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Hot choreography to traditional swing music by one of New York's leading modern choreographers. Features Doug Varone and Dancers in solos, duets, trios and group dances in excerpts from Let's Dance, The Cabaret. Recorded in 1997 at Performance Space 122 in New York City. Plus excerpts from a revealing interview with the artist.
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This video presents excerpts from "The Water Fait Mal." Stunningly original movement theater by this French-Canadian dancer/choreographer. LaChambre manages to create a highly personal and emotional body language. Recorded in 1996 at Performance Space 122 in New York City. Plus excerpts from a revealing interview with the artist.
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This video presents excerpts from Greenhouse, an inter-generational dance/theater work featuring an inter-racial cast ranging in age from 10-80, choreographed and directed by Dennis that explores the evolution of man's destruction of his natural environment. Recorded in 1996 at Performance Space 122 in New York City. Plus excerpts from a revealing interview with the artist.
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This video presents excerpts from Antonio Caido, a dance/performance work by Brazilian-American choreographers Roseane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner. 5 dancers cavort in a visually striking set by Scott Pask and Jim Larkin that includes a tower, a giant table and an aquarium. Recorded in 1997 at Performance Space 122 in New York City. Plus excerpts from a revealing interview with the artist.
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This video presents excerpts from Late Night Sugar Flight by choreographer Ben Munisteri and his company of 6 dancers. Includes a humorous monologue by the choreographer that introduces a section of deliciously sensuous dancing accompanied by the improvised sounds of DJ Michael Hornburg and the improvised lighting designs by Kathy Kaufman. Recorded in 1998 at Performance Space 122 in New York City. Plus excerpts from a revealing interview with the...
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Internationally acclaimed choreographer Victoria Marks asks, "What is an artist's civic responsibility?" Through poetic, visceral dance, Not About Iraq takes a hard look at heroism and truth. Marks and her dancers challenge assumptions about our place in the world. Can dance be a force for social change? "What this is, is indelibly disturbing, dazzling art," LA Times. Includes a revealing interview with the choreographer.
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This video presents excerpt from Dennis' solo dance/video work Mr. Remote. "...the work has the dynamic energy of dance itself, a rare thing in videodance. And Mr. Dennis plays with real, imagined and video time with quietly dazzlingly wit and comfortable humanity. Mr. Remote looks beautiful and is a great deal of fun." - The New York Times 12/8/98. Dancing with a digital video camera and projecting a large image of himself on the wall behind him...
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This program features a profile of choreographer/dancer Benjamin Millepied, one of dance's rising stars due to his dual careers as a New York City Ballet dancer and sought-after choreographer. The program includes excerpts from his 2006 concert at the Joyce Theater in New York City. Featured is Closer, a duet with guest artist Gillian Murphy of American Ballet Theatre with music by Philip Glass and Phrases, Now, a non-stop work by Adonis Foniadakis...
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This program features an excerpt from Electric Haiku: Calm as Custard, a full-evening, multidisciplinary performance work that partners live dance with video, light, text, and sound extending the limitations of physical movement into new realms of expression through the integration of technology with the body. Electric Haiku: Calm as a Custard is the second work in Weis? Electric Haiku series. The first work in the series, Electric Haiku was named...
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This program focuses on choreographer/poet Claire Porter as she explores human anatomy in her full evening's piece Namely, Muscles. In this work she recites 30 plus poems that she has written as she performs movements that enact 68 major muscles of the body and then some. Poems include Psoas - The Tender Bender, Gluteus to my Ears, Long in the Head, Just the Meat, The Rotator Gang, Names on your Nerves, Tongues, And Now a Word From Our Tendons and...