Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Graham, Martha
2. Morris, Bob
3. Schewel, Amy
4. Joseph, Rand J.
5. Rosenblatt, Roger
6. Kisselgoff, Anna
7. Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009
8. Capucilli, Terese
9. WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), presenter.

Description

1. 1 streaming video file (28 min.) : sound, color.

Summary

1. Panel discussion after Martha Graham's death on April 1, 1991. Anna Kisselgoff discusses dance before Martha Graham and what Graham did for dance; Pearl Lang talks about what Graham taught her and the differences between ballet and Martha's movements; Terese Capucilli discusses feeling emotions when dancing Graham's choreography and feeling the places in between the contractions and releases; the tension and dissonance of Grahams movement and work ; the critics resistance to Graham's works; the practical value of the soul/emotion in relationship to dance; the element of sexuality in Graham's work; Capucilli's favorite moment of learning and performing her first Graham work, Errand into the Maze; Lang's favorite moment of seeing Graham perform Letter to the World; Kisselgoff talks about the idea of modern and how one becomes modern today; Joseph Campbell being Graham's mentor; and how it is hard for new choreographers to work in the shadow of a giant like Martha Graham.

Alternative title

1. Bertram Ross Video Archive.

Subject

1. Nonfiction films
2. Panel discussions
3. Interviews
4. Filmed performances
5. Filmed dance
6. Video
7. Dance
8. Capucilli, Terese
9. Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009
10. Kisselgoff, Anna
11. Martha Graham Dance Company
12. Graham, Martha

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.
3. Filmed dance.
4. Filmed performances.
5. Interviews.
6. Panel discussions.
7. Nonfiction films.

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 2657

Note

1. Title from opening video credits.
2. Off-air recording.
3. Brief dance excerpts include: Lamentation, Frontier, Night Journey and Appalachian Spring.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

1. Lighting director, William B. Schamann ; technical director, Rand J. Joseph ; video, Nick Besink ; audio, Bill Flood.

Source (note)

1. William Prensky;

Title

1. Thirteen Live : Martha Graham panel / producer, Amy Schewel ; directed by Bob Morris ; a production of Thirteen, WNET.

Production

1. 1991.

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.

Performer

1. Host/interviewer, Roger Rosenblatt ; panel, Anna Kisselgoff, Pearl Lang, Terese Capucilli.

Credits

1. Lighting director, William B. Schamann ; technical director, Rand J. Joseph ; video, Nick Besink ; audio, Bill Flood.

Event

1. Videotaped during interview program at Channel 13 studio, New York, N.Y. 1991 April 4.

Source

1. Gift; William Prensky; 2009.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Graham, Martha, choreographer.
2. Graham, Martha, dancer.
3. Morris, Bob, television director.
4. Schewel, Amy, television producer.
5. Joseph, Rand J., technical director.
6. Rosenblatt, Roger, host.
7. Rosenblatt, Roger, interviewer.
8. Kisselgoff, Anna, interviewee.
9. Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009, interviewee.
10. Capucilli, Terese, interviewee.
11. WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), presenter.
12. Prensky, William, donor.

Added title

1. Bertram Ross Video Archive.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDF 2657