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[Xoregos Performing Company of San Francisco]

Title: [Xoregos Performing Company of San Francisco] [electronic resource]
Publication: 1975.

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Description

1 streaming video file (NTSC) (31 min.) : sd., b&w.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Shela Xoregos.

Uniform Title

Two part invention, no 4 (Choreographic work : Shawn)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Title from information provided by donor.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Performer (note)

Performed by the Xoregos Performing Company of San Francisco.
Introduced by Shela Xoregos, company director.

Event (note)

Videotaped in rehearsal onstage, in rehearsal clothes, in San Francisco, California, in May 1975.

Funding (note)

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Contents

L'histoire du soldat [excerpts] (ca. 15 min.) / final sections of the work ; choreography, Shela Xoregos ; music, Igor Stravinsky ; text, Leonard Cahn, after the original by C.F. Ramuz ; performed by Diane Berrier (princess), Charlie Butts (soldier), and Glenn-Charles Musagetes (devil), with Jeannie Gilmore, Betsy Heffelfinger, Paul Scardina, Paula Clare, Kim Lincoln, and Gary Palmer.
The Duke on love (ca. 7 min.) / choreography, Shela Xoregos ; music, Duke Ellington, arranged and performed by Mickey Laverine ; set piece, Patrizia von Brandenstein ; performed by Paula Clare.
Discussion of Denishawn dances by Klarna Pinska.
Bach (ca. 5 min.) / choreography, Ted Shawn [originally titled Two-part invention, no. 4], restaged by Klarna Pinska ; music, J.S. Bach ; performed by Diane Berrier, Jeannie Gilmore, Janice Gruber, Paul Scardina, Charlie Butts, and Gary Palmer.
Single scarf dance (ca. 4 min.) / choreography, Klarna Pinska after Doris Humphrey ; performed by Kim Lincoln.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 9734

OCLC

NYPY95-F549

Title

[Xoregos Performing Company of San Francisco] [electronic resource]

Imprint

1975.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Performer

Performed by the Xoregos Performing Company of San Francisco.

Introduced by Shela Xoregos, company director.

Event

Videotaped in rehearsal onstage, in rehearsal clothes, in San Francisco, California, in May 1975.

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 9-4429.

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Local Subject

Choreography -- Reconstruction.

Denishawn dances, Revivals of.

Added Author

Xoregos, Shela. spk, choreographer.

Berrier, Diane, dancer.

Butts, Charlie, dancer.

Musagetes, Glenn-Charles, dancer.

Gilmore, Jeannie, dancer.

Heffelfinger, Elizabeth, dancer.

Clare, Paula, dancer.

Scardina, Paul, dancer.

Lincoln, Kim, dancer.

Palmer, Gary, dancer.

Gruber, Janice, dancer.

Pinska, Klarna. Commentator. rsg, choreographer.

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Composer

Cahn, Leonard, 1914- Author

Ramuz, C. F. (Charles Ferdinand), 1878-1947. Author

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974. Composer

Laverine, Mickey. Arranger. Musician

Von Brandenstein, Patrizia. Designer

Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972, choreographer.

Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958, choreographer.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Composer

Xoregos Dance Company (San Francisco, Calif.)

DHCA.

Added Title

Two part invention, no 4 (Choreographic work : Shawn)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 9734

*MGZIC 9-4429 (former)

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