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Interview with Ellen Fisher
- Title
- Interview with Ellen Fisher [sound recording].
- Author
- Fisher, Ellen.
- Publication
- 2005.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | discs 1-2 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTL 4-2453 discs 1-2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZMT 32453 transcript | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Thom, Rose Anne.
- Description
- 2 sound discs (ca. 88 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in. +
- Summary
- Disc 1 (ca. 48 min.) Ellen Fisher describes her first experiences with movement; travel to Sri Lanka as the foundation of her early creative work; her experiences there with various dance forms including trance dance and frenetic dancing; developing her work as a performance artist in Chicago; meeting Meredith Monk and their early work together on Monk's Plateau series; the work's development, first in Chicago and then New York; Fisher's move to New York; her work as a teacher and her interests as a performing artist; the development and content of Monk's Recent ruins; ongoing development of her own work as well as her continuing connection to Monk. Fisher describes her piece Figurines and, briefly, Call her Amedia.
- Disc 2 (ca. 40 min.) Fisher briefly describes touring her work in Europe in the 1980s; discusses the relationship between work considered zhighy or zlowy art; more on her work in night clubs; her role in Monk's piece, Mercy, substituting for Lanny Harrison; her current work on Monk's Impermanence project; the research and development of this work; her plans to travel with Monk to Sri Lanka; reconstructing Plateau at Sarah Lawrence College; more on her ongoing work which includes Sri Lankan dance ritual and trance dance.
- Donor/Sponsor
- New York State Council on the Arts, 2005-2006.
- Series Statement
- Meredith Monk Oral History Project.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subject
- Fisher, Ellen
- Monk, Meredith
- Plateau series (Choreographic work : Monk)
- Recent ruins (Choreographic work : Monk)
- Impermanence project (Choreographic work : Monk)
- Figurines (Choreographic work : Fisher)
- Call her Amedia (Choreographic work : Fisher)
- Ecstatic dance
- Performance artists
- Women performance artists
- Dance > Religious aspects > Sri Lanka
- Note
- Interview with Ellen Fisher conducted by Rose Anne Thom at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City, on May 24, 2005.
- For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2453.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2005-2006.
- Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-2453
- OCLC
- NYPY06-R7
- Author
- Fisher, Ellen. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Ellen Fisher [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 2005.
- Series
- Meredith Monk Oral History Project.
- Funding
- Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2005-2006.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Trance dances.Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Sri Lanka.Audiotapes -- Fisher, E.
- Added Author
- Thom, Rose Anne. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-2453 [sound disc]*MGZMT 3-2453 [transcript]*MGZTL 4-2453