About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

  • Choregraphie
  • A long minuet as danced at Bath
  • Sketchbook
  • Sarah Bernhardt's farewell American tour
  • Scrapbook documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French
  • The dance score
  • Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse
  • Sketchbook
  • Coreografie per ballabili d'opera
  • Caricature of Sergeĭ Dyagilev
  • La sténochorégraphie
  • Ehon Tsūhōshi
  • Le maître a danser
  • America
  • Costume designs for the ballet La Pastorella Svizzera
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Alvin Ailey Video Archive

This Item

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Additional title: Journey (Choreographic work : Trisler)
Additional title: Quintet (Choreographic work : Ailey)
Additional title: Blues suite (Choreographic work : Ailey)
Additional title: Poème (Choreographic work : Koner)
Names
Trisler, Joyce, 1934-1979 (Choreographer)
Ailey, Alvin (Choreographer)
Koner, Pauline (Choreographer)
Nyro, Laura (Composer)
Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981 (Composer)
Schiller, David (Videographer)
Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 (Composer)
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Production company)
Collection

Alvin Ailey Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1969-12-19 - 1969-12-23
Place: United States
Table of Contents
Journey (ca. 5 min.) / choreography, Joyce Trisler ; music, Charles Ives ; danced by female soloist. |||| Quintet: December's boudoir (ca. 5 min.) / choreography, Alvin Ailey ; music, Laura Nyro ; danced by female soloist. |||| Blues suite: duet (ca. 6 min.) / choreography, Alvin Ailey ; music, traditional ; danced by a man and a woman. |||| Poème (ca. 8 min.) / choreography, Pauline Koner ; music, Samuel Barber ; danced by a man and a woman.
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 6501
Shelf locator: *MGZIC 7-546 (former)
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Notes
Content: Title from information provided by donor.
Performers: Danced by members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Venue: Videotaped in stage rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, at the Dance Channel, New York, on December 19-23, 1969, by David Schiller.
Physical Description
Videotape reel
Extent: 1 videotape reel (24 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY827012307-F
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12159470
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 73e494e0-08f2-0135-d571-69be5544e2eb
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1934: Creator Born
  • 1969: Created (Approximate)
  • 1979: Creator Died
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1969 - 1969. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c96ffb20-ef9c-0133-baf7-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c96ffb20-ef9c-0133-baf7-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1969 - 1969). Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c96ffb20-ef9c-0133-baf7-60f81dd2b63c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c96ffb20-ef9c-0133-baf7-60f81dd2b63c | title= (moving image) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, (1969 - 1969)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=January 15, 2025 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater