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Interview with Joe Nash

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	reel 2	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-2294 [sound cassette] reel 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	reel 1	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-2294 (sound cassette) reel 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.		Audio	Supervised use	*MGZMT 3-2294 (transcript)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

2 sound cassettes (ca. 150 min.) +

Summary

Cassette 1. 90 min. Mr. Nash discusses growing up; his interest in the arts in general and dance in particular; studying with Katherine Dunham and members of her company including Syvilla Fort; other dancers; the critical climate of the period; auditioning for Helen Tamiris' Show Boat; studying various techniques under the auspices of the American Theater Wing; working with Pearl Primus; taking class with Doris Humphrey; the first examples of racial integration in dance; his decision to stop dancing; his susequent work documenting the history of black dance; studying with Charles Weidman; Eleo Pomare and the tradition of modern dance as social protest; the particular challenges faced by black artists doing this type of work.
Cassette 2. 60 min. Mr. Nash discusses his ongoing interest in vernacular dance; research that he would like to do; racism in dance; his choreography.

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Note

For transcript, see *MGZMT 3-2294.
Interviewed by Wendy Perron on Nov. 9 & 11, 1999, at The Interchurch Center in New York City.

Access (note)

Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2294

OCLC

NYPY00-R25

Author

Nash, Joe, 1919-2005. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Joe Nash [sound recording].

Imprint

1999.

Local Note

Preservation master tape: *MGZTC0 3-2294.

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2294.

Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2294.

Restricted Access

Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Nash, J.

Added Author

Nash, Joe. Interviewee

Perron, Wendy. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2294 [Transcript]

*MGZTC 3-2294 [Cassette]