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Dance in the Desert Festival 2006: Celebrating Murray Louis

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division

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Janis Brenner Video Archive

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Title
Dance in the Desert Festival 2006: Celebrating Murray Louis
Additional title: Celebrating Muray Louis
Additional title: 8th Annual Dance in the Desert Festival 2006
Additional title: Déjà vu (Choreographic work : Louis)
Names
Louis, Murray (Honoree)
Louis, Murray (Speaker)
Louis, Murray (Choreographer)
Louis, Murray (Dancer)
Brenner, Janis (Performer)
Brenner, Janis (Speaker)
Monk, Meredith (Compiler)
Roth, Kelly (Speaker)
Siegal, Richard (Choreographer)
Siegal, Richard (Costume designer)
Nikolais, Alwin (Speaker)
Iannacone, Steven (Speaker)
Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance (Performer)
Community College of Southern Nevada (Presenter)
Collection

Janis Brenner Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 2006-07-22
Table of Contents
Reel 1 (approximately 22 min.). Vocal Suite (from Songs from the Hill) (11 min.) / music, Meredith Monk (Porch Song, Jade, Wa-Lie-o-oh, Breath Song) ; performer, Janis Brenner -- Solo for Janis (1997) (approximately 11 min.) / choreography, Richard Siegal in collaboration with Janis Brenner ; music, J.B. Lully ; costume, Richard Siegal ; performer, Janis Brenner. |||| Reel 2 (approximately 32 min.). Alwin Nikolais on Murray Louis (film) (approximately 4 min.) -- Steven Iannacone (4 min.) -- France: What do Murray Louis and Jerry Lewis have in Common? The French love them (film) (3 min.) / performers, Murray Louis Dance Company -- Janis Brenner (5 min.) -- Murray Louis (film) (3 min.) -- Kelly Roth and Daffy Award Presentation to Murray Louis (10min.) / honoree, Murray Louis -- Deja Vu (1976) (film, 1980) (4 min.) / choreography and performance, Murray Louis ; music, I. Albeniz.
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDVD 5-6937
Topics
Louis, Murray
Genres
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Notes
Statement of responsibility: presented by Community College of Southern Nevada, Performing Arts Department, CCSN Dance Program.
Content: Films include brief dance excerpts of Murray Louis Dance Company and solo works created and performed by Murray Louis including Antechamber (1953), Harmonica Suite (1955), and Chimera (1966).
Creation/production credits: Co-founders, Kelly Roth and Kyla Quintero.
Venue: Videotaped in performance at Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, Nev. 2006 July 22.
Original version: Original format: 1 videodisc (DVD) ; 4 3/4 in.
Acquisition: Gift; Janis Brenner; 2012.
Physical Description
Videodisc
Extent: 1 videodisc (DVD) (55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19997136
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c97634c0-6f20-0131-9c2b-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Dance in the Desert Festival 2006" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 2006. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cc486870-6f20-0131-b80c-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Dance in the Desert Festival 2006" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cc486870-6f20-0131-b80c-3c075448cc4b

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (2006). Dance in the Desert Festival 2006 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cc486870-6f20-0131-b80c-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia Citation

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Dance in the Desert Festival 2006