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[Interview with Daniel Lewis]

Title: [Interview with Daniel Lewis] [videorecording] / Dance Conduit/Antidote Films ; directed by Malachi Roth ; produced by Ann Vachon and Jeffrey Levy-Hinte.
Publication: 1996.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (39 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Unedited footage recorded for the documentary Limón: a life beyond words. Daniel Lewis, dean of dance at the New World School of the Arts, danced with the José Limón Dance Company from 1963 until shortly after Limón's death in 1972. He assisted Limón and briefly served as the company's director. For another interview with Lewis, taped at his home, see: *MGZIA 4-8154 [Bambi Anderson teaching There is a time] ; [and] [Interview with Daniel Lewis].

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Ann Vachon, Dance Conduit/Antidote Films.

Series Statement

Limón: a life beyond words

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Interviews.
Video.

Event (note)

Videotaped in Daniel Lewis' office at the New World School of the Arts, Miami, Fla., in spring 1996.

Contents

Topics discussed include: the characteristics of Limón technique, and its possible origins in Limón's analysis and expansion of Doris Humphrey's technique; the lack of ethnic boundaries in dance; the loving relationship of Limón and his wife Pauline Lawrence, and his grief at her death; his works The unsung, Orfeo, and Carlota; his feelings about his Mexican heritage; his impact on audiences; the influence of various dancers on his choreography; the influence of the film of The Emperor Jones, with Paul Robeson in the title role, on Limón's choreographic version of the play by Eugene O'Neill; his collaboration with its composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos; Norman Dello Joio's [misidentified as Norman Lloyd] description of his collaboration with Limón on There is a time; Limón's resentment of the aging process; his avoidance of politics in conversation, despite his antiwar stance; his sense of having demons within; incidents that provoked his anger. The tape ends with views of the exterior of the New World School of the Arts.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-8146

OCLC

NYPY05-F10101

Title

[Interview with Daniel Lewis] [videorecording] / Dance Conduit/Antidote Films ; directed by Malachi Roth ; produced by Ann Vachon and Jeffrey Levy-Hinte.

Imprint

1996.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Limón: a life beyond words

Performer

Interviewer: Ann Vachon.

Event

Videotaped in Daniel Lewis' office at the New World School of the Arts, Miami, Fla., in spring 1996.

Local Subject

Modern dance -- Technique -- Limón.

Added Author

Lewis, Daniel, 1944- Interviewee

Vachon, Ann. Interviewer. Producer

Roth, Malachi. Director

Levy-Hinte, Jeff. Producer

Dance Conduit (Company)

Antidote Films (Firm)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-8146

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