Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Twyla Tharp [sound recording].

Author

Tharp, Twyla.

Publication

1976.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• McDonagh, Don.
• Joseph and Ida Liskin Foundation. fnd

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 53 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

[Begins abruptly]. Twyla Tharp speaks with Don McDonagh about personal matters, including her son Jesse; a project [filming her dance All about eggs] she worked on with WGBH Boston ca. 1974; working with WNET/13 Television Lab, including her views on the use of techical effects; filming her work Eight jelly rolls for [the television program] London Weekend Televison; her problems when filming Sue's leg for a segment of the WNET/13 series Dance in America; lessons she has learned from working in television; her financial requirements regarding future choreographic commisions; a workshop she conducted for Andre Gregory's theatre group [Manhattan Theatre Group] and the resulting performance at Town Hall in New York City in 1975; a lecture-demonstration program, which included a work she refers to as "the new piece" [Give and take] at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; reason she abandoned her Chuck Berry work [Ocean's motion?]; George Balanchine's presence at the lecture-demonstration program, including his reaction to "the new piece" and her works Fugue and Eight jelly rolls; reason she no longer deposits tapes of her rehearsals at the Library [New York Public Library for the Performing Arts?]; watching a film of Balanchine's work Stars and stripes at the New York Public Library; her rehearsal tapes of Mikhail Baryshnikov; her experiences working with American Ballet Theatre and with the Joffrey Ballet; her annoyance regarding an article in The New York Times about her hair style.

Donor/Sponsor

Oral history archive.

Subjects

• Tharp, Twyla
• Ballet > Economic aspects
• Audiotapes > Tharp, T
• Dance in motion pictures, television, etc

Note

• Interview with Twyla Tharp conducted by Don McDonagh on April 28, 1976, in New York City.
• Sound quality is good overall. The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise.
• Open as of August 22, 2012.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded with a gift from the Joseph and Ida Liskin Foundation.

Source (note)

• Don McDonagh.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2484A

OCLC

261134978

Author

Tharp, Twyla. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Twyla Tharp [sound recording].

Imprint

1976.

Funding

Preservation was funded with a gift from the Joseph and Ida Liskin Foundation.

Local Note

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2484A

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3 -2484, Side A.

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh. NN-PD

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Tharp, T.

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

Joseph and Ida Liskin Foundation. Funder

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2484A [sound disc]