Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Twyla Tharp [sound recording].

Author

Tharp, Twyla.

Publication

1970.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McDonagh, Don.
• Joseph and Ida Liskin Foundation. fnd

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 120 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• Disc 1 (ca. 62 min.). Twyla Tharp speaks with Don McDonagh about dancers she had recently seen in classes at Merce Cunningham's studio; the dancer Stephanie Simmons; dance critics and audiences; Clive Barnes and his retrospective articles; her work Tank dive, including the staging and Jennifer Tipton's lighting; her work Cede Blue Lake ; her work Unprocessed; her work Three page sonata for four, including the reasons she did not like it; her relationship with Paul Taylor and the Paul Taylor Dance Company; her work Stage show created for the 1965 New York World's Fair and performed only once; her work Stride, as filmed; her works without music, including One, two, three and Re-moves; performing in Europe, including the performing of Re-moves in slightly different versions depending on the venue; her work One ways; more on Paul Taylor and dancing his works; more on performing in Europe.
• Disc 2 (ca. 58 min.). Twyla Tharp continues to speak, briefly, with Don McDonagh about performing in Europe; her work Dancing in the streets of Paris and London, continued in Stockholm and sometimes Madrid; her work Excess, idle, surplus [conversation ceases for ca. 2 min. as Tharp looks through papers]; the performinig of Dancing in the streets of Paris and London, continued in Stockholm and sometimes Madrid at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City; the potential economic advantage of becoming an independent choreographer; more on Paul Taylor; Jerome Robbins, in particular his work The Goldberg variations [then in progress?]; Robbins' new work [In the night]; each of her dances as the solution to a choreographic problem [short gap]; more on Excess, idle, surplus, in particular as a work requiring a high level of technique; further discussion of individual works as solutions to individual problems including Group activities, After'suite, and Medley; Medley as her first work she viewed as an audience member; choreographing and rehearsing new pieces with her dancers, including examples from One, two, three and Medley; more on Medley and its outdoor setting; her reasons for not using music in her current choreography; answers questions about her early dance training and becoming a choreographer.

Donor/Sponsor

Oral history archive.

Subjects

• Audiotapes > Tharp, T
• Taylor, Paul, 1930-2018
• Tank dive (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Dancing in the streets of Paris and London, continued in Stockholm and sometimes Madrid (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Stride (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Medley (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Tharp, Twyla
• Re-moves (Choreographic work : Tharp)

Note

• Interview with Twyla Tharp conducted by Don McDonagh on Feb. 11, 1970, in New York City as part of his research for his book The rise and fall and rise of modern dance (c. 1971).
• Sound quality is good overall. There are occasional extraneous noises.
• Open as of August 22, 2012.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded by a gift from the Joseph and Ida Liskin Foundation.

Source (note)

• Don McDonagh.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2485

OCLC

261134145

Author

Tharp, Twyla. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Twyla Tharp [sound recording].

Imprint

1970.

Funding

Preservation was funded by a gift from the Joseph and Ida Liskin Foundation.

Local Note

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2485 nos. 1-2

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2485 nos. 1-2

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh. NN-PD

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Tharp, T.

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

Joseph and Ida Liskin Foundation. Funder

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2485 [sound disc]