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Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company: New Beginnings, Works & Process at the Guggenheim

Title: Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company: New Beginnings, 2007 October 15 : Works & Process at the Guggenheim / performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson.
Publication: 2007.

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Description

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color.

Summary

Discussion 1: Christopher Wheeldon discusses why he wanted to start a new company now; his input of not only creating steps but creating movement for dancers, and helping dancers to discover new things about themselves during this collaboration; how Wheeldon and Lourdes Lopez got together to form Morphoses; when did they decide to actually start this company; some of the challenges of running this company including a story by Lopez of quickly needing to find a violinist for a Vail performance. Discussion 2: Defining the vision/mission of the company, and the importance of spending time together as a company outside of rehearsals; collaborative relationship with the dancers and production staff; the impressions/differences that Lopez has observed with Wheeldon and his use of description with images and phrasing, compared to other choreographers. Discussion 3: Collaboration with photographer Bill Cooper and the photographs shown at the beginning of the evening; how the visual arts fit into this company; working with five other choreographers this season including William Forsythe and the importance of his dialogue with Forsythe.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform Title

Mesmerics (Choreographic work : Wheeldon)
There where she loved (Choreographic work : Wheeldon)
Misericordes (Choreographic work : Wheeldon)
Slingerland (Choreographic work : Forsythe)
Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Alternative Title

Works & Process, Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company

Subjects

Genre/Form

Filmed performances.
Panel discussions.
Filmed dance.
Video.
Dance.
Nonfiction films.

Note

Title and credits taken from house program and DVD label.
"Morphoses performs at City Center from October 17 through October 21." -- program notes.

Source (note)

Mary Sharp Cronson.

Contents

Introduction (4 min.) / by Mary Sharp Cronson and Lynn Garafola.
Mesmerics (excerpts) (13 min.) / choreography by Christopher Wheeldon ; music by Philip Glass ; performed by Aesha Ash, Oxana Panchenko, Anastasia Yatsenko, Michael Nunn, William Trevitt, Adrian Danchig-Waring.
Discussion 1 (14 min.) / panel: Christopher Wheeldon and Lordes Lopez ; moderator, Lynn Garafola
Morphoses in Vail (7 min.) / film by Yaniv Schulman.
Discussion 2 (7 min.) / panel: Christopher Wheeldon and Lordes Lopez ; moderator, Lynn Garafola
Rehearsal Sections: Variations from Elsinore [rehearsal] (8 min.) / choreography by Christopher Wheeldon ; music by Arvo Pärt ; coach, Christopher Wheeldon ; performed by Anastasia Yatsenko -- Pas de Deux from There Where She Loved [rehearsal and performance] (15 min.) / choreography by Christopher Wheeldon ; music by Frédérick Chopin, Kurt Weill ; music performed by Cameron Grant (piano) and Shelley Waite (Mezzo) ; coach, Christopher Wheeldon ; performed by Maria Kowroski, Michael Nunn -- Variations from Elsinore [performance] (3 min.) / choreography by Christopher Wheeldon ; music by Arvo Pärt ; performed by Anastasia Yatsenko.
Discussion 3 (7 min.) / panel: Christopher Wheeldon and Lordes Lopez ; moderator, Lynn Garafola
Slingerland Pas de Deux (8 min.) / choreography by William Forsythe ; music by Gavin Bryars ; costumes by William Forsythe ; performed by Aesha Ash and Gonzalo Garcia.
Conclusion and audience exit (5 min.) / by Lynn Garafola.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-7972

OCLC

889872133

Title

Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company: New Beginnings, 2007 October 15 : Works & Process at the Guggenheim / performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson.

Production

2007.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Performer

Performers (in alphabetical order): Aesha Ash, Adrian Danchig-Waring, [Gonzalo Garcia], Maria Kowroski, Edwaard Liang, Michael Nunn, Oxana Panchenko, William Trevitt, Anastasia Yatsenko.

Panel: Lordes Lopez (Executive Director), Christopher Wheeldon (Artistic Director and choreographer) ; moderator, Lynn Garafola

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, The Sackler Center for Arts Education, as part of the Works & Process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York on 2007 October 15 (7:30 pm).

Source

Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson. NN-PD

Added Author

Cronson, Mary Sharp, producer.

Cronson, Mary Sharp, speaker.

Garafola, Lynn, moderator.

Wheeldon, Christopher, choreographer.

Wheeldon, Christopher, artistic director.

Wheeldon, Christopher, teacher.

Wheeldon, Christopher, speaker.

Lopez, Lourdes, speaker.

Lopez, Lourdes, director.

Forsythe, William, 1949- choreographer.

Forsythe, William, 1949- costume designer.

Glass, Philip, composer.

Schulman, Yaniv, filmmaker.

Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849, composer.

Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950, composer.

Grant, Cameron, 1951- performer.

Waite, Shelley, performer.

Pärt, Arvo, composer.

Bryars, Gavin, composer.

Ash, Aesha, dancer.

Danchig-Waring, Adrian, dancer.

Kowroski, Maria, dancer.

Liang, Edward, dancer.

Nunn, Michael, dancer.

Panchenko, Oxana, dancer.

Trevitt, William, dancer.

Yatsenko, Anastasia, dancer.

Garcia, Gonzalo (Ballet dancer), dancer.

Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company, dancer.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Cronson, Mary Sharp, donor.

Added Title

Container of (work): Mesmerics (Choreographic work : Wheeldon)

Container of (work): There where she loved (Choreographic work : Wheeldon)

Container of (work): Misericordes (Choreographic work : Wheeldon)

Container of (work): Slingerland (Choreographic work : Forsythe)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-7972

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