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Lecture-demonstration: Eroticism and the dance. [Phonotape]
- Title
- Lecture-demonstration: Eroticism and the dance. [Phonotape]
- Author
- Terry, Walter.
- Publication
- 1951.
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- Description
- 3 reels : 3 3/4 in. per sec.; (5 in.)
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Walter Terry. Oral History Archive.
- Subjects
- Giselle (Choreographic work)
- Guests (Choreographic work : Robbins)
- Dark meadow (Choreographic work : Graham)
- Prodigal son (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
- Tallchief, Maria
- Magallanes, Nicholas
- Courting dances
- Schéhérazade (Choreographic work : Fokin)
- Fertility dances
- Pillar of fire (Choreographic work : Tudor)
- Horn dances
- Eroticism in dance
- Ramadan (Choreographic work : Shawn)
- Orpheus (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
- Swan lake (Choreographic work) > Black swan pas de deux
- Pas de deux
- Note
- Recorded November 4, 1951. First in the 1951-1952 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, given at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York. Guest artists for this program were: Maria Tallchief and Nicolas Magallanes of the New York City Ballet, and Ted Shawn.
- Acetate; half track.
- Duration: Reel 1: 23 min. Reel 2: 27 1/2 min. Reel 3 (tracks 1 and 2): 25 min.
- Contents
- CONTENTS. - Reel 1. Mr. Terry discusses the series, Dance laboratory; the creative sources of dance; eroticism; fertility dances; courtship dances; English horn dances; eroticism in Theatrical dance; burlesque dancing; Martha Graham's dance work, Dark meadow. - Reel 2. Mr. Terry discusses eroticism in ballet, commenting specifically on: Giselle, Antony Tudor's Pillar of fire, Jerome Robbins' The guests, and Mikhail Fokin's Schéhérazade. Ted Shawn is introduced. Shawn discusses the Delsarte system of movement analysis; Spanish dancing; the hula. Terry discusses examples of eroticism in ballet; Shawn's dance, Ramadan; The guests (Robbins); Schéhérazade (Fokin). - Reel 3. Terry discusses the role of the Siren in Balanchine's Prodigal son; Shawn's Ramadan; Shawn's American Indian solo; eroticism in the classical pas de deux, specifically the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan lake; Shawn's dance, Cutting the sugar cane; the love duet from Balanchine's Orpheus.
- Call Number
- *MGZT 5-118
- OCLC
- NYPY737244878-R
- Author
- Terry, Walter.
- Title
- Lecture-demonstration: Eroticism and the dance. [Phonotape]
- Imprint
- 1951.
- Local Subject
- Eroticism in dance.Courting dances.Fertility dances.Horn dances.
- Added Author
- Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972.Dance Laboratory.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZT 5-118