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Interview with Donald McKayle

Title
  1. Interview with Donald McKayle [sound recording]
Published by
  1. 1979.
Author
  1. McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018.

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Additional authors
  1. Stern, Lee Edward.
Description
  1. 1 sound cassette (ca. 25 min.)
Summary
  1. Donald McKayle discusses his career, his beginnings with the New Dance Group, and the development of his style. He remembers his work with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, his own dance companies, and his work with Alvin Ailey. He discusses African-American tradition in dance, jazz music and dance as roots for his piece District Storyville, and creating dance for the theater. He describes the qualities that make a strong jazz dancer, the importance of versatility and strong instruction for a dancer, training at the California Institute of the Arts, adapting choreography to different media, and his future work in theater.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Oral History Archive.
  2. National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Uniform title
  1. Speaking of dance (Radio program)
Subject
  1. New Dance Group (New York, N.Y.)
  2. McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018 > Interviews
  3. Cunningham, Merce
  4. Audiotapes > McKayle, D
  5. Ailey, Alvin
  6. Graham, Martha
Call number
  1. *MGZTC 3-1306
Note
  1. Recorded April 30, 1979; broadcast May 6, 1979.
  2. Host: Lee Edward Stern for the WNYC, New York radio program series, Speaking of dance.
Author
  1. McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018. Interviewee
Title
  1. Interview with Donald McKayle [sound recording]
Imprint
  1. 1979.
Local note
  1. Preservation master tape: *MGZT0 7-1306.
  2. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-1306.
  3. Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).
Local subject
  1. Audiotapes -- McKayle, D.
Added author
  1. Stern, Lee Edward. Interviewer
Added title
  1. Speaking of dance (Radio program)
Research call number
  1. *MGZTC 3-1306
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