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Interview with Charles Weidman

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Description

1 sound disc (ca. 62 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 31 min.). Charles Weidman speaks with Don McDonagh about early Denishawn dances, and dancing with the Denishawn company; studying under Doris Humphrey at Denishawn; ballet training; dancing for Denishawn in 1920; early tours with Denishawn; Martha Graham's mother, and Graham's sisters; Graham's mother's home in Santa Barbara, Calif.; dancing in L.A. to earn extra money; sharing an apartment, and a platonic bed, with Graham and her sister Geordie; Graham's dance technique and style; working as a weaver in N.Y. to earn money; posing in Indian costumes for art students to supplement his income; films that were made of his dances with scores provided by Louis Horst; Graham and Horst's personal and professional relationship; Graham's need to have someone with whom to confide; the fact that Graham and Humphrey did not tour for Denishawn at the same time.
Disc 2 (ca. 32 min.). Charles Weidman speaks with Don McDonagh about touring in London with Denishawn, and visiting Paris; Denishawn dances, dancing with Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey; the use of men and women together in moden dance, and the novelty of that pairing; Graham's illnesses and absences from dances; dancing for three or four years at the Neighborhood Playhouse; the earthiness of Graham's dances; dancing with Henry Food at the Neighborhood Playhouse; various factions within dance companies; dancing at Bennington and Mills College [abrupt end].

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Funding (note)

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

Source (note)

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2534

OCLC

262558254

Author

Weidman, Charles. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Charles Weidman [sound recording].

Imprint

1971.

Funding

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

Local Note

Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2534, nos. 1-2

Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2534, nos. 1-2

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2534 sound disc