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After September 11th : reimagining Manhattan's downtown ( visu )
2 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 32 libraries worldwide
Architects talk about how they felt after the attack on September 11th, 2001, come up with ideas of what to build on the site, and explain how they would build memorials

Streb : pop action ( visu )
3 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 28 libraries worldwide
A day is spent with Elizabeth Streb as she reveals the extraordinary possibilities of dance

Making dances : 7 postmodern choreographers by Michael Blackwood( visu )
4 editions published between 2001 and 2006 in English and held by 23 libraries worldwide
Explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based post-modern choreographers. Includes discussion of the nature of dance and the evolution of their work. Filmed at rehearsals, performances and during interviews

Retracing steps : American dance since postmodernism by Sally Banes( visu )
2 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 20 libraries worldwide
Explores avant-garde dance in the 1980's through interviews with young choreographers and excerpts from dance performances

The sensual nature of sound : 4 composers ( visu )
2 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in English and held by 20 libraries worldwide
Four women composers talk about their backgrounds, musical development, and work. Although all are pioneers in American music, each pursues a distinct direction of her own. Filmed at rehearsals and performances in the United States and abroad, the program examines the contributions of these diverse composers to contemporary American music

Folds, blobs and boxes, architecture in the digital era ( visu )
3 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 19 libraries worldwide
Visits the 2001 exhibition Folds, blobs + boxes at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Features architect/designers discussing their approaches to digital architecture with Joseph Rosa, curator of the exhibition. Describes how today's digitally educated designers are continuing to redefine architectural pedagogy and practice, producing forms that can be described as folds and blobs as well as the new digital boxes

Japan: Three Generations of Avant-Garde Architects ( visu )
2 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide
Profiles some of Japan's most innovative architects. Includes interviews and extensive architectural photograhy

Berlin's Jewish Museum-- a personal tour with Daniel Libeskind by Michael Blackwood( visu )
3 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in English and held by 17 libraries worldwide
This extraordinary haunting building, a zig-zag form reflecting an invisible matrix of addresses of Jewish Berliners who once lived in the area, is Daniel Libeskind's first commission. It took ten years to build, and it has become an integral part of the cityscape, attracting vast numbers of visitors and signaling a new era of Jewish-German history. Libeskind is questioned by Alan Riding, New York Times journalist, as he takes him through the building, which was initially intended as a simple annex to the adjacent baroque Berlin Museum. His concept for the new wing, though, was intentionally so incompatible with the main building that there was no way to connect them aboveground. To arrive in the Jewish Museum, visitors must enter through the 18th-century building and then descend to underground passageways and "voids," which in themselves give a strong sense of the tragic fate of the German-Jewish population during the Hitler years, even without any exhibitions in place. During this walking tour, Libeskind lays bare to Riding the entire architectural and philosophical concept of the building, an absolutely unique construct of innovation, intellectual prowess, and direct allusions to the lives and work of Berlin's pre-Nazi population of Jewish literati and artists, such as Walter Benjamin and Arnold Schönberg

Mies by Michael Blackwood( visu )
3 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide
No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master builder, Mies van der Rohe. Together with documentation of his life, this film shows all his major buildings, as well as rare film footage of Mies explaining his philosophy. Phyllis Lambert relates her choice of Mies as architect for the Seagram building. Mies's achievements and continuing influence are debated by architects Robert A.M. Stern, Robert Venturi, and Philip Johnson, by former students and by architectural historians

Balanchine lives! ( visu )
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide
Balanchine died in 1983, but his dances have lived on primarily because of the creation of the Balanchine Trust, established in 1987. Balanchine left his work largely to some of his principal dancers, who have banded together to guarantee the artistic integrity and fidelity of his ballets. This "team," imbued with the Balanchine technique, stages these ballets for ambitious dance companies around the world. Looks at "Concerto Barocco," staged by Patricia Neary for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo; "Jewels," staged by Elyse Borne for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre; "Liebeslieder Walzer," staged by Karin von Aroldingen and Sara Leland for Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse; "Theme and Variations," staged by Susan Hendl for Miami City Ballet; "A Midsummer Night's Dream," staged by Francia Russell for Pacific Northwest Ballet; and and "Donizetti Variations," staged by Nanette Glushak for the Bern Ballet