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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/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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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/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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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/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/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/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: 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 |
![Farrell Dyde/Shake Russell: You\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/Wx4t3A_EfXs/2.jpg "Farrell Dyde/Shake Russell: You\") |
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: 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 |
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Farrell Dyde/Cluster: Tokyo Dolls Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 419 seconds In 1991 Global Enterprises sent FD to Tokyo to work with SKD, a 90 year old all female performance company. This is a group of younger women dancing very precisely to new wave German music in a kind of punk street scene. Related: dance, japan, modern, new, theatre, tokyo, wave |
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Farrell Dyde: Their Finest Hour (1988) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 496 seconds Segment from hour long piece on the Roosevelt years, choreographed by FD, starting with the Great Depression and leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In this clip: A wartime "canteen" and a metaphorical summertime. Related: dance, gershwin, modern, roosevelt, theatre, war |
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Farrell Dyde: Last Year's Hit (1987) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 573 seconds A white faced everyman in his own circle of light fights the daily struggle. Tape collage features Wham and radio cuts. Related: dance, expressionism, irony, mime, modern, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde/Shake Russell/I love the Wind (1986) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 149 seconds Three mature, compelling women in this trio from Jumpstart Your Heart (1986): Sarah Irwin (co-choreographer of JSYH), Priscilla Nathan-Murphy and Christine Lidval Related: dance, dyde, farrell, irwin, lidvall, modern, nathan-murphy, russell, sarah, shake, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde/Shake Russell: Two Duets (1986) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 402 seconds From Jumpstart Your Heart this choreographed by FD: Since You Went Away perf. by Christine Lidval & Stephen Bradley/Silver Hearts by Steve Walker and Priscilla Nathan-Murphey. Both Walker & Bradley died of AIDS. Related: aids, dance, dyde, farrell, heart, jumpstart, modern, russell, shake, theatre, your |
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Farrell Dyde/Luc Ferrai: Luxe et Calme (1986) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 455 seconds FD created & performed this excerpt set to Ferrai's score that uses ambient environmental sounds to suggest a dramatic narrative. Previous to this clip, the protaganist (a kind of explorer) enters in a white suit & pith helmet moving slowly through an imaginary tropical landscape. A ritual cleansing leads to the inevitable. Related: dance, modern, music, new, theatre |
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Roberta Appel/Dance for Camera: As I Lay Ironing (1987) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 283 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. Related: camera, dance, fddt, modern, theatre |
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Farrell Dyde & Laura Fly in an imrov duet (1978) Posted by: FarrellDyde
Video duration: 112 seconds Farrell Dyde and Laura Fly on PBS Channel 8 in Houston. Related: dance, dyde, farrell, modern, theatre |
