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Lester Horton technique intermediate

Title: Lester Horton technique [videorecording] : intermediate / Dance Spotlight ; directed by Jeanne Suggs ; produced by Babette Coffey Fisch ; artistic directors/master Horton teachers, Marjorie Perces and Ana Marie Forsythe.
Publication: West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c2002.

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Description

1 videocassette (56 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Demonstration of intermediate-level Horton technique, preceded by a brief biography of Lester Horton and comments by David Howard, Ana Marie Forsythe, Marjorie Perces, and Lenny Meek. The demonstration is followed by a segment titled The legacy, in which Perces, Forsythe, and Horton's biographer Larry Warren discuss Horton's choreography, technique, and school, and some of the people who have carried on his work, among them Alvin Ailey, Joyce Trisler, Jimmy [James] Truitte, Bella Lewitzky, and Carmen de Lavallade. In the closing segment, the dancers who appear on this tape discuss how they became dancers.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Marjorie Perces and Babette Coffey Fisch.
Gift of Babette Coffey Fisch.

Alternative Title

Lester Horton technique intermediate level

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Instruction.
Video.

Credits (note)

Original music composed and performed by John Levis.

Performer (note)

Dancers: Guillermo Asca, Leonard Meek, Elizabeth Roxas, Matthew Rushing, Toni Pierce Sands, Wendy White Sasser.
Interviewees: Ana Marie Forsythe, Marjorie Perces, David Howard, Lenny [Leonard] Meek, Larry Warren, Toni Pierce Sands, Matthew Rushing, Wendy White Sasser, Guillermo Asca, Elizabeth Roxas. James Truitte (d. 1995) and Bella Lewitzky also speak in pre-recorded footage.
Voiceover: Madelon Thomas.

Event (note)

Dance demonstrations recorded at Jacob's Pillow, Lee, Mass.

Contents

Dance contents: The warm-up / excerpts from the recording Lester Horton technique: the warm-up (see *MGZIC 9-2558) -- The studies: Prelude studies 1, 2, 3 -- Fortification studies 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -- Hinge studes 1, 2, 3 -- Balance studies: Coccyx balance (demonstrated by students of the Alvin Ailey school), Table balance, T balance with side fall -- Falls: Front fall, Back fall, Lateral T fall -- Figure 4 study -- Percussive stroke study.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5853

ISBN

0769775152

OCLC

50212170
NYPY02-F494

Title

Lester Horton technique [videorecording] : intermediate / Dance Spotlight ; directed by Jeanne Suggs ; produced by Babette Coffey Fisch ; artistic directors/master Horton teachers, Marjorie Perces and Ana Marie Forsythe.

Imprint

West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, c2002.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Dance demonstrations recorded at Jacob's Pillow, Lee, Mass.

Credits

Original music composed and performed by John Levis.

Performer

Dancers: Guillermo Asca, Leonard Meek, Elizabeth Roxas, Matthew Rushing, Toni Pierce Sands, Wendy White Sasser.

Interviewees: Ana Marie Forsythe, Marjorie Perces, David Howard, Lenny [Leonard] Meek, Larry Warren, Toni Pierce Sands, Matthew Rushing, Wendy White Sasser, Guillermo Asca, Elizabeth Roxas. James Truitte (d. 1995) and Bella Lewitzky also speak in pre-recorded footage.

Voiceover: Madelon Thomas.

Local Subject

Modern dance -- Technique -- Horton.

Added Author

Forsythe, Ana Marie, 1944- Interviewee. Director

Perces, Marjorie B., 1921- Interviewee. Director

Howard, David. Interviewee

Warren, Larry, 1932-2009. Interviewee

Asca, Guillermo, dancer. Interviewee

Meek, Leonard, dancer. Interviewee

Roxas, Elizabeth, dancer. Interviewee

Rushing, Matthew, 1973- dancer. Interviewee

Pierce-Sands, Toni, dancer. Interviewee

Sasser, Wendy White, dancer. Interviewee

Suggs, Jeanne. Director

Coffey-Fisch, Babette. Producer

Dance Spotlight (Firm)

Kultur International Films.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5853

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