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Interview with John Kelly

Title
  1. Interview with John Kelly [sound recording]
Published by
  1. 1994-1995.
Author
  1. Kelly, John, 1954-

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Additional authors
  1. Kraft, Susan, 1961-
  2. DHCA
Description
  1. 2 sound cassettes (3 hr.) +
Summary
  1. Cassette 1. Recorded Dec. 7, 1994. Mr. Kelly disucusses his family background; early interest in art; exposure to music through the church; early feelings relating to sexuality; the place of the artist in society; James Waring; getting scholarships at the American Ballet Theatre school and Harkness House; leaving dance and going to art school; developing an interest in club performances; the invention of his female alter ego, Dagmar Onassis; working with the Trockadero Gloxinia Ballet Company; performing at P.S. 122 and Danspace Project; the role of dance in his pieces; abstract versus dramatic movement; Pina Bausch; drag; conflicts with presenters; voice training; financial problems; Huck Synder; the creative process; and the role Barbette [from his Light shall lift them].
  2. Cassette 2. Recorded Feb. 8, 1995. Mr. Kelly discusses the development of Pass the blutwurst, bitte; the power of art; funding; the focus on death in his work; AIDS; frustrations in his career; his future plans; critical responses to his work; presenters and the general climate for performers; the National Performance Network; the process of reconstructing Pass the blutwurst, bitte; and criticism.
Alternative title
  1. Dance Oral History Project.
  2. Dance Audio Archive.
Subject
  1. American Ballet Theatre > School
  2. National Performance Network
  3. Dancers en travesti
  4. Death in dance
  5. Light shall lift them (Choreographic work : Kelly)
  6. Trockadero Gloxinia Ballet Company
  7. Snyder, Huck
  8. Waring, James
  9. Pass the blutwurst, bitte (Choreographic work : Kelly)
  10. AIDS (Disease) and the arts
  11. Harkness House for Ballet Arts (New York, N.Y.)
  12. Bausch, Pina
  13. Kelly, John, 1954-
Call number
  1. *MGZMT 3-1845
Note
  1. Interviewed by Susan Kraft at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  2. For transcript see *MGZMT 3-1845.
Access (note)
  1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Author
  1. Kelly, John, 1954- Interviewee
Title
  1. Interview with John Kelly [sound recording]
Imprint
  1. 1994-1995.
Restricted access
  1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Local subject
  1. Death in dance.
  2. Dancers en travesti.
Added author
  1. Kraft, Susan, 1961- Interviewer
  2. DHCA
Research call number
  1. *MGZMT 3-1845 [Transcript]
  2. *MGZTC 3-1845 (cassette)
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