Interview with Joe Nash
- Title
- Interview with Joe Nash [sound recording].
- Published by
- 1999.
- Author
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datereel 2 | FormatAudio | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZTC 3-2294 [sound cassette] reel 2 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datereel 1 | FormatAudio | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZTC 3-2294 (sound cassette) reel 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/date | FormatAudio | AccessSupervised use | Call number*MGZMT 3-2294 (transcript) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional authors
- 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.
- Alternative title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subject
- Call number
- *MGZMT 3-2294
- 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)
- Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
- 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]