Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Dunning, Jennifer.

Description

1. 6 sound cassettes (approx. 6 hours, 30 min.) Transcript (191 leaves)

Summary

1. Cassette 1, 4/1/2000. Ms. McIntyre gives some general background on her career including the reasons she eventually closed her dance company Sounds in Motion; she discusses administration and fundraising; the National Endowment for the Arts Touring Project; her personal background; her dance/theater piece about her father, I could stop on a dime and get ten cents change; her mother; her early training; issues of race and integration in dance; her 1974 trip to Haiti and its impact on her; her piece, Union; making shows as a child; her first modern dance classes; influences from the modern dance world including Anna Sokolow; other people who influenced her while studying at Ohio State University including Lucy Venable, Senta Driver and James Payton; the social and political environment at Ohio State in the late 1960s.
2. Cassette 2, 4/1/2000. McIntyre discusses studying Nikolais technique with Phyllis Lamhut; studying with Viola Farber; the support she received for her early work from Louise Roberts; her first concert in New York; her involvement with music and musicians; the issue of race in her work; other early work with her company; performing at the Delacorte Theater; the experience of performing with the Dance Mobile produced by the Harlem Cultural Council; Sounds in Motion's move to their own studio and the opening of their school; the gathering of people in the arts at that studio; work with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar; the core dancers in her original company including Bernadine Jennings and Cheryl Banks; her piece Deep South suite.
3. Cassette 3, 4/1/2000 (20 min. only). Discussion continues on McIntyre's dances Deep South suite, Life's force, and Smoke and clouds. McIntyre describes the qualities she looks for in choosing dancers for her work.
4. Cassette 4, 4/8/2000. McIntyre discusses important artistic influences including Anna Sokolow and Gus Solomons; working with musicians Cecil Taylor and Eubie Blake; her dance, Memories; the process of creating Shadows with Taylor; other musicians she worked with, including Don Pullen and Olu Dara; compares Pullen, Taylor and Dara; the term jazz and its connotation; Hannibal Lokumbe (Marvin Hannibal Peterson); her interest in Helen Tamiris and the experience of reconstructing Tamiris' work, How long brethren?
5. Cassette 5, 4/8/2000. McIntyre continues to discuss the reconstruction of How long brethren? in detail; some general thoughts about Tamiris; issues of racial identity in dance; understanding dance in terms of its own context; work she has done for recording artists, television and film, including the films Miss Evers' Boys and Beloved.
6. Cassette 6, 4/8/2000 (10 min. only). McIntyre discusses her piece, Ancestral voices; working with costume designer Romare Bearden; describes her feeling about dance as a source of inspiration.

Alternative title

1. Dance Oral History Project.
2. Dance Audio Archive.

Subject

1. Solomons, Gus, Jr., 1938-2023
2. Dara, Olu
3. Tamiris, Helen, 1905-1966
4. Banks, Cheryl
5. Sokolow, Anna
6. Union (Choreographic work : McIntyre)
7. Jennings, Bernadine
8. Dancemobile
9. Roberts, Louise
10. Memories (Choreographic work : McIntyre)
11. Peterson, Marvin Hannibal
12. Ancestral voices (Choreographic work : McIntyre)
13. Deep South suite (Choreographic work : McIntyre)
14. McIntyre, Dianne > Interviews
15. Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo
16. Taylor, Cecil, 1929-
17. Bearden, Romare, 1911-1988
18. Sounds in motion (Dance company)
19. Audiotapes > McIntyre, D
20. Pullen, Don
21. Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983
22. Smoke and clouds (Choreographic work : McIntyre)

Call number

1. *MGZMT 3-2252

Note

1. Recorded April 1, 2000 and April 8, 2000.
2. Conducted by Jennifer Dunning in a New York Times office.
3. For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2252

Access (note)

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Author

1. McIntyre, Dianne. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Dianne McIntyre [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 2000.

Local note

1. Preservation master tape: *MGZTCO 3-2252.
2. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2252.
3. Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2252.
4. Archive originals: *MGZTCO 3-2252 nos. 1-6

Restricted access

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- McIntyre, D.

Added author

1. Dunning, Jennifer. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZMT 3-2252 [Transcript]
2. *MGZTC 3-2252 [Cassette]