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Speaking of dance. Talley Beatty

Title: Speaking of dance. Talley Beatty [videorecording] / American Dance Festival Video ; directed and produced by Douglas Rosenberg.
Publication: Oregon, Wis. : American Dance Festival Video, c1993.

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Description

1 videocassette (59 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

In interviews interspersed with performance, class, and rehearsal footage, Talley Beatty, recipient of the 1993 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement in Choreography, looks back at his life and career. He describes his first choreography in the film A study in choreography for camera (1945), directed by Maya Deren ; his experiences as a member of the Katherine Dunham Company ; dancing in the musical Cabin in the sky, which was choreographed by George Balanchine ; creating dance for television ; his partnership with Janet Collins ; running his own company ; staging his choreography for the students of Elma Lewis in Boston ; encountering and surmounting racial prejudice in the course of his career. He discusses the historical basis of two of his works, Road of the Phoebe Snow (1959) and Mourner's bench, part of Southern landscape (1947), and talks about the mix of dance forms in his recent restaging of Celebration (ca. 1973). He analyzes his own movement style, which he considers Graham-influenced rather than a type of jazz dance.

Series Statement

Speaking of dance

Uniform Title

Road of the Phoebe Snow (Choreographic work : Beatty)
Southern landscape (Choreographic work : Beatty)

Alternative Title

Talley Beatty

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Interviews.
Video.

Note

Series subtitle: Conversations with contemporary masters of American modern dance.

Credits (note)

Executive producers, Charles Reinhart and Stephanie Reinhart, American Dance Festival.

Performer (note)

Interviewee: Talley Beatty ; brief commentary by James Truitte at beginning of program.
Interviewer [on camera]: Charles Reinhart.

Contents

Dance excerpts (all choreographed by Talley Beatty): Road of the Phoebe Snow / danced by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company -- Mourner's bench / danced by W. Dean Arnett of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company -- Mourner's bench / recorded at Jacob's Pillow in 1948 ; danced by Talley Beatty -- A study in choreography for camera / directed by Maya Deren ; danced by Talley Beatty -- Celebration [complete?] / originally choreographed ca. 1973 ; performed by students of the six week school of the American Dance Festival -- A study in choreography for camera [complete] (silent) / see credits above.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5892

OCLC

NYPY02-F437

Title

Speaking of dance. Talley Beatty [videorecording] / American Dance Festival Video ; directed and produced by Douglas Rosenberg.

Imprint

Oregon, Wis. : American Dance Festival Video, c1993.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Speaking of dance

Credits

Executive producers, Charles Reinhart and Stephanie Reinhart, American Dance Festival.

Performer

Interviewee: Talley Beatty ; brief commentary by James Truitte at beginning of program.

Interviewer [on camera]: Charles Reinhart.

Local Subject

Motion pictures. A study in choreography for camera.

Musical comedies. Cabin in the sky.

Added Author

Truitte, James. Commentator

Arnett, W. Dean, dancer.

Beatty, Talley, interviewee.

Beatty, Talley, choreographer.

Beatty, Talley, dancer.

Deren, Maya. Director

Rosenberg, Douglas. Producer. Director

Reinhart, Charles. Interviewer. Producer

Reinhart, Stephanie. Producer

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.

American Dance Festival.

American Dance Festival Video (Firm)

Added Title

Road of the Phoebe Snow (Choreographic work : Beatty)

Southern landscape (Choreographic work : Beatty)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5892

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