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Ordinary movement as a resource for dance

Title
Ordinary movement as a resource for dance [electronic resource]
Publication
1981.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Summers, Elaine, 1925-
  • Ogsbury, Alexandra
  • Bannon, Tony.
  • Moore, Carman.
  • Serrie, Lee.
  • Elaine Summers Experimental Intermedia Foundation.
Description
1 streaming video file (NTSC) (25 min.) : sd., col.
Subjects
Note
  • Produced by Elaine Summers Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Video camera/editing: Lee Serrie. Films: Elaine Summers and Tony Bannon. Slides: Paula Court.
  • Choreography: Elaine Summers. Music: Carman Moore.
  • Performed by Alexandra Ogsbury, Michelle Berne, Tedrian Chizik, Roberta Garrison, Edward Bhartonn, Roberto Gautier, Shirley Mischer, Robert Coe, Polly Freeman Boulakbasi, Tsi Ma, James Auwae, Ann Waxman, Wendy Biller, and Harold Hamilton, with CETA dancers Merian Soto, David Malamut, Charles Dennis, Andrew Borg, Nusha Martynuk, and others.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Contents
CONTENTS. - Choreographer/filmmaker Elaine Summers, photographed on location in New York, talks about finding movement ideas in the "natural movement of people walking in the streets." The dancer Alexandra Ogsbury is seen briefly, rehearsing in Summers' studio. - Excerpts from the motion picture (?) Illuminated workingman, performed on location in Buffalo and New York. - City people moving. Choreographed in 1970; video variation created in 1981. Camera: Lee Serrie.
Call Number
*MGZIDF 7655
OCLC
NYPY906022063-F
Title
Ordinary movement as a resource for dance [electronic resource]
Imprint
1981.
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-886.
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Local Subject
Television. Ordinary movement as a resource for dance.
Cinedance.
Videodance.
Local Subject
Open air performances.
Motion pictures. Illuminated workingman.
Television. City people moving.
Added Author
Summers, Elaine, 1925- pro, choreographer. Cinematographer
Ogsbury, Alexandra, dancer.
Bannon, Tony. Cinematographer
Moore, Carman. Composer
Serrie, Lee. Videographer
Elaine Summers Experimental Intermedia Foundation.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 7655
*MGZIC 9-886 (former)
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