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The Mysteries and What's So Funny?: Workshop rehearsal, 1990-12-01

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David Gordon Video Archive

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The Mysteries and What's So Funny?

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Title
The Mysteries and What's So Funny?: Workshop rehearsal, 1990-12-01
Additional title: David Gordon archive
Additional title: Mysteries and what's so funny? (Choreographic work : Gordon)
Names
Hough, Mark (Speaker)
Glass, Philip (Composer)
Gordon, David, 1936- (Author)
Gordon, David, 1936- (Stage director)
Setterfield, Valda (Performer)
Corcoran, Jay (Performer)
Cunningham, Scott (Performer)
Ehrlich, Joy (Performer)
Graham, Karen (Performer)
La Brecque, Donna (Performer)
McIntosh, Yanna (Performer)
Moss, Dean (Performer)
Pavlon, Jerry (Performer)
Press, Warren (Performer)
Tufts, Gayle (Performer)
Weigand, Jon David (Performer)
Young, Rex (Performer)
Johnson, Alan, 1959- (Instrumentalist)
Cabanne, Pierre (Associated name)
Kerr, Allan (Stage manager)
David Gordon/Pickup Company (Performer)
American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, Mass.) (Performer)
American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge, Mass.) (Presenter)
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David Gordon Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1990-12-01
Table of Contents
Introduction (6 min.) / by Mark Hough (Managing Director, Pick Up Company) -- The Mysteries and What's So Funny (Workshop rehearsal) (65 min.).
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 3864
Topics
Theater rehearsals
Rehearsals
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Notes
Statement of responsibility: written and staged by David Gordon ; performed by David Gordon/Pick Up Company and Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.
Creation/production credits: Taped piano music played by Alan Johnson; Solo piano music composed by Philip Glass; ; With excerpts from "Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp" by Pierre Cabanne; Stage Manager, Allan Kerr.
Performers: Performed by members of the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training (*) and the Pick Up Company: Valda Setterfield, Jay Corcoran*, Scott Cunningham, Joy Ehrlich*, Karen Graham, Donna La Brecque*, Yanna McIntosh*, Dean Moss, Jerry Pavlon*, Warren Press*, Gayle Tufts, Jon David Weigand*, Rex Young*.
Venue: Videotaped in rehearsal at American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, Mass. 1990 December 01.
Acquisition: Gift; David Gordon / Pick Up Performance Co. 2014.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (71 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 896447809
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20478289
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1e106fb0-66aa-0132-6fa6-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "The Mysteries and What's So Funny?" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1990. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1f6169f0-66aa-0132-3c45-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "The Mysteries and What's So Funny?" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1f6169f0-66aa-0132-3c45-3c075448cc4b

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1990). The Mysteries and What's So Funny? Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1f6169f0-66aa-0132-3c45-3c075448cc4b

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The Mysteries and What's So Funny?