Research Catalog

Title

Gender Project : interview with Guta Hedewig.

Author

Hedewig, Guta.

Publication

2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shaw, JoAnna Mendl.
• Wood, Ellis.

Description

27 leaves; 29 cm.

Summary

Guta Hedewig speaks about her life and career; coming to New York and becoming a choreographer; teaching; the source of her attraction to dance; sex discrimination against women; her feelings about the value of her work; competing as an athlete as compared to competing for grants and work as a dancer; gender-based role models; creative and financial aspirations; relationship of her gender and personality traits to her career. Hedewig speaks about several of her works; differences in working with men and women; coping mechanisms; gender disparities in the dance world; self-sufficiency; unique aspects of performing in public.

Donor/Sponsor

• Dance Audio Archive.
• Gift of Joanna Mendl Shaw.

Subjects

• Sex discrimination against women
• Women dancers
• Choreographers > 20th century
• Gender identity
• Women choreographers > United States
• Hedewig, Guta
• Gender Project (New York, N.Y.)
• Dance > Economic aspects

Note

• Transcript of interview of Guta Hedewig by Joanna Mendl Shaw and Ellis Wood at Wood's home in New York City, recorded on Jan. 18, 2000.
• Typescript.

Access (note)

• Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Source (note)

• Gender Project

Processing Action (note)

• act

Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2357

OCLC

NYPY02-A6

Author

Hedewig, Guta. Interviewee

Title

Gender Project : interview with Guta Hedewig.

Imprint

2000.

Local Note

Arch. orig. *MGZMTO 3-2357

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Local Subject

Women choreographers -- United States.

Added Author

Shaw, JoAnna Mendl. Interviewer

Wood, Ellis. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2357