Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Reinaldo de Palmer [sound recording]

Author

De Palmer, Reinaldo, 1955-1993.

Publication

1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Farlow, Lesley.

Description

2 sound cassettes (2 hrs. and 15 min.)

Alternative Title

Dance Oral History Project.

Subject

• Devi, Ritha
• Lewis, June
• Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958
• Sokolow, Anna
• June Lewis and Company
• Metropolitan School for the Arts (Syracuse, N.Y.)
• Syracuse University

Note

• Interviewed by Lesley Farlow on May 18, 1992 at Ms. Farlow's apartment in New York City and August 19, 1992 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
• For transcript of interview see *MGZMT 3-1820.

Contents

SUMMARY: Cassette 1. Mr. de Palmer discusses leaving Panama and coming to Brooklyn as a child; being inspired by seeing Ritha Devi perform; seeing June Lewis and Company perform and starting to take class with June Lewis; his first performance in a reconstruction of Doris Humphrey's The shakers; Anna Sokolow's composition class; his knee injury and recovery. -- Cassette 2. Discusses his experiences at the Metropolitan School for the Arts in Syracuse, New York; trying to create a dance company there; the difficulties in recruiting male dancers; working at Syracuse University and his eventual decision to leave there; ways that living with AIDS has changed his thinking; describes taking class with Charles Weidman in the last year of Weidman's life and how he frequently referred to Doris Humphrey.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1820

OCLC

NYPY946049219-R

Author

De Palmer, Reinaldo, 1955-1993. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Reinaldo de Palmer [sound recording]

Imprint

1993.

Local Subject

AIDS (Disease)

Added Author

Farlow, Lesley. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1820