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Title Making dances : seven postmodern choreographers / a co-production Blackwood Production, Inc., Westdeutscher Rundfunk, BBC Television, Swedish Television TV I ; a Michael Blackwood Productions release ; a film by Michael Blackwood ; produced and directed by Michael Blackwood
Published [New York, New York] : Michael Blackwood Productions, [1980]
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2005
©1980

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 89 min.)) : sound, color
Summary Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of dance and the evolution of their own work. Filmed at rehearsals, performances, and during interviews, the film is a unique primary source. The artistic roots of these seven artists can be found in Martha Graham's concern with modern life as a subject for dance and in Merce Cunningham's emphasis on the nature of movement. In the 1960s, the interaction of art forms generated choreographic innovations. Especially influential was John Cage, whose radical ideas served as a point of departure for much of the new choreography. Each of the choreographers in Making dances draws inspiration from the Graham/Cunningham tradition, yet each makes a highly distinctive statement. Structure, movement in non-fictive time and space, and the nature of movement itself are recurring themes. Making Dances reflects the diversity of contemporary dance and documents the work and ideas of seven outstanding artists
Notes Originally released in 1980
Streaming video file
Includes rehearsal footage and dance excerpts from Trisha Brown's Accumulation with talking plus water motor, Line up, and Glacial decoy; Lucinda Childs' Dance; Douglas Dunn's Footrules; David Gordon's An audience with the Pope, and The matter; Kenneth King's Word raid, and Wor(l)d (T)raid; Meredith Monk's Education of the girlchild and her musical composition Dolmen music; and Sara Rudner's Modern dances
Credits Editor, Peter Adair ; photography, Mead Hunt
Performer Interviewer, Marcia B. Siegel
David Gordon, Lucinda Childs, Sara Rudner, Douglas Dunn, Tricia Brown, Kenneth King, Meredith Monk
Notes Soundtrack in English; closed captioned
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Kanopy, viewed April 13, 2020)
Subject Brown, Trisha, 1936-2017.
Childs, Lucinda.
Gordon, David, 1936-2022
Dunn, Douglas, 1942-
King, Kenneth, 1948-
Monk, Meredith.
Rudner, Sara.
SUBJECT Rudner, Sara fast
Monk, Meredith fast
King, Kenneth, 1948- fast
Gordon, David, 1936-2022 fast
Dunn, Douglas, 1942- fast
Childs, Lucinda fast
Brown, Trisha, 1936-2017 fast
Audience with the Pope (Choreographic work : Gordon) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97830349
Matter (Choreographic work : Gordon) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97831249
Dance (Choreographic work : Childs) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97832909
Modern dances (Choreographic work : Rudner) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97832706
Foot rules (Choreographic work : Dunn) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97832819
Accumulation with Talking plus Watermotor (Choreographic work : Brown) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97834419
Line up (Choreographic work : Brown) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97832057
Glacial decoy (Choreographic work : Brown) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97832701
Word raid (Choreographic work : King) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97834810
Wor(l)d (T)raid (Choreographic work : King) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97834809
Education of the girlchild (Choreographic work : Monk) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97829962
Word raid (Choreographic work : King) fast
Wor(l)d (T)raid (Choreographic work : King) fast
Modern dances (Choreographic work : Rudner) fast
Matter (Choreographic work : Gordon) fast
Line up (Choreographic work : Brown) fast
Glacial decoy (Choreographic work : Brown) fast
Foot rules (Choreographic work : Dunn) fast
Education of the girlchild (Choreographic work : Monk) fast
Dance (Choreographic work : Childs) fast
Audience with the Pope (Choreographic work : Gordon) fast
Accumulation with Talking plus Watermotor (Choreographic work : Brown) fast
Subject Choreographers -- United States.
Dancers -- United States.
Modern dance.
Choreography.
Modern dance
Dancers
Choreography
Choreographers
United States
Genre/Form documentary film.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
Nonfiction films
Filmed dance
Feature films
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Filmed dance.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Danse filmée.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées visuelles.
Form Streaming video
Author Adair, Peter, editor of moving image work.
Blackwood, Michael (Filmmaker), film producer, film director.
Siegel, Marcia B., interviewer (expression)
Brown, Trisha, 1936-2017, interviewee (expression), choreographer, dancer.
Childs, Lucinda, interviewee (expression), choreographer, dancer.
Gordon, David, 1936-2022, interviewee (expression), choreographer, dancer
Dunn, Douglas, 1942- interviewee (expression), choreographer, dancer.
King, Kenneth, 1948- interviewee (expression), choreographer, dancer.
Monk, Meredith, interviewee (expression), choreographer, dancer.
Rudner, Sara, interviewee (expression), choreographer, dancer.
Michael Blackwood Productions, production company, publisher.
Blackwood Productions, production company.
Westdeutscher Rundfunk, production company.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, production company.
SVT1 Drama (Firm), production company.
Other Titles Making dances : 7 postmodern choreographers
Seven post modern choreographers
7 post modern choreographers
OTHER TI Container of (work): Audience with the Pope (Choreographic work : Gordon). Selections
Container of (work): Matter (Choreographic work : Gordon). Selections
Container of (work): Dance (Choreographic work : Childs). Selections
Container of (work): Modern dances (Choreographic work : Rudner). Selections
Container of (work): Foot rules (Choreographic work : Dunn). Selections
Container of (work): Accumulation with Talking plus Watermotor (Choreographic work : Brown). Selections
Container of (work): Line up (Choreographic work : Brown). Selections
Container of (work): Glacial decoy (Choreographic work : Brown). Selections
Container of (work): Word raid (Choreographic work : King). Selections
Container of (work): Wor(l)d (T)raid (Choreographic work : King). Selections
Container of (work): Education of the girlchild (Choreographic work : Monk). Selections