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The music of David Lang interpreted Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title: The music of David Lang interpreted [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication: c2010.

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Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (77 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

The panel discusses David Lang's music, how each choreographer (Jessica Lang and Pontus Lidberg) decided on the order of the two works and how they worked with the music. Jessica Lang listened to the rhythms and created an unusual counting structure, how she feels about her completed choreographic work, and some insight into her creative process pertained to how she relied on the music as feminine and masculine, used gravity as one of the laws of nature, and the war between men and women, and concludes with her past performing experience with Twyla Tharp's company Tharp! and how that influenced her choreographic style. David Lang discusses how these works were created for percussionists and their need to build instruments as part of this work's process, and how he composed these two musical compositions beginning with the problem solving aspect of putting the endless melody into regular shape and deciding to add a military beat. Pontus Lidberg discusses how he decided on the order of the two musical compositions, what his process was like working and living with these dancers for five weeks, how this choreographic work relates to human encounters and how he was influenced by the opening of a flower one morning during this residency, and his past works using David Lang's music. This panel discussion concludes with the panelist briefly talking about their next projects.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform Title

Lang: MUSIC + Lang: DANCE (Choreographic work : Lang)
Vespertine (Choreographic work : Lidberg)
Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Video.
Dance.
Interviews.

Credits (note)

Choreographers, Jessica Lang and Pontus Lidberg ; music by David Lang (The so-called laws of nature and Forced march) ; lighting by Mary Louise Geiger.

Event (note)

Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Oct. 4, 2010 (7:30 pm).

System Details (note)

DVD.

Source (note)

Mary Sharp Cronson.

Contents

Introduction (ca. 3 min.) / by Mary Sharp Cronson -- Film (ca. 2 min.) / by Gabrielle Lamb -- Panel discussion (ca. 9 min.) / moderator, Nancy Dalva ; panel, Jessica Lang and David Lang -- Lang: MUSIC + Lang: DANCE (world premiere) (ca. 22 min.) / choreography by Jessica Lang ; costumes by Elena Comendador ; dancers, Melissa Barak, Kristi Boone, Misty Copeland, Blaine Hoven, Matthew Prescott, Kanji Segawa, Laura Feig, Rachel Sherak, Isaac Stappas, Eric Tamm (I: the so-called laws of nature) ; Melissa Barak, Misty Copeland, Laura Feig, Rachel Sherak, Blaine Hoven, Matthew Prescott, Kanji Segawa, Isaac Stappas, Eric Tamm (II: forced march) -- Panel discussion (ca. 11 min.) / moderator, Nancy Dalva ; panel, Pontus Lidberg, David Lang and Jessica Lang -- Vespertine (world premiere) (ca. 22 min.) / choreography by Pontus Lidberg ; costumes by Benjamin Briones ; dancers, Laura Feig, Gabrielle Lamb, Andrea Spiridonakos, Blaine Hoven, Isaac Stappas, and Eric Tamm.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5989

OCLC

707521195

Title

The music of David Lang interpreted [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

c2010.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

System Details

DVD.

Credits

Choreographers, Jessica Lang and Pontus Lidberg ; music by David Lang (The so-called laws of nature and Forced march) ; lighting by Mary Louise Geiger.

Performer

Panel: David Lang (composer), Jessica Lang (choreographer), Pontus Lidberg (choreographer), Nancy Dalva )(moderator).

Performed by Morphoses: Melissa Barak, Kristi Boone, Misty Copeland, Laura Feig, Gabrielle Lamb, Rachel Sherak, Andrea Spiridonakos, Blaine Hoven, Matthew Prescott, Kanji Segawa, Isaac Stappas, Eric Tamm.

Event

Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Oct. 4, 2010 (7:30 pm).

Local Note

For program notes see *MGZB Works and process at the Guggenheim [programs].

Source

Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson. NN-PD

Added Author

Dalva, Nancy, moderator.

Lang, Jessica, interviewee.

Lang, Jessica, choreographer.

Lang, David (David A.), interviewee.

Lang, David (David A.), composer.

Lidberg, Pontus, 1977- interviewee.

Lidberg, Pontus, 1977- choreographer.

Geiger, Mary Louise, lighting desiger.

Briones, Benjamin, costume designer.

Comendador, Elena, costume designer.

Lamb, Gabrielle, videographer.

Barak, Melissa, dancer.

Boone, Kristi, dancer.

Copeland, Misty, dancer.

Feig, Laura (Dancer)

Lamb, Gabrielle, dancer.

Sherak, Rachel, dancer.

Spiridonakos, Andrea, dancer.

Hoven, Blaine, dancer.

Prescott, Matthew (Matthew R.), dancer.

Segawa, Kanji, dancer.

Stappas, Isaac, dancer.

Tamm, Eric, dancer.

Cronson, Mary Sharp, producer.

Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Donor NN-PD

Added Title

Lang: MUSIC + Lang: DANCE (Choreographic work : Lang)

Vespertine (Choreographic work : Lidberg)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5989

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