SUMMARY: Reel 1. Opening remarks by Janice Ross, Stephen Cobbett Steinberg, Clare Isaacs of the San Francisco mayor's office, and David Gere. Criticism as ethnography. Speaker: Sally Banes. Lecture-demonstrations by Maria Benitez, Chitresh Das, I Wajan Dibia and C. K. Ladzekpo. -- Reel 2. Panel discussion: the challenges of interpretation: the cross-cultural dilemma. Speakers: Benitez, Das, Dibia, Ladzekpo, Judy Mitoma, Joann Kealiinohomoku. -- Reels 2-3. Panel discussion: Seeing and writing about world dance. Speakers: Marcia B.Siegel, Lewis Segal, Laurie Horn, Sal Murgiyanto, Robert Commanday. -- Reel 4. Balanchine's legacy. Speaker: Arlene Croce. Panel discussion: The director's perspective. Speakers: Edward Villella, Daniel Duell, Francia Russell, Nancy Goldner. -- Reel 5. Panel discussion: The critics' viewpoint. Speakers: Alastair Macaulay, Alan M. Kriegsman, Janice Berman, Claudia Roth Pierpont, Laurie Horn, Mindy Aloff. -- Reel 6. Toward the present: Balanchine at the Kirov. Speakers: Francia Russell, Nancy Reynolds. -- Reel 7. The new territory. Speaker: Peter Sellars. Beyond formalism: three decades of post-modernism in dance. Speaker: Roger Copeland. -- Reel 8. Visions of community in the 60's and 70's: the case of contact improvisation. Speakers: Sally Banes, Byron Brown. Spectacles of self: re-thinkings of gender in dance in the 70's and 80's. Speakers; Ann Daly, Joe Goode, Tim Miller, Johanna Boyce. -- Reel
9. The apotheosis of the present: the choreography of William Forsythe. Speakers: William Forsythe, Burt Supree. Ain't misbehaving: two decades of Twyla. Speaker: Laura Shapiro. -- Reel 10. Shapiro, continued. The challenge of the future: 50 ways to see tomorrow. Speakers: Sali Ann Kriegsman, Don Moore, Rhoda Grauer, Brenda Way, W. McNeil Lowry, Richard LeBlond. -- Reel 11. The challenge of the future, continued. Closing remarks.
Call number
*MGZTC 3-1142
Note
Recorded 9-11 June 1989 at the Dance Critics Association Conference held at the San Francisco Ballet School.
Title
On the edge: Challenges to American dance [sound recording]