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Film, VideoMartha Graham Dance Company Performs Appalachian Spring & Dark Meadow Suite This performance by the Martha Graham Dance Company features performances of choreography by Martha Graham and Pontus Lidberg, with music by Aaron Copland, Irving Fine, Samuel Barber, and Carlos Chavez. In this performance of "Appalachian Spring" Charlotte Landreau performs the role of the Bridge and Abdiel Jacobsen performs the role of the Husbandman. Also on the program is "Dark Meadow" Suite. Part of the...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoConversation with Pontus Lidberg Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg discusses his career and his Library of Congress/Martha Graham Dance Company co-commission, "Woodland," with Nicholas Brown. Set "Notturno for strings and harp" by Irving Fine, "Woodland" was commissioned for the 90th anniversary season of "Concerts from the library of Congress." Part of the "Martha Graham at the Library" Festival and presented in association with the Embassy of Sweden and Swedish...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoCave of the Heart: Noguchi's Set for the Graham Ballet Janet Eilber of the Martha Graham Dance Center of Contemporary Dance discusses Isamu Noguchi's set for the Martha Graham work "Cave of the Heart," set to music by Samuel Barber. The presentation is part of the "Martha Graham at the Library" Festival and presented in association with the Isamu Noguchi Museum.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoMalawi Music with Giddes Chalamanda The 86-year-old Malawian musician, Giddes Chalamanda, performed his music for the first time in America at the Library of Congress.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoMartha Graham Dance Company Performs World Premiere of Woodland The Martha Graham Dance Company performs the world premiere of Pontus Lidberg's "Woodland," a Library of Congress 90th anniversary season commission set to the music of Irving Fine's "Notturno" for strings and harp. Also featured on the program are performances of "Appalachian Spring," "Cave of the Heart," and "Dark Meadow" Suite. Part of the "Martha Graham at the Library" Festival.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoDancing Ireni: Reimaging & Reimagining Alan Lomax's Choreometrics Project The first part of a three-day symposium that explores Alan Lomax's contributions to dance research and theory. This event features pioneer choreometrics scholars Meriam Lobel and Forrestine Paulay interviewed by University of Maryland faculty member Miriam Phillips.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2015
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Film, VideoDiscovering Creative Connections: The Collaboration of Erick Hawkins & Lucia Dlugoszewski Libby Smigel and Kate Doyle discuss the collaborations of modern dance choreographer Erick Hawkins and experimental music composer Lucia Dlugoszewski. Now accessible in the artists' papers in the Library, correspondence, choreographic notation and music charts and scores shed light on the note-taking system Hawkins developed that show his creative process as well as create movement scores for his dances. The papers of Dlugoszewski include...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2017
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BlogHomegrown Plus Premiere: Wuza Wuza Music and Dance Ensemble from Ghana This week our Homegrown Plus Premiere series continues with Wuza-Wuza Ensemble, a music and dance performance company featuring artists from Ghana deeply invested in the expression of African traditions and cultures
- Contributor: Fenn, John
- Date: 2022-08-31
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Film, VideoMartha Graham Dance Company Performs Cave of the Heart PeiJu Chien-Pott, a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, delivered a riveting performance as "The Sorceress, Medea," in "Cave of the Heart," a dance choreographed by Martha Graham and set to music by Samuel Barber. Also on the program were "Appalachian Spring" (original instrumentation), "Dark Meadow" Suite, and "Woodland." Part of the "Martha Graham at the Library" Festival.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoEsma Redžepova & Folk Masters Play Romani (Gypsy) & Macedonian Music A performance by internationally acclaimed "Queen of Romani Songs", Esma Redžepova, and the Folk Masters. During this Homegrown concert, Sani Rifati led an informal participatory dance.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - American Folklife Center
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoListening to Stone: The Art & Life of Isamu Noguchi Hayden Herrera discusses her book on the acclaimed Japanese-American artist and designer Isamu Noguchi, an important creative partner of Martha Graham. "Without Isamu Noguchi I could have done nothing," Graham said. "Always he has given me something that lived on stage as... another dancer." This and other events celebrating Noguchi were presented through the support of Sachiko Kuno and Ryuji Ueno.
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoMartha Graham Dance Company: Discussion with Pontus Lidberg & Janet Eilber Anne McLean leads a discussion with Swedish choreographer Pontus Lidberg and the Martha Graham Dance Company's artistic director Janet Eilber. Lidberg received a dance commission from the Library of Congress and Martha Graham Dance Company, which resulted in the work "Woodland," set to the Notturno for strings and harp by Irving Fine. Eilber discusses the long and storied history of the Martha Graham Dance...
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2016
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Film, VideoIsamu Noguchi's Dance Sets Dakin Hart discussed Martha Graham and Isamu Noguchi's explorations of the archetypal spaces of myth, including the American west, the Minotaur's labyrinth and the "cave of the heart."
- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. Music Division
- Date: 2016