Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone [sound recording].

Author

Camryn, Walter.

Publication

1974.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wentink, Andrew Mark.
• Stone, Bentley.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 73 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

[Begins abruptly.] Walter Camryn speaks with Andrew Mark Wentink about his rural background in Montana, including how he came to be interested in dance through square dancing; moving to Chicago to study dance; studying ballet with Adolf Bolm; dancing with the opera company [Chicago Civic Opera ]; his study of folk dance and teaching character dance; teaching at his own school [short gap]; how he first met Bentley Stone and their subsequent careers as teachers [at the Stone-Camryn School of Ballet]; Americana ballets starting with [Ted Shawn's] Turkey in the straw; the lack of critical attention and support for ballet in Chicago; reasons he thinks the Joffrey Ballet is successful; dance performances he saw as a child in Montana including Martha Graham and Ted Shawn dancing a tango; specialization in classical and character dancing; folk dancing including Igor Moiseev's company; dance in Chicago during the Great Depression including Page's and Stone's work Guns and castanets [gap at end of track 10 followed by repetition of last ca. 30 sec. of track 10]; his professional relationship with Ruth Page, in particular, ballets by her in which he danced including American pattern [gap]; Camryn and Bentley Stone [who has now joined the conversation] speak with Wentink about various dancers and teachers including Bernice Holmes and Leon Danielian; Robert Joffrey's ballet Astarte; Rudi van Dantzig's Monument for a dead boy; Page as a dancer and as a choreographer; thoughts on [ballet] dancers today;

Alternative Title

• Dance Oral History Project.
• Dance Audio Archive

Subject

• Camryn, Walter
• Stone, Bentley
• Page, Ruth, 1899-1991
• Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951
• Stone-Camryn School of Ballet
• Guns and castanets (Choreographic work : Page and Stone, B)
• Audiotapes > Camryn, W
• Audiotapes > Bentley, S

Note

• Interview with Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone conducted by Andrew Mark Wentink on Sept. 11, 1974, in Chicago for the New York Public Library's Oral History Project.
• Open as of March 1984.
• Sound quality is fair. For the most part, the speakers' voices are easily intelligible but there are occasional extraneous noises as well as continuing tape hiss.

Funding (note)

• The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-642

OCLC

81838183

Author

Camryn, Walter. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone [sound recording].

Imprint

1974.

Original Version

Original format : 1 sound reel (ca. 73 min.; 5"; 1 channel; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; half-track; polyester). Originally recorded in 1974.

Funding

The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Local Note

For a transcript of the audio recording see: *MGZMT 5-642.

Former call no.: *MGZT 5-642

Archive original: *MGZTO 5-642. Restored and rehoused following water damage in 2015

Added Author

Wentink, Andrew Mark. Interviewer

Stone, Bentley. Interviewee

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-642