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The Poetry and Dance Festival, Lecture: Dance and the American soul

Title
The Poetry and Dance Festival, Lecture: Dance and the American soul [videorecording] / presented by the Poetry Society of America and the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Publication
c1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Nichols, Madeleine M.
  • Paschen, Elise
  • Mason, Francis
  • Howard, Richard, 1929-2022.
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
  • Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927.
  • Welsh, Eric
  • Poetry Society of America
  • New York Public Library. Dance Collection
  • Poetry and Dance Festival (1996 : New York, N.Y.)
  • DHCA.
Description
1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (51 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
Summary
Part of a three-day Poetry and Dance Festival. In his lecture, poet Richard Howard "traces the trajectory of dance and the American soul" from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman through the American dancers Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and Martha Graham, quoting from their writings. He ends the lecture by reading three of his own poems.
Alternative Title
Dance and the American soul
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Readings.
  • Video.
Note
  • Recording made possible by the Poetry Society of America. Credits added by the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on May 8, 1996, by Eric Welsh.
Funding (note)
  • Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Contents
Welcome / by Madeleine Nichols, curator of the Dance Collection, and Elise Paschen, executive director of the Poetry Society of America -- Introduction / by Francis Mason -- Lecture: Dance and the American soul / by Richard Howard -- [Closing speech] / by Elise Paschen.
Call Number
*MGZIC 9-5637
OCLC
NYPY98-F3039
Title
The Poetry and Dance Festival, Lecture: Dance and the American soul [videorecording] / presented by the Poetry Society of America and the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Imprint
c1996.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Event
Videotaped at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on May 8, 1996, by Eric Welsh.
Funding
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Local Subject
Literature and dance.
Added Author
Nichols, Madeleine M. Speaker
Paschen, Elise. Speaker
Mason, Francis. Speaker
Howard, Richard, 1929-2022. Speaker
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927. My life.
Welsh, Eric. Videographer
Poetry Society of America.
New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
Poetry and Dance Festival (1996 : New York, N.Y.)
DHCA.
Research Call Number
*MGZIC 9-5637
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