Orpheus
- Title
- Orpheus [videorecording] / [presented by] New York Ballet Experiment ; directed, choreographed and conceived by Robert Streicher ; music by Jon Hassell.
- Published by
- 1985.
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | FormatFilm, Slide, etc. | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZIDVD 5-3988 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 1 videodisc (NTSC) (38 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Two-act ballet based on the myth of Orpheus.
- Uniform title
- Orpheus (Choreographic work : Streicher)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Video.
- Dance.
- Contents
- Act I (18 min.) -- Act II (20 min.)
- Call number
- *MGZIDVD 5-3988
- Note
- The picture quality is dark on some parts of the recording.
- The performance of Orpheus lasts 38 min.; the remainder of the tape (18 min.) contains a partial recording of Oedipus rex (presumably the tape was reused.) For a complete recording of Oedipus rex see *MGZIDVD 5-3966.
- Credits (note)
- Lighting, Dennis Blaine. Set design, David Maslow. Costume design, Alan [i.e. Allen] Munch.
- Video, Penny Ward.
- Event (note)
- Recorded in performance, Nov. 1985, at St. Mark's Church, New York City.
- Title
- Orpheus [videorecording] / [presented by] New York Ballet Experiment ; directed, choreographed and conceived by Robert Streicher ; music by Jon Hassell.
- Imprint
- 1985.
- Country of producing entity
- U.S.
- Credits
- Lighting, Dennis Blaine. Set design, David Maslow. Costume design, Alan [i.e. Allen] Munch.
- Video, Penny Ward.
- Performer
- Performed by Robert Streicher (Orpheus), Amy Langdon (Eurydice), Miriam Cooper, Meli Zimberg, Mary Louise Ventura (three muses), Dan Hogan (great tiger), Lynn Shapiro (Queen of Hades), José Kunhurst (snake), Suzanne [i.e. Susanna] Organek, Amy Kail (poison frogs), Lynn Shapiro, Helen Tau, Susan Mendehlson [i.e. Mendelsohn] (furies).
- Event
- Recorded in performance, Nov. 1985, at St. Mark's Church, New York City.
- Local note
- For program notes see *MGZB Streicher, Robert [programs].
- Added author
- Streicher, Robert, choreographer.
- Streicher, Robert, dancer.
- Hassell, Jon, 1937-2021. Composer
- Langdon, Amy, dancer.
- Cooper, Miriam Raphael, dancer.
- Zimberg, Meli, dancer.
- Ventura, Mary Louise, dancer.
- Hogan, Dan, dancer.
- Shapiro, Lynn, dancer.
- Kunhurst, José, dancer.
- Organek, Susanna, dancer.
- Kail, Amy, dancer.
- Tau, Helen, dancer.
- Mendelsohn, Susan, dancer.
- Maslow, David. Set designer
- Blaine, Dennis. Lighting designer
- Munch, Allen. Costume designer
- Ward, Penny, videographer.
- New York Ballet Experiment (Dance company)
- Added title
- Orpheus (Choreographic work : Streicher)
- Research call number
- *MGZIDVD 5-3988