Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Caras, Steven
2. Homans, Jennifer, 1960-
3. Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946-
4. Ward, Penny
5. Penny Ward/Video.
6. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
7. New York Public Library. Dance Division.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (47 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Steven Caras discusses the documentary; becoming a dancer's photographer; being a dancer at New York City Ballet; transitioning to photography; his first experience as a photographer for the Alicia Alonzo book; having an identity crisis when he stopped dancing; pushing himself to do things he is not comfortable doing; his favorite dance at NYCB was Donizetti variations; the differences photographing George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins' choreographic works; how Caras thinks about photography and changing to a digital camera; coming out of the closet as a gay man to Mr. Balanchine with his decision to then leave NYCB and later return; and concludes with a Question and Answer session.

Series statement

1. Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation

Subject

1. Nonfiction films
2. Interviews
3. Dance
4. Dance photography
5. Robbins, Jerome
6. Photography > Technique
7. New York City Ballet
8. Balanchine, George
9. Video
10. Caras, Steven

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.
3. Interviews.
4. Nonfiction films.

Contents

1. Introduction (4 min.) / speaker, Jacqueline Z. Davis -- [Comments after film] (1 min.) / speaker, Jacqueline Z. Davis -- Interview (42 min.) / interviewee, Steven Caras ; interviewer, Jennifer Homans.

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-6418

Note

1. Recording made possible by the cooperation of the Steven Caras, Jennifer Homans, and The Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
2. The pre-airing screening of Steven Caras: See them dance, was shown at this event but was not included on this DVD.

Credits (note)

1. Videographer, Penny Ward (Penny Ward/Video).

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in performance at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. on Mar. 7, 2011.

Funding (note)

1. The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Jerome Robbins Foundation.

System details (note)

1. DVD.

Title

1. Steven Caras [videorecording] / interviewed by Jennifer Homans ; presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

Imprint

1. c2011.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Series

1. Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation

System details

1. DVD.

Event

1. Videotaped in performance at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. on Mar. 7, 2011.

Performer

1. Interviewer, Jennifer Homans ; Interviewee, Steven Caras.
2. Speaker, Jacqueline Z. Davis.

Credits

1. Videographer, Penny Ward (Penny Ward/Video).

Funding

1. The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Added author

1. Caras, Steven, interviewee.
2. Homans, Jennifer, 1960- Interviewer
3. Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946- speaker.
4. Ward, Penny, videographer.
5. Penny Ward/Video.
6. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
7. New York Public Library. Dance Division.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-6418