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Dance history and criticism course.

Title: Dance history and criticism course. Dance criticism, Nov. 4, 1975 [sound recording].
Author: Pierce, Robert J.
Publication: 1975.

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New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.)

Description

1 sound cassette (ca. 102 min.)

Summary

Side A (ca. 51 min.). Upon the request of the instructor, Robert J. Pierce, the students introduce themselves and their reasons for taking the class [short gap]; Pierce leads a discussion of dance criticism [occasionally referring to articles and reviews that had been distributed at an earlier class], including topics such as the influence of one's peers on one's own writing; objectivity and criticism; innovation in choreography as a goal in itself; the manner in which foreign dance companies are presented in the U.S. [ends abruptly].
Side B (ca. 51 min.). Robert J. Pierce continues to lead a discussion of dance criticism [for the most part, the sound quality of the students' voices is poor, at times unintelligible], including topics such as the controversy surrounding Flemming Flindt's ballet The triumph of death; whether critics influence the public, including an anecdote about Pierce's review of Priscilla Colville's work Scavenger, and Pierce's thoughts on Clive Barnes' reviews; criticism as literature, including references to and quotations from an article by Jill Johnston; an article by Deborah Jowitt about a performance of Lipizzaner horses, from which Pierce quotes at length; critics whose writing he recommends; a student reads aloud her review of a performance by the Joffrey Ballet of John Cranko's ballet Jeu de cartes followed by comments from Pierce and the students [ends abruptly].

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Note

Recording of class, taught by Robert J. Pierce on Nov. 4, 1975, at his home in New York City, as part of a dance criticism course jointly taught with Jack Anderson, at the New School for Social Research. This is cassette 17 of a series of recordings of classes on dance history and criticism, conducted at the New School for Social Research in New York City, between Feb. 1973 and Dec. 1975, which are cataloged under classmark *MGZTC 3-1405.
The sound quality of this recording ranges from fair to poor, and it is marred by extraneous noise. At times, voices are not intelligible.

Funding (note)

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 1999-2000.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1405 no. 17

OCLC

NYPY06-R57

Author

Pierce, Robert J. Speaker

Title

Dance history and criticism course. Dance criticism, Nov. 4, 1975 [sound recording].

Imprint

1975.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 1999-2000.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-1405 no. 17

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 101405 no. 17, labelled reels 29 and 30

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Pierce, R.

Added Author

New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1405 no. 17 [sound cassette]

*MGZTC 3-1405 no. 17