- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 25 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 48 minutes). Georgette Gébara lectures on the respective contributions to American dance of the following women: Loie Fuller; Isadora Duncan; Ruth St. Denis; Doris Humphrey; and Martha Graham. As part of her presentation, Gébara also shows films, of Ruth St. Denis performing White jade, and of a performance of Doris Humphrey's dance The shakers; the respective soundtracks can be heard on the recording. [Streaming file 1 ends abruptly but the recording continues directly on streaming file 2.
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 37 minutes). Georgette Gébara continues to lecture on the contributions to American dance of Martha Graham; after concluding this part of her lecture, she speaks about the respective contributions of the following women: Agnes De Mille; Lucia Chase; Pearl Primus; Martha Hill; Ann Hutchinson, Henrietta Greenhood, Janey Price Goeb, Helen Priest Rogers and the founding of the Dance Notation Bureau; Genevieve Oswald; and Lillian Moore. After speaking about Lillian Moore, Gébara speaks about a film of Martha Graham's work Night journey that she is about to show the audience [applause].
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Walter Terry.
- Subjects
- Goeb, Janey Price
- De Mille, Agnes
- Hill, Martha, 1900-1995
- Lectures
- Greenhood, Henrietta
- Dance Notation Bureau (New York, N.Y.)
- Fuller, Loie, 1862-1928
- Chase, Lucia, 1897-1986
- Oswald, Genevieve
- Gébara, Georgette
- Graham, Martha
- Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958
- Guest, Ann Hutchinson
- Rogers, Helen Priest
- Moore, Lillian
- Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927
- Primus, Pearl
- St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968
- Genre/Form
- Lectures.
- Note
- Georgette Gébara lectures on female pioneers in American dance, in 1979, in Lebanon.
- Sound quality is good.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library research libraries.
- 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)
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-947
- OCLC
- 83156920
- Author
Gébara, Georgette, speaker.
- Title
Women pioneers in American dance. (Lecture) , 1979/ Georgette Gébara
- Production
1979
- 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 research libraries.
- Event
Recorded by Walter Terry? 1979 Lebanon
- 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 25 minutes); transferred to wav file and streaming file format (myd_mgztco3947_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3947_v01f02_sc) in 2015.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-947
- Source
Gift Terry, Walter
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-947