Contained in (manifestation): Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company records.
Description
1 online resource (1 video file (31 min., 21 sec.)) : sound, color
Summary
This is a promotional DVD of the premiere dance performance of "Blind date", including video clips of Bill T. Jones talking about the piece during a rehearsal.
Alternative title
Blind Date -- Crystal Stair Productions -- Promotional DVD
Act I: [Transition 1: Security (Shaneeka Harrell, singer)] ; I know I can cut down: Bill Smoking 1 (Bill T. Jones, dancer and speaker) (0:16-2:16) ; National anthem (Mexico) (Erick Montes, singer and dancer) (1:21-2:16) ; [Sound bite of Bill T. Jones explaining concept of the piece (recorded during rehearsal)] (1:39-2:16) -- Bill T. Jones explaining the piece's conception (part 2) during rehearsal [video] (2:17-3:07) -- Bach Fuga 1 (violin solo) (Charles Scott, dance solo ; Ensemble) (3:08-3:58) -- Bach Adagio 1 (Erick Montes ; with Ensemble) (3:59-5:08) -- Bill T. Jones explaining the piece's conception (part 3) during rehearsal [video] (5:07-5:41) -- Me game (Ensemble) ; Song: Star-spangled banner / Key-Smith (5:42-7:30) -- Progress / Tolerance ; Me game (7:31-9:07) (Leah Cox, dancer ; Andrea E. Smith, speaker ; Donald C. Shortler, Jr., image on video) ; Mrs. McGrath (To-re-ya) (Bill T. Jones, singer) (7:36-8:54) -- Rage on stage: [Opposition duet 1] (Bill T. Jones and Andrea E. Smith, speakers ; Ensemble, featuring Majia Garcia and Asli Bulbul) (9:08-10:02) -- Bill T. Jones explaining the piece's nationalities (part 4) during rehearsal [video] (10:03-10:17) -- Asli Turkey: Crescent shape as war strategy / spoken in Turkish by Asli Bulbul ; Cresent moon (Turkish chant) / sung by Asli Bulbul ; Turkish dance (Asli Bulbul and Ensemble) (10:11-12:30) -- Wen-Chung Taiwan: Solo dance (Wen-Chung Lin, dancer) ; Full river red [= Man Jiang Hong] / [Chinese folk tune ; words from the poem by Yue Fei] / [sung by Janet Wong's father in Chinese] (12:31-13:32) -- A sitting duck: Richard the Duck story ([Patricia]: electric piano theme / music by Daniel B. Roumain ; duck monologue) (Bill T. Jones, monologue ; Donald C. Shorter, Richard the Duck) (13:34-15:42) -- Quack-a-dack burgers: version 2 (15:43-16:02) -- [Army cadence] / music by Daniel B. Roumain (Ensemble) (16:03-16:35) -- Intermission -- Security (Etta James' version: 1968) / music written by Otis Redding (sung by Shaneeka Harrell ; The Ensemble, featuring Majia Garcia, Ayo Janeen Jackson and Bill T. Jones) (16:38-18:23) -- 1995-2005: Thank you, God (The dead) [end] (Andrea E. Smith speaker) ; Preacher: I know I can cut down: Bill Smoking 2 (Bill T. Jones, singer and speaker) ; [Patricia: electric piano theme] / music by Daniel B. Roumain (Ayo Ayo Janeen Jackson, dance solo) (18:24-19:17) -- [Sensuality] (Bells ; Unidentifed Bible verse ; unidentified speaker) (The Ensemble) (19:18-22:49) -- [Army march]: (Unknown folk song and singer) (The Ensemble ; Donald C. Shorter, dance solo) ; Bach Fuga 2 [end]: violin and cello / music by J. S. Bach (22:50-25:03) -- Excerpt of talk with Bill T. Jones and Ensemble (25:04-25:55) -- [Death? War]: Bach Adagio 2 / music by J. S. Bach ; In broad terms (Violin, electronics, whispering monologue, throat singing, percussion; based on American folksong "America") (The Ensemble ; featuring Andrea E. Smith, speaker) (25:20-27:44) -- Bill T. Jones and Leah dancing (27:45-27:49) -- Finale: Security (Etta James' version: 1968): breakdown / music written by Otis Redding ; Me game (sung by Shaneeka Harrell ; The Ensemble ; with Neel Murgai, Nurit Pacht, and Akim "Funk" Buddha) (27:50-31:15) -- Bill T. Jones speaks at rehearsal (part 4) (31:16-31:21)
Note
Title and date from original physical media. Additional notes (i.e. "Progress") are from onscreen credit cards. "In broad terms" and "Security" notes and are from a Playbill program (The Kennedy Center, November 2005).
"In broad terms" monologue was excerpted from "The changing face of war: Into the fourth generation" / written by William S. Lind, Colonel Keith Nightengale (USA), Captain John F. Scmitt (USMC), Colonel Joseph W. Sutton (USA), and Lieutenant Colonel Gary I. Wilson (USMCR), previously published in Marine Corps Gazette (October 1989).
