Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Pearl Lang [sound recording].

Author

Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009.

Publication

1976.

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Details

Additional Authors

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

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 40 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Pearl Lang speaks with Don McDonagh about reviving her work Moonways and dark tides; the upcoming performances of her work at the Entremedia Theatre [the former Yiddish Arts Theatre] ; her work The possessed and its relationship to her prior work including Legend; her relationship with Connecticut College; dancing in and later teaching Martha Graham's work El penitente, including the difficulty of teaching and rehearsing this piece; dancing in and later helping to reconstruct Graham's work Clytemnestra; reasons for the ease of maintaining her own identity vis-s-vis Graham including her upbringing in the Middle West and fact that she is Jewish; compares the ecstatic quality of Graham's work with the ecstatic quality of Hassidic dance; other Jewish elements in Graham's work including the Sabbath Queen in Primitive mysteries; the Japanese influence on Moonways and dark tides, in particular the score [by Toru Takemitsu, Morton Subotnick, and Toshiro Mayuzumi]; working with her dancers, including her belief in the necessity of using one's imagination to inform movement; her regret that younger dancers all too frequently lack imagination; the chronic shortage of money to support dance, including the problems with matching grants [ends abruptly].

Donor/Sponsor

Oral history archive.

Subject

• Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009
• Graham, Martha
• Possessed (Choreographic work : Lang)

Note

• Interview with Pearl Lang conducted by Don McDonagh on Oct. 1, 1977 in New York City.
• Sound quality is fair to good overall, but the recording is marred by 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 4-2484b

OCLC

261135349

Author

Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Pearl Lang [sound recording].

Imprint

1976.

Funding

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

Local Note

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2484B

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

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh. NN-PD

Local Subject

Dance rehearsals.

Audiotapes -- Lang, P.

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

Joseph and Ida Liskin Foundation. Funder

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2484b [sound disc]