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[Travels in Java]
- Title
- [Travels in Java] [videorecording].
- Publication
- 1989-1990.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | disc 1 | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIDVD 5-4336 disc 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | disc 2 | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIDVD 5-4336 disc 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 videodiscs (NTSC) (125 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Travel footage recorded during Deena Burton's stay in Indonesia under a Fulbright Scholarship. The first 28 min. of Disc 1 depict a journey by becak or pedicab from Cirebon, West Java, to the village of Suranengala Lor. The rest of the disc and the first 20 min. of Disc 2 focus on the ruins of various candi or temples in Central Java, among them Mendut, Pawon, the monumental Borobudur, Kalasan, Sari, Prambanan, Sewu, and Plaosan. The ensuing 5 min., which appear to have no image, are actually a nighttime recording of the sound of frogs. This is followed by more travel footage: the interior of a shadowplay theater in the amusement park of Sriwedari in Surakarta or Solo; the crater of Tangkuban Prahu near Bandung in West Java; a gong foundry; the central garden of the Kraton Solo in central Java; a gamelan factory; a series of gates in Cirebon, an element of the urban streetscape that fascinated Skip La Plante; and the Astana Gunung Jati and cemetery in Cirebon. This recording has no dance content.
- Series Statement
- Deena Burton Collection
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Video.
- Note
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Event (note)
- Recorded in Java in 1989-1990.
- Funding (note)
- Funding for the preservation and cataloging of the Deena Burton Collection was provided in part by the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- System Details (note)
- DVD.
- Source (note)
- Skip La Plante.
- Biography (note)
- Deena Burton, 1948-2005, was an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar of Indonesian dance. During her first trip to Indonesia in 1976-1980, she studied a variety of Indonesian dance styles. After returning to New York City, she obtained a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University in 1982. Working with several dance, music, and theater groups, she staged both original and Indonesian choreographies, and founded her own company, Bali-Java Dance Theater. She frequently collaborated with composer Skip La Plante, whom she later married. She was among the founders of the New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan ensemble, later called Gamelan Kusuma Laras. She was a major force behind the not-for-profit organization Arts Indonesia. At the New York Public Library, she edited the Tassilo Adam films, an invaluable collection shot in Indonesia in the 1920s, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to take the edited films to Indonesia in 1989-1990. She received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University in 1997, writing her dissertation on Claire Holt. For a fuller biography, see: http://www.gamelan.org/deenaburton/deenabio.html.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-4336
- OCLC
- 275198542
- Title
- [Travels in Java] [videorecording].
- Imprint
- 1989-1990.
- Series
- Deena Burton Collection
- System Details
- DVD.
- Event
- Recorded in Java in 1989-1990.
- Funding
- Funding for the preservation and cataloging of the Deena Burton Collection was provided in part by the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Biography
- Deena Burton, 1948-2005, was an American dancer, choreographer, and scholar of Indonesian dance. During her first trip to Indonesia in 1976-1980, she studied a variety of Indonesian dance styles. After returning to New York City, she obtained a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University in 1982. Working with several dance, music, and theater groups, she staged both original and Indonesian choreographies, and founded her own company, Bali-Java Dance Theater. She frequently collaborated with composer Skip La Plante, whom she later married. She was among the founders of the New York Indonesian Consulate Gamelan ensemble, later called Gamelan Kusuma Laras. She was a major force behind the not-for-profit organization Arts Indonesia. At the New York Public Library, she edited the Tassilo Adam films, an invaluable collection shot in Indonesia in the 1920s, and received a Fulbright Scholarship to take the edited films to Indonesia in 1989-1990. She received a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University in 1997, writing her dissertation on Claire Holt. For a fuller biography, see: http://www.gamelan.org/deenaburton/deenabio.html.
- Source
- Gift; Skip La Plante.
- Added Author
- Burton, Deena.La Plante, Skip.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-4336