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[Denishawn dance film]
- Title
- [Denishawn dance film] [electronic resource]
- Publication
- [1915?-1917]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZHB 4-856 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 streaming video file (NTSC) (12 min.) : si., b&w.
- Summary
- Brief scenes of Denishawn house, Los Angeles, Ruth St. Denis teaching class, leading students in a dance, and in Oriental costume with a peacock; Ted Shawn auditioning small girl wearing pointe shoes; informal shots of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn; Denishawn students at play. The compilation concludes with a 1913 Thomas Alva Edison Company special effects film, The Dances of the Ages, in which Norma Gould, Ted Shawn and dancers perform miniaturized on a banquet table top; Shawn's scenario of brief dances evokes historical eras from the Stone Age to the early twentieth century.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Ted Shawn Collection.
- National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.
- Series Statement
- Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
- Alternative Title
- Dance of the ages.
- Dances of the ages.
- Subjects
- Note
- Some corrections given by Dance Division patron.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video online.
- Indexed In (note)
- Terry, Walter. Ted Shawn
- Shawn, Ted. One thousand and one night stands
- Siegel, Marcia B. "The cake with the stripper inside," Hudson review
- Event (note)
- Filmed at the Denishawn School on 6th and Pearl St., in Los Angeles, Calif. in summer 1915 or summer 1916 and at the Westlake School for Girls in 1917.
- System Details (note)
- Streaming video.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 1724
- OCLC
- NYPY737034859-F
- Title
- [Denishawn dance film] [electronic resource]
- Imprint
- [1915?-1917]
- Series
- Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
- System Details
- Streaming video.
- Event
- Filmed at the Denishawn School on 6th and Pearl St., in Los Angeles, Calif. in summer 1915 or summer 1916 and at the Westlake School for Girls in 1917.
- Indexed In:
- Terry, Walter. Ted Shawn, 1976, p. 18, 49 (The Dance of the Ages).Shawn, Ted. One thousand and one night stands, 1979, p. 14-15 (The Dance of the Ages).Siegel, Marcia B. "The cake with the stripper inside," Hudson review, vol. 31, no. 1, spring 1978, p. 157 (Dances of the Ages).
- Restricted Access
- Patrons can access streaming video online.
- Local Note
- Former classmark: *MGZIDVD 5-3572 (replaced *MGZIA 4-7781).
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Moving images
- Local Subject
- Motion pictures. Denishawn dance film.
- Added Author
- Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972, dancer.St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968, dancer.Gould, Norma, 1888-1980, dancer.Denishawn School of Dance, Los Angeles.Denishawn Dancers.
- Added Title
- Dance of the ages.Dances of the ages.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDF 1724*MGZHB 4-856 Additional copy; 1 film reel (283 ft.) 16mm.