Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Ida Arbeit [sound recording].

Author

Arbeit, Ida, 1909-

Publication

2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McIntyre, Dianne.
• National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.
• New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.

Description

3 sound discs (ca. 158 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in +

Summary

• 12/13/06 (ca. 30 min.). Ida Arbeit speaks with Dianne McIntryre briefly about her family background; how she first came into contact with Helen Tamiris and began studying and working with her; studying dance (earlier) in high school; more on first meeting Tamiris; other dancers at that time, including brief reflections on Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Pauline Tish; Tamiris's works Dance for a holiday [part of Adelante] and How long, brethren.
• 12/13/06 (ca. 30 min.). Ida Arbeit speaks with Dianne McIntyre about Tamiris's work Adelante; her feelings for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War; Tamiris's work Walt Whitman suite; Tamiris's working process; Tamiris's lobbying for the Federal Theatre Dance Project [Federal Theatre Project]; Tamiris's meeting and marrying her husband [Daniel Nagrin]; other stories of Arbeit's life and travels.
• 12/13/06 (ca. 30 min.). Ida Arbeit speaks with Dianne McIntyre about sustaining an injury while performing with Tamiris and being unable to perform for a year and beginning to teach; surviving financially when performing and during the Federal Theatre Dance Project; relationships between Tamiris's company and other companies and choreographers of that time; reflects on her age and her positive feelings about recording this oral history interview; her love of dancing; more on what she had to do to qualify for participation in the Federal Theatre Dance Project; Tamiris's training and teaching.
• 12/13/06 (ca. 30 min.). Ida Arbeit speaks with Dianne McIntyre briefly about homosexuality among dancers at that time; more, briefly, on the Spanish Civil War; more on how she came to dance with Tamiris and the economic difficulties of the period; Tamiris's movement technique.
• 12/13/06 (ca. 30 min.). Ida Arbeit speaks with Dianne McIntyre about McIntyre's reconstruction of How long, brethren; teaching; her own studio; rent parties; her experiences staying at a mission house in order to be eligible to participate in the Federal Dance Project; other work and experiences while living in Baltimore, Maryland; McIntyre speaks briefly about reconstructing How long, brethren and finding Pauline Tish.

Alternative Title

• Dance Oral History Project.
• Dance Audio Archive.

Subject

• Arbeit, Ida, 1909-
• Tamiris, Helen, 1905-1966
• Tish, Pauline
• Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
• How long, brethren? (Choreographic work : Tamiris)
• Adelante (Choreographic work : Tamiris)
• Walt Whitman suite (Choreographic work : Tamiris)
• Homosexuality in dance

Note

• Interview with Ida Arbeit conducted by Dianne McIntyre on Dec. 13, 2006 at Arbeit's home in Long Beach, N.Y. Andrea Watson, Ms. Arbeit's friend and assistant, was also present.
• For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2476.

Access (note)

• Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.

Funding (note)

• The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2476

OCLC

262536369

Author

Arbeit, Ida, 1909- Interviewee

Title

Interview with Ida Arbeit [sound recording].

Imprint

2006.

Funding

The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Restricted Access

Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.

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Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Arbeit, I.

Added Author

McIntyre, Dianne. Interviewer

National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2476 [sound disc]

*MGZMT 3-2476 [transcript]