The action: Ahab's leg -- Sleep of Anguish -- The doubloon -- Nightmare -- Baptism of the harpoon -- Dead reckoning -- The chart -- A human eye -- They whale-line -- The chase -- The unfaltering hunt -- Epilogue.
Call number
*MGZIDVD 5-7482
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
Music, Ross Lee Finney ; set, Ralph Dorazio ; masks, Ralph Lee ; lighting designer, Robert Engstrom.
Performer (note)
Danced by Erick Hawkins Dance Company: Michael Butler (Ishmael, Interlocutor), Erick Hawkins (Ahab, Captain of the Pequod), Daniel Tai (Harppner, Tashtego, Gay Head Indian), James Reedy (Harpooner, Daggoo, African), Michael Moses (Queequeg, South Sea Islander/ Fedallah, Parsee), Randy Howard (Starbuck, First Mate)
Music performed live by The Hawkins Theatre Orchestra ; conductor, Glen Cortese.
Event (note)
Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, N.Y., in Sept., 1986.
System details (note)
Streaming video.
Language (note)
Ahab premiered on Sept. 4, 1986 in Cambridge, Mass. for Harvard's 350th Anniversary.
Title
Ahab [electronic resource] / scenario and choreography by Erick Hawkins ; [performed by] Erick Hawkins Dance Company.
Imprint
1986.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
System details
Streaming video.
Original version
Original format: 1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.
Credits
Music, Ross Lee Finney ; set, Ralph Dorazio ; masks, Ralph Lee ; lighting designer, Robert Engstrom.
Cast
Danced by Erick Hawkins Dance Company: Michael Butler (Ishmael, Interlocutor), Erick Hawkins (Ahab, Captain of the Pequod), Daniel Tai (Harppner, Tashtego, Gay Head Indian), James Reedy (Harpooner, Daggoo, African), Michael Moses (Queequeg, South Sea Islander/ Fedallah, Parsee), Randy Howard (Starbuck, First Mate)
Music performed live by The Hawkins Theatre Orchestra ; conductor, Glen Cortese.
Event
Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, N.Y., in Sept., 1986.
Language
Ahab premiered on Sept. 4, 1986 in Cambridge, Mass. for Harvard's 350th Anniversary.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.