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DanceNY. Glen Tetley: Pierrot's tower

Title: DanceNY. Glen Tetley: Pierrot's tower [videorecording] / WNYE ; Dance Magazine ; produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in association with Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) ; produced and directed by Michael Blackwood.
Publication: Brooklyn, N.Y. : WNYE, 2002.

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1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (67 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Telecast of a documentary, preceded by a short interview with Caroline Rocher of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and followed by a preview of coming events by Wendy Perron. Profile of Glen Tetley, dancer, choreographer and teacher, as told in his own words. The program centers on Tetley's restaging of his ballet Voluntaries for Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam at the invitation of artistic director Wayne Eagling, and there are numerous scenes of Tetley in rehearsal with the company. Tetley looks back on his long career, spanning ballet and modern dance, which began when Jerome Robbins engaged him to dance in the musical On the town. Film clips show him dancing an excerpt from John Butler's Carmina burana and the slip jig from Agnes de Mille's musical Juno. Tetley also discusses his many choreographic works, beginning with Pierrot lunaire (1962); his creations for Nederlands Dans Theater and Ballet Rambert; Field figures (1970) for the Royal Ballet; his collaborations with designers Nadine Baylis and Rouben Ter-Arutunian; his works for the National Ballet of Canada and other classical ballet companies. In scenes from his private life, he is seen at dinner with colleagues Eagling, Jaap Flier, Toer Van Schayk, Rudi Van Dantzig, and Augustus Van Heerden, and at home in his medieval tower in Spoleto, Italy, which he equates with the tower in Pierrot lunaire.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Wendy Perron, Dance Magazine.

Series Statement

DanceNY

Uniform Title

Voluntaries (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Pierrot lunaire (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Sargasso (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Circles (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Mutations (Choreographic work : Manen and Tetley)
Field figures (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Greening (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Ricercare (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Rite of spring (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Tempest (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Alice (Choreographic work : Tetley)
Carmina burana (Choreographic work : Butler)
Dance Magazine.

Alternative Title

Dance New York. Glen Tetley: Pierrot's tower
Glen Tetley Pierrot's tower.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Autobiographical films and programs.
Video.

Note

Logo of WNYE appears on screen.
Title on original container: Dance New York.
For a non-telecast version of this documentary, without the added introduction, interview, or afterword, see *MGZIA 4-4919 Glen Tetley: Pierrot's tower.

Credits (note)

Executive producer, Harro Eisele ; editing, Elizabeth Long ; photography, Nils Post ; sound recordist, Paul Veld.
Credits for telecast: executive producer, Barbara Paige Kaplan ; script writer and commentator, Wendy Perron.

Performer (note)

Interviewee on documentary: Glen Tetley.
Host of telecast: Susan Jaffe.
Interviewee on telecast: Caroline Rocher.
Commentator on telecast: Wendy Perron.

Event (note)

Telecast by WNYE, Brooklyn, N.Y., on the series DanceNY, on Nov. 21, 2002.

Contents

Dance excerpts choreographed by Tetley (in order of appearance): Voluntaries / music, Francis Poulenc (Concerto for organ, strings and percussion); sets and costumes, Rouben Ter-Arutunian; lighting, John B. Read; danced by Het Nationale Ballet: Nathalie Caris, Alan Land (pas de deux), Coleen Davis, Boris de Leeuw, Jahn Johansen (pas de trois), others; Muziektheater Orchestra conducted by Tibor Varga -- Pierrot lunaire / music, Arnold Schoenberg; sets and costumes, Ter-Arutunian; danced by Rambert Dance Company: Christopher Bruce, Leigh Warren, Lucy Burge -- Sargasso / music, Ernst Krenek; danced by Nederlands Dans Theater: Gat Galya -- Circles / music, Luciano Berio; danced by Nederlands Dans Theater -- Mutations / music, Karlheinz Stockhausen; danced by Nederlands Dans Theater: Johan Meyer [Meijer] -- Field figures / music, Stockhausen; danced by the Royal Ballet: Rudolf Nureyev, Deanne Bergsma -- Greening / music, Arne Nordheim; scenery and costumes, Nadine Baylis; danced by the Royal Danish Ballet: Mette Honningen -- Ricercare / music, Mordecai Seter; danced by Nederlands Dans Theater: Joke Zijlstra, Nacho Duato -- The rite of spring / music, Igor Stravinsky; danced by National Ballet of Canada: Owen Montague -- The tempest / music, Nordheim; danced by Norwegian National Ballet: Ketil Gudim, Per Lie -- Alice / music, David Del Tredici; danced by National Ballet of Canada: Karen Kain, Rex Harrington, Kimberly Glasco, Peter Ottmann, others.
Additional unrelated material on tape: four music videos telecast by Classic Arts Showcase, including: Allegro non molto from Concerto no. 2 in G minor (Summer) (ca. 7 min.) / music, Antonio Vivaldi; played by Julia Fischer, violin, and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields -- Agitata da due venti (ca. 7 min.) / music, Antonio Vivaldi; sung by Cecilia Bartoli, accompanied by the Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca -- Otche Nash (Our Father) (ca. 4 min.) / music, Nikolai Kedrov; sung by the Bulgarian National Choir, conducted by Georgi Robev -- "Plaintive song," "Legend of the birds," and "Cradle song" from Eight Russian folk songs (incomplete, ca. 6 min.) / music, Anatol Lyadov; performed by the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kenneth Jean.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7597

