- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 40 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 24 minutes). Julia Levien speaks about Isadora Duncan, as a dancer, choreographer, and teacher, including the influence of social dances such as the waltz on Duncan's dancing; Duncan's concept of movement; the three major periods in Duncan's dancing; the theatrical aspect of Duncan's early dancing; her trip to Athens as an artistic turning point; her use of ballet technique such as turn out and port de bras in a novel manner; her relationship with [Konstantin] Stanislavsky; her influence on Martha Graham; the influence of Greek sculpture on Duncan's work; her concept of containment [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 16 minutes). Julia Levien speaks about Isadora Duncan including Duncan's use of natural movement; the basic principles of Duncan's school [for children]; the difficulty of accurately transmitting Duncan's technique; Duncan's turning over of her repertoire to her students; reasons for the widely-held belief that Duncan improvised on stage; her creating of group dances for her students, including the revising of her solos for groups.
- Alternative Title
- Dance audio archive
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Julia Levien on Isadora Duncan conducted by Elizabeth Kendall, on February 11, 1977 as research for Trailblazers of modern dance, a television program broadcast on the Dance in America series by WNET/13, New York, on January 4, 1978. Emile Ardolino, the director of the program, occasionally asks questions and contributes comments. A video recording of the television program is cataloged under the call number: *MGZIDVD 5-5385.
- In general, sound quality is good. There are variations in volume, and overall, the voices of the interviewers tend to be of lower volume than that of Julia Levien's.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Funding (note)
- The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 5-2268
- OCLC
- 79470734
- Author
Levien, Julia, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Julia Levien on Isadora Duncan, 1977.
- Imprint
1977
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Event
Recorded by WNET/13 New York 1977, February 4 New York (N.Y.)
- Funding
The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Original Version
Original format: two sound reels (approximately 40 minutes); polyester; half-track; 7.5 ips; 5 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto52268_v01f01_sc and myd_mgzto52268_v02f01_sc.
- Local Note
For a videorecording of the television program,Trailblazers of modern dance, see *MGZIC 9-40.
Archive original: *MGZTO 5-2268 nos. 1-2
Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-2268
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2268
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Duncan dancing.
- Added Author
Kendall, Elizabeth, 1947- interviewer.
Ardolino, Emile, speaker.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 5-2268