LEADER 00000ngm 2200541Ka 4500 001 191698415 005 20080130 TAPE OCLC0130: 0151 007 vf cbahou 008 080131s1991 xxu027 vleng 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 080131 Addid: OCL Moddate: 080625 Modid: XRF 035 (PFA-FILM)15446 035 GLADN17680236 040 CUY|beng|cCUY 090 |b0500-01-8046 245 00 Alive from off center.|nNo. 707|h[videorecording] /|cKTCA, Saint Paul, Minn. 257 United States. 260 Saint Paul, Minn. :|bKCTA/Video :|bTwin Cities Public Television,|cc1991. 300 1 videocassette of 1 (27 min.) (VHS NTSC) :|bsd., col. ; |c1/2 in. 500 Copyright notice: c1991 Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. 505 0 Dances in exile / producers, Ruby Shang and Howard Silver ; director, Howard Silver ; writer, David Henry Hwang ; director of photography, Ken Ross ; editor, Matthew Fassberg ; choreographer, Ruby Shang ; music composed and performed by David Torn ; actor, B.D. Wong ; performers, Ruby Shang and Company (10 min.) -- Loose the thread / producer/director, Wendy Blair Slick ; composer, David Dresher ; choreography, Brenda Way ; performers, ODC/San Francisco Company (14 min.) 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CUY. 520 "Ruby Shang's ambitious 'Dances in Exile, which will be seen with Brenda Way's "Loose the Thread" tonight at 11:05 on Channel 13 and next Monday night at 9:30 on Channel 31, is performed in Manhattan in Federal Hall and Times Square, in the setting of the Kamakura temples in Japan, and in Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. A clash of cultures is explored in an episodic, meditative text written by David Henry Hwang and spoken by B. D. Wong, who plays the narrator and both the American man and the Japanese woman whose story is told here. The landscape Ms. Way explores is an internal one in 'Loose the Thread,' danced by the ODC/San Francisco company to music by Paul Dresher. Ms. Way and Wendy Blair Slick, the director, burrow into the world of Bloomsbury and of Virginia Woolf's mind. Until its stirring last moment, it might be one long round-dance for a group of men and women in summer clothes moving inside what looks like a dark cocoon. The men form a wall or shifting frieze, individuals separating from the group for fleeting sexual encounters with each other and with a man who is recognizably a woman. There is a sensuous duet for the pondering, dreaming Woolf character, who looks remarkably like the novelist Margaret Drabble, and a cool boy-woman"--New York Times, 520 September 2, 1991. 538 VHS NTSC. 590 PFA 0500-01-8046. |aCONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2008/01/ 28 Excellent condition. 650 0 Modern dance. 655 7 Television.|2mim 655 7 Series.|2mim 655 7 Dance.|2mim 700 1 Silver, Howard. 700 1 Slick, Wendy Blair,|d1949- 700 1 Hwang, David Henry,|d1957- 700 1 Ross, Ken. 700 1 Torn, David. 700 1 Dresher, Paul. 700 1 Shang, Ruby. 700 1 Way, Brenda. 700 1 Fassberg, Matthew. 700 1 Wong, B. D. 710 2 KTCA-TV (Television station : Saint Paul, Minn.) 710 2 Ruby Shang and Company. 710 2 ODC/San Francisco Company. 740 02 Dances in exile. 740 02 Loose the thread. 935 GLADN17680236 941 0 PFA 0500-01-8046. PFA collection acquisition gift of D0142 1996/11/01 946 PFA 0500-01-8046. Record created 2008/01/28 by sw. 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140309 994 02|bCUY