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Celebrating John Butler

Title: Celebrating John Butler [electronic resource]
Publication: 1993.

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3 streaming video files (NTSC) (163 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences

Summary

One-day symposium celebrating John Butler's achievements as dancer, choreographer, and director in the fields of concert dance, opera, and educational and commercial television. For a videotape containing only the film and video excerpts shown during this symposium, see: *MGZIC 9-4130.

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Uniform Title

Mark of Cain (Choreographic work : Butler)
Three promenades with the Lord (Choreographic work : Butler)
Touch of loss (Choreographic work : Butler)
Carmina burana (Choreographic work : Butler)
According to Eve (Choreographic work : Butler)
After Eden (Choreographic work : Butler)
Portrait of Billie (Choreographic work : Butler)

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Note

Videotaped for the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image by Penny Ward/Video at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on December 6, 1993, with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Producer: Jac Venza. Associate producer: Virginia Kassel. Coordinator for Public Programs for the Dance Collection: Sallie Blumenthal.
Moderator: Jac Venza.

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: Cassette 1 (approx. 62 min.): Introductory remarks by Madeleine Nichols, curator of the Dance Collection. -- The early years. Panelists: Glen Tetley, Felisa Conde Vanoff, Mary Hinkson, Carmen de Lavallade, and Sondra Lee. Remarks by Allyn Ann McLerie are relayed by Venza. Editor, still photographs: Geoffrey Holder. The panelists, members of Butler's first companies in the U.S., recall his work during the early years of television, his opera ballets, and his participation in the first Festivals of Two Worlds organized by Gian-Carlo Menotti in Spoleto. Works discussed include Amahl and the night visitors, Die Fledermaus, La Cenerentola, Aida, Bluebeard's castle, The glory folk, Triad, Masque of the wildman, Malocchio, In the beginning, The sibyl, Touch of loss, Nausicaa, and Carmina burana. -- Videotape excerpts: A choreographer at work: Interview with Butler by Martha Myers, telecast in 1959. -- Amahl and the night visitors: trio. Recorded in 1952. Perf. by Butler, Tetley, and Mary Hinkson. -- The mark of Cain. Telecast in 1963. Perf. by De Lavallade, Wesley Fata, Scott Douglas, Tetley, and others. -- Cassette 2 (approx. 49 min.). The early years, continued. -- Videotape excerpts: A choreographer at work: Interview with Butler. See credits above. -- A choreographer at work: Three promenades with the Lord. See production credits above. Perf. by Butler, De Lavallade, Lee, Bambi Linn, James Moore, Charles
Saint-Amant, and Tetley. -- Five ballets of the five senses. Telecast in 1967. Montage, followed by Touch of loss, perf. by De Lavallade and Mildred Dunnock. -- Echoes of jazz: duet. Telecast in 1965. Perf. by Butler and Hinkson. -- Carmina burana. Telecast in 1964. Perf. by Nederlands Dans Theater. -- Cassette 3 (approx. 52 min.): Overseas, Harkness, and Ailey. Panelists: Igal Perry, Offer Zaks, Maria Zaks [María Eugenia Barrios?], Lawrence Rhodes, and Judith Jamison. Topics include Butler's freelance choreography abroad, especially in Israel and Venezuela, and works he created for Carla Fracci, the Harkness Ballet, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Works discussed include Paradise lost, Sebastian, After Eden, According to Eve, Facets, and Portrait of Billie. -- Videotape excerpts: According to Eve. Recorded in 1972 (?). Perf. by Jamison, Michihiko Oka, and Masazumi Chaya of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. -- After Eden. Telecast in 1971. Introduction by Butler. Perf. by Rhodes and Lone Isaksen. -- Last rehearsal. Discussion by De Lavallade and Ulysses Dove on the genesis of Portrait of Billie and its 1992 revival. -- Videotape excerpt: Portrait of Billie. Recorded by Leo Holder at Jacob's Pillow, 1992. Perf. by De Lavallade and Dove. -- Final word by Geoffrey Holder.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 2309

OCLC

NYPY946068942-F

Title

Celebrating John Butler [electronic resource]

Imprint

1993.

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 9-4131.

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Local Subject

Opera ballet. Amahl and the night visitors.

Television. Celebrating John Butler.

Added Author

Butler, John, 1920-1993, choreographer. ive, dancer.

Nichols, Madeleine M. Speaker

Venza, Jac. Producer

Venza, Jac. Moderator

Tetley, Glen. cmm, dancer.

Hinkson, Mary. cmm, dancer.

De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931- Commentator

De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931- dancer.

Conde, Felisa. Commentator

Lee, Sondra. cmm, dancer.

McLerie, Allyn Ann, 1926- Commentator

Perry, Igal. Commentator

Barrios, María Eugenia. Commentator

Zaks, Offer. Commentator

Rhodes, Lawrence. cmm, dancer.

Jamison, Judith, dancer.

Jamison, Judith. Commentator

Dove, Ulysses. cmm, dancer.

Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014, photographer.

Holder, Geoffrey, 1930-2014, speaker.

Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007. Composer

Holder, Leo. Videographer

Kassel, Virginia. Producer

Blumenthal, Sallie.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Celebrating John Butler (1993 : New York Public Library)

Added Title

Mark of Cain (Choreographic work : Butler)

Three promenades with the Lord (Choreographic work : Butler)

Touch of loss (Choreographic work : Butler)

Carmina burana (Choreographic work : Butler)

According to Eve (Choreographic work : Butler)

After Eden (Choreographic work : Butler)

Portrait of Billie (Choreographic work : Butler)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 2309

*MGZIC 9-4131 (former)

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