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Interview with Sally Silvers.

Title: Interview with Sally Silvers. July 15, 2010 [sound recording].
Author: Silvers, Sally.
Publication: 2010.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	discs 1-2	Spoken word recording	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-2710 discs 1-2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.		Spoken word recording	Supervised use	*MGZMT 3-2710	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

2 sound discs (ca. 95 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 55 min.). Sally Silvers speaks with Gia Kourlas about the origins of her early choreography; the dance scene she entered into and what her contribution was; her work Swaps ego say so and the issues it raised for her regarding moving through space; other significant early works; experimenting with multi-media; her interest in making smaller scale works; working with John Zorn; sources of inspiration including Jean Luc Godard and Gertrude Stein; Silver's work Pandora's Cake stain and her ideas about traditional versus experimental work and conservative versus radical work as well as the combining of abstract and theatrical elements; her piece HUSHHUSH performed at the Carnival Festival at Dance Theatre Workshop; her changing approach to her own creative process; more on the effect on her of working with Yvonne Rainer.
Disc 2 (ca. 40 min.). Sally Silvers speaks with Gia Kourlas about her work Storming heaven, and subsequent smaller projects including her Live Choreography demonstrations; her work Yessified!; her current thoughts on works she would like to create; Yvonne Rainer's Assisted living: good sports 2, and how it feels to be in the role of the dancer rather than choreographer; she reflects on external perceptions of her work and the general environment of the current dance world.

Alternative Title

Dance Oral History Project.

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Note

Interview with Sally Silvers conducted by Gia Kourlas on July 15, 2010 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City as part of the Oral History Project. This is part two of a two-part Oral History Project interview; the first interview with Sally Silvers was conducted by Robert Greskovic on June 30, 2009.
For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2710.

Access (note)

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Funding (note)

The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2710

OCLC

752139620

Author

Silvers, Sally. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Sally Silvers. July 15, 2010 [sound recording].

Imprint

2010.

Funding

The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Local Note

The first part of this interview is cataloged in the Oral History Archive as Interview with Sally Silvers. June 30, 2009, under the call number *MGZTL 4-2593.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Added Author

Kourlas, Gia. Interviewer

National Endowment for the Arts, 2010-2011.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2010-2011.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2710

*MGZMT 3-2710

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