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Jazz calendar : [excerpt]

Title
  1. Jazz calendar : [excerpt] [videorecording] / [presented by] the Joffrey Ballet ; choreography by Frederick Ashton ; directed and staged by Faith Worth from the Benesh notation score ; music by Richard Rodney Bennett.
Published by
  1. 1977.

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Additional authors
  1. Somes, Michael, 1917-1994.
  2. Chryst, Gary
  3. Ashton, Frederick, 1904-1988
  4. Worth, Faith.
  5. Bennett, Richard Rodney.
  6. Joffrey Ballet.
  7. DHCA.
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (12 min.) : sd., b&w; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. Rehearsal of the male dancer's choreography for the Thursday section of the ballet. The six women in this section do not appear on this recording. The tape begins with a man rehearsing segments of the choreography to directions from off-camera by Michael Somes of the Royal Ballet (ca. 2 1/2 min.). Gary Chryst then dances the choreography in full, to piano accompaniment (ca. 5 min.). A third man, shadowed by two others who appear intermittently on camera, repeats the choreography (ca. 5 min.).
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Gift of the Joffrey Ballet.
Series statement
  1. Joffrey Ballet Collection.
Uniform title
  1. Jazz calendar (Choreographic work : Ashton)
Genre/Form
  1. Dance.
  2. Video.
  3. Dance rehearsals.
Call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-1960
Note
  1. Title and date from original container.
Event (note)
  1. Videotaped in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, in New York, on March 22, 1977.
Funding (note)
  1. This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
System details (note)
  1. DVD.
Title
  1. Jazz calendar : [excerpt] [videorecording] / [presented by] the Joffrey Ballet ; choreography by Frederick Ashton ; directed and staged by Faith Worth from the Benesh notation score ; music by Richard Rodney Bennett.
Imprint
  1. 1977.
Country of producing entity
  1. United States.
Series
  1. Joffrey Ballet Collection.
Performer
  1. Danced by members of the Joffrey Ballet: Gary Chryst and others.
Event
  1. Videotaped in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, with piano accompaniment, in New York, on March 22, 1977.
Funding
  1. This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
System details
  1. DVD.
Local note
  1. Former classmark: *MGZIC 9-5326.
Local subject
  1. Male dancing.
Added author
  1. Somes, Michael, 1917-1994. Commentator
  2. Chryst, Gary, dancer.
  3. Ashton, Frederick, 1904-1988, choreographer.
  4. Worth, Faith. Restager. Director
  5. Bennett, Richard Rodney. Composer
  6. Joffrey Ballet.
  7. DHCA.
Added title
  1. Jazz calendar (Choreographic work : Ashton)
Research call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-1960
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