- Additional Authors
- Nuchtern, Jean
- Description
- 3 streaming audio files (approximately 1 hour and 37 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 52 minutes). Barbara Dilley speaks with Jean Nuchtern about her early dance training; college and her decision to make dancing her career; studying with Merce Cunningham; her teachers during her first few years in New York including Daniel Nagrin and Helen Tamiris; joining the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; touring with the company, in particular the relationship of the dancers to each other; the making of Cunningham's How to pass, kick, fall and run; his work RainForest; her struggle to learn certain Cunningham works; her occasional performances with Judson Dance Theater; Yvonne Rainer as an important influence on her artistic development; Rainer's work Continuous project - altered daily including its significance for Dilley [ends abruptly but continues directly on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 45 minutes). [The first approximate 27 seconds reiterates the final approximate 27 seconds of streaming audio file 1.] Barbara Dilley speaks with Jean Nuchtern about the nature of improvisation; the Grand Union company; her work, Natural history of the American people; working with the Naropa Institute [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 3].
- Streaming audio file 3 (approximately 10 minutes). Barbara Dilley speaks with Jean Nuchtern about improvisation including how it is frequently misunderstood; reflections regarding herself.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Oral histories.
- Note
- For transcript of interview see: *MGZMT 3-1718.
- Interview with Barbara Lloyd Dilley conducted by Jean Nuchtern on April 26, 1976 in New York (N.Y.) for the Oral History Project of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is good overall. The recording is marred by extraneous noise including "tape hiss," but the speakers' voices are easily intelligible.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
- Funding (note)
- The processing 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 5-1718
- OCLC
- 81293604
- Author
Dilley, Barbara, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Barbara Lloyd Dilley, 1976
- Imprint
1976.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
- Event
Recorded by Jean Nuchtern April 26,1976 New York (N.Y.)
- Funding
The processing 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 reel (approximately 1 hour and 37 minutes); polyester; half-track; 1.875 ips; 5 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto51718_v01f01p01_sc, myd_mgzto51718_v01f01p02_sc, and myd_mgzto51718_v01f02_sc.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-1718
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Nuchtern, Jean, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 5-1718