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5 Decades II, 2011 April 8

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division

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Janis Brenner Video Archive

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5 Decades II, 2011 April 8

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Title
5 Decades II, 2011 April 8
Additional title: Schwingende Landschaft (Choreographic work : Wigman)
Additional title: Cleopatra (Choreographic work : Louis)
Additional title: Pieces of trust (Choreographic work : Brenner)
Additional title: heartSTRINGS (Choreographic work : Brenner)
Additional title: Mind-Stuff Variations (Choreographic work : Brenner)
Names
Brenner, Janis (Choreographer)
Brenner, Janis (Dancer)
Brenner, Janis (Artistic director)
Brenner, Janis (Costume designer)
Begin, Jerome (Composer)
Begin, Jerome (Musician)
Derham, Elizabeth (Musician)
Dempster, Lauren Kiyoshi (Musician)
Barkin, Kyla (Dancer)
Boyce, Esmé (Dancer)
Jackson, Sumaya (Dancer)
Murphy, Luke (Dancer)
Ralph, Christopher (Dancer)
Selissen, Aaron (Dancer)
Zielinski, Chen (Dancer)
Janks, Leo (Technical director)
Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973 (Choreographer)
Hasting, Hanns (Composer)
Garcia, Frank (Costume designer)
Louis, Murray (Choreographer)
Clark, Joe (Composer)
Monk, Meredith (Composer)
Lurie, John, 1952- (Composer)
Soetaert, Susan L. (Costume designer)
James, William (British painter, active 1754-1771) (Writer of accompanying material)
Shelby, Nel (Videographer)
Danspace Project (New York, N.Y.) (Event place)
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.) (Presenter)
Janis Brenner & Dancers (Performer)
Collection

Janis Brenner Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 2011-04-08
Table of Contents
Solos from Swinging Landscapes (Seraphic Song and Pastorale) (1929) (7 min.) / choreography, Mary Wigman ; music, Hanns Hastings ; costume design, Frank Garcia, after the originals ; dancer, Janis Brenner. |||| Duet from Cleopatra (1976) (6 min.) / choreography, Murray Louis ; music, Joe Clark/Entourage ; costume design, Frank Garcia ; dancers, Kyla Barkin and Aaron Selissen. |||| Duet from Pieces of Trust (1987 and '89) (12 min.) / choreography, Janis Brenner ; music, John Lurie and Meredith Monk ; costume design, Janis Brenner, executed by Sue Julien ; dancers, Esmé Boyce and Christopher Ralph. |||| heartSTRINGS (1998) (16 min.) / choreography, Janis Brenner ; re-staging assistance, Kyla Barkin ; music, Simon Garfunkel/Traditional (Scarbourough Fair), The Beatles (Blackbird), Led Zeppelin (Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You) in original arrangements by John Reed with The Hampton String Quartet ; costumes, Susan L. Soetaert ; dancers, Kyla Barkin, Esmé Boyce, Janis Brenner, Sumaya Jackson, Christopher Ralph, Aaron Selissen and Chen Zielinski. |||| The Mind-Stuff Variations (World Premiere) (47 min.) / choreography, Janis Brenner in collaboration with the company ; original music, Jerome Begin ; costumes, Janis Brenner ; musicians, Jerome Begin (piano electronics), Elizabeth Derham (violin), Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (Cello) ; text, all spoken text originally imporvised by the dancers, with the exception of excerpts read by Kyla Barkin from Mind-Stuff Theory written in the 1980's by psychologist William James ; dancers, Kyla Barkin, Esmé Boyce, Janis Brenner, Sumaya Jackson, Luke Murphy, Aaron Selissen and Chen Zielinski.
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-6956
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Notes
Statement of responsibility: artistic director, Janis Brenner ; performed by Janis Brenner & Dancers.
Content: Widescreen.
Creation/production credits: Lighting design, Mitchell Bogard ; video by Nel Shelby Productions ; guest composer, Jerome Begin ; Danspace Project technical director, Leo Janks.
Performers: Performed by Janis Brenner & Dancers (artistic director, Janis Brenner): Kyla Barkin, Janis Brenner, Sumaya Jackson, Moo Kim, Carolyn Rossett, Aaron Selissen, and Pam Wagner.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York, N.Y., as part of Danspace Project 2011 April 8.
Acquisition: Gift; Janis Brenner; 2012.
Physical Description
Videodisc
Extent: 1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20027234
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 66543250-b2b7-0131-d2e4-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "5 Decades II, 2011 April 8" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 2011. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/67284b80-b2b7-0131-a4d0-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "5 Decades II, 2011 April 8" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/67284b80-b2b7-0131-a4d0-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (2011). 5 Decades II, 2011 April 8 Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/67284b80-b2b7-0131-a4d0-3c075448cc4b

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5 Decades II, 2011 April 8