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As cities become more interconnected, and less dependent on localized economic models, domestic issues of increased class inequality and sustainability have emerged as central components to city planning debates. These trends are perhaps best exemplified in the city of New York. Told through the eyes of tenants, city planners, business owners, scholars, and politicians, this film exposes the real politic behind the alarming disappearance of New York's...
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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 "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 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...
6) Dark Days
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Dark Days is a documentary that explores the surprisingly domestic subterranean world of a homeless community living in a train tunnel beneath New York City. Through stories both heartbreaking and hilarious, tunnel dwellers reveal their reasons for taking refuge and their struggle to survive underground. With a hypnotic soundtrack by legendary DJ Shadow, Dark Days is an enduring classic.
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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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The Apple Pushers follows five immigrant street vendors who bring fresh fruits and vegetables to the "food deserts" of inner city New York, where finding a fresh red ripe apple can be a serious challenge. These pushcart vendors are part of a New York City experiment to help solve the food crisis and the inner city's skyrocketing obesity rates. Narrated by Academy Award nominee Edward Norton, the film looks at the intersection of food access, immigration,...
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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...
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From Mambo to Hip-Hop: A Bronx Tale is a documentary that tells a story about the creative life of the South Bronx, beginning with the Puerto Rican migration and the adoption of Cuban rhythms to create the New York salsa sound; continuing with the fires that destroyed the neighborhood; chronicling the rise of hip hop from the ashes; and ending with reflections on the power of the neighborhood's music to ensure the survival of several generations of...
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In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, Ken Burns tells the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment...
14) New York
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In this program, viewers will learn how New Jersey and North Africa were once neighbors, how the rocks New York is built upon are the remains of prehistoric mountains once as tall as the Himalayas, and how Long Island is covered in rubble that accumulated as Ice Age ice sheets retreated 10,000 years ago.
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This program features excerpts from the production at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club (New York City) of Andrei Serban's interpretation of the classic dramas Electra and Medea with music by Elizabeth Swados. Theater critic Margaret Croyden provides introductions and commentary.
17) Doug Varone #1
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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 program features excerpts from the production at La Mama Experimental Theater Club (New York City) of Andrei Serban's interpretation of the classic drama The Trojan Women by Euripides, with music by Elizabeth Swados. Theater critic Margaret Croyden provides introductions and commentary. She describes this production as epic opera and discusses how Swados worked with actors to perfect the vocalizations.
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The industrial expansion of the United States in the late 1800s changed the way many Americans lived. Soon, more Americans, drawn to urban areas by jobs and services, lived in cities than lived in rural areas for the first time in the country's history. This new concentration of people, however, led cities to improvise ways to improve their infrastructure. In New York City, along with other large cities on waterways, garbage was often collected by...
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On this episode of Camera Three, Margaret Croyden profiles Brooklyn Academy of Music's (BAM) new repertory theater company. Harvey Lichtenstein, David Jones, Marti Maraden, Bryan Murray, and Jeremy Hines are interviewed. Actors perform excerpts from A Winter's Tale and Johnny On A Spot.