- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (80 min.) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Janis Brenner discusses her Memory Project, how the work started at UCLA in 1994; how it incorporates improvisation and voice work; using performers ranging in age from 9-70; the piece being commissioned for a performance at the Whitney Museum, New York, N.Y. in 1999; the audition process and how it is different than a typical dance audition; how Ms. Brenner works differently for this project by incorporating community members along with dancers; dividing the work between dancers and non-dancers; how every section has an element of improvisation and how the choreography could be modified to use only community members with no trained dancers; her response to the article about works like the Memory Project making it impossible for criticism; the difference between performing a site-specific performance at the Whitney Museum for a non-dance audience compared to a proscenium stage performance for a dance audience and how the results are determined by context and place; and seeing herself still performing the Memory Project ten years from now.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Filmed dance.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Note
- Title from original cassette label.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Source (note)
- Contents
- Interview with Janis Brenner [begins abruptly] (21 min.) -- Classes (Modern & Improvisation with mirroring exercise) [ends abruptly] (59 min.) / teacher, Janis Brenner ; class participants, Florida International University dance students.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-6966
- OCLC
- 864827096
- Title
Janis Brenner : interview & classes at FIU.
- Production
2003.
- Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
video
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Original Version
Original format: 1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Event
Videotaped during interview and dance classes at Florida International University, Miami, Fla. 2003 November.
- Source
Gift; Janis Brenner; 2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Brenner, Janis, interviewee.
Brenner, Janis, teacher.
Florida International University.
Brenner, Janis, donor.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-6966