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Interview with May O'Donnell
- Title
- Interview with May O'Donnell [sound recording]
- Author
- O'Donnell, May.
- Publication
- 1981.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Spoken word recording | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1360 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Stern, Lee Edward.
- Description
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 30 min.)
- Summary
- May O'Donnell discusses the events leading to her career with the Martha Graham Dance Company; early costuming for Martha Graham's works; the work Primitive mysteries; dance in New York in the 1930's; professional contacts she developed out of her experience dancing at Bennington College; she contrasts the life of a dancer in the 1980's to life in the 1930's; she discusses her current company and her new work Suspension; and adapting dance for television.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive.
- National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
- Uniform Title
- Speaking of dance (Radio program)
- Subjects
- Note
- Recorded June 10, 1981; broadcast June 12, 1981.
- Host: Lee Edward Stern for the WNYC, New York radio program series, Speaking of dance.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1360
- OCLC
- NYPY00-R49
- Author
- O'Donnell, May. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with May O'Donnell [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1981.
- Local Note
- Preservation master tape: *MGZTO 7-1360.Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-1360.Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes -- O'Donnell, M.Dance in television, motion pictures, etc.Videodance.
- Added Author
- Stern, Lee Edward. Interviewer
- Added Title
- Speaking of dance (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1360