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Interview with Alwin Nikolais [sound recording]

Title
Interview with Alwin Nikolais [sound recording]
Author
Nikolais, Alwin
Publication
1980.

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AudioRestricted use *MGZTC 3-958Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Terry, Walter.
Description
1 sound cassette (90 min.)
Donor/Sponsor
Oral History Archive. Gift of Walter Terry.
Subjects
Note
  • Interviewed by Walter Terry 26 August 1980 in New York City.
Contents
SUMMARY: Alwin Nikolais discusses Clive Barnes; Agnes de Mille; elitism in the dance world; The mechanical organ; Bennington College; an early workshop group that he formed; inventing Choroscript; the analysis of movement; Martha Graham; Hanya Holm technique; angularity in modern dance; Schema; choreographing on French companies; elitism in the art world and in grant-giving; his first dance teacher; how he started to choreograph.
Call Number
*MGZTC 3-958
OCLC
NYPY877014666-R
Author
Nikolais, Alwin, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Alwin Nikolais [sound recording]
Imprint
1980.
Local Subject
Dance notation -- Systems -- Choroscript.
Modern dance -- Technique -- Holm.
Audiotapes -- Nikolais, A.
Added Author
Terry, Walter. ivr.
Research Call Number
*MGZTC 3-958
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