An American in Paris (motion picture) - Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch (performers) (trailer) (1952)
Subject
Ballet
Motion pictures
France -- Paris.
URL
Trailer
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Description
Content description from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_in_Paris_(film)) :
An American in Paris is a 1951 American musical comedy film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, and Nina Foch, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner. The music is by George Gershwin, with lyrics by his brother Ira, with additional music by Saul Chaplin, the music director.
The story of the film is interspersed with dance numbers choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwin's music. MGM executive Arthur Freed bought the Gershwin musical catalog from George's brother Ira in the late 1940s, since George died in 1937. Some of the tunes in this catalog were included in the movie, such as "I Got Rhythm" and "Love Is Here to Stay". Other songs in the movie include "I'll Build A Stairway to Paradise" and "'S Wonderful". The climax of the film is "The American in Paris" ballet, a 17-minute dance featuring Kelly and Caron set to Gershwin's An American in Paris. The ballet sequence cost almost half a million dollars to shoot. It was filmed on 44 sets in MGM's back lot.
An American in Paris was an enormous success, garnering eight Academy Award nominations and winning six (including Best Picture), as well as earning other industry honors. In 1993, it was selected for preservation by the United States Library of Congress in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It is ranked #9 among AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals.
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TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Vincente Minnelli (director)
Alan Jay Lerner (writer)
Gene Kelly (performer)
Leslie Caron (performer)
Oscar Levant (performer)
Georges Guétary (performer)
Nina Foch (performer)
Choreography by David Gordon (Alive from Off Center episode 209) (1986) (no video link)
Subject
Postmodern dance
URL
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Description
Content description from NYT Archives (https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/29/arts/tv-weekend-dances-by-david-gordon-on-alive-from-off-center.html) :
David Gordon takes the everyday and abstracts it into small jewels of dances. The dances are made of extremely plain yet emotionally laden moves and gestures, linked with a deceptive simplicity. The dancers are like flies, some plain, some exotic, in amber situations. There is a sense of that special terrain in a program about the post-Modernist choreographer, which will be presented on Sunday at 10:30 P.M. on Channel 13. The half-hour program, directed by Edward Steinberg, Mr. Gordon and Bob Muens and produced by KTCA-TV in Minneapolis-St. Paul, is part of the ''Alive From Off Center'' series.
The series has yielded plenty of new insights into the experimentalist arts in the two seasons it has run. And this episode was created with Mr. Gordon's collaboration. But the closer the camera gets - and its eye is obtrusive and hyperactive here -the farther away we get from the heart of the dances. The camera intrudes, and a good deal of the compelling intimacy of Mr. Gordon's work is lost.
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Select Works of Erick Hawkins (1961-1976) (no video link)
Subject
Ballet dancing
Live television programs
Dance
URL
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Content description from tape label
Select works of Erick Hawkins recorded. This list includes:
1. Parson Weems and The Cherry Tree (1976) premiered at University of Massachusetts Amherst
2. Cantilever (1963) premiered at Théâtre Récamier, Paris, France
3. Lords of Persia (1965) commissioned by American Dance Festival held at Connecticut College
4. Early Floating (1961) premiered in Portland, Oregon
5. Death is the Hunter (1975) premiered at Carnigie Hall, New York City, New York
6. Classic Kite Tails (1972) premiered at Meadowbrook Festival, Detroit
7. Meditations of Orpheus (1974) premiered at Kennedy Center Washington D.C
Ephemera: available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Notes in folder: dubbed from VHS notation copy, dubbed 5/05/1985
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A Tribute to Alvin Ailey with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - Alvin Ailey (choreographer) (1990) (excerpt)
Subject
Choreographers--United States--Biography
Modern dance--United States
URL
Excerpt
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Description
Description from KulturVideo (https://www.kulturvideo.com/A-Tribute-To-Alvin-Ailey-p/d0022.htm):
Alvin Ailey played a key role in the growth of modern dance in America and his company, founded in 1958, is one of the United States' oldest dance troupes as well as one of the most youthful and vital on the dance scene. In this two-part program, members of Ailey's dance company perform three works choreographed by Ailey himself, as well as a special ballet tribute choreographed by Ulysses Dove. Each piece is introduced by Judith Jamison, the dancer and choreographer whose career was nurtured to stardom by Ailey, and who is now Artistic Director of the company. The Alvin Ailey Dance Theater is uniquely eclectic in range, repertory, and style. As a choreographer, Ailey explored the black experience and went beyond, finding universal human truths in all his work.
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An Evening with the Royal Ballet - Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn (performers) (1965)(no video link)
Subject
Ballet companies
Ballet dancing
United Kingdom
Description
Content description from Worldcat.org
(https://www.worldcat.org/title/evening-with-the-royal-ballet/oclc/956908420):
Excerpts from four different ballets, danced by Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most successful dance partnerships of modern times, filmed at the peak of their creative genius with the corps de ballet of the Royal Ballet.
Ephemera: available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. An Evening w/The Royal Ballet: 1. Aurora's Wedding (Act III of Sleeping Beauty (Weird-inclusion of Nutcracker's Cossack Dance). 2. Les Sylphides. Les Corsair. La Valse.
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TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape