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Mary Anthony interview, 12/18/98
- Title
- Mary Anthony interview, 12/18/98 [videorecording]
- Publication
- 1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (29 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
- Yocom, Rachael Dunaven
- Maloney, Daniel
- McCosh, Cameron
- Video
- Threnody (Choreographic work : Anthony)
- Tetley, Glen
- Chaconne (Choreographic work : Anthony and Gifford)
- Berensohn, Paulus > Interviews
- Gloria (Choreographic work : Anthony)
- Interviews
- Dancers > United States > 20th century
- Anthony, Mary > Interviews
- Gifford, Joseph > Interviews
- Dance teachers > United States
- Modern dance > United States
- Parkes, Ross
- Dance
- Chryst, Gary
- Choreographers > United States > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Interviews.
- Video.
- Note
- Unedited footage.
- For additional footage of the group interview, see *MGZIA 4-3651 Group interview with Paulus Berensohn, Joseph Gifford, Mary Anthony, 12/18/98.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped on December 18, 1998 ; videography, Roger Sherman.
- Contents
- [Group interview with Mary Anthony, Joseph Gifford and Paulus Berensohn] (ca. 10 min.) / Mary Anthony, Joseph Gifford, who had a performing partnership with her, and Paulus Berensohn, one of her former dancers, discuss their interaction as dancers ; the creation of Anthony's signature work Threnody ; Anthony and Gifford's collaboration on Chaconne, a work inspired by the Borgias ; the music of Cameron McCosh, who accompanied Anthony's classes. Berensohn also describes the experience of dancing Anthony's choreography.
- [Interview with Mary Anthony] (ca. 19 min.) / Mary Anthony discusses the origins and imagery of the bullfighter pliés she teaches in class ; the interrelationships of the mother and daughters in Threnody ; the dancers Ross Parkes and Daniel Maloney ; her self-image as a "Catholic Buddhist" ; Glen Tetley ; teaching at the High School of Performing Arts when Rachael Yocom was principal and Gary Chryst a student ; Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of a man within a circle, and what it signifies to her ; why she uses the image of a samurai in teaching ; how she approaches revivals of her earlier works, e.g., Gloria ; how she wants to be remembered ; what she means by the feelings of being a dancer, and the rewards these feelings bring.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-3652
- OCLC
- NYPY99-F1155
- Title
- Mary Anthony interview, 12/18/98 [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 1998.
- Series
- Mary Anthony: a life in modern dance preliminary footage.
- Event
- Videotaped on December 18, 1998 ; videography, Roger Sherman.
- Performer
- Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.
- Added Author
- Anthony, Mary. IntervieweeGifford, Joseph. IntervieweeBerensohn, Paul. IntervieweeShimin, Tonia. InterviewerSherman, Roger, 1958-DHCA.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-3652