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Summary
Documentary on a conference on the early years of American modern dance, held at the State University of New York, Purchase, New York, in April 1981. Among the speakers who appear in the documentary are: Patricia Kerr Ross, director of the University-wide Programs in the Arts; Hanya Holm, who recalls her early training with Mary Wigman; Barton Mumaw, who reminisces about Denishawn and Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers; May O'Donnell, Gertrude Shurr, and Dorothy Bird, who discuss various aspects of working with Martha Graham; Nona Schurman, Eleanor King, Kenneth Bostock, and Ernestine Stodelle, who worked with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman; Bessie Schoenberg, Ruth Lloyd, and Eve Gentry, who discuss the Bennington School of the Dance; and others. The documentary also captures glimpses of technique classes taught at the conference by Mumaw, O'Donnell, Shurr, Stodelle, Maria Theresa Duncan, Kay Bardsley, Julia Levien, Klarna Pinska, Bonnie Bird, Sophie Maslow, and others.
DANCE EXCERPTS: Valse à la Loïe. Choreography: Ruth St. Denis, staged by Robin Rice Baker. Music: Frédéric Chopin (Waltz no. 14, op. posth.). Lighting: John Conway. Performed by Nancy Langsner and Lisa Schmidt of the Dance Corps at Purchase. Pianist: Oleg Zvorykin. -- "Go down Moses" from Negro spirituals. Choreography: Helen Tamiris. Music: arranged from traditional songs by Geneviève Pitot. Costume: Alec Sutherland. Lighting: F. Mitchell Dana. Performed by Bruce Becker. Singer: Eugene Brice. -- Soaring. Choreography: Ruth St. Denis and Doris Humphrey. Music: Robert Schumann (Aufschwung, from Fantasiestücke, op. 12). Lighting: Conway. Danced by Donna Tambussi, Angelique d'Addario, Langsner, Cathleen McCarthy, and Schmidt of the Dance Corps at Purchase. Pianist: Zvorykin.
Call number
*MGZIDF 8590
Note
Presented by the State University of New York. Produced/conceived by Patricia Kerr Ross. Distributed as a videorecording by the Research Foundation of State University of New York.
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Funding (note)
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Title
The early years: American modern dance, 1900-1930's [electronic resource]
Imprint
c1982.
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 9-2560.
Additional Copy 1: None.
Additional Copy 2: 1 3/4" videocassette, dubbed from A.O., 1/91; in Princeton ReCAP Regular Storage; was vid. viewing copy until 4/2017.