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Metacorpus

Title
Metacorpus [videorecording] / Xanthe Film and TV Ltd. ; [videos] produced by Sunni O'Connor ; artistic direction by Jeanette Sendler and Anna Cocciadiferro ; performances produced by Chloe Dear.
Publication
c1999-c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Sendler, Jeanette.
  • Cocciadiferro, Anna.
  • John, Lindsay
  • Partridge, Beth
  • Dahlinger, Nicola
  • MacArthur, Neil.
  • Skiera, Helen.
  • O'Connor, Sunni.
  • Dear, Chloe.
  • Metacorpus (Dance company)
  • Xanthe Film & TV (Firm)
  • Dance Films Association.
  • Dance on Camera Film Festival.
Description
1 videocassette (42 min.) : sd., col. PAL; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Entrant in the Dance on Camera Festival 2002. Compilation of three items featuring Metacorpus, an Edinburgh-based dance company whose stated mission is to create an equal collaboration between costume, music, installation, choreography, and performers.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Dance Films Association.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Documentaries and factual films and programs.
  • Video.
Note
  • Additional data from brochure for the Dance Films Association's 30th annual Dance on Camera Festival 2002.
Contents
  • Animated body appendages (c1999 ; ca. 10 min.) / excerpts from an hour-long production ; choreography, Lindsay John ; costume artists, Jeanette Sendler, Anna Cocciadiferro ; music, Neil MacArthur, swab ; lighting, Helen Skiera, Adam Goldenboy Stewart ; performed by Florian Schmidinger (baby bird), Brian Hartley (young bird), Polly Verity (exile I), Jeanette Sendler (exile II), Tom Gibson (scarecrow), Jo Howlett (dissolvable), Meg Spotov (hair), Anna Neale (teeth), Anna Ashmole (respiratory), Kat Hasler (eye).
  • Sound & suspension [trailer] (ca. 2 min.) / direction, Sunni O'Connor ; animation by Dave Hutchinson ; music, Neil MacArthur.
  • Metacorpus (c2000 ; ca. 30 min.) / direction, production and video documentation, Sunni O'Connor. Documentary on the company, with commentaries by artistic directors Jeanette Sendler and Anna Cocciadiferro. Includes excerpts from Animated body appendages, choreographed by Lindsay John and performed by Tom Gibson (scarecrow), Polly Verity and Jeanette Sendler (exile), Jo Howlett (dissolvable armour), Anna Ashmole (thread vein armour), Anna Neil (tooth underwear), Kat Hassler (optical armour), Brian Hartley and Florian Schmidinger (baby bird). Also includes an in-depth look at the creative development of the work Sound and suspension, followed by excerpts from the completed piece. Credits for Sound and suspension: choreography, Beth Partridge, Nicola Dahlinger ; music, Neil MacArthur, Meg, Diesel, and Finn ; lighting, Helen Skiera ; performed by Beth Partridge, Alessandro Pintus, Morag Dalgliesh, Jo Howlett (Part 1), and Laini Chrismas, Tom Morey, Dawn Hartley, Eveline Holmes-Smith (Part 2).
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-5649
OCLC
NYPY02-F113
Title
Metacorpus [videorecording] / Xanthe Film and TV Ltd. ; [videos] produced by Sunni O'Connor ; artistic direction by Jeanette Sendler and Anna Cocciadiferro ; performances produced by Chloe Dear.
Imprint
c1999-c2000.
Country of Producing Entity
Scotland.
Local Subject
Mixed media performances.
Added Author
Sendler, Jeanette. cmm, dancer. Costume designer. Director
Cocciadiferro, Anna. Commentator. Costume designer. Director
John, Lindsay, choreographer.
Partridge, Beth, choreographer, dancer.
Dahlinger, Nicola, choreographer.
MacArthur, Neil. Composer
Skiera, Helen.
O'Connor, Sunni. Producer. Director
Dear, Chloe. Producer
Metacorpus (Dance company)
Xanthe Film & TV (Firm)
Dance Films Association.
Dance on Camera Film Festival.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-5649
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