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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANSummary: Notoriously camera-shy, Lewitt refused awards and rarely granted interviews, yet in this cinematic portrait, the pioneering conceptual American artist comes alive. Using extensive interviews and documentation of artwork installed around the world, director Chris Teerink explores the artist's work and philosophy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOLAvery, Jaha Nailah
Summary: The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: J 305.896 AVEJowitt, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA JOWCurlee, Lynn
Summary: Dance prodigy, sex symbol, gay pioneer, cultural icon--Vaslav Nijinsky rose to fame as the star of the Ballets Russes in Paris before mental illness stole his career and the last thirty years of his life. A tragic story of a great genius, this compelling work of narrative nonfiction chronicles a life of obsessive artistry, celebrity, and notoriety.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Teen 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 NIJHomans, Jennifer
Summary: "The New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." He appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century. His radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly imaginative ballets made him a legend. Yet, Balanchine's life was as dramatic as his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BALANCHINE, GEORGE HOMKarger, Dave
Summary: "Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 KARSummary: Origami may seem an unlikely medium for understanding and explaining the world. But around the globe, several fine artists and theoretical scientists are abandoning more conventional career paths to forge lives as modern-day paper folders. Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science. This film...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Fuse Films 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BETBingham, Clara
Summary: "As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 BINSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MR.Summary: A ballet based loosely on Anton Chekhov's play Three sisters. Second program is a documentary portrait of the influential British choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan, with extracts from many of his ballets including The burrow, Romeo and Juliet, Gloria, Manon and The prince of the pagodas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Kultur 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS WINBaldwin, Neil
Summary: "A biography of the legendary dancer and choreographer"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRAHAM, MARTHA BALHeaton, Colin D.
Summary: "Sensational eyewitness accounts from the most heroic and legendary American aviators of World War II, never before published as a book"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: History War HeatonKaeser, Gigi.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Massachusetts Press 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 306.874 LOVELewis, John
Summary: "Featuring interviews of civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis at almost every stage of his career, this collection illustrates why Lewis has become a human rights icon and remains an inspiration to activists today"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, JOHN LEWSnyder, Gary
Summary: Gary Snyder and his friend Jim Harrison meet to discuss love, lives and what has become of them over the years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2010
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD E-TV ART1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ART
Summary: Gandolfini talks with with ten soliders and Marines and their families about their experience during and after their service in Iraq.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALIGlusman, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 GLURiley, Russell L. (Russell Lynn)
Summary: "In the decade after Bill Clinton left the White House, scores of his closest aides recorded interviews with the University of Virginia's Presidential Oral History Program. The contents of these interviews are published for the first time in this volume.Based on 400 hours of candid conversations, Inside the Clinton White House adds color and nuance to our understanding of Bill Clinton and his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 RILSummary: "Tracing the steps of grunge from its subversive inception in neighborhood basements to its global rise to the multimillion dollar pop culture phenomenon, Hype! incorporates hilarious interviews with rare concert footage of bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and The Melvins"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HYPSummary: Includes interviews with The Grateful Dead, Tom Wolfe, Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey. Also includes four live performances by The Grateful Dead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory LLC 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TOMCohen, Leonard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014