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Interview with Elisa Monte

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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 4-1575 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 4-1575 disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Additional Authors

Sears, David, 1948-1992.

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 86 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 48 min.). Elisa Monte speaks in general terms about her own performances and works, and about artists such as Molissa Fenley and Sarah Rudner; her relationship with the Pilobolus Dance Theatre, including her collaboration on their work Molly's not dead; her work Treading and its performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater [includes almost inaudible comments by an unidentified male speaker]; the designer Marisol [Marisol Escobar]; Monte's career goals and development, including her desire to choreograph while continuing to dance for Martha Graham; more on Treading, as expanded for five dancers, including the origin of the title; her Italian family background; learning roles from Graham; Graham's attitude toward revivals of her work; Rudolf Nureyev's dancing of Graham's work [ends abruptly].
Disc 2 (ca. 38 min.). [Begins abruptly.] Monte speaks about why she is not currently interested in choreographing narrative dance; her preference for focusing on motivation; Graham's methods for evoking motivation and movement, including the use of fear in her work Errand into the maze; evoking emotion onstage; more on the nature of Monte's choreography; the choreographer Cliff Keuter and his work; more on her relationship with Graham, including Graham's reaction to Treading; working with Graham on O thou desire who art about to sing [more on other Graham works; this and last ca.15 min. of recording are nearly inaudible; ends abruptly]

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Note

Interview with Elisa Monte conducted by David Sears on March 29, 1981, at her studio [in New York City?]. The sound quality of disc 2 is poor; it is marred by extraneous noise, and a substantial part is almost inaudible. The interview may have been in preparation for Sears' article Elisa Monte: splitting time, published in Dance news, May 1981, p 1-2.

Funding (note)

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

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1575

OCLC

NYPY03-R63

Author

Monte, Elisa. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Elisa Monte [sound recording]

Imprint

1981.

Funding

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

Local Note

Arch. orig.: *MGZTCO 3-1575

Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-1575 nos. 1-2

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1575 nos. 1-2

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Monte, E.

Added Author

Sears, David, 1948-1992. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1575