Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Gamson, Annabelle
2. Stackhouse, Sarah
3. Juste, Roxane d'Orleans
4. Painted Bride Art Center.

Description

1. 3 streaming video files (86 min.) : sound, color.

Summary

1. Reel 1. Annabelle Gamson discusses how Brahms Waltzes was central to Isadora Duncan's work; Gamson's childhood and dance career; Gamson reading reviews and some of Duncan's words about her own work; commenting on a film of Lynn Seymour performing Duncan dance along with talk of her interpretation; Gamson also performed Mary Wigman dances and Janis Brenner performed some Wigman dances at a conference after some coaching from Gamson; Brahms Waltzes being created by Duncan just before her children died and then not performing again for many years; Duncan returning to dance in a different, more posed style; Gamson creating a piece entitled, Semele, to help Roxane D'Orleans understand more about Duncan's dances; story of Semele; Question & Answer session including Gamsons dance career, how she decided to focus on Isadora Duncan; Sarah Stackhouse talks about Daniel Nagrin and his improvisational group; D'Orleans talks about her own dance career; and Gamson talks about leaving dance in 1995 to pursue painting. Reel 2 (Part 1). Question & Answer session concludes with talk of Left Wing dancing and comments on Roxane D'Orleans dancing and her dance background. Reel 2 (Part 2). Two solo run-throughs for Masters Exchange program.

Series statement

1. Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive

Uniform title

1. Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive.

Alternative title

1. Isabel #1 and #2
2. Dance at the Painted Bride

Subject

1. Dance
2. Nonfiction films
3. Interviews
4. Filmed dance
5. Video
6. Dance > History > 20th century
7. Modern dance > United States
8. Nagrin, Daniel
9. Juste, Roxane d'Orleans
10. Stackhouse, Sarah
11. Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973
12. Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927
13. Gamson, Annabelle

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.
3. Filmed dance.
4. Interviews.
5. Nonfiction films.

Contents

1. Reel 1. Introduction (9 min.) / speaker, Sarah Stackhouse -- Annabelle Gamson (35 min.) / speaker, Annabelle Gamson -- Question & Answer session (beginning) (18 min.) / speakers, Annabewlle Gamson, Sarah Stackhouse, Roxane D'Orleans.
2. Reel 2 (Part 1). Question & Answer session (conclusion) (approximately 6 min) / speakers, Annabelle Gamson, Sarah Stackhouse, Roxane D'Orleans -- (Part 2). Masters Exchange (18 min.) / Two dance solos (18 min.) / dancers, unidentified.

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 1481

Note

1. Title taken from opening speech, original cassette label, and other catalog records.
2. Reel 1 (62 min.) ; Reel 2, Part 1 (approximately 6 min.) ; Reel 2, Part 3 (18 min.).
3. Dance films not included in this video.

Access (note)

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

Credits (note)

1. Presented by Susan Hess Modern Dance ; videotaped by Isabel.

Source (note)

1. Susan Hess;

Title

1. Six American Dance Pioneers : A Look Back, A Leap Forward: Annabelle Gamson.

Production

1. 2001.

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

Series

1. Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive
2. Susan Hess Modern Dance Lecture Series Video Archive.

Original version

1. Original format: 2 videocassettes (Mini DV).

Restricted access

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

Credits

1. Presented by Susan Hess Modern Dance ; videotaped by Isabel.

Event

1. Videotaped during talk at Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, Pa. 2001 March 25.

Source

1. Gift; Susan Hess; 2010.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Gamson, Annabelle, speaker.
2. Stackhouse, Sarah, speaker.
3. Juste, Roxane d'Orleans, speaker.
4. Painted Bride Art Center.
5. Hess, Susan, donor.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDF 1481