Bertram Ross

Bertram Ross

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Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment
Title: Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment
Released: February 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Documentarian Richard Morris examines both the onstage and offstage lives of veteran cabaret entertainers John Wallowitch and Bertram Ross. Since 1984, Wallowitch and Ross have been a performing duo, entertaining nightclub audiences with such acid-tongued musical parodies as "If You Don't Love Me, I'll Kill Myself -- Or Maybe I'll Kill You" and "Don't Do To Me What Woody Did To Mia." Wallowitch and Ross have also been lovers for 30 years, who met while while both were active in the New York creative community; Ross spent close to three decades as a dancer with the Martha Graham company and Wallowitch is a Julliard-trained pianist and songwriter with over 1,000 compositions to his credit. Morris exmines Wallowitch and Ross both as artists and members of the gay community without patronizing or exploiting them in the process.
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Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Title: Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed
Character: Self - Former Dancer
Released: May 13, 1994
Type: Movie
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
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Night Journey
Title: Night Journey
Character: King Oedipus
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Night Journey, the dance, had its premiere only two and a half years after Appalachian Spring, and it is a close cousin. It too has a stream-of-consciousness narration: Jocasta, as she is about to kill herself, remembering what has happened to her. It too contains soul-delving solos, broken up by ensemble dances. Here, however, the ensemble is a darker element. As the story was taken from Greek tragedy, so the corps is the equivalent of Greek tragedy’s chorus. They tell us how to feel: afraid mostly. In this piece Graham pushed her habitual economy to its limits.
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Appalachian Spring
Title: Appalachian Spring
Character: The Preacher
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.
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A Dancer's World
Title: A Dancer's World
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1957
Type: Movie
A glimpse into the world and methodology of dancer Martha Graham.