Research Catalog

Title

Pioneers of children's dance [sound recording]

Author

La Salle, Dorothy.

Publication

1980.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Murray, Ruth Lovell.
• Flemming, Gladys Andrews.
• Mettler, Barbara, 1907-.
• Schwartz, Judy.

Description

7 sound cassettes (ca. 441 min.)

Summary

• Vol 1. (31 leaves): Interview with Dorothy La Salle, 04/05/80. Tape 1 (53 min.) Dorothy La Salle discusses her book, Play activities; teaching children movement; learning from teacher's observations; her education at Wayne State University; her work as a publisher; her efforts as part of a committee to develop a movement curriculum for children and the establishment of dance education as a system in the United States; the White House American Physical Education Association Conference; Barbara Mettler's work as a dance educator; getting her own certification as a teacher. La Salle's resume is included with the transcript as well as a description of master's and doctoral degrees in dance education.
• Vol. 2 (31 leaves): Interview with Ruth Lovell Murray, 06/04/1980. Tape 2 (43 min.) Ruth Murray discusses the importance of dance for children and changes in dance education; Isadora Duncan's influence on dance education for children; Gertrude Colby; Teacher's College dance group; dancing with Doris Humphrey and Martha Hill; Dorothy La Salle's elementary dance committee and book, Dancing in elementary schools; her graduate experience during the 1930's; the process of writing her own book; problems and needs of children's dance education. Included with the transcript is an article entitled "Dance education in Michigan."
• Vol. 3 (62 leaves): Interview with Gladys Andrews Flemming, 10/12/1980. Tapes 3 (63 min.) and 4 (62 min.). Gladys Andrews Flemming discusses her personal history; her dance and physical education training at Western University; teacher Isabelle Cranes; Flemming's experiences at the Kalamazoo YWCA and the University of Wisconsin; her analytical research with Marion Bowsey Youngblood; Flemming's graduate thesis; Margaret Newell H'Doubler's support; her various teaching appointments. Tape 4 - Flemming continues to discuss her writing about dance for children; her efforts to promote dance as an athletic movement art; the value and process of integrating dance in the classroom; her advice to young teachers; the developmental connection between movement and dance; the incorporation of dance in school curriculum; her influence and inspiration as a teacher of dance; combining community heritage lessons with movement and song; her concert, "From four to eighty-four."
• Vol. 4 (61 leaves): Interview with Barbara Mettler, 04/11/1983. Tapes 5 (94 min.), 6 (92 min.) and 7 (34 min.). Tape 5 - Barbara Mettler discusses her personal dance history; her studies at the Mary Wigman School in Dresden, Germany and subsequent return to New York City; the establishment of the Barbara Mettler Studios; the effect of the great depression on the dance community; her summer dance program in New Hampshire; her work developing a dance curriculum at Keuka College in New York and teaching dance at the Boston YWCA; the emphasis on original use of sound and improvisation in her teaching; her dance films Group dance improvisation, and A new direction in dance; her move to Arizona to start a year-round dance school; the limited jobs available teaching children dance within the public school system. Tape 6 - Mettler discusses the methods and philosophy of her approach to children's dance; she contrasts the perceptions of movement and art in adults and children; the importance of freedom in her teaching approach; she contrasts the terms movement vocabulary and movement language; she discusses changes in her teaching over the years; the importance of rhythm; the removal of stereotypical images and ideas from teaching movement to allow greater freedom and creative expression; her work teaching dance within the Navajo Indian Nation, Bureau of Indian Affairs and White River Apaches; Isadora Duncan's influence on dance education and on Mettler, herself.

Alternative Title

Dance Audio Archive.

Subjects

• La Salle, Dorothy > Interviews
• Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927
• Mettler, Barbara, 1907- > Interviews
• Dance for children > Study and teaching
• Dance > Study and teaching > United States
• Barbara Mettler Studios
• Movement education > Study and teaching
• Audiotapes > La Salle, D
• Dance for children > United States
• Murray, Ruth Lovell > Interviews
• Audiotapes > Murray, R
• Flemming, Gladys Andrews > Interviews
• Cranes, Isabelle
• Audiotapes > Flemming, G
• H'Doubler, Margaret Newell, 1889-1935
• Audiotapes > Mettler, B

Note

• Recorded Apr. 5, 1980 - Apr. 11, 1983.
• Judy Schwartz interviews Dorothy La Salle (cassette 1), Ruth Lovell Murry (cassette 2), Gladys Andrews Flemming (cassettes 3 and 4) and Barbara Mettler (cassettes 5, 6 and 7).
• For transcripts, see *MGZMT 3-2251.
• Project summary and brief biographies of the interviewees are included in transcript Vol. 1.

Access (note)

• Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2251 (transcripts)

OCLC

NYPY00-R61

Author

La Salle, Dorothy. Interviewee

Title

Pioneers of children's dance [sound recording]

Imprint

1980.

Local Note

Preservation master tapes: *MGZTCO 3-2251.

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2251.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- La Salle, D.

Audiotapes -- Murray, R.

Audiotapes -- Flemming, G.

Audiotapes -- Mettler, B.

Added Author

Murray, Ruth Lovell. Interviewee

Flemming, Gladys Andrews. Interviewee

Mettler, Barbara, 1907-. Interviewee

Schwartz, Judy. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2251 (transcripts)

*MGZTC 3-2251 (sound cassettes)