Research Catalog

Title

Erika Thimey: dances and conversations [electronic resource]

Publication

1980.

Details

Additional Authors

• Thimey, Erika, 1910-2006
• Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

Description

1 streaming video file (NTSC) (59 min.) : sd., col.

Subjects

• Children, Performances for
• Religious dance > United States
• Television > Erika Thimey: dances and conversations
• Biographies
• Interviews
• Veen, Jan, 1908-1967
• Thimey, Erika, 1910-2006

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Biographies.

Note

• Producers: Barbara Kates and Dianne Hunt. Director: Michael Moser.
• A documentary about the life and work of modern dancer/choreographer Erika Thimey, from her beginnings in Germany as a student of Wigman and Hanya Holm, her American tours with Jan Veen, and her work in Washington, D.C. Miss Thimey talks about her pioneering work in liturgical dance, her first experiments in dance for children's audiences, and her continuing interest in the humanitarian aspects of dance.
• The tape includes excerpts from her works A day for dancing (music: Lloyd Pfautsch; performed by dancers of the Oakland United Presbyterian Church, Laurel, Md.); Galoob and Galick, a dance for children; and A fear not of one, to a text from T.S. Eliot's Murder in the cathedral (music: E. Lohoefer; performed by members of the Washington Dance Theatre).
• Featured dancers include Sally C. Crowell, Charlotte Floyd, Carolyn Harper, Stephen Johnson, E. Raye LeValley, and Diana Parson.

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding (note)

• Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 4950

OCLC

NYPY837032793-F

Title

Erika Thimey: dances and conversations [electronic resource]

Imprint

1980.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-515.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Television. Erika Thimey: dances and conversations.

Religious dance -- United States.

Children, Performances for.

Added Author

Thimey, Erika, 1910-2006, choreographer. Interviewee

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 4950

*MGZIC 9-515 (former)