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Series: New Television Workshop
Program: Tribute to Growth, A
Subject: Modern dance; Unedited footage
Clip Description
Most of the footage features Deborah Hay and unidentified dancers performing various takes of a dance in multiple locations in rural Vermont. An interview with Hay is contained on one of the tapes.
Deborah Hay's project was originally intended to be a collaboration with video artist Bill Viola and composer Earle Brown. When common ground could not be reached, each artist developed their own project, Hay's being tentatively titled "A Tribute to Growth." The project was never completed.
Program Description
Most of the footage features Deborah Hay and unidentified dancers performing various takes of a dance in multiple locations in rural Vermont. An interview with Hay is contained on one of the tapes.
Deborah Hay's project was originally intended to be a collaboration with video artist Bill Viola and composer Earle Brown. When common ground could not be reached, each artist developed their own project, Hay's being tentatively titled "A Tribute to Growth." The project was never completed.
Series Description
The New Television Workshop originated at WGBH, a public broadcasting station in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1974 to support the creation and development of experimental video art. This experimental programming included dance, drama, music, performance and visual arts on video and film. As early as 1968, WGBH was committed to the development of video art through residency programs, with artists such as Nam June Paik, and the "Rockefeller Artists-in-Television" project. Many of these early works (pre-1974) were broadcast both locally and nationally.
As an umbrella for arts related programming, the Workshop included "Artist's Showcase, " "Frames of Reference, " "Dance for Camera, " "Poetry Breaks," and "New Television," as well as acquired arts programming. Individual works were created for "Visions," a series produced by WNET (New York), and "Alive From Off Center," a series produced by KTCA (St. Paul - Minneapolis). The Contemporary Art Television (CAT) Fund was co-founded by the Workshop and Boston's Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) in the 1980's, to commission works by video artists. In 1993 the Workshop ceased production at WGBH.
See also: http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/Tribute149.HTML
