Research Catalog

Title

Laura Pettibone [videorecording] : Oral history interview / interviewer, Caroline Sutton Clark.

Publication

2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pettibone, Laura.
• Clark, Caroline Sutton.
• 92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.)

Description

1 videodisc (62 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Laura Pettibone (dancer) discusses first taking an Erick Hawkins workshop; studying at the Hawkins studio; ideas she learned about anatomy and how it connects to physics and artistry; how she joined the Hawkins Dance Company and the first pieces she performed including Classic kite tails, Orpheus, Greek dreams with flute and premiering in Plains daybreak; Pettibone performed in Hawkins company from 1979-1991; how she learned roles; Hawkins' choreography book; Hawkins' creative process while choreographing Agathlon; learning choreographic works without music; using body make-up; creating leotard dances, Heyoka and Summer clouds people; working with modern composers and dancing to live music; performing Plains daybreak over 500 times and how she always listened to opening bass clarinet solo composed by Alan Hovhaness during every concert; how Hawkins worked with Hovhaness and their letter correspondence; Hawkins always created works with dancers wearing costumes so he could see how the movement looked; Pettibone's experience of taking a taxi home from airport with Hawkins, his apartment being robbed but nothing being taken and how his refrigerator has no writing in it because everything is transferred into plain containers; Ralph Lee's comments at Hawkins' Joyce Theater memorial where he addressed the realization that Hawkins was the teacher he always wanted; how Hawkins changed choreography for different dancers and the problems it created when teaching new dancers the roles; arguments between dancers about movement positions and timing, and Hawkins teaching his roles to other male dancers; learning the Heyoka stomping section and how it relates to flamenco dancing; the financial issues for the company; Lucia Dlugoszewski's music, its uniqueness, and description of her apartment; Pettibone currently teaches 9 yr. old students in Virgina Beach's gifted school program, she gets students for an entire 7 hour day of dancing where she incorporates Hawkin's technique and choreography; and concludes with her feelings about the Hawkins legacy.

Subjects

• Dance
• Filmed interviews
• Interviews
• Hawkins, Erick
• Lee, Ralph
• Filmed dance
• Classic kite tails (Choreographic work : Hawkins)
• Plains daybreak (Choreographic work : Hawkins)
• Video
• Heyoka (Choreographic work : Hawkins)
• Pettibone, Laura
• Agathlon (Choreographic work : Hawkins)
• Dance > Study and teaching > New York (State) > New York
• Choreography > New York (State) > New York
• Dlugoszewski, Lucia, 1931-2000
• Hovhaness, Alan, 1911-2000
• Erick Hawkins Dance Company

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.
• Interviews.
• Filmed dance.
• Nonfiction films.

Note

• Widescreen.

Event (note)

• Videotaped during interview at the 92nd St. Y, New York, N.Y., as part of the Erick Hawkins Symposium, on Jan. 8, 2010.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Caroline Sutton Clark;

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6445

OCLC

764698999

Title

Laura Pettibone [videorecording] : Oral history interview / interviewer, Caroline Sutton Clark.

Imprint

2010.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD.

Event

Videotaped during interview at the 92nd St. Y, New York, N.Y., as part of the Erick Hawkins Symposium, on Jan. 8, 2010.

Source

Gift; Caroline Sutton Clark; Nov. 2010. NN-PD

Added Author

Pettibone, Laura. Interviewee

Clark, Caroline Sutton. Interviewer

92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.)

Clark, Caroline Sutton. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6445