Interview with Phyllis Gutelius
- Title
- Interview with Phyllis Gutelius [sound recording].
- Published by
- 1977.
- Author
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datev. 2 | FormatAudio | AccessSupervised use | Call number*MGZMT 3-1840 [transcript] v. 2 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datev. 1 | FormatAudio | AccessSupervised use | Call number*MGZMT 3-1840 [transcript] v. 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datecassette 7 | FormatAudio | AccessNo restrictions | Call number*MGZTC 3-1840 [sound cassette] cassette 7 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datecassette 6 | FormatAudio | AccessNo restrictions | Call number*MGZTC 3-1840 [sound cassette] cassette 6 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datecassette 5 | FormatAudio | AccessNo restrictions | Call number*MGZTC 3-1840 [sound cassette] cassette 5 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datecassette 4 | FormatAudio | AccessNo restrictions | Call number*MGZTC 3-1840 [sound cassette] cassette 4 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datecassette 3 | FormatAudio | AccessNo restrictions | Call number*MGZTC 3-1840 [sound cassette] cassette 3 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datecassette 2 | FormatAudio | AccessNo restrictions | Call number*MGZTC 3-1840 [sound cassette] cassette 2 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datecassette 1 | FormatAudio | AccessNo restrictions | Call number*MGZTC 3-1840 [sound cassette] cassette 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/date | FormatAudio | AccessSupervised use | Call number*MGZMT 3-1840 [transcript] | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 7 sound cassettes (ca. 7 hrs., 45 min.) +
- Summary
- Cassette 1. Phyllis Gutelius discusses her early ballet training and studying at the Graham school; her first tour with the Martha Graham Dance Company; dancing the role of the saint in Graham's Seraphic dialogue; Graham's Night journey; her smaller roles in the company; her first solo roles in Seraphic dialogue and Part real - part dream, and the role of Iphigenia in Clytemnestra; and her acting training.
- Cassette 2. Ms. Gutelius discusses Graham's choreographies Deaths and entrances, El penitente, Errand into the maze; Appalachian spring, and Clytemnestra.
- Cassette 3. Ms. Gutelius further discusses Seraphic dialogue; the origins of Graham's personality; Graham's Embattled garden, Errand into the maze, Night journey, and Deaths and entrances.
- Cassette 4. Ms. Gutelius discusses Graham's Clytemnestra; the choreography, in great detail, of Deaths and entrances, comparing Graham's physicality to her own and the different ways they approached this work; her acting training with Sandy [Sanford] Meisner.
- Cassette 5. Detailed discussion of Deaths and entrances continues, and discussion of Graham's Letter to the world; Pearl Lang; Night journey; and Gutelius' difficult relationship with Graham.
- Cassette 6. Ms. Gutelius discusses Graham's Herodiade; further conflicts with Graham; Graham's Cave of the heart and her own character work in this piece; her decision to study ballet in order to gain strength; performing with the company again after a year and a half break; the state of the company during the 1970's; Graham's Primitive mysteries; taking class with Jane Dudley; difficulties in rehearsing Primitive mysteries; Graham's cruelty; the changes Graham made in Primitive mysteries and Clytemnestra from their original versions; her own training; her early performances with the company; working with Antony Tudor and with Yuriko's dance company.
- Cassette 7 (side A only). Ms. Gutelius discusses studying ballet, other modern techniques and acting; the 1970 Graham company tour; Martha Graham's decision to stop performing; the power struggles within the company; getting injured; studying yoga and its value and relationship to Gutelius' technique.
- Donor/Sponsor
- DHCA
- New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
- Alternative title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subject
- Graham, Martha
- Graham, Martha > Hérodiade
- Graham, Martha > Clytemnestra
- Graham, Martha > Primitive mysteries
- Graham, Martha > Errand into the maze
- Graham, Martha > Penitente
- Graham, Martha > Deaths and entrances
- Graham, Martha > Embattled garden
- Yoga
- Graham, Martha > Cave of the heart
- Graham, Martha > Night journey
- Tudor, Antony, 1908-1987
- Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009
- Graham, Martha > Letter to the world
- Martha Graham Dance Company
- Yuriko and Dance Company
- Part real - part dream (Choreographic work : Graham)
- Graham, Martha > Seraphic dialogue
- Graham, Martha > Appalachian spring
- Dudley, Jane
- Meisner, Sanford
- Call number
- *MGZMT 3-1840
- Note
- Interview with Phyllis Gutelius conducted by Jean Nuchtern, in Oct. and Nov., 1977, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in New York City.
- For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-1840.
- The recordings contain some extraneous noise and gaps.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
- Author
- Gutelius, Phyllis. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Phyllis Gutelius [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1977.
- Funding
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
- Local note
- Archive copies: *MGZTO 5-1840, nos. 1-3
- Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-1840, pts. 1-5.
- Preservation masters: *MGZTP 4-1840 nos. 1-9
- Dubbing masters: *MGZTD 4-1840 nos. 1-9
- Added author
- Nuchtern, Jean. Interviewer
- Research call number
- *MGZTC 3-1840 [sound cassettes]