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Additional authors

1. Lukens, Raymond.
2. Vita, Franco de.
3. Chapman, Wes.
4. Whitehill, James, interviewee.
5. Jones, Susan.
6. Cherry, Michael (Pianist)
7. Wilkins, Ormsby.
8. Ratmansky, Alexei
9. Bournonville, August, 1805-1879
10. Barton, Aszure
11. Giangeruso, April
12. Waldrep, Brian
13. Matthews, Jared
14. Kajiya, Yuriko
15. Lopez, Carlos, 1976-
16. Cronson, Mary Sharp.
17. American Ballet Theatre.
18. American Ballet Theatre Studio Company.
19. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (85 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. This program focuses on the different aspects of adapting ABT II and ABT productions to various theaters. Raymond Lukens and Franco De Vita discuss how they help adapt dancers to small spaces including a phrase adaptation demonstration by students of the American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School using August Bournonville movements including Flower Festival in Genzano. Wes Chapman, director of ABT II/moderator, discusses how he helps his company to adapt quickly by using colored tape for space markers to help deliniate the performance space and he coaches dancers April Giangeruso and Brian Waldrep on altering the Act II pas de deux from Swan Lake due to lack of space. James Whitehill, head of ABT production dept., discusses the challenges of adapting productions to different spaces ranging from Avery Fischer Hall and Bard College, to the Concert Hall at Kennedy Center. He also discusses the new ABT choreographic work, Sleeping beauty, from its inception to its completion. Susan Jones discusses her job as ballet mistress for ABT including coaching and rehearsing the corps de ballet.

Series statement

1. Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform title

1. Blomsterfesten i Genzano (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
2. Swan lake (Choreographic work). Act II, Pas de deux.
3. Swan lake (Choreographic work : Ivanov). Act II.
4. Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Alternative title

1. One of three (Choreographic work : Barton)
2. Seven sonatas (Choreographic work : Ratmansky)

Subject

1. Dance > Production and direction
2. Dance > Stage-setting and scenery

Genre/Form

1. Video.
2. Dance.

Contents

1. Historical perspective and Bournonville technique demonstration / moderated and staged by Raymond Lukens ; music performed by Michael Cherry ; performed by Melissa Gelfin, Nayara Macedo Lopes, Elise Miller, Alison Stroming, Jinho Won, Sterling Baca, Thibaut Eiferman, Shu Kinouchi, Aaron Smyth (American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School) -- Discussion [ABT II] / speaker, Wes Chapman -- Swan lake, Act II, pas de deux / choreography by Lev Ivanov ; music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky ; coaching and staging by Wes Chapman ; performed by April Giangeruso, Brian Waldrep (ABT II) -- Discussion [adapting the production] / by Jamie Whitehill -- One of three (excerpt) / choreographed by Aszure Barton ; music by Maurice Ravel (Violin sonata in G) ; costumes by Yannik Larivée ; performed by Jared Matthews (soloist, ABT) -- Discussion / by Susan Jones -- Seven sonatas (excerpt) / choreography by Alexei Ratmansky ; music by Domenico Scarlatti (Sonata in F minor #481) ; music performed by Ormsby Wilkins ; costumes by Holly Hynes ; performed by Yuriko Kajiya (soloist, ABT), Carlos Lopez (soloist, ABT).

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-5307

Event (note)

1. Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Oct. 11, 2009.

System details (note)

1. DVD.

Source (note)

1. Mary Sharp Cronson.

Title

1. American Ballet Theatre, the art of adaptation [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

1. c2009.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Series

1. Works & process at the Guggenheim collection
2. Works and process at the Guggenheim.

System details

1. DVD.

Performer

1. Moderator: Wes Chapman ; panel: Raymond Lukens (artistic associate, ABT/NYU masters program), Franco De Vita (principal, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School), Wes Chapman (artistic director, ABT II), Jamie Whitehill (director of production, ABT), Susan Jones (ballet mistress, ABT).
2. Danced by students of the American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and members of American Ballet Theatre and American Ballet Theatre II.

Event

1. Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Oct. 11, 2009.

Local note

1. For program notes see *MGZB Works and process at the Guggenheim [programs].

Source

1. Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson. NN-PD

Added author

1. Lukens, Raymond. Interviewee
2. Vita, Franco de. Interviewee
3. Chapman, Wes. Interviewee
4. Whitehill, James, interviewee.
5. Jones, Susan. Interviewee
6. Cherry, Michael (Pianist)
7. Wilkins, Ormsby. Instrumentalist
8. Ratmansky, Alexei, choreographer.
9. Bournonville, August, 1805-1879, choreographer.
10. Barton, Aszure, choreographer.
11. Giangeruso, April, dancer.
12. Waldrep, Brian, dancer.
13. Matthews, Jared, dancer.
14. Kajiya, Yuriko, dancer.
15. Lopez, Carlos, 1976- dancer.
16. Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
17. American Ballet Theatre.
18. American Ballet Theatre Studio Company.
19. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
20. Cronson, Mary Sharp. Donor NN-PD

Added title

1. Blomsterfesten i Genzano (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
2. Swan lake (Choreographic work). Act II, Pas de deux.
3. Swan lake (Choreographic work : Ivanov). Act II.
4. One of three (Choreographic work : Barton)
5. Seven sonatas (Choreographic work : Ratmansky)

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-5307