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Interview with Lynn Simonson

Title
  1. Interview with Lynn Simonson [sound recording]
Published by
  1. 1993.
Author
  1. Simonson, Lynn.

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Additional authors
  1. Sunshine, Louise.
Description
  1. 2 sound cassettes (170 min.) +
Summary
  1. Cassette 1. Recorded September 29, 1993. Ms. Simonson discusses her childhood; studying ballet; first teaching at age 13; her first choreography at age 12; her initiation to jazz music and musical theater; beginning to teach jazz dance at age 16; moving to New York; her first dancing job at Radio City Music Hall; other early jobs; her knee injury and how it inspired her to study anatomy; studying jazz technique with Luigi, Jaime Rogers and Claude Thompson; describes Luigi's classes; meeting Helen Le Clerq; going to Amsterdam to teach; the development of anatomical awareness in her teaching; meeting Heinz Laurenzen and teaching at his summer courses in Cologne, Germany; first studying modern dance; returning to New York; starting Theatre Dance Collection with Lynne Taylor, Rodney Griffin and others; formalizing and deepening her approach to teaching technique.
  2. Cassette 2. Recorded November 5, 1993. Ms. Simonson continues her discussion of the 1970's and her philosophies of dance and teaching; the influence of Mabel Elsworth Todd; her connections with Danny Buraczeski andFred Benjamin; researching the history of jazz dance; Liz Thompson and Jacob's Pillow; using improvisation in her class; training teachers; the opening of Dance Space, Inc. in New York and the related nonprofit organization Evolving Arts, Inc.; the influence of her second husband, Charles Wright; her holistic approach to teaching; the beginning of her work with Expanded Dance at Windhover Center for the Performing Arts in Rockport, Mai
Alternative title
  1. Dance Oral History Project.
  2. Dance Audio Archive.
Subject
  1. Theatre Dance Collection (Company)
  2. Benjamin, Fred
  3. Luigi
  4. Windhover Center for the Performing Arts
  5. Leclerc, Hélène
  6. Thompson, Liz (Elizabeth Lauter)
  7. Thompson, Claude
  8. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
  9. Taylor, Lynne
  10. Todd, Mabel Elsworth
  11. Griffin, Rodney
  12. Jazz dance > Study and teaching
  13. Evolving Arts, Inc
  14. Dance Space, Inc
  15. Rogers, Jaime
  16. Laurenzen, Heinz
  17. Buraczeski, Danny
Call number
  1. *MGZTC 3-1824
Note
  1. Interviewed by Louise Sunshine at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  2. For trancript see: *MGZMT 3-1824.
Access (note)
  1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Author
  1. Simonson, Lynn. Interviewee
Title
  1. Interview with Lynn Simonson [sound recording]
Imprint
  1. 1993.
Restricted access
  1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Added author
  1. Sunshine, Louise. Interviewer
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