Patrons can access streaming video file online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
Produced by Crystal Stair Productions and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company. Music by Daniel Bernard Roumain, Johann Sebastian Bach, Otis Redding, R. Kelly, et al ; costume design by Liz Prince ; set design by Bjorn Amelan ; video design by Peter Nigrini ; lighting design by Robert Wierzel.
Video was filmed in multiple days (multi-cameras?) ; edited for content.
Performer (note)
Bill T. Jones, choreographer and dancer ; Erick Montes, dancer and singer ; Asli Bulbul, dancer, Turkish monologue and singer ; Charles Scott, dancer ; Shaneeka Harrell, dancer and singer ; Musicians: Akim "Funk" Buddha, throat singing [beatbox] and percussion ; Neel Murgai, throat singing, dar and sitar ; Nurit Pacht, violin ; Shaneeka Harrell, singer ; Daniel Bernard Roumain, electric piano and laptop.
Event (note)
Premiere performance recorded at Alexander Kasser Theatre, Montclair State University, Montclair, N.J. on both September 21 and September 24, 2005. Rehearsal interview of Bill T. Jones recorded in September 2005.
Title
Blind date : Promotional DVD from Crystal Stair Productions, September 2005 / [at Montclair State University].
Production
2005.
Country of producing entity
United States
Playing time
003121
Type of content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
video file
Credits
Produced by Crystal Stair Productions and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company. Music by Daniel Bernard Roumain, Johann Sebastian Bach, Otis Redding, R. Kelly, et al ; costume design by Liz Prince ; set design by Bjorn Amelan ; video design by Peter Nigrini ; lighting design by Robert Wierzel.
Video was filmed in multiple days (multi-cameras?) ; edited for content.
Cast
Bill T. Jones, choreographer and dancer ; Erick Montes, dancer and singer ; Asli Bulbul, dancer, Turkish monologue and singer ; Charles Scott, dancer ; Shaneeka Harrell, dancer and singer ; Musicians: Akim "Funk" Buddha, throat singing [beatbox] and percussion ; Neel Murgai, throat singing, dar and sitar ; Nurit Pacht, violin ; Shaneeka Harrell, singer ; Daniel Bernard Roumain, electric piano and laptop.
Event
Premiere performance recorded at Alexander Kasser Theatre, Montclair State University, Montclair, N.J. on both September 21 and September 24, 2005. Rehearsal interview of Bill T. Jones recorded in September 2005.
Original version
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Blind date : Promotional DVD from Crystal Stair Productions, 2005. 1 videodisc (31 min., 21 sec.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. (SPEC AMI ID)323466
Added author
Jones, Bill T., choreographer.
Jones, Bill T., dancer.
Jones, Bill T., singer.
Jones, Bill T., speaker.
Montes, Erick, dancer.
Montes, Erick, singer.
Bulbul, Asli, dancer.
Bulbul, Asli, singer.
Bulbul, Asli, speaker.
Cox, Leah (Dancer), performer.
Garcia, Maija, dancer.
Harrell, Shaneeka, dancer.
Harrell, Shaneeka, singer.
Jackson, Ayo Janeen, dancer.
Lin, Wen-Chung (Dancer), dancer.
Scott, Charles (Dancer), dancer.
Smith, Andrea E., actor.
Smith, Andrea E., dancer.
Smith, Andrea E., speaker.
Funk Buddha, Akim, performer.
Murgai, Neel, performer.
Roumain, Daniel Bernard, composer.
Prince, Liz, 1961- costume designer.
Amelan, Bjorn G., 1955- set designer.
Nigrini, Peter, video designer.
Wierzel, Robert, lighting designer.
Container of (expression): Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Sonaten und Partiten, violin, BWV 1001-1006. Sonata, no. 1. Fuga. Selections; arranged.
Container of (expression): Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Sonaten und Partiten, violin, BWV 1001-1006. Sonata, no. 1. Adagio. Selections; arranged.
Container of (work): Redding, Otis, 1941-1967. Security.
Container of (work): Kelly, R., 1969- Step in the name of love.
Container of (work): Roumain, Daniel Bernard. Patricia.
Container of (work): Roumain, Daniel Bernard. Glass.
Container of (work): Roumain, Daniel Bernard. Army cadence.
Container of (work): Roumain, Daniel Bernard. Jumping star.
Container of (work): Yue, Fei, 1103-1142. Man Jiang Hong. Selections.
Choreography (work): Jones, Bill T. Blind date.
Crystal Stair Productions, producer.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company, dancer.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company, producer.
Original physical media: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company, donor.
Added title
Mrs. McGrath.
Cresent moon.
Full river red.
Quack-a-dack burgers.
Found in:
Contained in (manifestation): Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company records.