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Interview with Jason Childers

Title
  1. Interview with Jason Childers [sound recording]
Published by
  1. 1997.
Author
  1. Childers, Jason.

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Additional authors
  1. Kraft, Susan, 1961-
Description
  1. 2 sound cassettes (180 min.) +
Summary
  1. Cassette 1. Recorded March 21, 1997. Mr. Childers recalls significant aspects of his childhood; coping with being HIV positive; his first experiences with the performing arts, including singing, musical theater, ballet and mime; attending Ohio University and becoming seriously interested in dance; auditioning three times before being accepted by the University's dance department; the impact of AIDS activism on his work; moving to New York; working with Kenneth Rinker; his difficult relationship with Rinker; working with Laura Dean; beginning to show his own choreography; more on the impact of AIDS on his work; Building the gates, his series of pieces based on Auguste Rodin's "Gates of Hell"; living and working during the height of the AIDS epidemic and how things have changed since the availability of Protease inhibitors; and his experiences with and reflections on the AIDS activist organization, ACT UP.
  2. Cassette 2. Recorded March 26, 1997. Mr. Childers discusses the benefit for the Gay Men's Health Crisis that he curated at Performance Space 122 and how it reflected his attitude towards himself in this period; working with Poppo and the Go-Go Boys; his developing interest in Buto dance and meditation as he experienced these forms with Poppo Shiraishi; Shiraishi's creative process; leaving Poppo and the Go-Go Boys; taking a break from performing; his thoughts on technique; faith and gaining control of his life and work; hoping to get off disability since improvements in his health; his difficulties with Public Assistance Programs; and other aspects of being HIV positive.
Alternative title
  1. Dance Oral History Project.
  2. Dance Audio Archive.
Subject
  1. Performance Space 122
  2. Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917
  3. Shiraishi, Poppo
  4. ACT UP (Organization)
  5. Rinker, Kenneth
  6. AIDS (Disease) and the arts
  7. Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc
  8. Audiotapes > Childers, J
  9. Poppo & the GoGo Boys
  10. AIDS (Disease)
Call number
  1. *MGZMT 3-2099
Note
  1. For transcript, see: *MGZMT 3-2099.
  2. Interviewed by Susan Kraft, March 21 and 26, 1997, at the Dance Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
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  1. Permission required.
  2. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Author
  1. Childers, Jason. Interviewee
Title
  1. Interview with Jason Childers [sound recording]
Imprint
  1. 1997.
Access
  1. Permission required.
Restricted access
  1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Local subject
  1. Audiotapes -- Childers, J.
Added author
  1. Kraft, Susan, 1961- Interviewer
Research call number
  1. *MGZMT 3-2099 [Transcript]
  2. *MGZTC 3-2099 [Cassette]
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