ALIVE FROM OFF CENTER: CALABASH / STICKS / AQUAMIRABILIS (TV)
Summary
One in this series of arts programs featuring the work of leading avant-garde artists in video, music, dance, theater, and film. This program, which includes a prologue by performance artist Laurie Anderson, features three segments. The first, "Women of the Calabash," features Ahmondylla Best, Ti'ye Giraud, Madeleine Yayodele Nelson, and Pam Patrick performing "Shekere Tease," "Work Songs," "Bamboo Tube Stamping," "Glottal Breathing," "Shekere Sonata," and South African protest songs against an electronic background in the mythical world of Calabash. The second segment, "Sticks on the Move," features a film by Pooh Kaye and Elisabeth Ross in which animated sticks of wood interact with characters on city streets. The final segment, "Aquamirabilis," uses the camera to take an unusual look at underwater dancers.
(Series title varies; as above, 1985-1991; as "Alive TV," 1991 onward.)
Acquisition and cataloging of this program was made possible by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: September 14, 1987
- RUNNING TIME: 0:28:00
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T91:0229
- GENRE: Music; Dance
- SUBJECT HEADING: Animation; Dance; Music
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1985-1996
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- For "Alive From Off Center":
- Melinda Ward … Executive Producer
- John Schott … Producer
- De Michiel, Helen … Associate Producer
- David Byrne … Theme Music by
- Laurie Anderson … Host, Prologue by
- For "Women of the Calabash":
- Skip Blumberg … Producer, Director, Set design by, Conceived by
- Loyce Stewart … Art Director
- Keith Raywood … Set design by
- Ahmondylla Best … Performer
- Ti'ye Giraud … Performer
- Madeleine Yayodele Nelson … Performer
- Pam Patrick … Performer
- For "Sticks on the Move":
- Pooh Kaye … Director, Editor, Concept by, Choreographer, Performer
- Elisabeth Ross Wingate … Director
- John Kilgore … Composer, Original music by
- Savanah Haske … Performer
- Nelson Zayas … Performer
- Donald Fleming … Performer
- Linda Austin … Performer
- M.J. Becker … Performer
- Susan Brown … Performer
- Bruna Esposito … Performer
- Erica Eutta … Performer
- Ginger Gillespie … Performer
- Elaine Hartnett … Performer
- Joseph Haske … Performer
- Irene Hultman … Performer
- Lisa Love … Performer
- Ursula Kneiss … Performer
- Jennifer Molson … Performer
- Brian Moran … Performer
- Leenie Saks … Performer
- Laura Segal … Performer
- Swassi … Performer
- Tamara Weiss … Performer
- Andreas Wiegelt … Performer
- Nina Winthrop … Performer
- For "Aquamirabilis":
- Suby Bowden … Producer, Director, Choreographer, Production Design, Swimmer
- Dee McCandless … Director, Choreographer, Production Design, Music by, Swimmer
- Gene Menger … Director, Choreographer, Production Design, Music by
- Catherine Clemens … Choreographer, Production Design, Swimmer
- Lynn Raridon … Choreographer, Production Design, Swimmer
- Randy Buck … Music by
- Laura Hays … Swimmer
- Ann Rodgers … Swimmer