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Mary Anthony and Mary Ford interviews, camera two, 7/22/98

Title: Mary Anthony and Mary Ford interviews, camera two, 7/22/98 [videorecording]
Publication: 1998.

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Description

2 videocassettes (84 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

Genre/Form

Dance.
Interviews.
Video.

Note

Unedited footage.
Contains the same interview material, recorded by a different camera, as *MGZIA 4-3633 Mary Anthony and Mary Ford interviews, camera one, 7/22/98.

Performer (note)

Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.

Event (note)

Videotaped in New York on July 22, 1998 ; videography, David Quinn.

Contents

Cassette 1. [Interview with Mary Anthony] (ca. 48 min.) / Anthony discusses her interest in Biblical themes in dance, and her works In the beginning (with Ross Parkes as Adam and Yuriko Kimura as Eve), Cain and Abel, and Antiphon ; her visit to Israel ; her admiration for passion in dancing, and her belief that the artist must experience the full emotional range of life ; the inspiration she finds in her dancers, with Ceremony of carols as an example ; her company's revivals of Sokolow's Rooms and Dreams, and Weidman's Fables for our time ; teaching in the Artists-in-Schools program ; the evolution of her teaching, and the influence of Louise Kloepper ; sources of inspiration for her teaching, including nature and the visual arts ; the creative component of her class ; her different approaches to different class levels ; the importance of "seeing movement" ; the present-day emphasis on technique, to the detriment of emotional expression. The first 42 min. of this interview also appear on *MGZIA 4-3632 Mary Anthony interview, camera one and two, 7/22/98. This cassette also contains a 1-min. set-up shot of Mary Ford's interview.
Cassette 2. [Interview with Mary Ford] (ca. 36 min.) / Mary Ford, now a dancer with the Limón Dance Company, discusses her impressions of Mary Anthony, with whom she has studied since 1993 ; Anthony's qualities as a teacher ; specific examples of her teaching, and ways in which her students learn to "see movement" ; how she helped develop Ford's skills as a choreographer both in terms of outward form and inner life ; creating roles in Anthony's Tabula rasa (1996) and the solo The Magdalen ; Anthony as a role model, and her nurturance of young talent ; their friendship, and Anthony's influence upon her life ; how Ford began to work with Anthony.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3634

OCLC

NYPY99-F1142

Title

Mary Anthony and Mary Ford interviews, camera two, 7/22/98 [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 22, 1998 ; videography, David Quinn.

Performer

Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.

Added Author

Anthony, Mary. Interviewee

Ford, Mary. Interviewee

Shimin, Tonia. Interviewer

Quinn, David P.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3634

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