Murray Louis Streaming Videos

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Title: Chimera
Date: 12/21/74
Duration: 22 minutes
Venue: Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY
Choreography: Murray Louis
Setting and Costumes: Margo Hoff
Lighting: Alwin Nikolais
Performed by: Murray Louis
Music by: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City on February 25, 1966
Title: Hoopla!
Date: 4/18/86
Duration: 39 minutes
Venue: Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY
Choreography: Murray Louis
Performed by: Murray Louis and Betsy Fisher, Rob McWilliams, Margaret Morris, Edward Akio Taketa, Cynthia Marie Sigler, Christopher Strauss, Marcia Menefee, Jim Tryforos
Music by: Traditional music recorded by the Lisbon State Police Band
Lighting: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: Brooklyn Academy of Music, January 26, 1972. Hoopla! was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Title: Disenchantment of Pierrot
Date: 4/20/86
Duration: 17 minutes
Venue: Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY
Choreography: Murray Louis
Performed by: Murray Louis
Music by: Alwin Nikolais, J.S. Bach and Drigo
Costume Design: Frank Garcia
Stage Design: Les Ditson
Lighting: Lance Rosenthal
Premiere: Joyce Theater, New York City, April 2, 1986
Title: Bach II
Date: 12/26/87
Duration: 17 minutes
Venue: Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY
Choreography: Murray Louis
Performed by: The Murray Louis Dance Company and the Nikolais Dance Theatre. The Murray Louis Dance Company: Murray Louis, Betsy Fisher, Rob McWilliams, Margaret Morris, Edward Akio Taketa, Christopher Strauss, Marcia Menefee, Jim Tryforos, Carol Mead, with special guest artist Phyllis Lamhut. The Nikolais Dance Theatre: James Murphy, Alberto Del Saz, James Aarons, Paula Aarons, Sheila Lehner, Noel Reiss, Spencer, Nichols, Sara Hook, Kay Andersen, Meredith Manley
Artistic Directors: Murray Louis and Alwin Nikolais
Lighting Design: Alwin Nikolais, Peter Koletzke
Costume Design: Frank Garcia, Regina Kravitz
Music by: Johann Sebastian Bach
Premiere: Joyce Theater, New York City, December 26, 1987
Title: Junk Dances
Date: 1/5/88
Duration: 26 minutes
Venue: Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY
Choreography: Murray Louis
Performed by: Murray Louis, Phyllis Lamhut, Betsy Fisher, Rob McWilliams, Margaret Morris, Edward Akio Taketa, Christopher Strauss, Marcia Menefee, Jim Tryforos, Carol Mead
Music by: Traditional
Lighting Design: Alwin Nikolais
Set Design: Murray Stern
Costume Design: Frank Garcia
Premiere: Henry Street Playhouse in New York City on November 27, 1964
Title: Odyssey: Voyager, of Delphi, of Atlantis, Metropolis, of Babylon, of Knossos
Date: 1/16/88
Duration: 31 minutes
Venue: Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY
Choreography: Murray Louis
Performed by: Voyager: Jim Tryforos; Of Delphi: Murray Louis; Of Atlantis: Betsy Fisher; Jim Tryforos; Metropolis: Edward Akio Taketa, Margaret Morris, Marcia Menefee, Carol Mead,; Of Babylon: Murray Louis, Rob McWilliams, Christopher Strauss, James Aarons, Of Knossos: Betsy Fisher, Jim Tryforos, Marcia Menefee, Carol Mead
Music by: Ivan Fidel
Lighting Design: Alwin Nikolais
Set Design for Metropolis: John Hultberg
Premiere: Henry Street Playhouse in New York City on March 11, 1960
Title: Blue Streak
Date: 1/29/92
Duration: 12 minutes
Venue: Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY
Choreography: Murray Louis
Performed by: Alberto Del Saz, Corey B Colfer, Tim Glenn, Kay Andersen, Simona Bucci, Susan Thomspon, Donna Marie Scro, Joelle Van Sickle
Music by: Mendelsohnn
Lighting Design: Alwin Nikolais
Costume Design: Frank Garcia
Premiere: Joyce Theater, New York City, January 29, 1992. Commissioned by Pro Arts International, made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Title: A Fine Line
Date: 1/31/92
Duration: 11 minutes
Venue: Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY
Choreography: Murray Louis
Performed by: Murray Louis
Music by: Witold Lutoslawski
Costume Design: Frank Garcia
Lighting Design: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: Joyce Theater, New York City, January 31, 1992
Title: Alone
Date: 2/5/94
Duration: 7 minutes
Venue: Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY
Choreography: Murray Louis
Performed by: Murray Louis
Music by: Astor Piazzola
Costume Design: Frank Garcia
Premiere: February 1, 1994 Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College, New York City, NY