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Interview with Maria Blanco

Title
Interview with Maria Blanco, 2021/ Conducted remotely by Brady Neher on April 16, 2021; Producer: Dance Oral History Project
Author
Blanco, Maria
Publication
2021

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Additional Authors
Neher, Brady
Description
1 streaming video file (approximately 22 minutes) : sound, color. +
Summary
Streaming file, April 16, 2021 (approximately 22 minutes). Maria Blanco speaks with Brady Neher about her academic background; her professional background and activities, which include teaching dance at CPS [Chicago public schools], working with LOUD BODIES Dance, an activist dance company she co-founded with Yariana Baralt Torres, and performing on a freelance basis, primarily with non-profit organizations; where and how she first became aware of the COVID-19 pandemic; learning how to teach children online, including how difficult she found this; taking advantage of the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic to participate in a wide variety of online classes; reaching a saturation point with virtual classes and realizing just how much she missed the in-person, communal aspects of dance (for example learning from others at clubs); finding inspiration in how the dance communities have responded so creatively to the restrictions of the pandemic; since college having always created work that incorporates social and political concerns; how the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement has influenced her thinking about various issues; how the enforced break due to the pandemic has influenced her thinking about her physical body and pain; her belief that the pandemic has helped people realize how important art and dance are to feeling joy and feeling alive.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project.
  • COVID-19 Dance Worker Narratives Project
  • Dance Audio Archive.
Subject
  • Blanco, Maria > Interviews
  • COVID-19 (Disease) and the arts
  • Social justice
  • Black lives matter movement
Genre/Form
  • Video recordings.
  • Oral histories.
Note
  • Interview with Maria Blanco (in Chicago, Illinois) conducted remotely by Brady Neher (in Chicago, Illinois) on April 16, 2021; as part of the COVID-19 Dance Worker Narratives Project for the Dance Oral History Project of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  • This interview is part of the COVID-19 Dance Worker Narratives Project, which was created by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division's Oral History Project in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and concurrent Black Lives Matter protests. The COVID-19 Dance Worker Narratives Project comprises 58 peer-to-peer interviews that were gathered from May 2020 to February 2022 from dance communities in New York City and across the United States.
  • For transcript see *MGZMT 3-3600
  • Sound quality is excellent.
  • The video recording of this interview can be made available at the Library for the Performing Arts by advanced request to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, dance@nypl.org. The video files for this interview are undergoing processing and eventually will be available for streaming.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
Access (note)
  • Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
Funding (note)
  • The processing of the COVID-19 Dance Workers Narratives Project was made possible by a grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Call Number
*MGZMT 3-3600
OCLC
1423329808
Author
Blanco, Maria, Interviewee.
Title
Interview with Maria Blanco, 2021/ Conducted remotely by Brady Neher on April 16, 2021; Producer: Dance Oral History Project
Imprint
2021
Playing Time
002200
Type of Content
spoken word
two-dimensional moving image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
video
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
volume
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Restricted Access
Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
Event
Recorded for the Dance Oral History Project of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, as part of the COVID-19 Dance Worker Narratives Project 2021, April 16 Chicago, Illinois
Funding
The processing of the COVID-19 Dance Workers Narratives Project was made possible by a grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
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Added Author
Neher, Brady, Interviewer.
Research Call Number
*MGZMT 3-3600
*MGZDOH 3600
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