designer. Costume designer

Eagling, Wayne.

Blackwood, Michael. Producer. Director

Eisele, Harro. Producer

Nationale Ballet (Netherlands)

Nederlands Dans Theater.

Rambert Dance Company.

National Ballet of Canada.

Michael Blackwood Productions.

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.

Added Title

Voluntaries (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Pierrot lunaire (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Sargasso (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Circles (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Mutations (Choreographic work : Manen and Tetley)

Field figures (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Greening (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Ricercare (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Rite of spring (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Tempest (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Alice (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Carmina burana (Choreographic work : Butler)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4919

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