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Interview with Ruth Currier

Title: Interview with Ruth Currier [sound recording].
Author: Currier, Ruth, 1926-
Publication: 1971.

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Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	reel 12	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-949 [sound cassette] reel 12	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	reel 11	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-949 [sound cassette] reel 11	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	discs 1-2	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-949 no. 11-12 discs 1-2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

2 sound discs (ca. 90 min.) : digital; (4 3/4 in.)

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 47 min.). [Recording of interview begins after ca. 1 min.] Ruth Currier speaks with Selma Jeanne Cohen about Doris Humphrey, including their first meeting; joining the company [the José Limón Company]; Humphrey's choreographic process, in particular after she was no longer able to move freely, and her collaborative approach; casting; her work Ruins and visions; her work Airs and graces; her illnesses; the José Limón Company's 1957 European tour including Humphrey's feelings about her role in it [ends abruptly].
Disc 2 (ca. 53 min.). Ruth Currier speaks with Selma Jeanne Cohen about Doris Humphrey including her teaching composition at the Juilliard School; reconstructing her works Water study and The Shakers; her death; her devotion to her work; her lack of interest in domestic pursuits; her relationship with Pauline Lawrence.

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Note

Interview with Ruth Currier conducted by Selma Jeanne Cohen on April 16, 1971 in New York City. This interview was conducted as part of the research for Cohen's completion of Humphrey's autobiography: Doris Humphrey: an artist first (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1972).
Sound quality ranges from poor to very poor. The speakers' voices are soft and often very difficult to understand.

Funding (note)

Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2010-2011 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2010-2011.

System Details (note)

Transferred from 2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 channels; originally recorded in 1971) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Source (note)

Selma Jeanne Cohen.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-949 no. 11-12

OCLC

37122394

Author

Currier, Ruth, 1926- Interviewee

Title

Interview with Ruth Currier [sound recording].

Imprint

1971.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2010-2011 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2010-2011.

System Details

Transferred from 2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 channels; originally recorded in 1971) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZTC 3-949 no. 11-12

Former archival originals: *MGZTCO 3-949 no. 11-12

Source

Gift; Selma Jeanne Cohen.

Added Author

Cohen, Selma Jeanne, 1920-2005. Interviewer

Estate of Pauline Koner. Donor

National Endowment for the Arts, 2010-2011.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2010-2011.

Oral history archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-949 no. 11-12

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