Research Catalog

Love, Isadora [excerpts]

Title
Love, Isadora [excerpts] [electronic resource]/ choreography by Rael Lamb.
Publication
1977.

Available Online

NYPL Digital Collections

Details

Additional Authors
  • Lamb, Rael
  • Xoregos, Shela
  • Foster, Rick.
  • Foster, Guy.
  • Clare, Paula.
  • Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
  • Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787.
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
  • Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849.
  • Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 streaming video file (NTSC) (32 min.) : sd., b&w
Summary
Documentation of dances for the one-woman show Love, Isadora, introduced by Rick Foster. Although Foster announces the eighth and ninth dances as Immortal victims and Scriabin's Quasi valse, this order is reversed on this tape.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Shela Xoregos.
Uniform Title
Love, Isadora (Choreographic work : Lamb)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Note
  • Title provided by Shela Xoregos.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
  • Script and direction, Rick Foster ; music, various composers ; régisseur, Paula Clare.
Performer (note)
  • Performed by Rael Lamb and Shela Xoregos.
  • Pianist: Guy Foster.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, at the Xoregos Studio, San Francisco, California, on December 20, 1977.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Contents
  • Liebestod [excerpt] / music, Wagner ; performed by Rael Lamb.
  • Dance of the happy spirits / music, Gluck ; performed by Shela Xoregos.
  • Valse brillante, Op. 34, no. 1 / music, Chopin ; performed by Rael Lamb.
  • Nocturne in D flat major / music, Chopin ; performed by Rael Lamb.
  • Fidelio: finale [excerpt] / music, Beethoven ; performed by Rael Lamb.
  • Funeral march / music, Chopin ; performed by Rael Lamb. Performed twice.
  • Prelude, Op. 11, no. 14 / music, Scriabin ; performed by Shela Xoregos.
  • Quasi valse / music, Scriabin ; performed by Rael Lamb.
  • Immortal victims / modern folk version of the revolutionary song ; performed by Rael Lamb.
  • Seventh symphony: finale / music, Beethoven ; performed by Rael Lamb.
Call Number
*MGZIDF 9728
OCLC
NYPY95-F547
Title
Love, Isadora [excerpts] [electronic resource]/ choreography by Rael Lamb.
Imprint
1977.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Credits
Script and direction, Rick Foster ; music, various composers ; régisseur, Paula Clare.
Performer
Performed by Rael Lamb and Shela Xoregos.
Pianist: Guy Foster.
Event
Videotaped in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, at the Xoregos Studio, San Francisco, California, on December 20, 1977.
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 9-4422.
Additional Copy 1: 1 3/4" videocassette, copied from A.O., 9/94; in Princeton ReCAP Regular Storage.
Additional Copy 2: 1 3/4" videocassette, copied from A.O., 9/94; in Princeton ReCAP Regular Storage; was vid. viewing copy until 4/2017.
Connect to:
NYPL Digital Collections
Local Subject
Duncan dancing.
Added Author
Lamb, Rael, choreographer, dancer.
Xoregos, Shela, dancer.
Foster, Rick. Author. Director. Speaker
Foster, Guy. Instrumentalist
Clare, Paula. Director
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Composer
Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787. Composer
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Composer
Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849. Composer
Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915. Composer
DHCA.
Added Title
Love, Isadora (Choreographic work : Lamb)
Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 9728
*MGZIC 9-4422 (former)
View in Legacy Catalog