Research Catalog

Dance Vista with Diane Dragone

Title
  1. Dance Vista with Diane Dragone / produced and directed by Tom Horan ; a Half Moon Video Production & A Kennedy Dancers Production.
Published by
  1. 1994.

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Brenner, Janis
  2. Taketa, Edward Akio
  3. Sevilla, John-Mario
  4. Dragone, Diane
  5. Horan, Tom
  6. Half Moon Video
  7. Kennedy Dancers
  8. Janis Brenner & Dancers
Description
  1. 1 streaming video file (33 min.) : sound, color.
Summary
  1. Janis Brenner (choreographer/dancer) discusses her career in dance; her first creative dance classes at age 5; ballet with Andre Eglevsky at age 8; modern dance with Carl Morris (Humphrey/Weidman technique) at age 13; becoming a dance major at Adelphi University for two years; leaving college to study dance in New York City; her first concert being at Dance Theater Workshop in 1975; joining the Murray Louis Company for 7 1/2 years; performing with guest artists including Rudolf Nureyev and Placido Domingo; leaving the Murray Louis Company around the age of 30; some works she created including Guilt, Shekhinah/Voices, UzaMaki, and Ton of Led; the lack of money for modern dance in the U.S. and how there is more respect and money for companies in Asia and Europe; where she sees her company in five years and the current financial problems with her company.
Alternative title
  1. Interview with Janis Brenner
Subject
  1. Brenner, Janis
  2. Janis Brenner & Dancers
Genre/Form
  1. Dance.
  2. Video.
  3. Televised dance.
  4. Dance television programs.
  5. Filmed dance.
  6. Filmed performances.
  7. Interviews.
  8. Nonfiction films.
Contents
  1. Anticipation / choreography by Janis Brenner ; performed by Janis Brenner and Edward Akio Taketa -- Guilt / choreography and performance by Janis Brenner -- Shekhinah/Voices / choreography by Janis Brenner ; performed by Janis Brenner and John-Mario Sevilla -- Uku Maki / choreographed by Janis Brenner ; performed by Edward Akio Taketa -- Ton of Led / choreography and performance by Janis Brenner & Dancers ; music, Led Zeppelin.
Call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-6959
Note
  1. Titles from opening credits and original videocassette label.
Access (note)
  1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Source (note)
  1. Janis Brenner;
Title
  1. Dance Vista with Diane Dragone / produced and directed by Tom Horan ; a Half Moon Video Production & A Kennedy Dancers Production.
Production
  1. 1994.
Country of producing entity
  1. U.S.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. computer
  2. video
Type of carrier
  1. online resource
Original version
  1. Original format: 1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.
Restricted access
  1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Event
  1. Videotaped during interview at New Jersey Television, Jersey City, N.Y. as part of the Dance Vista program 1994 July.
Performer
  1. Interviewee, Janis Brenner ; interviewer, Diane Dragone.
Source
  1. Gift; Janis Brenner; 2012.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Added author
  1. Brenner, Janis, choreographer.
  2. Brenner, Janis, artistic director.
  3. Brenner, Janis, interviewee.
  4. Brenner, Janis, performer.
  5. Taketa, Edward Akio, performer.
  6. Sevilla, John-Mario, performer.
  7. Dragone, Diane, interviewer.
  8. Horan, Tom, television producer.
  9. Horan, Tom, television director.
  10. Half Moon Video.
  11. Kennedy Dancers.
  12. Janis Brenner & Dancers.
  13. Brenner, Janis, donor.
Research call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-6959
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