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Additional authors

1. Terry, Walter
2. 92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.)
3. Dance Laboratory

Description

1. 1 sound disc (ca. 42 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Mr. Callahan, tap and variety dancer then appearing in the musical comedy Two's company, discusses his training and the importance of personal style in commercial dancing; the importance of performing experience; working with Jerome Robbins, choreographer, on Callahan's role in Two's company; the use of ballet technique in tap dancing; variety dancers compared to ballet dancers; the particular problems of performing in the commercial theater; the film medium and tap dancing; the different problems involved in tap dancing on television and before a live audience; the dances to be demonstrated for the audience.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Walter Terry.
2. New York State Council for the Arts, 2005-2006.
3. Oral History Archive.

Subject

1. Callahan, Bill
2. Tap dancing
3. Tap dancers
4. Musicals
5. Dancers -- United States -- 20th century
6. Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
7. Musical comedies. Two's company
8. Interpretation in dance performance
9. Dance technique
10. Audiotapes -- Callahan, B

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-106

Note

1. Interviewer: Walter Terry.
2. Recorded January 25, 1963. The fourth in the 1952-1953 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, given at the Young Men's - Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council for the Arts, 2005-2006.

Local note

1. Archive original: *MGZTO 5-106. Acetate; half track.
2. Former classmark: *MGZT 5-106.

Author

1. Callahan, Bill. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview-demonstration with Bill Callahan [sound recording] : the art of performing.

Imprint

1. 1953.

Funding

1. Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council for the Arts, 2005-2006.

Local subject

1. Musical comedies. Two's company.
2. Interpretation in dance performance.
3. Dance technique.
4. Audiotapes -- Callahan, B.

Added author

1. Terry, Walter. Interviewer
2. 92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.)
3. Dance Laboratory.

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-106 [sound disc]