- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 54 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 52 minutes). [Begins abruptly]. Don Oscar Becque speaks about lost film clips of Isadora Duncan; the value of recordings of dancers' voices; his reminiscences of the Triangle Theatre; his work with the Federal Dance Project [originally and later again part of the Federal Theatre Project of the Works Progress Administration] including various bureaucratic hurdles he encountered; modern dance in the mid-twenties including his impressions of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn and of Isadora Duncan; how he became involved with dance including his contacts with the Osage in Oklahoma and his own Native American heritage; the Provincetown Playhouse and the artistic circles with which he was involved; his own dance training; his experience with the American Laboratory Theatre; the Denishawn School of Dancing and Louis Horst; Bird Larson; the physique of the typical early modern dancer and how this influenced choreography; Isadora Duncan, her friends and family including an anecdote about Isadora and Valaw Nijinsky [ends abruptly, but continues on streaming file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 2 minutes). Don Oscar Becque continues to speak about Isadora Duncan and her family.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive.
- New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Oral histories.
- Note
- Interview with Don Oscar Becque conducted by two unidentified people, possibly at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York (N.Y.), and probably sometime in the 1970s, on the artistic and intellectual environment in New York City from 1925 to around 1935.
- Sound quality is good overall.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
- The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 7-2107
- OCLC
- 51057688
- Author
Becque, Don Oscar, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Don Oscar Becque
- Imprint
[197-?]
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Funding
Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Event
197-? New York (N.Y.)
- Funding
The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately 54 minutes); polyester; full-track; 3.75 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto72107_v01f01p01_sc and myd_mgzto72107_v01f01p02_sc.
- Local Note
*MGZTC 3-79 (Former classmark)
*MGZT 7-79 (Former classmark)
*MGZTC 3-2107 (Former classmark)
Archival original: *MGZTO 7-79. Relabeled as *MGZTO 7-2107 as of September 11, 2014.
Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-2107.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2107.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 7-2107