- Additional Authors
- Bowers, Theresa
- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 30 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming file 1 (approximately 48 minutes). Patricia Balz Vincent speaks with Theresa Bowers about her early dance training; encountering modern dance and the Humphrey-Weidman Company as a student at Sweet Briar College; her experiences at the Bennington College Summer School of the Dance including classes with Hanya Holm, and Louis Horst; her affinity for Doris Humphrey and her choreography; Charles Weidman including the beauty of his movements; her memories of José Limón in [Humphrey's] New dance; her summer at Mills College including her impressions of Martha Hill; performances she saw at Bennington College including Humphrey's Passacaglia [Passacaglia and fugue in C minor] and Martha Graham's American document; moving to New York City to pursue her interest in dance.
- Streaming file 2 (approximately 42 minutes). Patricia Balz Vincent speaks with Theresa Bowers about her time with the Humphrey-Weidman Company [1940-1943]; her memories of Doris Humphrey and her work including Passacaglia and fugue in C minor, Life of the bee, and Decade; her summer, in 1941, at Bennington College as a member of the Humphrey-Weidman Company, including her memories of Charles Weidman and his work Opus 51; leaving the company in 1943 to work with the Red Cross; Weidman's parodies of other dancers; attitudes among modern dancers toward ballet at the time including admiration for Antony Tudor; Humphrey's attempt to teach her dancers how to direct an accompanist; [final approximate 3:30 minutes consists of Vincent's and Bowers' remarks while Vincent looks through performance programs].
- Alternative Title
- Interview with Patricia Vincent, 1978
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- For transcript of interview, see *MGZMT 3-414.
- Interview with Patricia Balz Vincent conducted by Theresa Bowers on December 27, 1978 at Vincent's home in Durham (N.C.) for the Oral History Project for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is good.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Funding (note)
- The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-414
- OCLC
- 82619052
- Author
Vincent, Patricia Balz, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Patricia Balz Vincent, 1978
- Production
1978
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Event
Recorded by Theresa Bowers for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 1978, December 27 Durham (N.C.)
- Funding
The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound cassette (one hour and 30 minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format (myd_mgztco3414_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3414_v01f02_sc) in 2015.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-414
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- Added Author
Bowers, Theresa, interviewer.