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Creole Giselle / executive producers, Herman Krawitz, Arthur Mitchell ; adapted for television by Frederic Franklin, Thomas GRimm, Arthur Mitchell ; producers, Yanna Kroyt Brandt, Thomas Grimm ; director, Thomas Grimm.
LIBRA VHS GV1790 .G5 1988
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Adam, Adolphe, 1803-1856. Giselle, author.
- Series:
- Ballet series (Kultur International Films)
- Ballet series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballets. executive producers, Herman Krawitz, Arthur Mitchell ; adapted for television by Frederic Franklin, Thomas GRimm, Arthur Mitchell ; producers, Yanna Kroyt Brandt, Thomas Grimm ; director, Thomas Grimm.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (88 min.) : sound, color, stereo ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- W. Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [1988]
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- stereo
- VHS
- Summary:
- "Making only minor changes in the story, music, and traditional choreography, Arthur Mitchell has set the ballet in 1841 Louisiana, where social status among freed blacks was measured by how far removed one's family was from slavery"--Container.
- Participant:
- Dance Theatre of Harlem: principle performers Virginia Johnson (Giselle Lanauxs), Eddie J. Shellman (Albert Monet-Cloutier), Lowell Smith (Hilarion), Lorraine Graves (Myrtha) ; Danish Radio Concert Orchestra ; Tadeusz Wojciechowwski, conductor.
- Credits:
- Music by Adolphe Adam ; original choreography of Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot restaged for Dance Theatre of Harlem by Frederic Franklin ; narration, Yanna Kroyt Brandt ; set design, Carl Michel, Ves Harper ; costume design, Carl Michel.
- ISBN:
- 1561272914
- OCLC:
- 23814558
- Publisher Number:
- 032031129139
- 1291 Kultur
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