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Brahms/Handel [excerpts] rehearsals.
- Title
- Brahms/Handel [excerpts] [videorecording] : rehearsals. [May 4-9, 1984] / choreography by Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp ; music by Johannes Brahms.
- Publication
- 1984.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (38 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Twyla Tharp directs rehearsals of excerpts from Brahms/Handel. The taping consists of many brief clips. The corps and principals rehearse separately. Bart Cook rehearses variation 14 alone. Some of the choreography differs from the finished version of the ballet.
- Series Statement
- Jerome Robbins Collection
- Uniform Title
- Brahms/Handel (Choreographic work : Robbins and Tharp)
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Dance rehearsals.
- Note
- No time/date code on frame.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in New York City Ballet studio rehearsals, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, in New York City, between May 4 and 9, 1984.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Biography (note)
- Brahms/Handel was a choreographic collaboration between Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp. The music is Johannes Brahms's Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel. The twenty-eight dancers (4 principals, 10 demis and 14 corps) are divided into two groups, one wearing blue and the other wearing green. For the most part, Robbins choreographed for the blue group and Tharp for the green group. Brahms/Handel premiered on June 7, 1984.
- Contents
- May 4: variations 14, 12, 13, 6, 23-25 -- May 8: variations 25, 19 -- 20, 15, 16-18, 15-20.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-6223 JRC
- OCLC
- NYPT03-F252
- Title
- Brahms/Handel [excerpts] [videorecording] : rehearsals. [May 4-9, 1984] / choreography by Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp ; music by Johannes Brahms.
- Imprint
- 1984.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Jerome Robbins Collection
- Performer
- Rehearsed by members of New York City Ballet. Principals: Bart Cook, Maria Calegari, Ib Andersen, Merrill Ashley. Demis: Peter Boal, Peter Frame, Carlo Merlo, Diana White, Jock Soto, Simone Schumacher, others.
- Event
- Videotaped in New York City Ballet studio rehearsals, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, in New York City, between May 4 and 9, 1984.
- Funding
- Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Biography
- Brahms/Handel was a choreographic collaboration between Jerome Robbins and Twyla Tharp. The music is Johannes Brahms's Variations and fugue on a theme by Handel. The twenty-eight dancers (4 principals, 10 demis and 14 corps) are divided into two groups, one wearing blue and the other wearing green. For the most part, Robbins choreographed for the blue group and Tharp for the green group. Brahms/Handel premiered on June 7, 1984.
- Added Author
- Robbins, Jerome, choreographer.Tharp, Twyla, choreographer. DirectorBrahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Händel.Cook, Bart, dancer.Calegari, Maria, dancer.Andersen, Ib, 1954- dancer.Ashley, Merrill, dancer.Boal, Peter, dancer.Frame, Peter, dancer.Soto, Jock, dancer.Schumacher, Simone, dancer.White, Diana (Ballet dancer), dancer.Merlo, Carlo, dancer.New York City Ballet.
- Added Title
- Brahms/Handel (Choreographic work : Robbins and Tharp)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-6223 JRC