Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Anthony, Mary.
2. Ford, Mary.
3. Shimin, Tonia.
4. Quinn, David P.
5. DHCA.

Description

1. 2 videocassettes (84 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. Ford, Mary > Interviews
2. Ceremony of carols (Choreographic work : Anthony)
3. Rooms (Choreographic work : Sokolow)
4. Parkes, Ross
5. Dance
6. Fables for our time (Choreographic work : Weidman)
7. Magdalen (Choreographic work : Anthony)
8. Modern dance > United States
9. Dancers > United States > 20th century
10. Dreams (Choreographic work : Sokolow)
11. In the beginning (Choreographic work : Anthony)
12. Antiphon (Choreographic work : Anthony)
13. Kloepper, Louise, 1910-1996
14. Cain and Abel (Choreographic work : Anthony)
15. Tabula rasa (Choreographic work : Anthony)
16. National Endowment for the Arts > Artists-in-Schools Program
17. Video
18. Dance teachers > United States
19. Interviews
20. Kimura, Yuriko
21. Choreographers > United States > 20th century
22. Sokolow, Anna
23. Weidman, Charles
24. Mary Anthony Dance Theatre
25. Anthony, Mary > Interviews

Genre/Form

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

Contents

1. Cassette 1. [Interview with Mary Anthony] (ca. 48 min.) / Anthony discusses her interest in Biblical themes in dance, and her works In the beginning (with Ross Parkes as Adam and Yuriko Kimura as Eve), Cain and Abel, and Antiphon ; her visit to Israel ; her admiration for passion in dancing, and her belief that the artist must experience the full emotional range of life ; the inspiration she finds in her dancers, with Ceremony of carols as an example ; her company's revivals of Sokolow's Rooms and Dreams, and Weidman's Fables for our time ; teaching in the Artists-in-Schools program ; the evolution of her teaching, and the influence of Louise Kloepper ; sources of inspiration for her teaching, including nature and the visual arts ; the creative component of her class ; her different approaches to different class levels ; the importance of "seeing movement" ; the present-day emphasis on technique, to the detriment of emotional expression. The first 42 min. of this interview also appear on *MGZIA 4-3632 Mary Anthony interview, camera one and two, 7/22/98. This cassette also contains a 1-min. set-up shot of Mary Ford's interview.
2. Cassette 2. [Interview with Mary Ford] (ca. 36 min.) / Mary Ford, now a dancer with the Limón Dance Company, discusses her impressions of Mary Anthony, with whom she has studied since 1993 ; Anthony's qualities as a teacher ; specific examples of her teaching, and ways in which her students learn to "see movement" ; how she helped develop Ford's skills as a choreographer both in terms of outward form and inner life ; creating roles in Anthony's Tabula rasa (1996) and the solo The Magdalen ; Anthony as a role model, and her nurturance of young talent ; their friendship, and Anthony's influence upon her life ; how Ford began to work with Anthony.

Call number

1. *MGZIA 4-3634

Note

1. Unedited footage.
2. Contains the same interview material, recorded by a different camera, as *MGZIA 4-3633 Mary Anthony and Mary Ford interviews, camera one, 7/22/98.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in New York on July 22, 1998 ; videography, David Quinn.

Title

1. Mary Anthony and Mary Ford interviews, camera two, 7/22/98 [videorecording]

Imprint

1. 1998.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Series

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

Event

1. Videotaped in New York on July 22, 1998 ; videography, David Quinn.

Performer

1. Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.

Added author

1. Anthony, Mary. Interviewee
2. Ford, Mary. Interviewee
3. Shimin, Tonia. Interviewer
4. Quinn, David P.
5. DHCA.

Research call number

1. *MGZIA 4-3634