Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Hope Boykin [videorecording] : / interviewer, Deborah Jowitt.

Publication

c2009.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Boykin, Hope.
• Jowitt, Deborah
• Ward, Penny
• Hines, Kay
• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (61 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Hope Boykin speaks with Deborah Jowitt about joining the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in 2000; growing up in Durham, North Carolina; the American Dance Festival; knowing she would be a dancer since childhood; studying at Howard University; leaving school and moving to New York City; taking an internship at the Ailey School; dancing with Philadanco (Philadelphia Dance Company) for six years; dancing with Complexions Dance Company; working with Joan Myers Brown; attending the Danco on Danco summer workshop; various choreographers including Pearl Primus and Talley Beatty; the preservation of dance history; dancing in heritage pieces; her relationship with Matthew Rushing; studying dance videos at the Performing Arts Library; being a dancer who uses other dancers' past experiences to interpret a dance; the legacy of dance history; her dance roles when first joining Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; her experience in Ron Brown's "Grace"; her first time choreographing for the company; collaborating with Abdur-Rahim Jackson and Matthew Rushing to create "Acceptance and surrender"; the methodology of creating a piece and collaborating; working with Judith Jameson and Sweet Honey in the Rock; the process of creating "Go in grace"; how to relate exact visions to dancers as a choreographer; her idea of family and community; choosing dancers; future plans and new dances; loving to teach when she is not on tour; dancing as her number one priority.

Subjects

• Jackson, Abdur-Rahim
• Philadelphia Dance Company
• Rushing, Matthew, 1973-
• Ailey, Alvin > Influence
• Video
• Interviews
• Go in grace (Choreographic work : Boykin)
• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• Howard University
• Dancers
• Dance
• Choreography
• Ailey School (New York, N.Y.)
• Brown, Joan Myers
• Complexions (Dance company)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.
• Interviews.

Access (note)

• Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Credits (note)

• Director of photography, Penny Ward ; production assistant, Kay Hines ; editor, Kay Hines/Dekart Video.

Event (note)

• This interview was videotaped at the oral history studio of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on April 9, 2009.

Funding (note)

• Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details (note)

• DVD, transferred from DVCAM cassette.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-3957

OCLC

341597635

Title

Interview with Hope Boykin [videorecording] : / interviewer, Deborah Jowitt.

Imprint

c2009.

System Details

DVD, transferred from DVCAM cassette.

Event

This interview was videotaped at the oral history studio of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on April 9, 2009.

Credits

Director of photography, Penny Ward ; production assistant, Kay Hines ; editor, Kay Hines/Dekart Video.

Performer

Interviewee, Hope Boykin.

Funding

Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Added Author

Boykin, Hope. Interviewee

Jowitt, Deborah, interviewer.

Ward, Penny, videographer.

Hines, Kay, production personnel.

Hines, Kay, editor of moving image work.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research Call Number

*MGZMT 3-3957