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TEA/dances

Title: TEA/dances / performed by Janis Brenner & Dancers ; presented by The Danspace Project.
Publication: 1991.

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Description

1 streaming video file (83 min.) : sound, color.

Summary

Janis Brenner talks about each piece before it is performed. The Question & Answer session discusses Janis Brenner's process involved with creating these choreographic works and the music used for this performance.

Uniform Title

Shekhinah/Voices (Choreographic work : Brenner and Taketa)
Soft Enclave (Choreographic work : Brenner)
Non-Sinatra Songs (Choreographic work : Brenner)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.

Note

Title from handwriting on original DVD and Dance Division program from *MGZB Brenner, Janis.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Source (note)

Janis Brenner;

Contents

Warm up & Introduction [begins abruptly] (5 min.) / speaker, Janis Brenner ; dancers, Janis Brenner & Dancers.
Shekhinah/Voices (1989 & Premiere) (12 min.) / Part I (1989): choreography, Janis Brenner ; music, Chuck Hammer ; vocals sung by Janis Brenner & Zephryn Conte ; text source, Susannah Heschel (On Being Jewish Feminist) ; performed by Janis Brenner, Edward Akio Taketa -- Part II (Premiere): choreography & performance by Janis Brenner & Edward Akio Taketa ; music, Zephryn Conte in collaboration with Maat-Raa, Janis Brenner & Edward Akio Taketa ; costumes, Janis Brenner.
Discussion (4 min.) / by Janis Brenner.
Soft Enclave (Premiere) (15 min.) / choreography, Janis Brenner ; music, sung by Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson ; costumes, Barbara Kidd ; performed by Edward Akio Taketa, Laurie Shayler, Cynthia Sigler, Sherri Hellman & Carl Lindsay Flink.
Discussion (2 min.) / by Janis Brenner.
Non-Sinatra Songs (Premiere) (18 min.) / choreography, Janis Brenner ; music, sung by Carmen McRae, Dionne Warwick, Lou Reed, Pia Zadora, Bobby Darin, 3 Dog Night, Jim Nabors, Tom Jones, Sid Vicious ; performed by The Company.
Question & Answer session (28 min.) / participants, Janis Brenner, Edward Akio Taketa, Laurie Shayler, Cynthia Sigler, Sherri Hellman & Carl Lindsay Flink.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6932

OCLC

869472296

Title

TEA/dances / performed by Janis Brenner & Dancers ; presented by The Danspace Project.

Production

1991.

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 videodisc (DVD) ; 4 3/4 in.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Event

Videotaped in performance at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York, N.Y., as part of Danspace Project's TEA/dances 1991 June 2.

Source

Gift; Janis Brenner; 2012.

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Added Author

Brenner, Janis, choreographer.

Brenner, Janis, dancer.

Brenner, Janis, vocalist.

Brenner, Janis, costume designer.

Taketa, Edward Akio, choreographer.

Taketa, Edward Akio, dancer.

Taketa, Edward Akio, vocalist.

Hammer, Chuck, composer.

Heschel, Susannah, writer of added text.

Conte, Zephryn, composer.

Nelson, Jalalu-Kalvert, 1951- vocalist.

Kidd, Barbara, costume designer.

Shayler, Laurie, dancer.

Flink, Carl, dancer.

Hellman, Sherri, dancer.

Sigler, Cynthia Marie, dancer.

Janis Brenner & Dancers, performer.

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.), presenter.

Danspace Project (New York, N.Y.), presenter.

Brenner, Janis, donor.

Added Title

Container of (work): Shekhinah/Voices (Choreographic work : Brenner and Taketa)

Container of (work): Soft Enclave (Choreographic work : Brenner)

Container of (work): Non-Sinatra Songs (Choreographic work : Brenner)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6932

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