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Interview-demonstration with Valerie Bettis eroticism and the dance.

Title
Interview-demonstration with Valerie Bettis [sound recording] : eroticism and the dance.
Author
Bettis, Valerie, 1919-1982.
Publication
1952.

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Additional Authors
  • Terry, Walter.
  • Dance Laboratory.
  • 92nd St. Y (New York, N.Y.)
Description
2 sound sound discs (ca. 53 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Miss Bettis discusses the relationship of sex and religion to dance in general and to her own choreography; those movements, costumes and stage properties which achieve the effect of sexuality as in her solo, And the earth shall bear again, and her dance, As I lay dying; her choreography; kinesthetic sensitizing of the body to achieve the effect of sensuality in the dance; her ideas on the abstract dance vs. expressive dance; her use of sex themes in her choreography for motion pictures, television, musical comedy, and the concert stage; her dance Yerma.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Gift of Walter Terry.
  • Oral History Archive.
  • New York State Council on the Arts, 2005-2006.
Subject
  • Bettis, Valerie, 1919-1982
  • And the earth shall bear again (Choreographic work : Bettis)
  • As I lay dying (Choreographic work : Bettis)
  • Yerma (Choreographic work : Bettis)
  • Choreography
  • Sex in dance
  • Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
Note
  • Interviewer: Walter Terry.
  • Recorded April 27, 1952. The final program in the 1951-1952 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, held at the YM-YWHA, 92nd Street, New York City. The season's theme was The sex dances of mankind. Valerie Bettis, modern dancer and choreographer, was the guest artist.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2005-2006.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-104
OCLC
NYPY737040105-R
Author
Bettis, Valerie, 1919-1982. Interviewee
Title
Interview-demonstration with Valerie Bettis [sound recording] : eroticism and the dance.
Imprint
1952.
Funding
Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2005-2006.
Local Note
Archive original: *MGZTO 5-104, reels 1-2 (acetate; half track; 3 3/4 in per sec.; 5 in.)
Former classmark: *MGZT 5-104.
Local Subject
Eroticism in dance.
Audiotapes -- Bettis, V.
Added Author
Terry, Walter. Interviewer
Dance Laboratory.
92nd St. Y (New York, N.Y.)
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-104 [sound disc]
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