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Ernestine Stodelle lecture

Title: Ernestine Stodelle lecture [videorecording]
Publication: 1985.

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1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (56 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Billie Mahoney.

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Videotaped by Billie Mahoney on July 18, 1985 during a lecture given at the José Limón Company summer dance program at Bennington College, Vermont.

Contents

SUMMARY: Ernestine Stodelle, dancer, teacher, writer, and critic speaks to summer dance students about Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. She discusses the importance of the Bennington School of the Dance to the heritage of modern dance; the excitement and missionary feeling of that period; Doris Humphrey's beauty, mind, choreographic method, and technique; Charles Weidman's gift of turning mime into rhythmic movement phrases; his feeling for personalities, his marvelous take-offs and comic gift which is likened to that of Chaplin; Doris Humphrey's Passacaglia. She concludes with her experience reconstructing three Humphrey works in London.

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*MGZIA 4-374

OCLC

NYPY867030581-F

Title

Ernestine Stodelle lecture [videorecording]

Imprint

1985.

Added Author

Stodelle, Ernestine. Speaker

Mahoney, Billie. Videographer

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-374

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