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Interview-demonstration with Janet Collins the art of performing.

Title
Interview-demonstration with Janet Collins [sound recording] : the art of performing.
Author
Collins, Janet, 1917-2003
Publication
1953.

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Additional Authors
  • Terry, Walter.
  • Dance Laboratory.
Description
1 sound disc (43 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
[Begins abruptly.] Janet Collins discusses the art of performing; preparing a performance; differences between the techniques of ballet and of modern dance; working with Zachary Solov on a role; characteristics of different audiences; her philosophy of performing; the problems of being both performer and choreographer. She performs phrases from her dance, Spirituals, explaining the movement, and the ideas and feelings upon which the dance is based.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Gift of Walter Terry. Oral History Archive.
  • National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Subjects
Note
  • Interviewer: Walter Terry.
  • Recorded January 11, 1953. The third in the 1952-1953 season of Walter Terry's Dance laboratory series given at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York.
  • Overall sound quality is excellent except when the speaker steps away from the microphone to demonstrate movement. There is a small gap at the end of track 7.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-107
OCLC
NYPY737097318-R
Author
Collins, Janet, 1917-2003, interviewee.
Title
Interview-demonstration with Janet Collins [sound recording] : the art of performing.
Imprint
1953.
Local Note
Preservation funded by National Initiative to Preserve American Dance(NIPAD)
Archival original: *MGZTO 5-107; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; polyester, half track.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-107; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester, half track.
Local Subject
Audiotapes -- Collins, J.
Added Author
Terry, Walter. Interviewer
Dance Laboratory.
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-107
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