Summary: 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 AIL

Summary: Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harrick, Joseph Stein, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS JER

Cunningham, Merce

Summary: Looks at the career of dancer and choreographer, Merce Cunningham.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2020

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CUN

Summary: "Based on director Bob Fosse's own extravagant life, this vibrant and spectacular film follows Fosse's alter ego. Joe Gideon in his relentless pursuit of sex, drugs and self-destruction. His womanizing both supports and debilitates him as he juggles his mistress, ex-wife and beloved daughter. Hovering over all of his excess is an angel. The proceedings are set amid rapturous dream sequences,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ALL