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Lecture given for Affirmations lecture series, Martha Graham School

Title: Lecture given for Affirmations lecture series, Martha Graham School [sound recording]
Author: Champion, Marge.
Publication: 1986.

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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 4-1744 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 4-1744 disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Additional Authors

Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 98 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1, ca. 54 min. [Introduction of Marge Champion.] Champion speaks about her early dance training, primarily at her father, Ernest Belcher's school; reminiscences of her work as an animation model in the Walt Disney movies Snow White and Fantasia; her first experience dancing in musical shows, choreographed, respectively, by Chester Hale, George Balanchine, and Valerie Bettis; dancing professionally with her husband Gower Champion; the reduced role of dancing in contemporary musical shows; discusses and screens excerpts from the movies Show boat; Road to Rome; Lovely to look at; Everything I have is yours; Three for the show [recording includes audio portion of screened excerpts].
Disc 2, ca. 44 min. Continues with screening of excerpt of movie Three for the show [?]; discusses and screens filmed excerpt of the Shriners' Ballet from the musical comedy Bye bye, Birdie; question and answer session in which Champion speaks about her upcoming appearance in the play Stepping out; Richard Rodgers' role in her learning how to sing; her audition for the musical show Carousel; changes in dancers on Broadway over the last 30 years; special problems of directing a Broadway musical; performing on television; Gower Champion and the musical comedy Bye bye, Birdie.

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Series Statement

Affirmations lecture series

Subjects

Note

Lecture by Marge Champion as part of the Affirmations lecture series at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York (N.Y.) on Nov. 12, 1986.

Funding (note)

Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1744

OCLC

NYPY03-R36

Author

Champion, Marge. Speaker

Title

Lecture given for Affirmations lecture series, Martha Graham School [sound recording]

Imprint

1986.

Series

Affirmations lecture series

Funding

Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.

Local Note

Arch. orig.: *MGZTCO 3-1744

Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-1744 nos. 1-2

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1744 nos. 1-2

Local Subject

Musical comedies.

Audiotapes -- Champion, M.

Added Author

Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1744