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[Ishmael Houston-Jones]

Title: [Ishmael Houston-Jones] [videorecording]
Publication: 1982-1995.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (24 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Compilation of excerpts from dance works created for the stage and film by Ishmael Houston-Jones, an African-American dancer, choreographer, writer, actor, and curator who lives and works in New York City.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Ishmael Houston-Jones.

Uniform Title

Prologue to the end of everything (Choreographic work : Houston-Jones)
Part 2: Relatives (Choreographic work : Houston-Jones)
Unsafe/unsuited (Choreographic work : Hennessy, Houston-Jones and Scully)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Contents

Prologue to the end of everything (excerpts) (ca. 13 min.) / recorded at The Kitchen, New York, N.Y., on May 6, 1988; video documentation, Character Generators/Video; camera, Miriam Lefkowitz; written and directed by Ishmael Houston-Jones; music, Chris Cochrane, with sections by Doug Seidel and Zeena Parkins; lighting, Michael Stiller; performed by Antaney Bowman, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Trinket Monsod; music performed by Chris Cochrane and Zeena Parkins.
Relatives (1982) (excerpt) (ca. 3 min.) / recorded at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York, N.Y.; performed by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Pauline Jones (?).
Brother from another planet (1984) (ca. 1 min.) / excerpt from the film directed by John Sayles; danced by Ishmael Houston-Jones.
Unsafe-unsuited (1995) (ca. 7 min.) / recorded onstage; improvisation by Ishmael Houston-Jones, Patrick Scully, and Keith Hennessy.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7570

OCLC

NYPY04-F205

Title

[Ishmael Houston-Jones] [videorecording]

Imprint

1982-1995.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Added Author

Houston-Jones, Ishmael, choreographer, dancer.

Cochrane, Chris. Composer. Musician

Seidel, Doug. Composer

Parkins, Zeena. Composer. Musician

Stiller, Michael, 1961- lighting designer.

Bowman, Antaney. Performer

Monsod, Trinket. Performer

Jones, Pauline. Performer

Sayles, John, 1950- Director

Hennessy, Keith. Performer

Scully, Patrick. Performer

Added Title

Prologue to the end of everything (Choreographic work : Houston-Jones)

Part 2: Relatives (Choreographic work : Houston-Jones)

Unsafe/unsuited (Choreographic work : Hennessy, Houston-Jones and Scully)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7570

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