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Class on dance composition at New York University.

Title: Class on dance composition at New York University. June 6, 1985 [sound recording] / Erick Hawkins.
Author: Hawkins, Erick.
Publication: 1985.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-1548 no. 5 sound disc	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.	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-1548 no. 4 sound disc	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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New York University.

Description

2 sound discs (96 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 4 (ca. 48 min.). Hawkins speaks in general terms about leadership, democracy, and fascism; the relationship between [an artist's] basic premises and dance composition, with reference to a variety of topics including his views on African dance, an anecdote from Gertrude Stein's book The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, his pursuit of dancing based on American culture, and his thoughts on Martha Graham's work Frontier; Hawkins has a student demonstrate a dynamic study she created; discussion of the study [ends abruptly].
Disc 5 (ca. 48 min.). Discussion of the student's dynamic study continues, centering on the meaning of the word gesture; discussion of art, from the aspects of aesthetics and of a work's intended meaning; the discussion includes Hawkins' references to terms used in F.S.C. Northrop's book The logic of the sciences and the humanities [short gap; recording seems to have been stopped during period two students were demonstrating their dynamic study]; discussion of the students' dynamic study [ends abruptly].

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Note

Class taught by Erick Hawkins on June 6, 1985; this recording is the second in a series of recordings of classes on dance composition taught by Hawkins at New York University, New York City. The recording contains exchanges of questions and answers between Hawkins and the class participants, including David Sears, who recorded the class.
The sound quality is fair to poor, and the recording is marred by extraneous noise. The sound quality of the questions and comments by the students is sometimes very poor.

Funding (note)

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2002-2003.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1548 nos. 4-5

OCLC

NYPY05-R10021

Author

Hawkins, Erick. Speaker

Title

Class on dance composition at New York University. June 6, 1985 [sound recording] / Erick Hawkins.

Imprint

1985.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2002-2003.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-1548 no. 3

Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-1548 nos. 4-5

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1548 nos. 4-5

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Hawkins, E.

Added Author

New York University.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1548 nos. 4-5 [sound discs]

*MGZTL 4-1548 nos. 4-5