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Interview with Carolyn Brown Speaking of Dancing Oral History Project

Title: Interview with Carolyn Brown [sound recording] : Speaking of Dancing Oral History Project / interviewer Deborah Jowitt.
Author: Brown, Carolyn, 1927-
Publication: 2011.

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 2	Spoken word recording	Supervised use	*MGZTL 4-2991 disc 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.	disc 1	Spoken word recording	Supervised use	*MGZTL 4-2991 disc 1	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 3-2991	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Additional Authors

Jowitt, Deborah

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 86 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 50 min.) Carolyn Brown speaks with Deborah Jowitt about her early dance training with her mother, Marion Stevens Rice, in the Denishawn technique and repertory; studying at the Juilliard School with Antony Tudor and Margaret Craske; how she began studying with Merce Cunningham; her time with Cunningham at Black Mountain College; how music affects the experience of performing Cunningham's works; dramatic content in Cunningham's works; Cunningham's 1964 piece Winterbranch; Cunningham's avoidance of discussing interpretations of his work with dancers; the challenges of learning Cunningham's technique and choreography; studying at the School of American Ballet; the art world in New York in the 1950s, including her association with Robert Rauschenberg; and her parents' reaction to her work with Cunningham.
Disc 2 (ca. 36 min.) Carolyn Brown continues to speak with Deborah Jowitt about the use of indeterminacy by Merce Cunningham and John Cage; Cunningham's use of individual dancers; coaching Cunningham's works, especially her work with dancer Melissa Toogood in the piece RainForest; qualities of dancers Frédéric Gafner [aka Foofwa d'Immobilité], Thomas Caley and Victoria Finlayson; her involvement with Robert Rauschenberg's choreographic work Pelican; and how the dynamics of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company have changed over the years.

Uniform Title

Speaking of Dancing Oral History Project.

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Note

Interview with Carolyn Brown conducted by Deborah Jowitt on October 28, 2011 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City, as part of the Speaking of Dancing Oral History Project.
For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2991.

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Funding (note)

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2991

OCLC

776713152

Author

Brown, Carolyn, 1927- Interviewee

Title

Interview with Carolyn Brown [sound recording] : Speaking of Dancing Oral History Project / interviewer Deborah Jowitt.

Imprint

2011.

Series

Speaking of Dancing Oral History Project.

Funding

This oral history interview was funded by a gift from Anne H. Bass.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Added Author

Jowitt, Deborah, interviewer.

Bass, Anne H. Funder

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2991

*MGZMT 3-2991