Research Catalog

Title

Ted Shawn: pedagogy no. 1 (excerpts) and no. 2 (excerpt) [sound recording].

Author

Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972.

Publication

[195-]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.
• New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
• Oral history archive.

Found In

Carol Lynn papers, 1896-1959.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 64 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

[Begins abruptly.] Ted Shawn speaks about his principles of pedagogy as applied to dance, including his experience teaching Martha Graham and the role he played in her early career; his simile of the teacher as a gardener and Bertha Damon's book: A sense of humus; [short gap at ca. 2:40 into track 3 is followed by the first part of Shawn's second lecture on pedagogy]; his five categories of dance motivation; the material a dance teacher should cover including the topics identified in the chapter headings of his book Dance we must [Dance we must; lectures delivered by Mr. Shawn at George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, from June 13th to July 2nd, 1938; c1940].; the principles of movement; the fundamentals of rhythm and time and music; [ends abruptly at track 7; from track 8 the recording returns to the first pedagogy lecture]; the subject-matter of each the 12 classes in the course; the text, namely the above-mentioned Dance we must; dance teachers and teaching, including the problems with dance education in the U.S. today both within and without higher educational institutions; the minimum education and training a dance teacher should be required to have; the importance of offering education in all kinds of dance; more on Martha Graham when a student at the Denishawn School; the dance education offered at the Denishawn School.

Alternative Title

Carol Lynn papers, 1896-1959.

Subjects

• Dance teachers
• Audiotapes > Shawn, T
• Dance > Study and teaching
• Dance teachers > Training of
• Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972
• Graham, Martha

Note

• Ted Shawn's pedagogy lectures no. 1 (excerpt) and no. 2 (excerpt), at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, in Lee, Mass., in the early 1950s.
• Sound quality is fair. There are extraneous noises and short gaps but for the most part, the speaker's voice is clearly audible.
• The recording is out of sequence. Tracks 1 - ca. 2:45 into track 3 and the beginning of track 8 through the end of the recording appear to be from pedagogy lecture no. 1.; the section of the recording that begins ca. 2:45 into track 3 and ends with track 7 is from pedagogy lecture no. 2.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.

System Details (note)

• Transferred from 1 sound reel (ca. 64 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; half track; 5 in.; originally recorded in the early 1950s) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Source (note)

• Dr. Helene Breazeale;

Linking Entry (note)

• Separated from Carol Lynn papers, 1896-1959, (S) *MGZMD 209

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2601

OCLC

650276163

Author

Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972. Teacher

Title

Ted Shawn: pedagogy no. 1 (excerpts) and no. 2 (excerpt) [sound recording].

Imprint

[195-]

Funding

Preservation was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.

System Details

Transferred from 1 sound reel (ca. 64 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; half track; 5 in.; originally recorded in the early 1950s) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Linking Entry

Separated from Carol Lynn papers, 1896-1959, (S) *MGZMD 209

Local Note

Archival original: *MGZTO 5-2601

For an additional excerpt from pedagogy lecture no. 2 see audio recording: *MGZTL 4-2603.

Added Author

Breazeale, Helen. Donor

National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.

Oral history archive.

Added Title

Carol Lynn papers, 1896-1959.

Found In:

Carol Lynn papers, 1896-1959.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2601