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A ballet by the eminent Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti, which was loosely based on Franz Kafka's literary masterpiece of the same name (1914).In the darkness of sleep, a door opens and a woman enters, dressed in sheets of paper, symbolizing fate and the trial that will befall the protagonist... This is the premise of 'The Trial', a ballet by the eminent Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti, which was loosely based on Franz Kafka's literary masterpiece of the same name (1914) - its fascinating language, its traumatic plot and its ever-relevant message. The modern production, rich in dramatic twists and turns, re-enacts the story of Josef K., who wakes up on his 30th birthday to find three police officers beside his bed who want to arrest him for reasons he does not understand. The protagonist, disoriented and incredulous, is then drawn into a judicial machinery that involves him in a whirlwind of strange events.
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Dance Heritage Coalition (web based, hosted by USC) Over a 15-year period, the Dance Heritage Coalition assembled more than 1,200 important dance performances digitized at hubs in New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL) is the first major digital video library of performance practices in the Americas. Created in partnership with NYU Libraries and with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this growing repository guarantees historical preservation and free, online access to almost 900 hours of video through the Hemispheric Institute website. A trilingual Profile (English, Spanish and Portuguese) is created for each collection, contextualizing the videos with detailed production information, synopses, image galleries, texts, interviews, bibliographies and additional materials. Artists and organizations always retain the copyright to all their videos, as well as the original material, which is returned after digitization. With video documentation spanning from the 1970’s to the present, the collections seek to promote dialogue and a deeper understanding of performance and politics in the Americas.
UBUWeb - Dance Curated by Eylül Fidan Akıncı. While dance has long been a part of UbuWeb's film & video collection, it begs to have a section of its own. Like the rest of UbuWeb, there is a lot of crossover and perhaps moments of purposely curated eclecticism, hence our rather unorthodox mix of pure, art, and pop dance forms.