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Title Rudy Perez countdown : reflections on a life in dance / a Script & Postscript production ; director, Rachel Perez & Severo Perez ; writer/producer/editor, Severo Perez ; choreography by Rudy Perez
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Filmakers Library, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (84 min.)
Series Filmakers library online
Summary For more than 40 years, choreographer and dancer Rudy Perez has invigorated the American dance scene. In the 1960s he was hailed as a postmodern pioneer at the groundbreaking Judson Dance Theater in New York. He garnered critical acclaim for his solos and for the choreography he created for his own dance ensembles, which often included unusual humorous elements. This film follows the fascinating rehearsal of one of Perez's signature dances, Countdown with the talented dancer Victor Quijada in Los Angeles. Throughout the rehearsal process, Rudy's life and career are revealed through evocative home movies, archival videos of his body of work, and rare footage of New York in the 50s and 60s. After enduring an impoverished childhood, Perez left his Puerto Rican family at 17 and began his dance training with the legendary New Dance Group, studying with Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Mary Anthony, among others. Included are interviews with dance critics, dancers, and collaborators who discuss Perez's impact on the East and West Coast dance scenes
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 26, 2013)
Credits Original music by Marcos Loya. Music for Countdown by Joseph Canteloube (Songs of the Auvergne.) ; director of photography: Virgil Harper
Performer Danced by Victor Quijada
Interviewees include Rudy Perez, Steven Bennet, Sasha Anawalt, Lewis Segal, Lula Washington, Victor Quijada, Barbara Roan, Ian Cousineau, Tamsin Carlson, Stefan Fabry, Victoria Looseleaf
Notes This edition in English
Subject Perez, Rudy
SUBJECT Perez, Rudy fast
Subject Rudy Perez Dance Theater.
SUBJECT Rudy Perez Dance Theater fast
Countdown (Choreographic work : Perez) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97830587
Countdown (Choreographic work : Perez) fast
Subject Choreographers.
Hispanic Americans in art.
Modern dance -- California -- Los Angeles
Modern dance -- New York (State) -- New York
choreographers.
Choreographers
Hispanic Americans in art
Modern dance
California -- Los Angeles
New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form interviews.
documentary film.
Documentary films.
Documentary films
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Anawalt, Sasha, 1956- interviewee (expression)
Carlson, Tamsin, interviewee (expression)
Cousineau, Ian, interviewee (expression)
Looseleaf, Victoria, interviewee (expression)
Loya, Marcos, composer (expression)
Perez, Rudy, choreographer (expression), interviewee (expression)
Perez, Severo, director, editor of moving image work, producer, screenwriter.
Perez-Bitan, Rachel, director.
Quijada, Victor, dancer, interviewee (expression)
Roan, Barbara, interviewee (expression)
Segal, Lewis, interviewee (expression)
Washington, Lula, interviewee (expression)
Container of (work): Canteloube, Joseph, 1879-1957. Chants d'Auvergne.
Filmakers Library, inc., production company.
Rudy Perez Dance Theater, performer.
Other Titles Countdown : reflections on a life in dance