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On stage in fashion A conversation with acclaimed choreographer/director Mark Morris and designer Isaac Mizrahi

Title
On stage in fashion [videorecording] : A conversation with acclaimed choreographer/director Mark Morris and designer Isaac Mizrahi / moderated by Sharon Delano ; presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Publication
c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Morris, Mark, 1956-
  • Mizrahi, Isaac
  • Mizrahi, Isaac.
  • DeLano, Sharon.
  • Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946-
  • Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.
  • Robison, Mark (Cameraman)
  • Character Generators/Video.
  • Mark Morris Dance Group.
  • New York Public Library. Dance Division.
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Description
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Mark Morris (choreographer/director) and Isaac Mizrahi (designer) discuss when they met; how long Mizrahi has been working as a costume designer; how and why Mizrahi and Morris began working together in 1992; the initial converstion about costumes for Morris' Falling down stairs; structure of Falling down stairs and why YoYo Ma's presence influenced this work; the costume fabric for Mosaic untitled; working with costume shops; the costumes and set for Morris' Resurrection; the costumes, story, and set for the opera Platee; dancers complaining about uncomfortable costumes, comparison of Mark Morris' costumes to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; idea for costumes for the opera Orfeo; the problems with costumes for opera performers; and concludes with a Question and Answer session. Three excerpts of choreographic works are shown throughout this conversation.
Series Statement
Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation
Uniform Title
Resurrection (Choreographic work : Morris)
Alternative Title
  • Conversation with acclaimed choreographer/director Mark Morris and designer Isaac Mizrahi.
  • Falling down stairs (Motion picture)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Interviews.
  • Filmed dance.
  • Filmed performances.
  • Nonfiction films.
Note
  • Recording made possible by the cooperation of Sharon DeLano, Isaac Mizrahi, Mark Morris, and The Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
  • Dance excerpts include: Prelude section from Falling down stairs, Resurrection, and Orfeo ed Euridice.
  • On Stage in Fashion program located in the Dance Division's *MGZB Morris, Mark, 1956- [Programs].
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Mark Robison (Character Generators Inc.).
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in performance at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. on Jan. 20, 2011.
Funding (note)
  • The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the leadership support of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.
  • The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Jerome Robbins Foundation.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Contents
Introductory remarks (3 min.) / speaker, Jacqueline Z. Davis -- Conversation (72 min.) / interviewees, Mark Morris and Isaac Mizrahi ; moderator, Sharon DeLano.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-6419
OCLC
764478516
Title
On stage in fashion [videorecording] : A conversation with acclaimed choreographer/director Mark Morris and designer Isaac Mizrahi / moderated by Sharon Delano ; presented by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Imprint
c2011.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation
System Details
DVD.
Event
Videotaped in performance at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. on Jan. 20, 2011.
Performer
Interviewer, Sharon DeLano ; interviewees, Mark Moris and Isaac Mizrahi.
Speaker, Jacqueline Z. Davis.
Credits
Videographer, Mark Robison (Character Generators Inc.).
Funding
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the leadership support of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.
The Dance Division gratefully acknowledges the assistance of The Jerome Robbins Foundation.
Added Author
Morris, Mark, 1956- interviewee.
Morris, Mark, 1956- choreographer.
Mizrahi, Isaac, interviewee.
Mizrahi, Isaac. Costume designer
DeLano, Sharon. Interviewer
Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946- speaker.
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Orfeo ed Euridice.
Robison, Mark (Cameraman), videographer.
Character Generators/Video.
Mark Morris Dance Group.
New York Public Library. Dance Division.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Added Title
Resurrection (Choreographic work : Morris)
Falling down stairs (Motion picture)
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-6419
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