Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Armitage, Karole
2. Armitage, Karole.
3. Sommer, Sally R.
4. Salle, David, 1952-
5. Lacroix, Christian, 1951-
6. Kidel, Mark.
7. Lalou, Serge.
8. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
9. Maggiodanza.
10. Films d'ici (Firm)
11. SEPT (Television station : France)
12. Association relative à la télévision européenne.
13. Reiner Moritz Associates.
14. France Supervision (Firm)
15. Centre national de la cinématographie (France)
16. DHCA.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

1. Profile of dancer-choreographer Karole Armitage, much of it in her own words. The program begins with a discussion of her evening-length work The predators' ball: hucksters of the soul, which she presented in several versions between 1994 and 1996. Looking back upon her career, Armitage describes her beginnings as a ballet dancer, and her discovery of the work of Merce Cunningham, whose company she joined. She discusses her own choreography and its aims, her establishment of her own company in the 1980s, her move to France, and her appointment to the directorship of MaggioDanza in Florence, and compares audience and critical reactions to her innovations in the U.S. and Europe. Additional insights are offered by her friend Joan Juliet Buck; dance historian Sally Sommer; Armitage's husband, the painter David Salle; and fashion designer Christian Lacroix.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Les Films d'Ici.

Uniform title

1. Predators' ball (Choreographic work : Armitage)
2. Vertige (Choreographic work : Armitage)
3. Watteau duets (Choreographic work : Armitage)
4. Gogo ballerina (Choreographic work : Armitage)
5. Elizabethan phrasing of the late Albert Ayler (Choreographic work : Armitage)
6. Anges ternis (Choreographic work : Armitage)
7. Weather of reality (Choreographic work : Armitage)
8. Channels/Inserts (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Subject

1. Armitage, Karole
2. Choreographers > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.

Contents

1. Dance excerpts: Depicted in performance excerpts are Armitage's works The predators' ball (1996) and its earlier incarnation Hucksters of the soul (1993), Vertige (1980), The Watteau duets (1985), Gogo ballerina (1988), The Elizabethan phrasing of the late Albert Ayler (1986), The tarnished angels (1987), and Weather of reality (1997), as well as Merce Cunningham's Channels/Inserts (1981).

Call number

1. *MGZIA 4-3033

Note

1. Letterbox format.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewees: Karole Armitage, Joan Juliet Buck, Sally Sommer, David Salle, Christian Lacroix.

Language (note)

1. In English; brief sections in French with English subtitles.

Title

1. Karole Armitage, wild ballerina [videorecording] / co-produced by Les Films d'Ici and La Sept ARTE in association with RM Associates and France Supervision, with the participation of Le Centre National de la Cinématographie ; directed by Mark Kidel ; produced by Serge Lalou.

Imprint

1. 1998.

Performer

1. Interviewees: Karole Armitage, Joan Juliet Buck, Sally Sommer, David Salle, Christian Lacroix.

Language

1. In English; brief sections in French with English subtitles.

Added author

1. Armitage, Karole, choreographer.
2. Armitage, Karole. Interviewee
3. Sommer, Sally R. Interviewee
4. Salle, David, 1952- Interviewee
5. Lacroix, Christian, 1951- Interviewee
6. Kidel, Mark. Director
7. Lalou, Serge. Producer
8. Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
9. Maggiodanza.
10. Films d'ici (Firm)
11. SEPT (Television station : France)
12. Association relative à la télévision européenne.
13. Reiner Moritz Associates.
14. France Supervision (Firm)
15. Centre national de la cinématographie (France)
16. DHCA.

Added title

1. Predators' ball (Choreographic work : Armitage)
2. Vertige (Choreographic work : Armitage)
3. Watteau duets (Choreographic work : Armitage)
4. Gogo ballerina (Choreographic work : Armitage)
5. Elizabethan phrasing of the late Albert Ayler (Choreographic work : Armitage)
6. Anges ternis (Choreographic work : Armitage)
7. Weather of reality (Choreographic work : Armitage)
8. Channels/Inserts (Choreographic work : Cunningham)

Research call number

1. *MGZIA 4-3033