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Trailblazers of modern dance [Additional footage]
- Title
- Trailblazers of modern dance [Additional footage] [videorecording]
- Publication
- 1977.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIA 4-8036 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (33 min.) : sd. and si., col. and b&w; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Compilation of film footage and audio tracks recorded for, but not necessarily used in WNET's documentary Trailblazers of modern dance (see *MGZIC 9-40). Includes archival footage meant to give a sense of time or place. Some of the audio tracks are played without visual footage.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Dance in America.
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Note
- Time code at bottom of frame.
- Contents
- Ruth St. Denis discusses her Cobra dance (ca. 5 min.) -- Film clip depicting a play-within-a-play: a female singer performs amid a lavish stage spectacle (ca. 4 min., b&w) -- Film clip depicting a nightclub, followed by brief glimpse of dancers on a beach (ca. 1 min., si., b&w) -- Archival footage, some of it possibly depicting Russia; includes a shot of Raymond Duncan in Greek attire (ca. 5 min., si., b&w) -- Audio only; jazz piano piece (ca. 2 min.) -- Audio only; voiceovers, possibly including Rosemary Harris as the voice of Isadora Duncan (ca. 6 min.) -- Various footage, including a few seconds of Isadora Duncan dancing at a garden party; recorded twice (ca. 1 min., si., b&w) -- Audio only; female speaker, probably Ruth St. Denis, discussing Isadora Duncan and her own work; she is cut off in the middle of an anecdote (ca. 7 min.).
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-8036
- OCLC
- NYPY04-F543
- Title
- Trailblazers of modern dance [Additional footage] [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 1977.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Performer
- Appearing on camera: Ruth St. Denis, Raymond Duncan, Isadora Duncan.
- Added Author
- St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968, speaker.Duncan, Raymond, 1874-1966, actor.Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927, dancer.Harris, Rosemary, 1927- actor.WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-8036