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Joseph Gifford interview, 12/18/98

Title: Joseph Gifford interview, 12/18/98 [videorecording]
Publication: 1998.

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Description

2 videocassettes (36 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

Genre/Form

Dance.
Interviews.
Video.

Note

Unedited footage.

Performer (note)

Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.

Event (note)

Videotaped on December 18, 1998 ; videography, Roger Sherman.

Contents

Cassette 1 (ca. 29 min.). Dancer-choreographer Joseph Gifford, who had a performing partnership with Mary Anthony in the 1940s, recalls first working with her in the cast of Stovepipe hat, choreographed by Tamiris, in 1943. He describes how their partnership began with his piece The pursued ; performing at the 92nd Street Y in New York ; Anthony's qualities as a dancer, particularly in her Lady Macbeth solo, one of her first pieces ; her inner resources, manifested in her work and her teaching, and later strengthened by meditation and Reiki ; her choreography (in which Gifford performed) for Look up and live, a religious series on television in the 1950s ; her qualities as a teacher, and their joint workshop at Tanglewood in the 1960s under the sponsorship of the Boston University-Tanglewood Institute ; her personal traits, including her even temperament, clarity, firmness, lack of egotism, and courage ; her performance as the mother in her signature work Threnody.
Cassette 2 (ca. 7 min.). Continuing the interview, Gifford describes Anthony's perseverance in maintaining her New York dance studio ; her ability to laugh ; and her care for people, demonstrated by her interrelationships with her students.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3648

OCLC

NYPY99-F1152

Title

Joseph Gifford 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.

Local Subject

Television. Look up and live.

Added Author

Gifford, Joseph Interviews.

Gifford, Joseph. Interviewee

Shimin, Tonia. Interviewer

Sherman, Roger, 1958-

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3648

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