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Stephen Petronio Company

Title: Stephen Petronio Company, 2015 April 8 / artistic director and choreographer, Stephen Petronio.
Publication: 2015.

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Description

1 streaming video file (89 min.) : sound, color.

Summary

Stephen Petronio discusses BLOODLINES, an initiative to honor an incomparable lineage of American postmodern dance masters including Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown. Also talks about RainForest, Merce Cunningham, and honoring David Vaughan (archivist, Merce Cunningham Dance Company).

Uniform Title

Locomotor/non locomotor (Choreographic work : Petronio)
RainForest (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Alternative Title

Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.

Note

Widescreen.
Title from opening video credits.
The recording of this work was made possible by the cooperation of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The David Tudor Trust, The Joyce Theater, Merce Cunningham Trust, Petronio Dance Company, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library.

Access (note)

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

Credits (note)

Assistant to the artistic director, Gino Grenek ; resident lighting designer, Ken Tabachnick ; archival & documentation services: videotaped by Character Generators ; directed and edited by Mark Robison ; camerapersons, Mark Robison, Miriam Lefkowitz.

Funding (note)

This archival recording was made possible by a generous challenge grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and by Matching gifts from Helen J. Gebig, Anne H. Bass, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., Gillian Attfield, Caroline Hyman, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Nancy Lassalle and Louisa Sarofim with additional support from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division and the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Contents

Introduction (7 min.) / by Stephen Petronio.
Locomotor/non locomotor (world premiere) (52 min.) / concept and choreography, Stephen Petronio ; original score, Clams Casino ; lighting, Ken Tabachnick ; costumes, Narciso Rodriguez ; dancers, Davalois Fearon, Gino Grenek, Barrington Hinds, Jaqlin Medlock, Nicholas Sciscione, Emily Stone, Joshua Tuason ; guest artist, Melissa Toogood.
Introduction to RainForest (5 min.) / by Stephen Petronio.
RainForest (1968) (25 min.) / choreographer, Merce Cunningham ; staged by Andrea Weber with Meg Harper and Rashaun Mitchell ; music, David Tudor (RainForest) ; musicians, John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein ; decor, Andy Warhol ; lighting, Aaron Copp ; performed by Davalois Fearon, Nicholas Sciscione, Emily Stone, Joshua Tuason, Gino Grenek ; special guest, Melissa Toogood.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 4114

OCLC

965829580

Title

Stephen Petronio Company, 2015 April 8 / artistic director and choreographer, Stephen Petronio.

Production

2015.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file streaming H.264

Access

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

Performer

Dancers, Davalois Fearon, Gino Grenek, Barrington Hinds, Jaqlin Medlock, Nicholas Sciscione, Emily Stone, Joshua Tuason ; guest artist, Melissa Toogood.

Credits

Assistant to the artistic director, Gino Grenek ; resident lighting designer, Ken Tabachnick ; archival & documentation services: videotaped by Character Generators ; directed and edited by Mark Robison ; camerapersons, Mark Robison, Miriam Lefkowitz.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, N.Y., 2015 April 8.

Funding

This archival recording was made possible by a generous challenge grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and by Matching gifts from Helen J. Gebig, Anne H. Bass, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., Gillian Attfield, Caroline Hyman, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Nancy Lassalle and Louisa Sarofim with additional support from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division and the Friends of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Added Author

Petronio, Stephen, artistic director.

Petronio, Stephen, choreographer.

Petronio, Stephen, speaker.

Tabachnick, Ken, lighting designer.

Rodriguez, Narciso, costume designer.

Cunningham, Merce, choreographer.

Tudor, David, 1926-1996, composer.

Driscoll, John, 1947- musician.

Edelstein, Phil, musician.

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987, set designer.

Copp, Aaron, lighting designer.

Weber, Andrea, teacher.

Harper, Meg, teacher.

Mitchell, Rashaun, teacher.

Fearon, Davalois, dancer.

Grenek, Gino, dancer.

Hinds, Barrington, dancer.

Medlock, Jaqlin, dancer.

Sciscione, Nicholas, dancer.

Stone, Emily (Dancer), dancer.

Tuason, Joshua, dancer.

Toogood, Melissa, dancer.

Robison, Mark (Cameraman), director.

Robison, Mark (Cameraman), videographer.

Robison, Mark (Cameraman), editor of moving image work.

Lefkowitz, Miriam, videographer.

Clams Casino (Musician), composer.

Merce Cunningham Trust.

Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Character Generators/Video, videographer.

Joyce Theater (New York, N.Y.), presenter.

Stephen Petronio Company, dancer.

New York Public Library. Dance Division, presenter.

Added Title

Container of (work): Locomotor/non locomotor (Choreographic work : Petronio)

Container of (work): RainForest (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image original documentation

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 4114

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