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The sex dances of mankind lecture demonstration with Janet Collins and La Meri.

Title
The sex dances of mankind [sound recording] : lecture demonstration with Janet Collins and La Meri.
Author
Terry, Walter.
Publication
1952.

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Additional Authors
  • La Meri, 1898-1988
  • Collins, Janet, 1917-2003
  • Dance Laboratory.
  • Oral history archive.
  • Doris Duke Charitable Foundation., 2009-2010.
Description
2 sound discs (ca. 100 min.) : digitial; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  • Disc 1 (ca. 57 min.). Walter Terry speaks about the Dance laboratory series and the theme of the current series; the various sex dances of traditional societies, including the male and female relationship, dances celebrating human energy, and fertility dances; the dancers, Janet Collins and La Meri and the nature of the dances they will perform; an audience's perceiving of (or failure to perceive) sex themes in dance, for example in the hula and in English horn dances, and in the entrechat when first performed; Ruth St. Denis' religious dances; certain dancers in specific roles; the kinds of dances Collins and La Meri will be performing [gap followed by applause]. Alternating with each other and Terry's commentary, La Meri performs excerpts from the erotic dances of various areas including India, the Middle East, Spain, Asia, the Americas, and Hawaii, and Collins performs excerpts from her own choreography and from ballets that illustrate the use of sex themes. La Meri and Collins also provide some (brief) commentary. There is musical accompaniment for Collins' solo Blackamoor and La Meri's hula.
  • Disc 2 (ca. 43 min.). Alternating with each other and Terry's commentary La Meri and Janet Collins continue to perform excerpts of dances that illustrate the use of sex themes, including Collins' dancing of an excerpt of a ballet created by Zachary Solov for a production of the opera Aida and La Meri's dancing of a dance entitled Parvati. La Meri and Collins also provide some (brief) commentary. There is musical accompaniment.
Donor/Sponsor
National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Subject
  • La Meri, 1898-1988
  • Collins, Janet, 1917-2003
  • Sex in dance
  • Hula (Dance)
  • Arts audiences
  • Audiotapes > La Meri
  • Audiotapes > Collins, J
Note
  • Lecture-demonstrations given by Janet Collins and La Meri with Walter Terry as host, on January 6, 1952 at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York City [92nd Street Y]. These lecture-demonstrations were the third in the 1951-1952 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory given at the 92nd Street Y.
  • Sound quality is fair. The speakers' voices can be clearly heard, but there is some distortion in the recording.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was funded in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. 2009-2010, and the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
System Details (note)
  • Transferred from 3 sound tape reels (ca. 100 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in.; acetate, half track; originally recorded in 1952) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-109
OCLC
37283347
Author
Terry, Walter. Speaker
Title
The sex dances of mankind [sound recording] : lecture demonstration with Janet Collins and La Meri.
Imprint
1952.
Funding
Preservation was funded in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. 2009-2010, and the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
System Details
Transferred from 3 sound tape reels (ca. 100 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in.; acetate, half track; originally recorded in 1952) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.
Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-2043
Former call number: *MGZT 5-109
Archival original: *MGZTO 5-109 reels 1-3
Pres. master: 4 sound files (ca. 88 min.): digital, WAV file, 48 kHz, 16 bit; copied from Archive orig. onto iomega eGo Portable 500 GB external hard drive by Safe Sound Archive, in 2010; located in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division as of 2010.
Pres. master: 1 LTO-4 tape: digital, stereo, 4 in.; copied by Safe Sound Archive, in 2010; 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.
Local Subject
Fertility dances.
Ethnic dances.
Eroticism in dance.
Ritual and ceremonial dancing.
Added Author
Dance Laboratory.
La Meri, 1898-1988, speaker.
Collins, Janet, 1917-2003, speaker.
Oral history archive.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation., 2009-2010.
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-109
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