Nikolais Dance Theatre Showcase December 28, 1986 with Additional Paris Opera Performance

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Nikolais Dance Theatre Showcase December 28, 1986 with Additional Paris Opera Performance

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Nikolais Dance Theatre showcase of various works created in the 1950s, 1970s, and the 1980s. All performances at The Joyce Theatre in New York City. All but the final performance were recorded December 28, 1986. The final performance, "Arc en Ciel," originally commissioned by the Paris Opera and extracted from the work "Schema," which premiered for the Paris Opera House on December 18, 1980. This performance was recorded at The Joyce Theater on the evening of December 26, 1987., , Featured performances:, Noumenon (1953), Contact (1985), Video Game (1984), Study of the Human Figure (1983), Count Down (1979), Arc en Ciel: Four Facets of Man (1980)

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Core Title Nikolais Dance Theatre Showcase December 28, 1986 with Additional Paris Opera Performance

Title Nikolais Dance Theatre Showcase December 28, 1986 with Additional Paris Opera Performance (title)

Contributor Aarons, James (performer), Aarons, Paula (performer), Akio Taketa, Edward (performer), Dance Heritage Coalition (provenance), Del Saz, Alberto (performer), Goldman, Suzanne (performer), Gregory, David (music), Harling, Timothy (performer), Kline, Susan (performer), Lamb, Christine (performer), Lesniak, Lynn (performer), McWilliams, Rob (performer), Murphy, James (performer), Nikolais, Alwin (choreographer), Nikolais, Alwin (composer), Nikolais, Alwin (costume), Nikolais, Alwin (lighting design), Robison, Mark (contributor), Strauss, Christopher (performer), Trujillo, Raul (performer), Video D Studios (contributor)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Format VHS, Color (format), video/mp4 (imt), video/mp4, 01:31:57.900 (format)

Resolution 2.1 in × 1.6 in at 300dpi
5.4 cm × 4.0 cm at 300dpi

Type video

Source Dance Heritage Video Archive (collection)

Identifier DHC1347.mp4 (filename), [Instantiation] DHC SMN Barcode DHC1347 (identifying number), [Instantiation] pbcore XML database online asset DHC1347.mp4 (identifying number), [Unique Identifier] DHC SMN Barcode DHC1347 (identifying number), dancestry-c105-392 (legacy record id), Phase 1 (series)

Unique identifier UC135832

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/dancestry-c105-392

Dmrecord 392

Legacy Identifier DHC1347.mp4

Repository Name Nikolais and Louis Foundation for Dance, Inc.

Type Video

Video bitrate 749 kb/s

Video format h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1h31m57s

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Title Dance Heritage Video Archive

Description With generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (https://mellon.org/), the USC Libraries (https://libraries.usc.edu) and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance (https://kaufman.usc.edu) created the Dance History Video Archive (DHVA) collection. The collection preserves culturally significant recordings that document global and U.S. dance traditions, creative work by outstanding choreographers and performers, and performances that helped to advance the art form.

The DHVA collection continues the work begun by the Dance Heritage Coalition’s Dance Preservation and Digitization Project to address the challenges faced by dance artists, choreographers, performers, and companies in preserving a record of their work and helping to share it as broadly as possible with global and U.S. audiences and scholars.

Over a 15-year period, the Dance Heritage Coalition assembled more than 1,200 important dance performances digitized at hubs in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Thanks to generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, those recordings were migrated to their new permanent home in the USC Digital Library during the summer of 2018.

The USC Libraries will make the DHVA collection available as broadly as reasonably possible within contractual and legal limits for educational research, study, and teaching.

The collection includes video recordings with certain rights restrictions that require limited access. To inquire about gaining access to these materials, contact (dhva@usc.edu) dance preservation and digital projects librarian Javier Garibay.

In the coming years, the USC Libraries and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance will continue to build and enhance the features of this culturally significant digital collection documenting the artistry and diversity of human movement traditions.