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Shirley Ubell interview, 7/29/98

Title
Shirley Ubell interview, 7/29/98 [videorecording]
Publication
1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Ubell, Shirley.
  • Shimin, Tonia.
  • Diamond, Dennis.
  • Quinn, David P.
  • DHCA.
Description
2 videocassettes (60 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.
Subject
  • Ubell, Shirley > Interviews
  • Anthony, Mary
  • Ford, Mary
  • Mary Anthony Dance Studio
  • Dancers > United States > 20th century
  • Dance teachers > United States
  • Modern dance > United States
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Interviews.
  • Video.
Note
  • Unedited footage.
  • Cassettes 1 and 2 contain the same material, taped from different camera angles.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in New York on July 29, 1998 ; videography, Dennis Diamond and David Quinn.
Contents
Shirley Ubell, a longtime student and friend of Mary Anthony, describes how she began to study with Anthony at the New Dance Group studio in 1955, and later followed Anthony to her own studio ; Anthony's qualities as a teacher ; Anthony's personal qualities, including her serenity, energy, agelessness and integrity ; the diversity of her students and her generosity towards them ; her transformation of dancer Mary Ford ; the homelike atmosphere of Anthony's dance studio ; her impressions of Anthony as a dancer.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3644
OCLC
NYPY99-F1149
Title
Shirley Ubell interview, 7/29/98 [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 29, 1998 ; videography, Dennis Diamond and David Quinn.
Performer
Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.
Added Author
Ubell, Shirley. Interviewee
Shimin, Tonia. Interviewer
Diamond, Dennis.
Quinn, David P.
DHCA.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-3644
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