Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Kathy Kaufmann [videorecording] / interviewer, Carol Mullins.

Publication

c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kaufmann, Kathy.
• Mullins, Carol.
• Steiner, Charlie.
• Oberfelder, Jody
• Munisteri, Ben
• New York Public Library. Dance Division.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (105 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Kathy Kaufmann (lighting designer) discusses her career and background; her freshman year attending Northwestern University; studying at Lester Polakov's Studio and Forum of Stage Design; designers that inspired her including Eddie Greenberg, Patrick O'Rourke, Arden Fingerhut and Paul Gallo; beginning of her career she worked with choreographers, Adrienne Altenhaus, Betsy Hulton, David Parker and Mark Franko; process of working with choreographers multiple times including longtime relationships with choreographers David Parker and Gina Gibney; how she became a dance lighting designer; how the scale of each venue affects her process; John Hickey and Mary Jo Dondlinger's influences on her as lighting designers; more about her education background; discussion of various lighting design terms including production manager, shop order, light plot, hook-up, channels/dimmers, magic sheet, systems, and specials; how art affects her lighting; how critics have received her work; how being a woman has affected her career; and concludes with a discussion of her upcoming projects over the next five to six weeks.

Donor/Sponsor

Oral History Project Video Series.

Subject

• Kaufmann, Kathy
• Parker, David, 1959-
• Gibney, Gina
• Polakov, Lester
• Stage lighting designers > New York (State) > New York
• Stage lighting > New York (State) > New York
• Stage lighting > Terminology
• Dance > Stage-setting and scenery
• Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery
• Dance > Production and direction
• Artistic collaboration > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.
• Interviews.

Note

• Includes photographs of Kathy Kaufmann's lighting designs for Ben Munisteri Dance Projects and Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects.
• Recording made possible by the cooperation of Kathy Kaufmann, Carol Mullins, and The Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.

Access (note)

• Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Credits (note)

• Video, Charles Steiner, Vagabond Video.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the home of Kathy Kaufman in New York City, on Nov. 3, 2008.

Funding (note)

• The recording of this interview was made possible by an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2622

OCLC

603386679

Title

Interview with Kathy Kaufmann [videorecording] / interviewer, Carol Mullins.

Imprint

c2008.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD.

Event

Videotaped at the home of Kathy Kaufman in New York City, on Nov. 3, 2008.

Credits

Video, Charles Steiner, Vagabond Video.

Funding

The recording of this interview was made possible by an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Added Author

Kaufmann, Kathy. Interviewee

Mullins, Carol. Interviewer

Steiner, Charlie. Videographer

Oberfelder, Jody, choreographer.

Munisteri, Ben, choreographer.

New York Public Library. Dance Division.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5596