| Description |
1 online resource (28 min.) |
| Series |
Dance in video.
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| Summary |
Poem is a modern dance based on Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem, "Autobiography", choreographed by Sophie Maslow to music by Duke Ellington. Participants are Morrie Pierce (reading poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti), Sophie Maslow (choreographer), Herbert Lovell (drummer), Julie Arenal, William Dugan, Stanley Berke, Haruki Fujimoto, Carol Fried (dancers). In conversation Maslow emphasizes how her choreography is particularly concerned with the modern American dance idiom. She discusses the roots of contemporary dance and introduces her dance, in four movements. The setting is a cafe called Mike's Coffeehouse in time present . "Poem" is interwoven with group dancing, one duet and three solos, "the making of one American young man and poet." |
| Notes |
Previously released on DVD |
| Credits |
Directed by Nick Havinga (1963); choreographed by Sophie Maslow; produced by Dan Gallagher |
| Cast |
Performed by Julie Arenal, Carol Fried, William Dugan, Stanley Berke, Haruki Fujimoto, Morrie Peirce and Herbert Lovelle |
| Event |
Recorded 1965 |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from landing page (Alexander Street Press Dance in Video) website (viewed Dec. 6, 2011) |
| Subject |
Maslow, Sophie -- Interviews
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| SUBJECT |
Maslow, Sophie. fast (OCoLC)fst00460167 |
| Subject |
Choreographers -- Interviews
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Dance -- Performances
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Jazz dance.
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Modern dance.
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Choreographers.
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Dance -- Performances.
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Jazz dance.
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Modern dance.
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| Genre/Form |
Dance films.
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Interviews.
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Nonfiction films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Dance films.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Films de danse.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Atkins, Cholly, dancer.
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Coles, Honi, 1911-1992, dancer.
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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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Gallagher, Dan, film producer.
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Havinga, Nick, film director.
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Lisanby, Charles, set designer.
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Maslow, Sophie, choreographer, dancer, interviewee (expression)
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Creative Arts Television (Firm), publisher.
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