- Additional Authors
- Description
- 3 streaming video files (NTSC) (89 min.) : sd., b&w.
- Summary
- The panelists reminisce about beginning their careers and striking out on their own. Recalling the American dance scene of the 1930s and 40s, they discuss the Neighborhood Playhouse, Denishawn, Martha Graham and her company, Hanya Holm, Louis Horst, Helen Tamiris, Doris Humphrey, and Merce Cunningham, and general subjects such as themes for dance, economic survival, composers for modern dance, and the expansion of modern dance technique. Members of the audience, many of them students of New York University, contribute to a discussion covering topics such as the present-day challenges of a career in modern dance, the need for guidance vs. self-sufficiency, and dance in the university system. Cassette 1: approx. 32 min. Cassette 2: approx. 32 min. Cassette 3: approx. 25 min.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Jeff Duncan.
- Subjects
- Note
- Videotaped at a panel discussion presented as part of the Tangent series by New York University and Dance Theater Workshop. Moderator: Jeff Duncan. Panelists: Valerie Bettis, Stuart Hodes, Daniel Nagrin, Anna Sokolow, and Charles Weidman.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video files 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 7214
- OCLC
- NYPY926006366-F
- Title
Tangent [electronic resource]
- Imprint
[197-?]
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video files 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 9-2391.
Additional Copy 1: 1 1/2" VHS videocassette, donated by Jeff Duncan, 1989; was vid. viewing copy 1 until 4/2016; deteriorated and destroyed.
Additional Copy 2: 3 3/4" videocassettes, copied from A.O., 1990; in Princeton ReCAP Regular Storage; was vid. viewing copy 2 until 4/2016.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Television. Tangent.
- Added Author
Duncan, Jeff, 1930-1989. Moderator
Bettis, Valerie, 1919-1982. Speaker
Hodes, Stuart, speaker.
Nagrin, Daniel. Speaker
Sokolow, Anna, speaker.
Weidman, Charles. Speaker
New York University.
Dance Theater Workshop.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 7214
*MGZIC 9-2391 (former)