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Interview with Theodora Wiesner

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 3	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-1746 disc 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 2	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-1746 disc 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 1	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-1746 disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Description

3 sound discs : digital (ca. 143 min.); 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 46 min.). Wiesner describes her development in modern dance; her encounter with Martha Hill at New York University; studying and teaching at Bennington College's summer dance program during the 1930's and 1940; teaching at the Univ. of Pennsylvania; studying with Louis Horst, Norman Lloyd, and Martha Graham. She compares Martha Graham's to Doris Humphrey's technique and choreographic styles and describes performing in Graham's work Panorama.
Disc 2 (ca. 38 min.). Wiesner speaks about taking classes at Bennington; studying dance criticism with John Martin; dancing for Graham; Graham's approach as compared to that of Humphrey-Weidman to dance technique and style; her impressions of Hanya Holm and the influence of German modern dance on dance in the U.S.
Disc 3 (ca. 59 min.). Wiesner speaks about the summer of 1938 at Bennington; studying at Mills College in 1939; describes Erick Hawkins and Merce Cunningham in Graham's company; performing in Graham's work Primitive mysteries; working for the U.S. Navy; the development of Connecticut College's summer dance program and becoming director of that program.

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Subject

Note

Funding (note)

Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1746

OCLC

NYPY02-R45

Author

Wiesner, Theodora. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Theodora Wiesner [sound recording]

Imprint

1979.

Funding

Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Local Note

Arch. orig.: *MGZTCO 3-1746 nos. 1 and 2.

Preservation master: *MGZTL 4-1746 nos. 1, 2, and 3.

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1746 nos. 1, 2, and 3.

Local Subject

Dance in universities and colleges.

Audiotapes -- Wiesner, T.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1746