Research Catalog

Title

Mary Anthony interview, camera one and two, 7/22/98 [videorecording]

Publication

1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Anthony, Mary.
• Shimin, Tonia.
• Diamond, Dennis.
• Quinn, David P.
• DHCA.

Description

2 videocassettes (VHS, NTSC) (176 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

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

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Tonia Shimin.

Series Statement

Mary Anthony: a life in modern dance preliminary footage.

Subjects

• Video
• Dance teachers > United States
• Interviews
• National Endowment for the Arts > Artists-in-Schools Program
• Mary Anthony Dance Theatre
• In the beginning (Choreographic work : Anthony)
• Kloepper, Louise, 1910-1996
• Graham, Martha
• Cain and Abel (Choreographic work : Anthony)
• Rooms (Choreographic work : Sokolow)
• Fables for our time (Choreographic work : Weidman)
• Choreographers > United States > 20th century
• Dance companies > United States
• Songs (Choreographic work : Anthony)
• Antiphon (Choreographic work : Anthony)
• Dreams (Choreographic work : Sokolow)
• Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992
• Modern dance > United States
• Ceremony of carols (Choreographic work : Anthony)
• Weidman, Charles
• New York City Opera > Ballet
• Parkes, Ross
• Dancers > United States > 20th century
• Anthony, Mary > Interviews
• Butler, John, 1920-1993
• Dance
• New Dance Group (New York, N.Y.)
• Gloria (Choreographic work : Anthony)
• Sokolow, Anna
• Kimura, Yuriko
• Lyric suite (Choreographic work : Sokolow)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Interviews.
• Video.

Note

• Unedited footage.
• Cassettes 1 and 2, each ca. 88 min. long, contain the same material, taped from different camera angles.
• An additional 6 min. of this interview appears on *MGZIA 4-3634 Mary Anthony and Mary Ford interviews, camera two, 7/22/98.

Performer (note)

• Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.

Event (note)

• Videotaped in New York on July 22, 1998 ; videography, Dennis Diamond and David Quinn.

Contents

Mary Anthony discusses her arrival in New York at age 18, and her studies with Hanya Holm and Martha Graham ; her early experiences as a performer, choreographer and artist's model ; dancing in Anna Sokolow's Lyric suite and Charles Weidman's Fables for our time ; her friendship with Graham ; the genesis of her work Songs ; dancing with City Center Opera Ballet in choreography by John Butler, Weidman and others ; her work for television ; the "glory years" of her dance company, which included Ross Parkes and Yuriko Kimura, and her dances Gloria, In the beginning, 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.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3632

OCLC

NYPY99-F1141

Title

Mary Anthony interview, camera one and two, 7/22/98 [videorecording]

Imprint

1998.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Mary Anthony: a life in modern dance preliminary footage.

Event

Videotaped in New York on July 22, 1998 ; videography, Dennis Diamond and David Quinn.

Performer

Interviewer: Tonia Shimin.

Added Author

Anthony, Mary. Interviewee

Shimin, Tonia. Interviewer

Diamond, Dennis. Videographer

Quinn, David P. Videographer

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3632