| LC control no. | n 2014008291 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Meeting name heading | Vision Festival |
| Beginning date | 1996 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz Avant-garde (Music) Improvisation (Music) Motion pictures Dance Art |
| Affiliation | Arts for Art |
| Found in | Campbell, R. Akhenaten suite [SR] p2007: label (Vision Festival) Vision Festival WWW site, viewed Feb. 7, 2014: (The Vision Festival since it began has brought all the arts together under the aesthetic of avantjazz and improvisation; 17 years running) Wikipedia WWW site, viewed Feb. 7, 2014: (The Vision Festival; festival of experimental music (typically free jazz/avant-garde jazz), art, film, and dance in May/June on the Lower East Side of New York City from 1996 to 2011, and most recently in Brooklyn (2012); consists of between thirty and sixty performances, spread out over a number of days; inspired by the 1984 and 1988 Sound Unity Festivals; in 1996, the Improvisors Collective's founder, dancer-choreographer Patricia Nicholson Parker, staged the first Vision Festival at the Learning Alliance on Lafayette Street, and subsequently founded the not-for-profit Arts for Art, Inc., to organize the festival on an annual basis, along with other events and concert series throughout the year) |
 |  |  |
View this record in: MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)
