Choreography by David Gordon (Alive from Off Center episode 209) (1986) (no video link)
Title
Choreography by David Gordon (Alive from Off Center episode 209) (1986) (no video link)
Subject
Postmodern dance
URL
No video link found. This content is associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library originally recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. No link has yet been found to provide online access and the original videotape has not yet been digitized.
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.
Ephemera: none available.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
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.
Ephemera: none available.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Susan Stamberg (host)
David Gordon (choreographer)
Dorothy and Eileen (performers)
Publisher
KTCA-TV
Date
1986
Citation
“Choreography by David Gordon (Alive from Off Center episode 209) (1986) (no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/776.