Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hagen, Uta, 1919-2004
2. Shimin, Tonia
3. Sherman, Roger, 1958-
4. DHCA.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (11 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

1. Footage recorded for a projected documentary on Mary Anthony, a modern dancer, choreographer and teacher.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Tonia Shimin.

Series statement

1. Mary Anthony: a life in modern dance preliminary footage.

Subject

1. Anthony, Mary
2. Interviews
3. Dance teachers > United States
4. Modern dance > United States
5. Hagen, Uta, 1919-2004 > Interviews
6. Video
7. Dance
8. Dancers > United States > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Interviews.
3. Video.

Contents

1. Actor Uta Hagen gives her impressions of Mary Anthony, whom she first met at the HB (Herbert Berghof) Studio, where Anthony had been invited to teach movement classes for actors, and later to coach the morris dancers in the studio's Christmas mummers' plays. Hagen describes Anthony's "intense discipline," her ability to surprise, her youthfulness of body and spirit, and her devoted care for Hanya Holm, a mutual friend, in her last years.

Call number

1. *MGZIA 4-3647

Note

1. Unedited footage.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped on December 11, 1998 ; videography, Roger Sherman.

Title

1. Uta Hagen interview, 12/11/98 [videorecording]

Imprint

1. 1998.

Series

1. Mary Anthony: a life in modern dance preliminary footage.

Event

1. Videotaped on December 11, 1998 ; videography, Roger Sherman.

Performer

1. Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.

Added author

1. Hagen, Uta, 1919-2004, interviewee.
2. Shimin, Tonia, interviewer.
3. Sherman, Roger, 1958-
4. DHCA.

Research call number

1. *MGZIA 4-3647