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Interview with Bettie De Jong and Linda Kent

Title: Interview with Bettie De Jong and Linda Kent [sound recording]
Author: De Jong, Bettie.
Publication: 1976.

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1 sound cassette (ca. 25 min.)

Summary

Bettie De Jong discusses Paul Taylor as a performer; she mentions Christopher Gillis; Linda Kent describes her experience dancing for Taylor; De Jong discusses the evolution of Taylor's choreography and the adapted version of the work Big Bertha for television; Kent continues with a description of Talyor's other television projects including his collaboration with Gardner Compton; they both discuss their experiences with musical theater and the musical, A chorus line, as well as their hopes for the future.

Donor/Sponsor

Oral History Archive.
National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Uniform Title

Speaking of dance (Radio program)

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Note

Recorded June 3, 1976; broadcast Aug. 21, 1976.
Host: Lee Edward Stern for the WNYC, New York radio program series, Speaking of dance.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1357

OCLC

NYPY00-R45

Author

De Jong, Bettie. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Bettie De Jong and Linda Kent [sound recording]

Imprint

1976.

Local Note

Preservation master tape: *MGZTO 7-1357.

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-1357.

Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- De Jong, B.

Audiotapes -- Kent, L.

Added Author

De Jong, Bettie. Interviewee

Kent, Linda. Interviewee

Stern, Lee Edward. Interviewer

Added Title

Speaking of dance (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1357

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