Research Catalog

Title

Interview and lecture-demonstration with Ruth St. Denis [sound recording].

Author

Terry, Walter.

Publication

1963.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968.
• Dance Laboratory.
• National Endowment for the Arts, 2008-2009.
• New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009.
• Oral history archive.

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 80 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• Disc 1 (ca. 40 min.). Walter Terry speaks about Ruth St. Denis including the uncertainty regarding how old she is; her first professional performance; her personal background and career including several anecdotes; an anecdote about Terry and St. Denis. Terry introduces St. Denis; in response to his questions St. Denis speaks about dance dance in America when she first started; the events that inspired her career in dance: a performance by Genevieve Stebbins and the two spectacles, Egypt through centuries in Palisades Park, N.J., and The burning of Rome, in New York City; her three favorite books when she was a child; her theory of artistic creation and androgyny; her most important contribution to American dance; her dancing compared to that of Isadora Duncan's [trails off and continues directly on disc 2].
• Disc 2 (ca. 40 min.). Ruth St. Denis continues to speak about Isadora Duncan's dancing compared to her own; the use of fabric in dance costumes; Loie Fuller, including her Lily dance; dance and longevity; Duncan's influence on ballet technique; Ted Shawn's Japanese spear dance and his Cosmic dance of Siva; her rhythmic choirs; her future plans. Terry speaks about St. Denis's work Incense, which she is to dance following an intermission in the program [gap followed by the music for Incense].

Subjects

• Audiotapes > St. Denis, R
• St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968
• Fuller, Loie, 1862-1928
• Audiotapes > Terry, W
• Incense (Choreographic work : St Denis)

Note

• Interview and lecture-demonstration with Ruth St. Denis recorded on Jan. 27, 1963 as the third program in the 1962-1963 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, given at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York.
• Sound quality overall is good.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009.

System Details (note)

• Transferred from track 1 of 1 sound tape reel (ca. 80 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 7 in.; polyester, half track; originally recorded on Jan. 27, 1963) to wav file and compact disc formats in spring 2009.

Source (note)

• Walter Terry.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-30A

OCLC

82125766

Author

Terry, Walter. Speaker

Title

Interview and lecture-demonstration with Ruth St. Denis [sound recording].

Imprint

1963.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009.

System Details

Transferred from track 1 of 1 sound tape reel (ca. 80 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 7 in.; polyester, half track; originally recorded on Jan. 27, 1963) to wav file and compact disc formats in spring 2009.

Local Note

For another recording of the St. Denis program, see *MGZTC 3-60.

Former call number: *MGZT 7-30

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-30A

Archive original: *MGZTO 7-30, track 1. Restored and rehoused following water damage in 2015.

Pres. master: 1 sound file (ca. 80 min.): digital, WAV file, 48 kHz, 16 bit; copied from Archive orig. onto Cavalry CACE 3.5 500 GB external hard drive by Safe Sound Archive, in March and April 2009 ; located in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division as of Sept. 17, 2009.

Pres. master: 1 LTO-4 tape: digital, stereo, 4 in.; copied by Safe Sound Archive, in March and April 2009 ; in the Rose Building workroom. When space becomes available in Princeton ReCAP or an alternative off-site storage area, the LTO master tapes are to be moved to such location.

Source

Gift; Walter Terry. NN-PD

Added Author

St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968. Speaker

Dance Laboratory.

Terry, Walter. Donor

National Endowment for the Arts, 2008-2009.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009.

Oral history archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-30A