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Essential elements : the Martha Graham legacy project

Title: Essential elements : the Martha Graham legacy project, September 14, 2002 / producer, director, writer Linda Lewett ; produced by the Martha Graham legacy project in the Library of Congress.
Publication: 2002.

Details

Additional Authors

Found In

Contained in (manifestation): Martha Graham Dance Company collection.

Description

1 online resource (1 video file) (16 min., 12 sec.) : sound, color

Summary

A short documentary film about Martha Graham and her impact on modern dance. It features interviews with former company members interspersed with still images of Martha Graham and short performance clips from Graham's most iconic dances, mainly recorded at the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress. There is also footage of current company members being coached by former company members in some of those iconic dances including Appalachian spring and Frontier.

Subject

Genre/Form

Filmed dance.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
History.

Note

Title and date from videocassette label.
Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Patrons can access streaming video file online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

Producer, director, writer Linda Lewett ; produced by the Martha Graham legacy project in the Library of Congress.

Performer (note)

Interviewees: Robert Cohan, Jane Dudley, Nina Fonaroff, Mary Hinkson, Stuart Hodes, Linda Hodes, Yuriko Kikuchi, Pearl Lang, Sophie Maslow, Helen McGehee, May O'Donnell, Bertram Ross, Ethel Winter ; Interviewers: Janet Eilber, Anna Kisselgoff, Peter Sparling ; Associate artistic directors: Christine Dakin and Terese Capucilli.

Event (note)

Recorded on September 14, 2002.

OCLC

1375679184

Title

Essential elements : the Martha Graham legacy project, September 14, 2002 / producer, director, writer Linda Lewett ; produced by the Martha Graham legacy project in the Library of Congress.

Production

2002.

Country of Producing Entity

United States

Playing Time

001612

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Credits

Producer, director, writer Linda Lewett ; produced by the Martha Graham legacy project in the Library of Congress.

Cast

Interviewees: Robert Cohan, Jane Dudley, Nina Fonaroff, Mary Hinkson, Stuart Hodes, Linda Hodes, Yuriko Kikuchi, Pearl Lang, Sophie Maslow, Helen McGehee, May O'Donnell, Bertram Ross, Ethel Winter ; Interviewers: Janet Eilber, Anna Kisselgoff, Peter Sparling ; Associate artistic directors: Christine Dakin and Terese Capucilli.

Event

Recorded on September 14, 2002.

Added Author

Lewett, Linda, producer, director, writer.

Graham, Martha, choreographer.

Cohan, Robert, interviewee.

Dudley, Jane, interviewee.

Fonaroff, Nina, interviewee.

Hodes, Linda Margolies, 1933- interviewee.

Hinkson, Mary, interviewee.

Hodes, Stuart, interviewee, teacher.

Yuriko, 1920-2022, interviewee, teacher.

Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009, interviewee.

Maslow, Sophie, interviewee.

McGehee, Helen, interviewee.

O'Donnell, May, 1906-2004, interviewee.

Ross, Bertram, 1920-2003, interviewee.

Winter, Ethel, interviewee.

Eilber, Janet, interviewer, teacher.

Kisselgoff, Anna, interviewer.

Sparling, Peter, interviewer, teacher.

Dakin, Christine, teacher, artistic director.

Capucilli, Terese, teacher, artistic director.

Martha Graham Dance Company, dancer.

Library of Congress, production company.

Martha Graham Dance Company, donor.

Found In:

Contained in (manifestation): Martha Graham Dance Company collection.

Other Form:

Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Essential elements : the Martha Graham legacy project. 1 videocassette (16 min., 12 sec.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. (SPEC AMI ID)528841 (OCoLC)1375679149

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