IDENTIFICATION AND BIO:
Dendy is a postmodern choreographer and director whose Back Back (1992) deals with the subject of AIDS. In this dance piece, the dancers are literally covered with obituaries from Dance Magazine.
KEY CONTACT PERSON(S)/EXECUTOR OF ESTATE:
Mark Dendy
212-477-4680
mark.dendy@earthlink.net
HUMAN REPOSITORIES OF THE WORK
(name and contact info, relationship to the artist and the work, assessment):
Mark Dendy and dancers of the company:
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
(location, format, condition, assessment):
Dendy holds documentation of this piece, but it is not in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library.
PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION
(location, format, condition, assessment):
The review in Dance Magazine (see below) is accompanied by a photograph by Tom Brazil. The Dance Collection of the New York Public Library has one folder of photographs: "Mark Dendy Dance and Performance, photographs," call number MGZEA. A set of these photographs is by Lois Greenfield, including photos of Back, Back.
MOVEMENT NOTATION
(location, type [including notes taken by dancers], assessment):
None identified.
PRODUCTION MATERIALS
(scores, sound recordings, set/costume designs):
Production materials are in Dendy’s possession.
ORAL HISTORY:
None identified.
PERSONAL PAPERS
(location of newspaper clippings, printed programs, press releases, notes, files, diaries; assessment):
Dendy keeps his own personal papers. The Dance Collection of the New York Public Library maintains a clippings file for "Dendy, Mark," call number MGZR.
IMMEDIATE NEEDS
(archival assistance? storage? other?):
None identified.
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
None identified.
LIST OR OVERVIEW OF WORKS
(title, premiere date, music, production notes, performers):
Back, Back (1992)performed at Altogether Different Festival, Joyce Theater; original cast includes Shawn Gannon and Jeffrey Gunshol.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Dunning, Jennifer. 1992. "Choreographing Deaths of the Heart in a Singular Age." New York Times (22 March): 26.
- Thom, Rose Ann. 1992. "Altogether Different" [review of Back, Back]. Dance Magazine (May): 73-76.