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Mary Anthony interview, camera two, 7/24/98
- Title
- Mary Anthony interview, camera two, 7/24/98 [videorecording]
- Publication
- 1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (68 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Summary
- Footage recorded for a projected documentary on Mary Anthony, a modern dancer, choreographer and teacher.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Tonia Shimin.
- Series Statement
- Mary Anthony: a life in modern dance preliminary footage.
- Subjects
- Dancers > United States > 20th century
- Dance teachers > United States
- Suzeau, Patrick
- Magdalen (Choreographic work : Anthony)
- Ford, Mary
- Parkes, Ross
- Interviews
- Purification (Choreographic work : Anthony)
- Anthony, Mary > Interviews
- Choreography > Study and teaching
- Bye, Gwendolyn
- Cohan, Muriel
- Mary Anthony Dance Theatre
- Choreographers > United States > 20th century
- Tabula rasa (Choreographic work : Anthony)
- Video
- Tamiris, Helen, 1905-1966
- Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
- Movement (Acting)
- Ross, Bertram, 1920-
- Modern dance > United States
- Mary Anthony Dance Studio
- Threnody (Choreographic work : Anthony)
- Maloney, Daniel
- Dance
- Lortel, Lucille
- Dance companies > United States
- Sokolow, Anna
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Interviews.
- Video.
- Note
- Unedited footage.
- Contains same material, taped by a different camera, as *MGZIA 4-3637 Mary Anthony interview, camera one, 7/24/98.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in New York on July 24, 1998 ; videography, Dennis Diamond and David Quinn.
- Contents
- Among the many topics discussed by Mary Anthony are: her class in movement for actors ; how the text of Riders to the sea gave her the key to the mother's role in Threnody ; creating The purification, based on Tennessee Williams's play, at Lucille Lortel's White Barn Theater ; sharing leadership of the Mary Anthony Dance Theatre with Ross Parkes and Daniel Maloney ; her concept of the dance studio as cathedral and class as the dancer's form of worship ; her long struggle against threatened eviction from her studio ; the disbandment of her company, and the rise of a younger group called Phoenix ; Bertram Ross's work with Phoenix ; her intent of creating a homelike atmosphere in her studio ; her belief that everyone has creative potential ; Anna Sokolow as a teacher of technique and choreography ; her creation of Requiem for a new Mary Anthony Dance Theatre company in the 1990s ; the company's 40th anniversary season and her 80th birthday in 1996, marked by the creation of Tabula rasa and the revival of Threnody (with Gwendolyn Bye in Anthony's former role) ; the creation of The Magdalen, a solo for Mary Ford ; four choreographers who inspired her ; Tamiris's tips for choosing dancers at auditions ; her thoughts on her impending death ; her fears for young dancers of today ; her reflections on her miscarriage ; Muriel Cohan and Patrick Suzeau, longtime company members and friends ; her love for the sea.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-3638
- OCLC
- NYPY99-F1158
- Title
- Mary Anthony interview, camera two, 7/24/98 [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 1998.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Mary Anthony: a life in modern dance preliminary footage.
- Event
- Videotaped in New York on July 24, 1998 ; videography, Dennis Diamond and David Quinn.
- Performer
- Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.
- Added Author
- Anthony, Mary. IntervieweeShimin, Tonia. InterviewerDiamond, Dennis.Quinn, David P.DHCA.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-3638