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Interview with Ann Barzel

Title: Interview with Ann Barzel [sound recording].
Author: Barzel, Ann.
Publication: 1972.

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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.	1 sound disc	Audio	Supervised use	*MGZTL 4-2539 1 sound disc	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

1 sound disc (ca. 26 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 26 min.). Ann Barzel speaks with Don McDonagh about the first time she saw Martha Graham dance, in the early 1930s; early Denishawn dances, and seeing Doris Humphrey dance; attitudes toward dance in the 1930s and 1940s, mixing modern, ballet, and other genres together to create a new genre; concerts and performances in the early years of modern dance; antagonism against modern dance, especially by N.Y. dance circles; national tours of dance companies in the 1930s and 1940s; dance councils and societies, with memberships across the country; the fact that modern dance in the U.S. was greatly influenced by German and Eastern dance, and the avant garde; barefoot dancing and interpretative dancing taking place in gymnasiums across the U.S.; Bennington's offering of college credit for the summer dance program; the dance program at Bennington, and the fact that it established modern dance on the university level; modern dance championed by physical education teachers; the influence of Isadora Duncan and the Denishawn dancers on modern dance; Graham's fame in the U.S., and the fact that the name equates modern dance in the minds of most people.

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Note

Sound quality is poor; disc ends abruptly.
Interview with Ann Barzel conducted by Don McDonagh on Feb. 9, 1972.
Open as of August 22, 2012.

Funding (note)

Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Source (note)

Don McDonagh;

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2539

OCLC

262556959

Author

Barzel, Ann. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Ann Barzel [sound recording].

Imprint

1972.

Funding

Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Local Note

Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2539

Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2539

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2539 sound disc

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