- Additional Authors
- Small, Linda
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 1 hour and 36 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 52 minutes). May O'Donnell speaks with Linda Small about the classes at her studio, in particular the technique taught; Martha Graham, including how Small's style of dancing differed from that of Graham's; her first years with the Martha Graham Dance Company and Graham's lasting influence on her; her life in New York at the time including her friendship with Gertrude Shurr; Louis Horst's composition class; contemporary choreographers she likes; audiences today; her first dance classes and early performances; her family and childhood; her early choreography [ends abruptly but continues directly on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 44 minutes). May O'Donnell speaks with Linda Small about her early choreography; performing with José Limón; her work with Erick Hawkins and Martha Graham, in the 1940s; her own company and her work Dance concerto; teaching at Mills College and elsewhere in the 1960s; reviving her work Suspension for Alvin [Ailey]; her work Dance energies; her current activities.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Oral histories.
- Note
- For transcript of interview see: *MGZMT 5-970.
- Interview with May O'Donnell conducted by Linda Small on March 19, 1979 at May O'Donnell's studio in New York City for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division Oral History Project, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Sound quality is good overall. The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Funding (note)
- The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 5-970
- OCLC
- 78524601
- Author
O'Donnell, May, 1906-2004, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with May O'Donnell, 1979
- Imprint
1979.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Event
Recorded by Linda Small for The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 1979, March 19 New York (N.Y.)
- Funding
The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately 1 hour and 36 minutes); polyester; half-track; 1.875 ips; 5 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto5970_v01f01p01_sc and myd_mgzto5970_v01f01p02_sc.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Small, Linda, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 5-970