Slaughter on Tenth Avenue [Close shot] [electronic resource] / [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music, Richard Rodgers (from the musical On your toes), re-orchestrated by Hershy Kay.
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
Genre/Form
Dance.
Video.
Call number
*MGZIC 9-4271B
Note
Recording made possible by the cooperation of New York City Ballet, The George Balanchine Trust, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
Scenery, Jo Mielziner ; costumes, Irene Sharaff ; original lighting, Ronald Bates ; lighting, Mark Stanley.
Performer (note)
Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on May 9, 1993 (evening), during New York City Ballet's Balanchine Celebration, by Jay Millard. Close shot version ; for wide shot, see *MGZIC 9-4271A.
Performed by New York City Ballet: Robert La Fosse (hoofer); Maria Calegari (strip tease girl); Robert Lyon (big boss); Russell Kaiser and Peter Naumann (bartenders); Arch Higgins (thug); Tom Gold, Robert Wersinger, and Todd Williams (policemen); Bruce Padgett (Morrosine, premier danseur noble); Alexandre Proia (gangster); Jade Adams, Tatiana Garcia-Stefanovich, Janey McGeary, Jennifer Tinsley, Melissa Walter (ladies of the ballet); Charles Anderson, Sant'gria Bello, James Fayette, Andrew Robertson (gentlemen of the ballet). At the climax of the ballet, this recording focuses on the gangster's actions in his stage box. For a recording depicting the hoofer's solo onstage, see *MGZIC 9-4257 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue [Close shot].
Conductor: Maurice Kaplow.
Funding (note)
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation.
Terms of use (note)
Copyright: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue choreography by George Balanchine (c) The George Balanchine Trust.
Title
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue [Close shot] [electronic resource] / [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music, Richard Rodgers (from the musical On your toes), re-orchestrated by Hershy Kay.
Imprint
c1993.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Performer
Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on May 9, 1993 (evening), during New York City Ballet's Balanchine Celebration, by Jay Millard. Close shot version ; for wide shot, see *MGZIC 9-4271A.
Performed by New York City Ballet: Robert La Fosse (hoofer); Maria Calegari (strip tease girl); Robert Lyon (big boss); Russell Kaiser and Peter Naumann (bartenders); Arch Higgins (thug); Tom Gold, Robert Wersinger, and Todd Williams (policemen); Bruce Padgett (Morrosine, premier danseur noble); Alexandre Proia (gangster); Jade Adams, Tatiana Garcia-Stefanovich, Janey McGeary, Jennifer Tinsley, Melissa Walter (ladies of the ballet); Charles Anderson, Sant'gria Bello, James Fayette, Andrew Robertson (gentlemen of the ballet). At the climax of the ballet, this recording focuses on the gangster's actions in his stage box. For a recording depicting the hoofer's solo onstage, see *MGZIC 9-4257 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue [Close shot].
Conductor: Maurice Kaplow.
Credits
Scenery, Jo Mielziner ; costumes, Irene Sharaff ; original lighting, Ronald Bates ; lighting, Mark Stanley.
Funding
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation.
Terms of use
Copyright: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue choreography by George Balanchine (c) The George Balanchine Trust.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.