Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Murray Louis [sound recording]

Author

Louis, Murray.

Publication

1969.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Horosko, Marian.
• DHCA.

Description

1 sound cassette (29 min.)

Summary

Mr. Louis discusses his company's current New York season and the difficulties of maintaining a company while incurring financial losses; the importance of getting New York reviews in order to obtain tour bookings; working with Alwin Nikolais at the Henry Street Playhouse; maintaining a company while teaching and touring; the formation of the National Dance Foundation with Alvin Ailey, Nikolais, Paul Taylor, and Merce Cunningham; the importance of the National Endowment for the Arts; the dance explosion; the State Department tour to India; the history of Indian dance; his own dance vocabulary; teaching a trilingual workshop in Switzerland and the language influence on the quality of movement.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Marian Horosko. Oral History Archive.

Uniform Title

Dance, New York (Radio program)

Subjects

• Audiotapes > Louis, M
• Ailey, Alvin
• Dance > India > History
• Nikolais, Alwin
• Taylor, Paul, 1930-2018
• Cunningham, Merce
• Henry Street Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)
• National Dance Foundation
• Dance companies > Economic aspects > United States
• National Endowment for the Arts
• Audiotapes > Horosko, M

Note

• Interviewed by Marian Horosko for radio station WBAI, New York City, as part of its series Dance, New York.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1866 (sound cassette)

OCLC

NYPY96-R49

Author

Louis, Murray. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Murray Louis [sound recording]

Imprint

1969.

Local Note

Preservation master tape in: *MGZTO 7-1866.

Master dubbing tape in: *MGZTD 10-1866.

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Louis, M.

Audiotapes -- Horosko, M.

Added Author

Horosko, Marian. Interviewer

DHCA.

Added Title

Dance, New York (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1866 (sound cassette)