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Uncivil Wars: Moving with Brecht & Eisler

Title: Uncivil Wars: Moving with Brecht & Eisler, 2009-02-27 / Directed, choreographed and edited by David Gordon ; performed by Pick Up Performance Co. ; presented by The Skidmore College Dance Departmant.
Publication: 2009.

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Found In

David Gordon archive.

Description

1 streaming video file (80 min.) : sound, color.

Uniform Title

Uncivil Wars (Choreographic work : Gordon)

Alternative Title

David Gordon archive. Moving image.

Genre/Form

Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.
Video.
Dance.

Note

Credits transcribed from program.
Title on original: Uncivil Wars: 2/27/09 8pm Skidmore Dance Theatre.
Based on The Roundheads and the Pointheads by Bertolt Brecht; as translated by Michael Feingold.

Access (note)

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

Credits (note)

Music by Hanns Eisler; Produced by Alyce Dissette; Music Director: Gina Leishman; Media: Dean Moss/Ed Fitzgerald; Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton; Assistant Lighting Designer: Burke Brown; Stage Manager: Ed Fitzgerald; Company Manager: Sarah Robinson; Wardrobe Assistant: Hebe Joy.

Source (note)

Pick Up Performance Co(s), David Gordon.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 3924

OCLC

898129061

Title

Uncivil Wars: Moving with Brecht & Eisler, 2009-02-27 / Directed, choreographed and edited by David Gordon ; performed by Pick Up Performance Co. ; presented by The Skidmore College Dance Departmant.

Production

2009.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Access

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

Credits

Music by Hanns Eisler; Produced by Alyce Dissette; Music Director: Gina Leishman; Media: Dean Moss/Ed Fitzgerald; Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton; Assistant Lighting Designer: Burke Brown; Stage Manager: Ed Fitzgerald; Company Manager: Sarah Robinson; Wardrobe Assistant: Hebe Joy.

Performer

Performers, Valda Setterfield (Bertolt Brecht/Judge); Charlotte Cohn (Nana Callas/Mrs. Callas/Isabella De Guzman); Davis Duffield (Vice Viceroy/Hat Knocker/Farmer Lopez/Nun); Norma Fire (Tobacconist/Abbess/Mrs. Lopez/Lawyer); John Kelly (Madam/Mother Superior); Gina Leishman (Hanns Eisler); David Skeist (Farmer Callas/Hat Knocker/Nun); Louis Vuolo (Viceroy/Slumlord/De Guzman); AT SKIDMORE: Natasha Brown, Christian Grunnah, LaChrisha LaSane, Emi Lipcsey-Magyar, Sara Miller-Hornick, Lily Robinson, Sam Szabo.

Event

Recorded in performance at Skidmore College Dance Theater, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. on 2009 February 27.

Original Version

Original format: 1 video disc (DVD).

Source

Gift; Pick Up Performance Co(s), David Gordon. 2014.

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Added Author

Gordon, David, 1936-2022, stage director.

Gordon, David, 1936-2022, choreographer.

Gordon, David, 1936-2022, editor.

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe. English.

Feingold, Michael, translator.

Eisler, Hanns, 1898-1962, composer.

Leishman, Gina, musical director.

Tipton, Jennifer, lighting designer.

Dissette, Alyce, producer.

Fitzgerald, Ed, stage manager.

Setterfield, Valda, performer.

Cohn, Charlotte, performer.

Duffield, Davis, performer.

Fire, Norma, performer.

Kelly, John, 1954- performer.

Leishman, Gina, performer.

Skeist, David, performer.

Vuolo, Louis, performer.

David Gordon/Pickup Company, performer.

Skidmore College, performer.

Gordon, David, 1936-2022, donor.

David Gordon/Pickup Company, donor.

Added Title

Container of (work): Uncivil Wars (Choreographic work : Gordon)

David Gordon archive. Moving image.

Found In:

David Gordon archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 3924

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