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Jerome Robbins' Ballets: USA

Title
  1. Jerome Robbins' Ballets: USA [videorecording] / produced for television by the United States Information Service.
Published by
  1. [1959?]

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Additional authors
  1. Robbins, Jerome
  2. Prince, Robert, 1929-2007.
  3. Ballets: U.S.A.
  4. United States Information Service.
Description
  1. 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (15 min.) : sd., b&w; 1/2 in.
Summary
  1. In a television segment about Jerome Robbins' Ballets: USA, a narrator summarizes Robbins' career, his work with Ballets: USA, and the current state of American dance. Robbins is seen leaving his home and taking a taxi to the Ballets: USA studio. Members of the company are seen warming up; Robbins directs rehearsals of routines and an excerpt from Afternoon of a faun. The narrator gives some information about N.Y. export: opus jazz, and composer Robert Prince is seen working with Robbins on the score. Members of Ballets: USA perform a run-through of the Theme, variations and fugue section of N.Y. export: opus jazz.
Series statement
  1. Jerome Robbins Collection
Uniform title
  1. N.Y. export, opus jazz (Choreographic work : Robbins)
Subject
  1. Dance
  2. Television
  3. Robbins, Jerome
  4. Ballets: U.S.A
Genre/Form
  1. Dance.
  2. Television.
Call number
  1. *MGZIA 4-6586 JRC
Note
  1. Poor sound quality.
  2. Title from opening credits.
Credits (note)
  1. N.Y. export: opus jazz. Choreography by Jerome Robbins. Music by Robert Prince.
Event (note)
  1. Filmed in New York City, date unidentified, 1959 or later.
Funding (note)
  1. Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biography (note)
  1. N.Y. export: opus jazz premiered in 1958.
Title
  1. Jerome Robbins' Ballets: USA [videorecording] / produced for television by the United States Information Service.
Imprint
  1. [1959?]
Country of producing entity
  1. U.S.
Series
  1. Jerome Robbins Collection
Credits
  1. N.Y. export: opus jazz. Choreography by Jerome Robbins. Music by Robert Prince.
Performer
  1. Dances performed by members of Ballets: USA.
Event
  1. Filmed in New York City, date unidentified, 1959 or later.
Funding
  1. Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biography
  1. N.Y. export: opus jazz premiered in 1958.
Added author
  1. Robbins, Jerome, choreographer.
  2. Prince, Robert, 1929-2007. Composer
  3. Ballets: U.S.A.
  4. United States Information Service.
Added title
  1. N.Y. export, opus jazz (Choreographic work : Robbins)
Research call number
  1. *MGZIA 4-6586 JRC
  2. *MGZHB 6-2709 JRC
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