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Interview with Ted Shawn

Title: Interview with Ted Shawn [sound recording].
Author: Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972.
Publication: 1967.

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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.	Disc 3	Spoken word recording	Supervised use	*MGZTL 4-2532 Disc 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Disc 2	Spoken word recording	Supervised use	*MGZTL 4-2532 Disc 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Disc 1	Spoken word recording	Supervised use	*MGZTL 4-2532 Disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

3 sound discs (ca. 89 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 37 min.). Ted Shawn speaks with Don McDonagh about the Denishawn company; teaching ethnic, folk, and ballet dance; beginnings of modern dance; the inception of Shawn's dance school in 1912; Ruth St. Denis, and her role in the company; the role of male dancers in a then female-dominated dance world; Serge Diaghilev and Vaslaw Nijinsky, and the U.S. tours; the role of art in society and how quickly it is removed from public programs when the economy is challenged; city funding for the arts; summer dance festivals in N.Y.; funding for Jacob's Pillow.
Disc 2 (ca. 32 min.). Ted Shawn speaks with Don McDonagh about the war years and the Denishawn and Ted Shawn dance companies; Martha Graham's involvement in teaching at Denishawn; Ruth St. Denis's decision to dance solo; the disbanding of Denishawn; L.A. dance studio where the dances Julnar of the sea and Xochil were choreographed; Graham's style in dance and costuming; his view that Graham was unglamorous, and the difference between her stage and real life personnas; Geordie Graham, Graham's sister, and Lizzie, the Graham family's maid.
Disc 3 (ca. 19 min.). Ted Shawn speaks with Don McDonagh about the Ted Shawn dancers touring in London and Paris; Graham's unhappiness during the tour due to involvement with Louis Horst; Betty Horst's accompaniment on the tour, and the affect her presence had on Graham; Bohemian Grove in San Francisco and his involvement there, citing the fact that Betty Horst was the first female the all-male club allowed on the premises; dancing in Hollywood movies; the difference between vaudeville and concert performances [abrupt end].

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Note

Interview with Ted Shawn by Don McDonagh on Nov. 3, 1967.
Each disc ends abruptly.
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 4-2532

OCLC

262558952

Author

Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Ted Shawn [sound recording].

Imprint

1967.

Funding

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

Local Note

Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2532, nos. 1-3

Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2532, nos. 1-3

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007

Local Subject

Dance company tours.

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2532 sound disc

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