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Interview with Ruth St. Denis
- Title
- Interview with Ruth St. Denis [sound recording].
- Author
- St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968.
- Publication
- 1964.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | discs 1-2 | Spoken word recording | Supervised use | *MGZTL 4-29 discs 1-2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 2 sound discs (ca. 90 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Disc 1 (ca. 65 min.). Ruth St. Denis speaks with Shirley and Earl Ubell, with numerous digressions and anecdotes, about her ideas on the education of children, including with respect to religion; Isadora Duncan; modern dance today, including a modern dance performance she attended with Walter Terry; her collaboration with a young modern dancer; her first dance lessons; her early dancing career; the inspiration she found in a poster of an Egyptian goddess; her dance, Radha including the circumstances of its first production; her regular attendance at the summer dance festival at Jacob's Pillow [in Lee, Mass.]; her work in progress, a dance entitled David; Denishawn House, in New York City and the Denishawn School in Calif.; Ted Shawn, including his partnership with Norma Gould and his first meeting with St. Denis; her objections to establishing a school [ends abruptly].
- Disc 2 (ca. 25 min.). [Begins abruptly.] Ruth St. Denis continues to speak, briefly, with Shirley and Earl Ubell about the Denishawn School, in Calif.; her religious dancing, including her dance Gold madonna; an anecdote about her research for the dance Radha; the purpose of religious dancing; more on the dance education of children; the use of hands in modern dance today; her plans for the future.
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview conducted by Shirley and Earl Ubell in 1964 in Ruth St. Denis' kitchen in Los Angeles, Calif.
- Overall sound quality is good, but at times Ruth St. Denis' voice is very soft and difficult to understand.
- System Details (note)
- The original recording was made on a 7 inch plastic reel and was transferred to wav file and compact disc formats on April 13, 2010 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-29
- OCLC
- 52491974
- Author
- St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Ruth St. Denis [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1964.
- System Details
- The original recording was made on a 7 inch plastic reel and was transferred to wav file and compact disc formats on April 13, 2010 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Local Note
- Archival original: *MGZTO 7-29 Restored and rehoused following water damage in 2015.
- Added Author
- Ubell, Earl. InterviewerUbell, Shirley. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-29