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Interview with David Parsons
- Title
- Interview with David Parsons [videorecording] / interviewer, Elizabeth Zimmer.
- Publication
- c2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-5056 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIDVD 5-5056 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (NTSC) (93 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +
- Summary
- David Parsons speaks with Elizabeth Zimmer about his parents and background; taking care of his mother; Kansas City; his time as a gymnast; moving to New York City at the age of seventeen; getting a scholarship with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; choreographing a piece for Ailey; his work as a photographer; being a stunt model; his photographic collaborations with Lois Greenfield; working with Annie Liebowitz; working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support himself; importance of an artist taking care of finances and maintaining a working life outside of the dance company; the Paul Taylor Dance Company ; Taylor's variety; being an understudy at Paul Taylor Dance Company; performing in Latvia; his time with the Taylor Company and learning to be an artist; choreographing as a gymnast; working with Moses Pendleton; working with Mark Morris and the White Oak Project; Eliot Feld as choreographer; building his company in a way that allowed for supporting his dancers with salaries and benefits; the difficulty of making comedy in dance; touring; his relationship with Lois Greenfield; injuries over the years; how he chooses musical collaborators; commissions; his relationship with friend and lighting designer Howell Binkley; how television has changed his company; dancemaking and his artistic process; the contemporary dance world.
- Subjects
- 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, New York on May 14, 2009.
- Funding (note)
- Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
- System Details (note)
- DVD, transferred from a DVCAM cassette.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-5056
- OCLC
- 423366027
- Title
- Interview with David Parsons [videorecording] / interviewer, Elizabeth Zimmer.
- Imprint
- c2009.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- System Details
- DVD, transferred from a 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, New York on May 14, 2009.
- Credits
- Director of photography, Penny Ward ; production assistant, Kay Hines ; editor, Kay Hines/Dekart Video.
- Performer
- Interviewee, David Parsons.
- 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
- Parsons, David, 1959 October 29- interviewee.Zimmer, Elizabeth. InterviewerWard, Penny, videographer.Hines, Kay, production personnel.Hines, Kay, editor of moving image work.New York Public Library. Dance Division.Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-5056