Research Catalog

Title

Gender Project : interview with Delia Peters.

Author

Peters, Delia.

Publication

2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Shaw, JoAnna Mendl.

Description

30 leaves; 29 cm.

Summary

Peters speaks about her career beginning with her early ballet training in Queens, New York City and at the School of American Ballet; her love of performing as a stimulus to her career choices; dancing with the New York City Ballet while studying at Fordham University; working as an archivist and a photographer/videographer at City Ballet after retirement as a dancer; entering the School of Law at Columbia University and her new career as an attorney; her sense of humor as a coping mechanism; gender disparities at City Ballet; sexual tension experienced as a dancer and as an attorney; using her gender to her advantage; the predominance of male artistic directors in ballet; advising dancers facing retirement; the pragmatic basis of her decision to become an attorney.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Women dancers
• Dance > Economic aspects
• Peters, Delia
• New York City Ballet
• Women lawyers
• Dancers > Retirement

Note

• Transcript of interview with Delia Peters by Joanna Mendl Shaw at Shaw's home in New York City, recorded on Feb. 29, 2000.
• Typescript.
• The transcript may contain misspellings.

Access (note)

• Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Source (note)

• Gender Project

Processing Action (note)

• act

Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2362

OCLC

NYPY02-A11

Author

Peters, Delia. Interviewee

Title

Gender Project : interview with Delia Peters.

Imprint

2000.

Local Note

Arch. copy: *MGZMT 3-2362.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Added Author

Shaw, JoAnna Mendl. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2362