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Coming of age as a young dancer in the Roosevelt era

Title: Coming of age as a young dancer in the Roosevelt era [sound recording] / Jane Dudley and Sophie Maslow.
Author: Dudlely, Jane.
Publication: 1993.

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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 4-1802	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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1 sound disc (ca. 62 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Ann Daly introduces Doris Hering. Doris Hering introduces Sophie Maslow and Jane Dudley and questions each in turn, including background information and comments with her questions; Maslow and Dudley each speaks about her early dance education; Maslow speaks about her training at the Neighborhood Playhouse and with Martha Graham and Louis Horst; Dudley speaks further about her dance training, in particular at Mary Wigman's school in New York City [New York Wigman School of the Dance]; Dudley speaks about her early work Time is money, including her recreation of it [for The New Dance Group gala retrospective of June 11, 1993]; her work Harmonica breakdown [also recreated for the gala retrospective], including sources of inspiration in Sonny Terry's harmonica playing and Katherine Dunham's work Square dance; Maslow speaks about her work Two songs about Lenin; her work Dust bowl ballads, including an anecdote about Woody Guthrie [short gap occurs in middle of her discussion]; Martha Graham's work American document, in particular Maslow's admiration for this dance; reminisces about her classes with Graham; Dudley speaks about Graham's work Letter to the world, in particular Dudley's performance of the role of the Ancestress; Hering speaks about the Dudley-Maslow-Bales Trio, including brief quotations from written comments by Dudley and by Maslow about the Trio; works relating to the Spanish Civil War; Dudley speaks about her work Short story; Maslow speaks about her work The village I knew, including its sources of inspiration; Hering's closing remarks, including two brief quotations from Maslow.

Donor/Sponsor

Oral History Archive.
New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007.
National Endowment for the Arts, 2006-2007.

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Note

Recording of a public Interview with Sophie Maslow and Jane Dudley conducted by Doris Hering at the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City, on June 12, 1993. Ann Daly introduces Hering. The interview, titled "Coming of age as a young dancer in the Roosevelt era," was part of a three-day joint conference of The Congress on Research in Dance and The Society of Dance History Scholars, titled "Of, by, and for the people," hosted by the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, on June 11-13, 1993.

Funding (note)

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2006-2007.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1802

OCLC

85448010

Author

Dudlely, Jane. Interviewee

Title

Coming of age as a young dancer in the Roosevelt era [sound recording] / Jane Dudley and Sophie Maslow.

Imprint

1993.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2006-2007.

Local Note

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1802

Preservation master: 2 sound files (ca. 62 min.) : digital, WAV file, 96 kHz, 24 bit; danmgztco31802p1, danmgztco31802p2; on AIT-2 tape dated 12/04/06, copied by Chicago Audio Works, 11/ 2006; located in the Rose Building workroom as of 04/28/09. When space becomes available in Princeton ReCAP or an alternative off-site storage area, the LTO and AIT master tapes are to be moved to such location.

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-1802

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Maslow, S.

Audiotapes -- Dudley, J.

Audiotapes -- Hering, D.

Audiotapes -- Daly, A.

Added Author

Daly, Ann, 1959- Moderator

Maslow, Sophie. Interviewee

Hering, Doris. Interviewer

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.

Congress on Research in Dance. Conference (1993 : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)

Society of Dance Scholars. Conference (1993 : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)

pd Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498 DAN/DGC

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1802 [sound disc]

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