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June Watanabe oral history.
- Title
- June Watanabe oral history.
- Author
- Watanabe, June.
- Publication
- 2007.
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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. | vol. 3 | Text | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-2482 vol. 3 | 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. | vol. 2 | Text | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-2482 vol. 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. | vol. 1 | Text | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-2482 vol. 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 transcript (3 v.) : ill; 28 cm.
- Summary
- The first interview focuses on June's early life: her years in Heart Mountain Internment Camp and return to Los Angeles after the war, her early dance studies and professional life as a dancer, and the beginning of her career at Mills College. The second interview focuses on her years at Mills College, including descriptions of the dance department and faculty over the years; the evolution of her creative work; and launching her own dance company. The third interview focuses on June's choreographic process, and on individual choreographic works. In this interview she eloquently shares how the influences in her life come together to inform her choreographic process, and how she has returned to her Japanese heritage and Noh for inspiration.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive.
- Series Statement
- Mills College Faculty Oral History Project
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes photos, list of choreographic works, and selected reviews.
- This interview is available at The New York Public Library only as a transcript and not in audio or in audio-visual format.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Event (note)
- Interviews December 5, 11, 13, 2006.
- Original Location (note)
- F. W. Olin Library, Mills College.
- Funding (note)
- Funded by the Grace & Yoshimi Shibata US History Fund.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Written permission to use the materials in whole or part, in any format must be obtained in writing from the Oakland Living History Program, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613.
- Source (note)
- Mills College.
- Biography (note)
- June Watanabe was born in 1939 to a Japanese American family in Los Angeles, California. She was three years old when her family was sent to an internment camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. She began dance studies at the age of nine and continued through her teenage years and college at UCLA. During this time she also studied with Martha Graham in New York, and danced in the films The King and I and Teahouse of the August Moon. Following college she taught dance, married, and began a family. June joined Mills College dance faculty in 1975, where she served almost continuously until her retirement in 2006, much of that time juggling the duties of raising three children, teaching at Mills College, and operating her own dance company. From 1979, June's professional focus has been on choreography, realized by her own company, June Watanabe Dance Company, and since 1985, June Watanabe in Company. She has drawn inspiration from her Japanese heritage, her internment experience, and other life events to create over 50 major choreographic works.
- Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-2482
- OCLC
- 171292949
- Author
- Watanabe, June. Interviewee
- Title
- June Watanabe oral history.
- Imprint
- 2007.
- Series
- Mills College Faculty Oral History Project
- Performer
- Nancy MacKay, interviewer.
- Event
- Interviews December 5, 11, 13, 2006.
- Funding
- Funded by the Grace & Yoshimi Shibata US History Fund.
- Original Location
- F. W. Olin Library, Mills College.
- Terms Of Use
- Written permission to use the materials in whole or part, in any format must be obtained in writing from the Oakland Living History Program, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613.
- Biography
- June Watanabe was born in 1939 to a Japanese American family in Los Angeles, California. She was three years old when her family was sent to an internment camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. She began dance studies at the age of nine and continued through her teenage years and college at UCLA. During this time she also studied with Martha Graham in New York, and danced in the films The King and I and Teahouse of the August Moon. Following college she taught dance, married, and began a family. June joined Mills College dance faculty in 1975, where she served almost continuously until her retirement in 2006, much of that time juggling the duties of raising three children, teaching at Mills College, and operating her own dance company. From 1979, June's professional focus has been on choreography, realized by her own company, June Watanabe Dance Company, and since 1985, June Watanabe in Company. She has drawn inspiration from her Japanese heritage, her internment experience, and other life events to create over 50 major choreographic works.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Source
- Gift; Mills College.
- Added Author
- MacKay, Nancy, 1945- InterviewerMills College. DonorOakland Living History Program.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-2482 [transcript]