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Interview with Zelda Wynn

Title
  1. Interview with Zelda Wynn [sound recording]
Published by
  1. 1995.
Author
  1. Valdes, Zelda Wynn.

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FormatAudioAccessUse in libraryCall number*MGZTC 3-1864 (sound cassette)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
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Additional authors
  1. Schoelwer, Ed.
Description
  1. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min) +
Summary
  1. Recorded May 4, 1995. Ms. Wynn discusses her childhood in Chambersburg, Penn.; segregation; learning to sew from her grandmother; moving to New York City; working at her uncle's tailor shop in White Plains, N.Y.; opening her first dressmaking business; Ella Fitzgerald; Josephine Baker; Marian Anderson; the War Against Poverty; Arthur Mitchell; the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell; the Dance Theatre of Harlem and its tour to Spoleto; experiencing racism; costuming Mr. Mitchell's Holberg suite; the process of working with choreographers and building costumes from sketches; George Balanchine's Bugaku; teaching dance students to sew; Bill Blass; open houses at Dance Theatre of Harlem; Pamela Allen; Fashion Designers of America; dying tights to match dancers' skin tones; pointe shoe maintenance; fundraising for the Dance Theatre of Harlem; performing in Giselle; and Frederic Franklin.
Alternative title
  1. Dance Oral History Project.
  2. Dance Audio Archive.
Subject
  1. Mitchell, Arthur, 1934-2018
  2. Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
  3. Balanchine, George > Bugaku
  4. Dance Theatre of Harlem
  5. Holberg suite (Choreographic work : Mitchell)
  6. Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
  7. Giselle (Choreographic work : Franklin after Petipa, M)
  8. Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013
  9. Allen, Pamela
Call number
  1. *MGZMT 3-1864
Note
  1. Interviewed by Ed Schoelwer.
  2. For transcript see *MGZMT 3-1864.
Access (note)
  1. Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
Author
  1. Valdes, Zelda Wynn. Interviewee
Title
  1. Interview with Zelda Wynn [sound recording]
Imprint
  1. 1995.
Local note
  1. Preservation master cassette in: *MGZTCO 3-1864.
  2. Archival transcript in: *MGZMTO 3-1864.
Restricted access
  1. Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
Added author
  1. Schoelwer, Ed. Interviewer
Research call number
  1. *MGZMT 3-1864 [Transcript]
  2. *MGZTC 3-1864 [Cassette]
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