Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Art Bauman [sound recording].

Author

Bauman, Art.

Publication

1970.

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Details

Additional Authors

McDonagh, Don.

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 84 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• Disc 1 (ca. 41 min.). Art Bauman speaks with Don McDonagh about his work, including how his focus changed after his work Dialog; improvisation, including his efforts to dispell common misconceptions regarding it; how he tries to analyze movement; the use of systems in his choreography; more on his use of improvisation; the reasons he is reluctant to put on a full-length program of his work; Louis Horst's encouragement as crucial to his continuing his composition studies at the Juilliard School of Music; performing at Riverside Church in New York City and Contrasts, the dance group he formed with several students from Juilliard; works he choreographed for Contrasts, including Nocturne and a group of religious-themed works such as Desert prayer, Now is the time of singing, and Break forth into joy; his feelings about performing.
• Disc 2 (ca. 43 min.). Art Bauman continues to speak with Don McDonagh about his work, including his working methods, for example his creation of a sound tape when choreographing Nocturne; his use of chance; his extensive editing and re-working of an initial concept, as for example in his modular works such as Nocturne, Errands and Headquarters; his dance Journal as his first professionally-presented performance; the course of his career beginning with how his perceived failure as a dancer at the Juilliard School led to his becoming a choreographer, including Louis Horst's crucial role in this; his dance group Contrasts; his taking on of various odd jobs to support himself; the significance of his realization that he is an artist regardless of whether he receives any financial or critical recognition; his involvement with Dance Theatre Workshop, including the search for a new performance space; the importance of the role certain performance spaces have had in enabling him to create a work; reasons he is reluctant to apply for grant aid; a period of creative disappointments and dead ends prior to his creation of his work Approximately 20 minutes [ends abruptly].

Donor/Sponsor

• Oral history archive.
• New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
• National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

Subjects

• Audiotapes > Dunn, R
• Bauman, Art
• Dance Theater Workshop
• Improvisation in dance

Note

• Interview with Art Bauman conducted by Don McDonagh on April 14, 1970 in New York City.
• Sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise.
• Open as of August 22, 2012.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded with in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

Source (note)

• Don McDonagh

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2515

OCLC

311815127

Author

Bauman, Art. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Art Bauman [sound recording].

Imprint

1970.

Funding

Preservation was funded with in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

Local Note

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2515 nos. 1-2

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2515

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh, 2007. NN-PD

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Dunn, R.

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2515 [sound disc]