1 streaming video file (29 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences
Summary
British choreographer Wayne McGregor revisits the territory of some groundbreaking modern dance choreographers who are or were active in New York: Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, the Judson Church group (among them David Gordon, Valda Setterfield, and Trisha Brown), and Twyla Tharp. Interviewing the choreographers themselves or members of their dance companies, he explores their contributions, their significance as innovators, and the special qualities that distinguish them from each other. Film and video clips provide glimpses of each choreographer and his or her company in action. McGregor's journey also includes a brief visit to Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, repository of much of this history.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Karen Whiteside, BBC Television.
Series statement
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Uniform title
Noah's minstrels (Choreographic work : Taylor)
Aureole (Choreographic work : Taylor)
Three epitaphs (Choreographic work : Taylor)
Man walking down the side of a building (Choreographic work : Brown)
Audience with the Pope (Choreographic work : Gordon)
Dance excerpts include: Martha Graham's Heretic, Errand into the maze (rehearsal), Appalachian spring, and Night journey. Merce Cunningham's Beach birds for camera and Untitled solo. Paul Taylor's Noah's minstrels, Aureole (danced by Rudolf Nureyev), and Three epitaphs. Trisha Brown's Man walking down the side of a building, Walking on the wall, Homemade, and Theme and variations. David Gordon's An audience with the pope. Twyla Tharp's Eight jelly rolls (rehearsal and performance), Movin' out, and In the upper room.
Call number
*MGZIDF 3626
Note
Aspect ratio is 14:9 letterbox.
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
Dance consultant, Debra Cash ; production team, Alison Watkins, Nicola Owen, Ann Oswald ; researcher, Ali Whitehouse ; camera, Ross Keith, David Gopsill ; sound, Caleb Moore, Graham Tobin ; editing, Niki Turner ; executive producer, Fiona Morris.
Performer (note)
[Narrator:] Wayne McGregor.
Interviewees (in order of appearance): Janet Eilber, Deborah Jowitt, Christine Dakin, Terese Capucilli, Gus Solomons Jr., Carolyn Adams, David Gordon, Valda Setterfield, Trisha Brown, Sara Rudner.
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Title
Dance USA [electronic resource] / BBC Wales ; directed and produced by Karen Whiteside.
Imprint
U.K. : BBC Wales, c2003.
Country of producing entity
U.K.
Series
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection
Credits
Dance consultant, Debra Cash ; production team, Alison Watkins, Nicola Owen, Ann Oswald ; researcher, Ali Whitehouse ; camera, Ross Keith, David Gopsill ; sound, Caleb Moore, Graham Tobin ; editing, Niki Turner ; executive producer, Fiona Morris.
Performer
[Narrator:] Wayne McGregor.
Interviewees (in order of appearance): Janet Eilber, Deborah Jowitt, Christine Dakin, Terese Capucilli, Gus Solomons Jr., Carolyn Adams, David Gordon, Valda Setterfield, Trisha Brown, Sara Rudner.
Linking entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham archive.
Local note
Former classmark: *MGZIA 4-7568.
Access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.