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Sally Gross a life in dance

Title
  1. Sally Gross [videorecording] : a life in dance / Michael Blackwood Productions ; directed and produced by Michael Blackwood ; choreography by Sally Gross.
Published by
  1. New York, N.Y. : Michael Blackwood Productions, c2002.

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Additional authors
  1. Blackwood, Michael.
  2. Gross, Sally
  3. Brockman, Susan.
  4. Kurahara, Joan Vennum.
  5. Blum, Joshua.
  6. Ross, Steven.
  7. Michael Blackwood Productions.
  8. Dance Films Association.
  9. Dance on Camera Film Festival.
Description
  1. 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (36 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.
Summary
  1. In an interview intercut with scenes of a dance class she teaches in her Westbeth studio, Sally Gross discusses her career and choreography. She recalls teachers who helped form her style, among them Alwin Nikolais, Merle Marsicano, Anna Halprin, Robert Ellis Dunn, and Judith Dunn ; and her early work with Judson Dance Theater. She discusses some of her organizing principles and influences: her practice of Buddhism, with its emphasis on breath; her integration of text and movement; her belief, like Nikolais, that drama grows out of movement; the visual arts; the writings and plays of Samuel Beckett. Among the works she describes in detail are her early piece Conjunctions; her films Stopped in her tracks, Lee's Ferry, and Black and white (each shown in brief clips); Going someplace slow, which was danced with her daughter Sidonia; and Suddenly then she (1998), her first evening-length work. Entrant in the Dance Films Association's 31st annual Dance on Camera Festival 2003.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Gift of Dance Films Association, additional copies.
Subject
  1. Gross, Sally
  2. Gross, Sidonia
  3. Choreographers > United States > Interviews
Genre/Form
  1. Dance.
  2. Interviews.
  3. Video.
Call number
  1. *MGZIA 4-5767
Credits (note)
  1. Photography, Mead Hunt; editing, Joëlle Schon.
  2. Credits for Stopped in her tracks: film, Susan Brockman; camera, Robert Levi.
  3. Credits for Lee's Ferry: film and editing, Susan Brockman; cinematography, Robert Levi; music, Keith Jarrett; slide painting and projection, Joan Kurahara.
  4. Credits for Black and white: film, Josh Blum, Steven Ross; music, Gary Haase; light paintings, Joan Kurahara.
Performer (note)
  1. Interviewee: Sally Gross.
Title
  1. Sally Gross [videorecording] : a life in dance / Michael Blackwood Productions ; directed and produced by Michael Blackwood ; choreography by Sally Gross.
Imprint
  1. New York, N.Y. : Michael Blackwood Productions, c2002.
Country of producing entity
  1. U.S.
Credits
  1. Photography, Mead Hunt; editing, Joëlle Schon.
  2. Credits for Stopped in her tracks: film, Susan Brockman; camera, Robert Levi.
  3. Credits for Lee's Ferry: film and editing, Susan Brockman; cinematography, Robert Levi; music, Keith Jarrett; slide painting and projection, Joan Kurahara.
  4. Credits for Black and white: film, Josh Blum, Steven Ross; music, Gary Haase; light paintings, Joan Kurahara.
Performer
  1. Interviewee: Sally Gross.
Local subject
  1. Motion pictures. Lee's Ferry.
  2. Motion pictures. Black and white.
Added author
  1. Blackwood, Michael. Director. Producer
  2. Gross, Sally, choreographer, dancer. Interviewee
  3. Brockman, Susan. Director
  4. Kurahara, Joan Vennum. Designer
  5. Blum, Joshua. Director
  6. Ross, Steven. Director
  7. Michael Blackwood Productions.
  8. Dance Films Association.
  9. Dance on Camera Film Festival.
Research call number
  1. *MGZIA 4-5767
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