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Interview with Fred Berk
- Title
- Interview with Fred Berk [sound recording]
- Author
- Berk, Fred, 1911-1980.
- Publication
- 1979.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 5 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2130 [sound cassette] reel 5 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 4 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2130 [sound cassette] reel 4 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 3 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2130 [sound cassette] reel 3 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 2 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2130 [sound cassette] reel 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 1 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2130 (sound cassette) reel 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-2130 (transcript) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-2130 (transcript) | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Ingber, Judith Brin.
- Description
- 5 sound cassettes (approx. 5 hrs.) +
- Summary
- Cassette 1. 4/21/79. Mr. Berk discusses the Daliyah Festival; idiosyncracies of the creative process; his creative and marital divorce from Katya Delakova; the folk dance teacher, Dvora Lapson; philosophical trends in dance after World War II; studying and performing with Gertrud Kraus; training to become a goldsmith; his first professional performing experience; his family's farm in Vienna; his father.
- Cassette 2. 4/22/79. Mr. Berk describes his early choreography; meeting Ellinor Tordis; rehearsing and performing Kraus' choreography; his early touring; his search for his Jewish identity; his first exposure to theater performance at the Burgtheater; becoming a folk dancer and choreographer; his inspiration to dance.
- Cassette 3. 4/25/79. Mr. Berk discusses his teaching philosophy; organizing the Israel Folk Dance Festival; his decision to live and work in the United States rather than Israel. He remembers past students; developing educational activities for the Jewish Dance Division at the 92nd Street Y in New York City; studying at Hanya Holm's summer course; directing the early Israeli Independence Day parades in New York City.
- Cassette 4. 4/26/79. Mr. Berk discusses the sequence of dance exercises he devised for teen classes; developing choreography through improvisation with Hebraica Dancers; creating a human menorah for a Hanukah program; the effect of his illness on his teaching philosophy; books and authors which have inspired him; the Merry-Go-Rounders; the popularity of Israeli folk dance in the United States; the Daliyah Festival of 1968; his innovations to New York City's Israel Folk Dance Festival; the process of bringing folk dances from Israel to the United States.
- Cassette 5. 4/26/79. Mr. Berk continues to discuss the folk dance warm-up exercises he devised; his favorite Israeli folk dances; his love of train travel; his custom-made toupee; developing the Israeli Folk dance program at the 92nd Street Y; developing Israeli dance programs at the American Zionist Youth Foundation; developing folk dance repertory for Hebraica. He describes the fishing village dance and the shepherd's dance; the resistance of ballet and modern dancers to learning folk dance; the decline in the teaching of character dance.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Judith Brin Ingber.
- Trust of Gertrude L. Lippincott.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Burgtheater (Vienna, Austria)
- Tordis, Ellinor
- Merry-Go-Rounders
- Audiotapes > Berk, F
- Jewish dance > Israel
- Israel Folk Dance Festival (New York, N.Y.)
- 92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.)
- Hebraica Dancers
- Daliyah Festival (Israel)
- Kraus, Gertrud, 1901-1977
- Folk dancing > Israel
- Lapson, Dvora
- Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992
- Delakova, Katya
- Jewish dance > United States
- Audiotapes > Ingber, J
- Note
- For transcript, see: *MGZMT 3-2130.
- Interviewed by Judith Brin Ingber, April 1979, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, part of her research in writing Fred Berk's biography entitled Victory dances: the life of Fred Berk.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-2130 (transcript)
- OCLC
- NYPY98-R31
- Author
- Berk, Fred, 1911-1980. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Fred Berk [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1979.
- Local Note
- Preservation master cassette: *MGZTCO 3-2130.Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2130.Transcription and processing funded by the trust of Gertrude L. Lippincott.Transcript pages 94-115 are duplicated on pages 122-143, starting with the line "BREAK IN THE TAPING" and ending at "END OF TAPE 4".
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes -- Berk, F.Audiotapes -- Ingber, J.
- Added Author
- Ingber, Judith Brin. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-2130 (transcript)*MGZTC 3-2130 [Cassette]