Summary: Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANSummary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AILSummary: "Enter the world of Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva Dance Company. A man with an extraordinary vision, Naharin is regarded as one of the most important choreographers in the world today. He is known for developing "Gaga"--a movement language that resists labels, highlights somatic experience, emphasizes improvisation, and pushes dancers to use their body in ways that are ignored or overlooked by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.Baldwin, Neil
Summary: "A biography of the legendary dancer and choreographer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA BALSummary: "Using ordinary objects to make extraordinary sounds, STOMP is a unique combination of percussion, movement and visual comedy. Featuring newly choreographed performances from the stage show along with all-new stage and street work, STOMP OUT LOUD makes spectacular rhythms out of the everyday."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1997
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC STOJowitt, Deborah
Summary: "In the pantheon of American modernists, few figures loom larger than Martha Graham. One of the greatest choreographers ever to live, Graham pioneered a revolutionary dance technique--primal, dynamic, and rooted in the emotional life of the body--that upended traditional vocabulary and shaped generations of dancers and choreographers across the globe. Over her sweeping career, she founded what...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA JOWShea Murphy, Jacqueline
Summary: During the past 30 years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this study of contemporary Native American dancing, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 SHESummary: The film features David Byrne, and blends riveting onstage performances with intimate details of the creative collaborations that make the music and performance happen. Includes behind-the-scenes auditions, rehearsals, and interviews. Tracks: Once in a Lifetime; Life is Long; I Zimbra; Road to Nowhere; One Fine Day; The Great Curve; My Big Nurse; Burning Down the House; Houses in Motion; Air;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Vision 2010
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DAVCurrent, Richard Nelson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Northeastern University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FULLER, LOIE CURHeinecke, Liz Lee
Summary: "At the turn of the century, Paris was a hotbed of creativity. Technology boomed, delivering to the world electric light, the automobile, and new ways to treat disease, while imagination blossomed, creating Art Nouveau, motion pictures, and modernist literature. A pivotal figure during this time, yet largely forgotten today, Loie Fuller was an American performance artist who became a living...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 HEIFishman, Katharine Davis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.P. Tarcher/Penguin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 FISLong, Richard A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prion 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 793.3 LONBausch, Pina
Summary: Tribute to German modern-dance pioneer Pina Bausch as members of her dance troupe, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, perform her pieces in various settings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PINBéka.
Summary: Julie, Lucie, and Alia, along with Julie's little sister, Capucine, take classes at a local dance studio, where they study ballet, modern dance, and even hip-hop, compete with the arrogant Carla, and swoon over KT, the hip-hop teacher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2012
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Contents: Non-alignment pact -- The modern dance -- Laughing -- Street waves -- Chinese radiation -- Life stinks -- Real world -- Over my head -- Sentimental journey -- Humor me.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PERLihs, Harriet R.
Summary: "Appreciating Dance is a thorough and accurate history of various forms of dance, analyzing everything from social dance, and ballet to modern dance, tap, jazz, theatrical dance and contemporary dance. In it readers will find: a brief biography of notable dancers and choreographers; information needed to expand the enjoyment of performance; the intersection of dance and religion; the history of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton Book Company, Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.8 LIHDern, Laura
Summary: "Award-winning actresses and mother-daughter duo Laura Dern and Diane Ladd are the kind of women who draw strength from their lifelong friendships with other women, and most of all, from each other. Ever since Laura was born, the two have leaned on each other through the trials of everyday life and the tribulations that come with even the most storied Hollywood careers. They were always close,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DERReed, Lou.
Contents: Paranoia key of E -- Mystic child -- Mad -- Ecstasy -- Modern dance -- 7 future farmers of America -- Turning time around -- White prism -- Rock minuet -- Baton Rouge -- Like a possum -- Rouge -- 14 Big Sky.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REEDestroyer (Musical group)
Contents: Streethawk I -- The bad arts -- Beggars might ride -- The sublimation hour -- English music -- Virgin with a memory -- The very modern dance -- The crossover -- Helena -- Farrar, Straus & Giroux (sea of tears) -- Strike -- Streethawk II.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Merge Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DESRundell, Katherine
Summary: Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. In his myriad lives he was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, an MP - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. Along the way he converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DONNE, JOHN RUNSummary: Move to the music with Angelina Ballerina and her friends as they explore the wonderful world of dance! Gracie loses herself to some disco grooves while Alice discovers the power of confidence through jazz! AZ hip-hops to a happy birthday beat, and Ms. Mimi takes her students on a modern dance journey.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD ANGSummary: One day.I had a vision: I saw the Earth as sculpture. Isamu Noguchi often said that the space around a thing is as important as the thing itself. This program shows Noguchi turning landscapes into participatory works of art as it follows in dramatic detail the struggle to bring his ideas to fruition at Miami's Bayfront Park and at Moere Numa Park, outside Sapporo. His austere sets for Martha...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006