Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Farlow, Lesley.

Description

1. 4 sound cassettes (4 hours, 15 min.)

Alternative title

1. Dance Oral History Project.

Subject

1. New Dance League
2. Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)
3. Jewish dance
4. Audiotapes > Segal, E
5. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)

Contents

1. SUMMARY: Reel 1. Miss Segal discusses studying dance at the Neighborhood Playhouse; eloping; the Lenin Memorial in Chicago; performing at Madison Square Garden; Nature Friends Dance Group; Needle Trades Dance Group; Federal Theatre Project in Detroit; going to the Soviet Union in 1931; the Yiddish operetta, Bunt mit a Statchke. - Reel 2. Her works: Memorial dance, The belt goes red, Black and white, The third degree; Workers' Dance League; her philosophy of art; studying with Martha Graham; her own choreography; touring on the Publix Circuit; The Magic fountain; performing for Moiseyev. - Reel 3. The McCarthy investigations; her involvement with the Rosenbergs; Camp Kinderland; the Sherele, a folk dance; teaching folk dancing; her poetry for children. - Reel 4. Working with children using movement and poetry.

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-1153

Note

1. Interviewed by Lesley Farlow 14 & 25 Jan.; 1 Feb. 1991 in Brooklyn, NY.
2. The other voices on the tape are those of Miss Segal's husband, Samuel Kamen, and her friend, Elfrida Mahler.
3. For transcript of interview see, *MGZMT 3-1153.

Author

1. Segal, Edith, 1902-1997. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Edith Segal [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1991.

Local subject

1. Jewish dance.
2. Audiotapes -- Segal, E.

Added author

1. Farlow, Lesley. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-1153