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Interview with Twyla Tharp

Title: Interview with Twyla Tharp [sound recording].
Author: Tharp, Twyla.
Publication: 1974.

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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.	discs 1-2	Audio	Supervised use	*MGZTL 4-2489 discs 1-2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

2 sound discs (ca. 77 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 65 min.). [Begins abruptly.] Twyla Tharp speaks with Don McDonagh about the recent London tour of her company [Twyla Tharp and Dancers] to film certain works for ITV, including Eight jelly rolls, and to perform live; the company's rehearsals in London; the publicity for the tour; Frederick Ashton's favorable opinion of the performance; the films made for ITV; the company's live performances, including the critical reception; the strain on the company of performing for nine consecutive nights; financial aspects of the tour; her plans regarding teaching, in particular the classes she plans to offer; her reasons for not maintaining a repertory; reasons she does not wish at this time to accept commissions for other companies; reasons for and conditions under which she would choreograph for New York City Ballet [short gap]; her current interest in using a Bach composition as a dance score; her feelings about her son, in particular regarding the effect on her work of having a child; her tendency to reject instruction in favor of self-help; her parents' self-reliance; her feelings about how her personality came across in a filmed interview; the relationship of personality and professional success, for example in the cases of George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton; discussion in general terms of Ashton's choreography and Balanchine's choreography; her difficulty in finding compatible musicians; the composers Steve Reich and Terry Reilly. [Ends abruptly.]
Disc 2 (ca. 12 min.). [Begins abruptly.] Twyla Tharp speaks with Don McDonagh about the concept of returning to basics - "square one" - in dance and in music; her physical condition; other personal matters relating to her sister and to Tharp's son, Jesse.

Donor/Sponsor

Oral history archive.

Subjects

Note

Interview with Twyla Tharp conducted by Don McDonagh on June 9, 1974 in New York City.
Sound quality is fair. The speakers' voices are periodically distorted in the first part of the recording.
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 4-2489

OCLC

261134991

Author

Tharp, Twyla. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Twyla Tharp [sound recording].

Imprint

1974.

Funding

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

Local Note

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2489 nos. 1-2

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2489 nos. 1-2

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh. NN-PD

Local Subject

Twyla Tharp and Dancers.

Dance company tours.

Audiotapes -- Tharp, T.

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

Joseph and Ida Liskin Foundation. Funder

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2489 [sound disc]

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