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Interview with Ruth Lovell Murray

Title
Interview with Ruth Lovell Murray , 1971
Author
Murray, Ruth Lovell
Publication
1971

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Ellis, Kathryn Gladney
  • American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
Description
Two streaming audio files (approximately one hour and eight minutes): digital
Summary
  • Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 45 minutes). Ruth Lovell Murray speaks with Kathryn Gladney Ellis about her background in dance; her training as a teacher; her philosophy of teaching including the encouraging of personal creativity; her study of dance, including at the Humphrey-Weidman studio in New York and at Bennington [Bennington College Summer School of the Dance]; her meager performing career; her immediate affinity for the work of Doris Humphrey, Martha Graham and other modern dance choreographers; trends in dance including movement education for children and the greater use of improvisation; teaching composition; rhythmic training [ends abruptly].
  • Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 23 minutes). Ruth Lovell Murray speaks with Kathryn Gladney Ellis about teaching dance and the qualities she hopes to see in her students; the importance of performance experience for the dance student; the students today as compared with those in the past; changes she would like to see including greater opportunities for male dance students; her concerns about the "slickness" she sees in many current dance productions; the place of dance in the departmental organization of an academic institution.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of AAHPER.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Sound recordings.
Note
  • For transcript of recording, see *MGZMT 3-545
  • For transcript of interview, see *MGZMT 3-545.
  • Interview with Ruth Lovell Murray conducted by Kathryn Gladney Ellis on July 6, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan, for the archives of the Dance Division of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.
  • Sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by "tape hiss."
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
Access (note)
  • Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
Funding (note)
  • The conservation 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.
Source (note)
  • American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.
Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-545
OCLC
78311449
Author
Murray, Ruth Lovell, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Ruth Lovell Murray , 1971
Production
1971
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Restricted Access
Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
Event
Recorded by Kathryn Gladney Ellis 1971, July 6 Detroit (Mich.)
Funding
The conservation 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 cassette (approximately one hour and eight minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file format (myd_mgztco3545_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3545_v01f02_sc) in 2015.
Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-545
Source
Gift American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation.
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Added Author
Ellis, Kathryn Gladney, interivewer.
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-545
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