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[Interview with Rosa Reyna]
- Title
- [Interview with Rosa Reyna] [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) (62 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Unedited footage recorded for the documentary Limón: a life beyond words. Interview with Mexican dancer, choreographer, and writer Rosa Reyna, who danced in several works created by José Limón in Mexico in 1950-1951, notably Antigona and Los cuatro soles; she also danced with Limón in Doris Humphrey's Passacaglia and fugue in C minor. Among the topics discussed are her impressions of Limón as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher; Humphrey's Story of mankind; Limón's Antigona, in which she danced the title role of the Greek heroine Antigone opposite Limón's Creon; her impressions of Limón's wife Pauline Lawrence; Limón's personal qualities; his enjoyment of Mexico and his Mexican heritage; his choreography classes, the first such given in Mexico; Humphrey's relationship with Limón as his artistic adviser; Limón's work The unsung; the energizing atmosphere of his rehearsals; his rare qualities as a dancer; Miguel Covarrubias' efforts to foster modern dance in Mexico.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Ann Vachon, Dance Conduit/Antidote Films.
- Series Statement
- Limón: a life beyond words
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Interviews.
- Video.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped at Rosa Reyna's home in Mexico City on April 10, 1996.
- Language (note)
- Rosa Reyna speaks in Spanish in two sections at the beginning of the interview; after the first 17 min., she speaks in English.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-8145
- OCLC
- NYPY05-F10098
- Title
- [Interview with Rosa Reyna] [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 at Rosa Reyna's home in Mexico City on April 10, 1996.
- Language
- Rosa Reyna speaks in Spanish in two sections at the beginning of the interview; after the first 17 min., she speaks in English.
- Added Author
- Reyna, Rosa. IntervieweeVachon, Ann. Interviewer. ProducerRoth, Malachi. DirectorLevy-Hinte, Jeff. ProducerDance Conduit (Company)Antidote Films (Firm)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-8145