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Conversations about the dance

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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.	cassette 2	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-1770 cassette 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.	cassette 1	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-1770 cassette 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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City Center (New York, N.Y.)

Description

2 sound cassettes (ca. 115 min.)

Summary

Cassette 1, side A (ca. 45 min.). This recording is comprised of a lecture by Agnes De Mille on the history of dance in the U.S., from its European origins through the popular dancing of the 1970s, as demonstrated by what seem to be live performances. In sequence, the dances discussed include: ballet exercises; the riding scene from de Mille's ballet Rodeo; Step stately, an English dance from ca. 1650; galliarde; volta; square dance; minuet; rigaudon; [an African dance].
Cassette 1, side B (ca. 20 min). Continues with African dance; other African-influenced dances; Irish jig; ragtime; tap dance solo [intermission].
Cassette 2, side A (ca. 45 min.). Waltz; polka; ballet solo after Fanny Elssler; Cachucha after Elssler; additional examples of ballet [typical of touring companies in the U.S. in mid-1800s]; The three graces after Isadora Duncan; social dancing including the Charleston; Jerome Robbin's work Interplay; floor exercises based on Martha Graham's technique; pas de deux by De Mille from Paint your wagon; social dancing in the 1960s and 1970s [ends abruptly].
Cassette, side B (ca. 5 min.). [Repeats approximately last minute of side A.] Summation, followed by square dance.

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Note

Recording of Conversations about the dance, a lecture-demonstration by Agnes De Mille at City Center (New York, N.Y.) on April 27, 1978. For videorecordings of a rehearsal and later television broadcast of substantially similar material, see *MGZIC 9-5239 and *MGZIC 9-5978.

Funding (note)

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

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1770

OCLC

NYPY03-R55

Author

De Mille, Agnes, speaker.

Title

Conversations about the dance [sound recording]

Imprint

1978.

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.: *MGZT 7-1770 nos. 1-2

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-1770 1-3 [no. 3 may be duplicate of no. 1]

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- De Mille, A.

Added Author

City Center (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1770