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Title
Pillar of fire: a working rehearsal
Additional title: Pillar of fire (Choreographic work : Tudor)
Names
New York Public Library. Dance Division (Producer)
Tudor, Antony, 1908-1987 (Choreographer)
Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951 (Composer)
Compton, Gardner (Videographer)
Mathis, Bonnie (Dancer)
Wilson, Sallie (Dancer)
Ashton, Elizabeth (Dancer)
Young, Gayle (Dancer)
Paredes, Marcos (Dancer)
American Ballet Theatre (Performer)
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection (Associated name)
Collection

Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1975-08-07
Place: New York, NY
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 4758
Shelf locator: *MGZIA 4-7089 (former)
Shelf locator: *MGZHB 6-1409
Topics
Dance rehearsals
Genres
Filmed dance
Notes
Creation/production credits: [presented by] American Ballet Theatre ; choreography by Antony Tudor ; music by Arnold Schoenberg (Verklärte Nacht)
Performers: Performed by members of American Ballet Theatre.
Performers: Bonnie Mathis (Eldest sister); Sallie Wilson (Hagar); Elizabeth Ashton (Youngest sister); Gayle Young (The friend); and Marcos Paredes (Young man from the house opposite); with Cynthia Harvey, Carmen Barth, Susan Jones, Linda Kuchera, Denise Warner, David Coll, Warren Conover, Kevin Haigen, Nanette Glushak, Giselle Roberge, Patricia Wesche, Michael Owen, Frank Smith, Clark Tippet, Sara Maule, and Sandall Whitaker.
Performers: Rehearsal pianist: Howard Barr.
Venue: Filmed at a working rehearsal at the New York State Theatre, New York, N.Y., on August 7, 1975; film documentation by Gardner Compton for the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Collection, The New York Public Library.
Funding: Filmed with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Physical Description
Film reel
Extent: 2 film reels (13 min.) sound, black and white; 16 mm
Description
Rehearsal of excerpts from the ballet, on a bare stage, in rehearsal clothes, supervised by choreographer Antony Tudor.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY797084058-F
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12158391
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9b8e98e0-b5b0-0134-d557-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

1975
2026
  • 1975: Created
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Pillar of fire" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1975. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6e69fe40-a9e6-0133-aee6-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Pillar of fire" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 26, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6e69fe40-a9e6-0133-aee6-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1975). Pillar of fire Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6e69fe40-a9e6-0133-aee6-60f81dd2b63c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6e69fe40-a9e6-0133-aee6-60f81dd2b63c | title= (moving image) Pillar of fire, (1975)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=January 26, 2025 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

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