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Gender Project : interview with Muriel Manings.

Title
Gender Project : interview with Muriel Manings.
Author
Manings, Muriel.
Publication
2000.

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Additional Authors
Wood, Ellis.
Description
21 leaves ; 29 cm.
Summary
Muriel Manings speaks about the different phases of her career beginning with her early dance training; studying and working with the Dudley-Bales Maslow Trio, the New Dance Group and later with Martha Graham; her marriage; influence of Sophie Maslow; choreographing to a Woody Guthrie song and his response; gender disparities including the far higher standards for female dancers than for male dancers; working as a dance company director and teacher in New York; working as a choreographer in Cuba in 1971; teaching dance in the physical education department of Queensborough Community College and the discrimination against women in the department; developing the dance program at the College; gender influences on her career, especially her teaching; her feelings regarding the value of her work; coping mechanisms and her marriage; gender disparities and female choreographers.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Dance Audio Archive.
  • Gift of Joanna Mendl Shaw.
Subject
  • Manings, Muriel
  • Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967
  • Gender Project (New York, N.Y.)
  • New Dance Group (New York, N.Y.)
  • Sex discrimination against women
  • Dance teachers
  • Choreographers
Note
  • Transcript of interview of Muriel Manings by Ellis Wood at Wood's home in New York City on Jan. 12, 2000.
  • The transcript may contain misspellings of proper names.
  • Typescript.
Access (note)
  • Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Source (note)
  • Gender Project
Processing Action (note)
  • act
Call Number
*MGZMT 3-2360
OCLC
NYPY02-A9
Author
Manings, Muriel. Interviewee
Title
Gender Project : interview with Muriel Manings.
Imprint
2000.
Local Note
Arch. copy: *MGZMTO 3-2360
Restricted Access
Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Added Author
Wood, Ellis. Interviewer
Research Call Number
*MGZMT 3-2360
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