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Interview with Anna Sokolow
- Title
- Interview with Anna Sokolow [sound recording].
- Author
- Sokolow, Anna.
- Publication
- 1994.
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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 4-2555 1 sound disc | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 sound disc (ca. 36 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Disc 1 (ca. 36 min.). Anna Sokolow speaks with Don McDonagh about studying with Blanche Talmud and Bird Larson at the Neighborhood Playhouse; Martha Graham, and her classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse; the atmosphere at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and the support of the arts; Michio Ito's dance classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse; working in Japan on a Fulbright Scholarship; teaching and studying methods of dance in Japan; Graham's inability to compromise, and her bravery in the face of opposition; being asked by Graham to join her company; disagreeing with Graham, and her style of dancing; her belief that the dancers had to be disciples, and not wanting to be one; Louis Horst, and his composition classes; Horst's encouragement of her choreography; serving as Horst's assistant for classes; pre-classic dance forms taught by Horst, and researching the culture, music, and experience of the country whose dance they were studying; choreographing her own work while still working with Graham; Graham's inability to encourage the dancers in their own choreography; feeling as if she did not belong in Graham's company, and subsequently leaving; Gertrude Shurr and May O'Donnell leaving Graham's company at the same time; her favorite Graham dances; leaving the company before Erick Hawkins joined; Panorama, and dancing at Bennington with Alexander Calder's set design; her belief that the dancers were not told enough about the dances to truly understand them, and not knowing until after she left the company the significance of the dances; realizing later how great an artist Graham was; Graham's fortune in having a group of women who were loyal to her, and who kept her financially afloat; sleeping in Graham's studio in a laundry bag due to lack of finances; never receiving any money from Graham for her work in the dances; modeling at the Arts Students League [abrupt end].
- Subject
- Note
- Interview with Anna Sokolow conducted by Don McDonagh on August 29, 1994.
- 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 4-2555
- OCLC
- 262557896
- Author
- Sokolow, Anna. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Anna Sokolow [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1994.
- Funding
- Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
- Local Note
- Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2555Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2555
- Source
- Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007
- Added Author
- McDonagh, Don. InterviewerMcDonagh, Don. DonorDoris Duke Charitable Foundation.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-2555 sound disc