Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.
Call number
*MGZIDF 2043
Note
Widescreen.
Title from opening video credits.
The recording of this work was made possible by the cooperation of Amy Cassello, Danspace Project, Souleymane Badolo, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
Saxophone improvisation by Jeff Hudgins ; additional music, traditional songs from Burkina Faso recorded by Victor Deme, Mahamad Billa, Dankon Faso ; costumes by Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya ; grass costume sculpted by Souleymane Badolo, Jon Isherwood, Richard Macpike ; lighting design by Carol Mullins ; set design and construction by Tony Turner ; videography and editing, Dancing Camera ; director, Nic Petry ; camera operators, Eddie Bernard and Christopher Young.
Funding (note)
This archival recording was made possible by a generous challenge grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and by matching gifts from Helen J. Gebig, Anne H. Bass, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., Gillian Attfield, Caroline Hyman, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Nancy Lassalle and Louisa Sarofim with additional support from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division and the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Title
Benon, 2014 February 15 / conceived and choreographed by Souleymane Badolo.
Production
2014.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Type of content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
video file streaming H.264
Access
Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Performer
Performed by Souleymand Badolo and Charmaine Warren.
Credits
Saxophone improvisation by Jeff Hudgins ; additional music, traditional songs from Burkina Faso recorded by Victor Deme, Mahamad Billa, Dankon Faso ; costumes by Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya ; grass costume sculpted by Souleymane Badolo, Jon Isherwood, Richard Macpike ; lighting design by Carol Mullins ; set design and construction by Tony Turner ; videography and editing, Dancing Camera ; director, Nic Petry ; camera operators, Eddie Bernard and Christopher Young.
Event
Videotaped in performance at St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery, New York, N.Y., as part of Danspace Project, 2014 February 15.
Funding
This archival recording was made possible by a generous challenge grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and by matching gifts from Helen J. Gebig, Anne H. Bass, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., Gillian Attfield, Caroline Hyman, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Nancy Lassalle and Louisa Sarofim with additional support from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division and the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.