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Additional authors

1. National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.
2. New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
3. Ted Shawn collection. Oral history archive.

Description

1. 1 sound disc (ca. 70 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Ted Shawn speaks briefly about his first evening-length dance, O' libertad; describes his second evening-length dance, Dance of the ages including its division into four movements each corresponding to an element: fire, water, earth, and air, and his collaboration with the score's composer Jess Meeker. Shawn continues to speak as the film is shown, his commentary describing and explaining the choreography shown on-screen. There are occasional short silences, particularly in tracks 13 and 14.

Subject

1. Motion pictures > Dance of the ages
2. Dance of the ages (Choreographic work : Shawn)
3. Audiotapes > Shawn, T
4. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
5. Meeker, Jess
6. Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
7. Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-44

Note

1. Commentary by Ted Shawn for the film of his Dance of the ages, recorded in 1953 at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, in Lee, Mass.
2. Sound quality is good.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

System details (note)

1. Transferred from 1 sound tape reel, acetate, full-track (ca. 70 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec. ; 7 in..; originally recorded in 1953) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2008.

Author

1. Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972. Speaker

Title

1. Dance of the ages: commentary [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 1953.

System details

1. Transferred from 1 sound tape reel, acetate, full-track (ca. 70 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec. ; 7 in..; originally recorded in 1953) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2008.

Funding

1. Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

Local note

1. For copy of the film Dance of the ages, part 1: Fire, see entry under: *MGZHB 4-325; for part 2: Water, see entry under *MGZHB 4-326; for part 3: Earth, see entry under *MGZHB 4-327, and for part 4: Air, see entry under *MGZHB 4-328
2. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-44
3. Archive original: *MGZTO 7-44
4. Former call number: *MGZT 7-44

Added author

1. Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972. Speaker
2. National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.
3. New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
4. Ted Shawn collection. Oral history archive.

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-44