Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Bird, Dorothy, 1912-1996
2. Graham, Martha
3. Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
4. DHCA

Description

1. 2 videocassettes (98 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

1. Second in a series of workshops in Graham technique taught by Dorothy Bird, a member of Martha Graham's company from 1931 to 1937. The exercises reflect Graham's teaching at the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York, in the early 1930s. Some are based on Graham's choreography of the time, such as the dances for Aeschylus's play Seven against Thebes, and Moment rustica.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Casey Villard.

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Instruction.
3. Video.

Call number

1. *MGZIA 4-4511

Event (note)

1. Videotaped at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, New York, N.Y., in 1988.

Title

1. [Dorothy Bird teaching at the Martha Graham School] [videorecording]

Imprint

1. 1988.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Event

1. Videotaped at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, New York, N.Y., in 1988.

Local subject

1. Modern dance -- Technique -- Graham.

Added author

1. Bird, Dorothy, 1912-1996.
2. Graham, Martha, choreographer.
3. Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.
4. DHCA.

Research call number

1. *MGZIA 4-4511