Book of days [videorecording] / produced by Tatge/Lasseur Productions, Inc., The House Foundation for the Arts, and La Sept in association with Alive from Off Center ; produced by Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lasseur ; conceived and directed by Meredith Monk ; music by Meredith Monk.
1 streaming video file (57 min., 20 sec.) : sd., col. and b&w; 3/4 in.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Meredith Monk.
Genre/Form
Motion pictures.
Dance.
Music.
Video.
Call number
*MGZIDF 8167
Note
Television version. For the full version, which is 74 min. long, see *MGZIC 9-4145 Book of days.
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
Director of photography, Jerry Pantzer ; art direction and costumes, Yoshio Yabara ; editing, Girish Bhargava ; production design, Jean Vincent Puzos ; dramaturgy, Tone Blevins.
Performer (note)
Jewish community: Toby Newman (young girl), Pablo Vela (grandfather), Lanny Harrison (mother), Daniel Ira Sverdlik (father), Andrea Goodman (aunt), Joshua Sippen (uncle), Karin Levitas (eldest daughter), Hannah Pearl Walcott (youngest daughter), Gerd Wameling (traveling storyteller) ; Christian community: Gail Turner (farm woman), Mieke van Hoek (merchant and mourning woman), Rob McBrien (merchant), Robert Een (soldier), Lucas Hoving (physician), Greger Hansen (traveling monk), Wayne Hankin (traveling musician), Stéphane Quemerais (musician's son), Ruth Füglistaller (plague victim), Susan Podd, Frederieke Taylor, Micki Wesson (villagers), Meredith Monk (madwoman) ; McBrien (dance of death) ; Nicky Paraiso (man in diner) ; Around the world 1349: Naaz Hosseini (Persian woman); Ching Gonzalez (Inca); Pura Le Fund, Nikya Kuan, Leland Kuan (Native Americans); Yoshio Yabara (Japanese man); Ronald Dabney, Allison Easter, Donna Fields (Africans).
Voices of interviewers: Sara Fishko, Steve Post ; other voices: Leah Foster, Roger Babb, Bob Rosen, Beatrice Roth, Louise Smith.
Title
Book of days [videorecording] / produced by Tatge/Lasseur Productions, Inc., The House Foundation for the Arts, and La Sept in association with Alive from Off Center ; produced by Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lasseur ; conceived and directed by Meredith Monk ; music by Meredith Monk.
Imprint
c1988.
Cast
Jewish community: Toby Newman (young girl), Pablo Vela (grandfather), Lanny Harrison (mother), Daniel Ira Sverdlik (father), Andrea Goodman (aunt), Joshua Sippen (uncle), Karin Levitas (eldest daughter), Hannah Pearl Walcott (youngest daughter), Gerd Wameling (traveling storyteller) ; Christian community: Gail Turner (farm woman), Mieke van Hoek (merchant and mourning woman), Rob McBrien (merchant), Robert Een (soldier), Lucas Hoving (physician), Greger Hansen (traveling monk), Wayne Hankin (traveling musician), Stéphane Quemerais (musician's son), Ruth Füglistaller (plague victim), Susan Podd, Frederieke Taylor, Micki Wesson (villagers), Meredith Monk (madwoman) ; McBrien (dance of death) ; Nicky Paraiso (man in diner) ; Around the world 1349: Naaz Hosseini (Persian woman); Ching Gonzalez (Inca); Pura Le Fund, Nikya Kuan, Leland Kuan (Native Americans); Yoshio Yabara (Japanese man); Ronald Dabney, Allison Easter, Donna Fields (Africans).
Voices of interviewers: Sara Fishko, Steve Post ; other voices: Leah Foster, Roger Babb, Bob Rosen, Beatrice Roth, Louise Smith.
Performer
Music performed by Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble: Robert Een, John Eppler, Ching Gonzalez, Andrea Goodman, Wayne Hankin, Naaz Hosseini, Meredith Monk, Nicky Paraiso, Nurit Tilles, and Johanna Arnold, Joan Barber, Timothy Sawyer ; conductor, Wayne Hankin.
Credits
Director of photography, Jerry Pantzer ; art direction and costumes, Yoshio Yabara ; editing, Girish Bhargava ; production design, Jean Vincent Puzos ; dramaturgy, Tone Blevins.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.