OCLC

NYPY04-F291

Title

DanceNY. Glen Tetley: Pierrot's tower [videorecording] / WNYE ; Dance Magazine ; produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in association with Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) ; produced and directed by Michael Blackwood.

Imprint

Brooklyn, N.Y. : WNYE, 2002.

Series

DanceNY

Event

Telecast by WNYE, Brooklyn, N.Y., on the series DanceNY, on Nov. 21, 2002.

Credits

Executive producer, Harro Eisele ; editing, Elizabeth Long ; photography, Nils Post ; sound recordist, Paul Veld.

Credits for telecast: executive producer, Barbara Paige Kaplan ; script writer and commentator, Wendy Perron.

Performer

Interviewee on documentary: Glen Tetley.

Host of telecast: Susan Jaffe.

Interviewee on telecast: Caroline Rocher.

Commentator on telecast: Wendy Perron.

Added Author

Tetley, Glen. ive, choreographer, dancer.

Caris, Nathalie, dancer.

Land, Alan, dancer.

Davis, Coleen, dancer.

Leeuw, Boris de, dancer.

Bruce, Christopher, 1945- dancer.

Warren, Leigh, dancer.

Burge, Lucy, dancer.

Zijlstra, Joke, dancer.

Duato, Nacho, dancer.

Meijer, Johan, dancer.

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer.

Bergsma, Deanne, dancer.

Montague, Owen, dancer.

Hønningen, Mette, dancer.

Gudim, Ketil, dancer.

Kain, Karen, dancer.

Harrington, Rex, dancer.

Glasco, Kimberly, dancer.

Ottmann, Peter, dancer.

Flier, Jaap.

Schaijk, Toer van.

Dantzig, Rudi van.

Van Heerden, Augustus.

Baylis, Nadine. Designer. Costume designer

Ter-Arutunian, Rouben, 1920-1992. Designer. Costume designer

Blackwood, Michael. Director. Producer

Eisele, Harro. Producer

Jaffe, Susan. Host

Rocher, Caroline. Interviewee

Perron, Wendy. Commentator

Kaplan, Barbara Paige. Producer

Fischer, Julia, 1983- Instrumentalist

Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741. Composer

Bartoli, Cecilia. voc

Robev, Georgi. Conductor

Kedrov, Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich, 1871-1940. Otche nash.

Lyadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich, 1855-1914. Composer

Jean, Kenneth, 1952- Conductor

Nationale Ballet (Netherlands)

Nederlands Dans Theater.

Rambert Dance Company.

National Ballet of Canada.

Michael Blackwood Productions.

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen.

WNYE (Television station : Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca.

Bŭlgarska khorova kapela Svetoslav Obretenov.

Slovenská filharmónia.

Classic Arts Showcase.

Added Title

Voluntaries (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Pierrot lunaire (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Sargasso (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Circles (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Mutations (Choreographic work : Manen and Tetley)

Field figures (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Greening (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Ricercare (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Rite of spring (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Tempest (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Alice (Choreographic work : Tetley)

Carmina burana (Choreographic work : Butler)

Dance Magazine.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7597

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