Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Farlow, Lesley.

Description

1. 2 sound cassettes (2 hrs. and 15 min.)

Alternative title

1. Dance Oral History Project.

Subject

1. Sokolow, Anna
2. June Lewis and Company
3. Metropolitan School for the Arts (Syracuse, N.Y.)
4. Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958 > Shakers
5. Lewis, June
6. Devi, Ritha
7. AIDS (Disease)
8. Syracuse University

Contents

1. SUMMARY: Cassette 1. Mr. de Palmer discusses leaving Panama and coming to Brooklyn as a child; being inspired by seeing Ritha Devi perform; seeing June Lewis and Company perform and starting to take class with June Lewis; his first performance in a reconstruction of Doris Humphrey's The shakers; Anna Sokolow's composition class; his knee injury and recovery. -- Cassette 2. Discusses his experiences at the Metropolitan School for the Arts in Syracuse, New York; trying to create a dance company there; the difficulties in recruiting male dancers; working at Syracuse University and his eventual decision to leave there; ways that living with AIDS has changed his thinking; describes taking class with Charles Weidman in the last year of Weidman's life and how he frequently referred to Doris Humphrey.

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-1820

Note

1. Interviewed by Lesley Farlow on May 18, 1992 at Ms. Farlow's apartment in New York City and August 19, 1992 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
2. For transcript of interview see *MGZMT 3-1820.

Author

1. De Palmer, Reinaldo, 1955-1993. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Reinaldo de Palmer [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1993.

Local subject

1. AIDS (Disease)

Added author

1. Farlow, Lesley. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-1820