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Eroticism and the dance lecture-demonstration.

Title: Eroticism and the dance [sound recording] : lecture-demonstration.
Author: Terry, Walter.
Publication: 1951.

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2 sound discs (ca. 87 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 54 min.). Walter Terry speaks about the Dance laboratory series, introduces the season's theme, eroticism in dance, and names the guest participants, Maria Tallchief, Nicholas Magallanes, and Ted Shawn; speaks about the four main creative sources of dance, including erotic energy; fertility dances; courtship dances; the English horn dance; eroticism in theatrical dance, including burlesque dancing; solo dances that express erotic energy; Martha Graham's work, Dark meadow [brief gap]; eroticism in ballet with reference to Giselle, Antony Tudor's Pillar of fire, Jerome Robbins' The guests, and Michel Fokine's Schéhérazade; the extent to which eroticism exists in dance of all forms; introduces Ted Shawn. Ted Shawn speaks about François Delsarte and his system of movement analysis; (briefly) eroticism in Spanish dance and the hula. In the next section [from ca. 3:50 min. into track 8 through the end of the final track of this disc], Tallchief and Magallanes and Ted Shawn dance brief excerpts from various dances preceded or accompanied by Terry's comments, including Shawn's dancing of an excerpt from his dance Ramadan (with live drum accompaniment) and Tallchief's and Magallanes' dancing of an excerpt from Schéhérazade (with recorded musical accompaniment).
Disc 2 (ca. 33 min.). Walter Terry speaks about various dances and roles, brief excerpts of which are performed by Maria Tallchief, Nicholas Magallanes, and Ted Shawn. They include, in order, the walk of the Siren in Balanchine's ballet The prodigal son (Tallchief; no accompaniment); one of Shawn's American Indian dances (Shawn; with recorded musical accompaniment); the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan lake (Tallchief and Magallanes; no accompaniment); Shawn's Cutting the sugar cane (Shawn; with musical accompaniment); the love duet from Balanchine's Orpheus (Tallchief and Magallanes; with recorded musical accompaniment); an [untitled] improvised courtship dance (Tallchief, Magallanes, and Shawn; with live drum accompaniment).

Donor/Sponsor

National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Alternative Title

Lecture-demonstration: Eroticism and the dance. [Phonotape]

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Note

Lecture-demonstration on eroticism and the dance recorded on November 4, 1951. First program in the fifth (1951-1952) season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, given at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York. Guest artists for this program were: Maria Tallchief and Nicholas Magallanes of the New York City Ballet, and Ted Shawn.
Sound quality on disc 1 is good overall. On disc 2 the speaker's voice is very soft and difficult to understand. In both discs there are occasional short gaps.

Funding (note)

Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009, and the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

System Details (note)

Transferred from 3 sound tape reels (ca. 87 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in.; acetate, half track; originally recorded in 1951) to wav file and compact disc formats in spring 2009.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-118

OCLC

84143650

Author

Terry, Walter. Speaker

Title

Eroticism and the dance [sound recording] : lecture-demonstration.

Imprint

1951.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009, and the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

System Details

Transferred from 3 sound tape reels (ca. 87 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in.; acetate, half track; originally recorded in 1951) to wav file and compact disc formats in spring 2009.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZTC 3-2318

Former call number: *MGZT 5-118

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-118

Archival original: *MGZTO 5-118 reels 1-3

Pres. master: 1 sound file (ca. 87 min.): digital, WAV file, 48 kHz, 16 bit; copied from Archive orig. onto Cavalry CACE 3.5 500 GB external hard drive by Safe Sound Archive, in March and April 2009 ; located in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division as of Sept. 14, 2009.

Pres. master: 1 LTO-4 tape: digital, stereo, 4 in.; copied by Safe Sound Archive, in March and April 2009 ; in the Rose Building workroom. When space becomes available in Princeton ReCAP or an alternative off-site storage area, the LTO master tapes are to be moved to such location.

Added Author

Dance Laboratory.

Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972. Speaker

National Endowment for the Arts, 2008-2009.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009.

Oral history archive.

Added Title

Lecture-demonstration: Eroticism and the dance. [Phonotape]

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-118

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