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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Choreographer/Dancer Stefa Zawerucha and Lighting Designer David Fritz's collaborative work, Fractured Light, is a magical exploration of the relationship between movement and light. Six lighting designers share their reflections on audiotape about working with light while Zawerucha moves zephyr like though Fritz's sublime lighting patterns. Andy Ross's musical sound score completes this stunningly visual and dramatic work. This program also features...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This program features a performance of the 1996 work, Maverick Strain (excerpts) recorded at the Joyce Theater in New York in 2009. Maverick Strain offers a deconstruction of Arthur Miller's screenplay for the film The Misfits explores themes of cowboy individualism and outsider identity and features original music by Beth Custer. Excerpts from a talk with Joe Goode are also included.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Choreographer David Rousséve has "a remarkable flair for fusing storytelling, characterization and a deftly explosive movement style into deeply affecting statements of personal and social conscience" - The Washington Post. This program features an excerpt from his solo, The Ten Year Chat, which celebrates a decade of his work and fuses early, recent and new work to create a sublimely self-effacing performing terrain that explodes issues of race,...
65) Neil Greenberg
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
This video presents excerpts from "Not About Aids Dance," a solo and "The Disco Project," a group work. See cutting edge choreography by one of New York City's most critically acclaimed dancers. Recorded in 1995 at Performance Space 122 in New York City. Plus excerpts from a revealing interview with the artist.
68) Dancenoise
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
New York's premiere, post-punk, feminist, dancing divas Anne Iobst & Lucy Sexton in excerpts from Open Season. Wickedly satiric, high camp fun. Recorded in 1996 and 2000 at Performance Space 122 in New York City. Plus excerpts from a revealing interview with Lucy Sexton.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2009
Language
English
Description
CBC news magazine "The Hour" host George Stroumboulopoulos has interviewed many heads of state, including many of Canada's prime ministers. Gain insight into their world as these leaders take a look back at their careers. Featuring interviews with Brian Mulroney, Joe Clark, Paul Martin, Jean Chrétien, Jimmy Carter, Vicente Fox and John Howard.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In part one of this video series, Puremovement blends hip hop movement with traditional African culture. Rennie Harris, artistic director, discusses his influences, inspirations, and technique. Watch dancers perform excerpts of Gestures, Endangered Species, and P-Funk. Performed in 1998 at Performance Space 122.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Obama is doing many of the same dangerous things that Bush did, says Chris Edelson, assistant professor at American University, referencing what he considers President Obama's broad interpretation of executive power. He points to Obama's unilateral military intervention in Libya and his defense of the National Security Agency's data collection on American citizens as just two examples of executive over-reach. In this interview, Edelson discusses the...
73) Ernesto Sábato
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
Español
Description
In this 1977 interview for Spanish television, Argentine novelist, essayist and physicist, Ernesto Sábato, converses with host Joaquin Soler Serrano on a wide range of subjects including science and literature, surrealism and the baroque, the dual nature of man, politics and social justice, and language and the value of regionalism over nationalism. Encouraged by the host, Sábato comments on Jorge Luís Borges, other Argentine writers, and the famous...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mother Jones magazine senior editor Danial Schulman discusses his book, Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty. Contrary to popular belief, he says, David and Charles Koch are libertarians, not "republican power brokers or king makers." Schulman's discussion gives viewers insight into the roots of the Koch brothers' political thinking and ideology, which can be traced back to the fledgling libertarian...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Everything that was 'too big to fail' in 2008 is bigger and more dangerous today, says bestselling author James Rickards in this discussion with Reason magazine covering the future of money and a return to the financial stability of the gold standard. In his latest book, "The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System," Rickards predicts the crash of the global currency market and the insolvency of the U.S. dollar. "We're...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
This episode of the Green Interview features Cormac Cullinan, the director of a leading environmental law firm based in Cape Town, South Africa, and the author of the pioneering book, Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice. The book calls for what Cullinan describes as earth jurisprudence, which places human legal systems within the context of the laws of nature. Cullinan has played an important role in drafting the Universal Declaration of the Rights...
79) Risa Jaroslow
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In Resist/Surrender (2006) Jaroslow peels back the veneer of our culture's assumptions about maleness and masculinity, and exposes an explosive physicality. The piece asks what masculinity could mean if we reconciled our attraction to and repulsion from the assumed power of maleness. It draws from the experiences of a diverse group of community members, including NYC firefighters, corporate lawyers, gay teens and senior adults and men recently out...
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