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Sarah Irwin: Choreography/Excerpts Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 588 seconds This short demo reel shows exerpts from three works by Sarah Irwin in the late 1980s as she moves toward the work she came to call "Physcial Theatre" -- before it came into more popular usage. The last duet was created shortly before Stephan Bradley, who became an AIDS actavist, died of the disease. 1st wk: Diane McBrayer (Furry),James Martin. 2nd: F. Dyde, Irwin, Sandy Marcello. Related: bradley, dance, diane, dyde, farrell, martin, mcbrayer, modern, physical, stephen, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde/Robert Ashley: Havana (1980) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 542 seconds Ashley thought this piece "too literal" but audiences like it. Kind of a new version of Death of A Salesman or Portrait of the Artist Killing Himself. Dyde performs in 1985 Related: ashley, dance, hypnotic, modern, music, new, robert, theatre |
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Sarah Irwin/Talking Heads: Somebody Loves The Jerk (1987) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 304 seconds This excerpt taken with hand held camera at a Miller Outdoor Theatre dress/tech. Produced by FDDT features Irwin and Stephan Bradley. Related: dance, fddt, modern, physical, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde/Steve Reich: Yin Yang (1975) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 509 seconds FD created & performs this solo to the famous Steve Reich score, "Come Out" on Houston Public Television in 1977. Related: dance, hypnotic, issues, minimal, modern, music, reich, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde/Harold Budd: Persona Non Gratis (1997/2006) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 607 seconds Lighting by Kris Phelps. FD in his first solo performance in 8 years in Subterranean from the three part Persona Non Gratis - a work exploring immigrants, homelessness, terorism and age -- all arrived at unconsciously in a 1997 improvisation. Related: ambient, budd, dance, harold, hypnotic, modern, music, new, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde/Gavin Bryars: Dark in the Blaze of Noon (1980) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 582 seconds Some considered this FD work a "breakthrough" in that it did "what everyone is trying to do" i.e. combine a new dance vocabulary with narrative. Here, a family falls apart then together to Bryars famous Jesus Blood, before it became over used. Beverly Shurley, mother, gives a remarkable perf. with FD, father, Lisa Nicks (tomboy), Brenda Marshall and Norma Cullick. Related: bryars, dance, gavin, minimal, modern, music, theatre |
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Sarah Irwin/Dance For Camera: I Had A Dream About You (1987) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 537 seconds In summer '87, Farrell Dyde & Gary Chason produced a workshop Dance For the Camera. Lynne Taylor-Corbett was consultant/guest teacer. Participants are credited on screen. Diane McBrayer (Furry) & John Truax are the performers. Related: camera, dance, fddt, film, modern, video |
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Farrell Dyde/Wim Mertens: Gemini/Majestic Roof (1983) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 193 seconds Lilli Morris (now McElroy)and Lisa Nicks perform this duet from Majestic Roof. Music: Wim Mertens. Related: dance, mertens, minimalism, modern, music, new, theatre, wim |
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Farrell Dyde/Jon Hassel: Johannesburg (1981) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 627 seconds FD created & performs with Sarah Irwin in this duet at Dance Theatre Workshop in NYC. NY times called this work "eerie and hard to shake." Related: dance, modern, music, new, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde/Nyman: Christian Zeal (trio) (1984) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 286 seconds Brenda Marshall, Beverly Shurley & Tami Corley perform a trio from "Christian Zeal", a suite of dances set music by Michael Nyman. The "Christian" here is not specifically in reference to any formal religion, just to what it means to be a true one. Related: dance, modern, nyman, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde/Michael Nyman: Koan I (1977/82) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 546 seconds FD created & performed this solo at DTW. He added his own voice and improvised remarks to an early Nyman minimalist score. Related: dance, dtw, dyde, modern, music, new, nyman, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde/Shake Russell: You've Got A Lover (1986) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 277 seconds This simple quartet choreographed by FD to the Shake Russell classic is from Jumpstart Your Heart which was presented a Miller Outdoor Theatre in 1986 to record breaking crowds. Russell donated the fee for the band to FDDT. Related: dance, modern, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde/Kolb: Les Reves D'une Femme P2 Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 620 seconds Part Two. A woman (Beverly Shurley) finds herself again amidst nightime visitations featuring: Lisa Nicks (the sensuous self), Tami Corley (adolescent), Norma Cullick (little girl). Music by Bartok, Ron Geesin and Barbara Kolb (Solitaire). (less) Related: dance, dreams, modern, narrative, theatre, women |
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Farrell Dyde: Ballet Class in Kiev (1994) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 378 seconds Arts America invited FD to introduce modern dance to the newly emerging city of Kiev following the break up of the Soviet Union. Related: ballet, dance, kiev, modern, russia, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde: A Vaudeville of the Heart (1986) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 600 seconds FD created & performs this solo to a collage of old radio cuts and traditional jazz also titled Sparky's Aorta -- after the old radio program Big John & Sparky that his mother listened to so fondly on the radio. Related: dance, modern, shoe, soft, theatre, vaudeville |
