- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (31 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Remy Charlip speaks with David Vaughan about his inspirations for starting to dance while an art student at Cooper Union, including the influence of a fellow student, Marianne Benjamin; briefly, seeing the New York City Ballet perform Merce Cunningham's Seasons (1947); he lists his first dance teachers; he mentions a piece he choreographed during his senior year at Cooper Union; briefly, his first performance in Merce [Cunningham's] Rag-time parade (1950) at the Cooper Union Hall; his fellowship at Reed College in 1949 including meeting Lou Harrison and Bonnie Bird there, and making sets and costumes; they list the works that Charlip worked on while at Reed; Charlip speaks about living in New York with Harrison and meeting Cunningham and John Cage socially; being inspired from seing a performance of Cunningham's Monkey dances (1948); Charlip speaks about studying dance with Jean Erdman and lists some of the other students in her classes; they list the other dancers in Rag-time parade; they speak about Charlip's summer at Black Mountain College in 1948 and the performance there of Occupe-toi d'Brunhilde [a musical farce based on Occupe-toi d'Amélie]; Charlip speaks about an Easter party at his previous loft that included informal performances, especially parodies of Kabuki theater and a tea ceremony by Cage and "Nick" [Nicola] Cernovich; Charlip speaks about Cernovich showing his own movies at Black Mountain and later doing the lighting design for Cunningham; Charlip speaks briefly about making the program for Cage's premiere of Sonatas and interludes (1948), as well as his making a cyc [cyclorama] for Cunningham's performances in the Black Mountain cafeteria; more on printing the program for Sonatas and interludes on cigarette rolling paper; Charlip speaks about his costumes for Springweather and people (1955); [brief phone interruption]; Charlip speaks about the mask and costumes he created for Minutiae (1954); Charlip recalls that he helped Cunningham on the thrift shop costumes for Rag-time parade; Charlip tells an anecdote on painting the costumes for Sixteen dances for soloist and a company of three (1951); more on Cunningham's ideas about costumes; ends abruptly.
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Interviews (Sound recordings)
- Charlip, Remy > Interviews
- Rag-time parade (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Cage, John > Sonatas and interludes, piano
- Cernovich, Nicola, > production designer
- Erdman, Jean, > teacher
- Monkey dances (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Dance costume
- Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art > School of Art
- Springweather and people (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Cunningham, Merce, > choreographer
- Cage, John, > composer
- Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003, > composer
- Sixteen dances for soloist and company of three (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
- Minutiae (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- David Vaughan interviews Remy Charlip in New York, New York, on May 4, 1983. This interview was created as research for David Vaughan's book, Merce Cunningham: Fifty years (New York, Aperture).
- Title, location and date provided by cataloger based on audition and handwritten note on original container and cassette.
- Handwritten note on original cassette and container: "David Vaughan: Interview with Remy Charlip ; New York ; 5 May 1983".
- Sound quality is mostly good; at times the interviewee speaks away from the microphone and is low but mostly audible.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LTC-A 1442
- OCLC
- 913959457
- Author
Charlip, Remy, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Remy Charlip, 1983-05-04.
- Production
May 4, 1983.
- Playing Time
003123
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded in, New York, New York, 1983 May 4 [although the cassette is labeled May 5, the interviewer states May 4th in the beginning of the interview].
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (31 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1442.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by George Blood Audio on March 25, 2015.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Vaughan, David, 1924- interviewer.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1442