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Interview with Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Title
  1. Interview with Brenda Dixon Gottschild [sound recording].
Published by
  1. 2001.
Author
  1. Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.

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Additional authors
  1. Moseley, Monica.
Description
  1. 4 sound cassettes (ca. 270 min.) +
Summary
  1. Cassette 1. 4/30/01 (80 min.): Dixon-Gottschild discusses her family background, exposure to music; education; first experiences with dance; her relationship to the culture and religion around her as a girl and young woman. She then discusses in depth her work in and studies with Mary Anthony; her first trip to Europe; her dance and personal experiences there; her thoughts on race at that time, particularly in reference to her own experiences; performing with the Open Theater and working with director Joe Chaiken and others involved with the theater at that time.
  2. Cassette 2. 5/07/01 (90 min.): Dixon-Gottschild continues to discuss her family background; racial issues; her life in the late 1960s; more on her work with the Open Theater and deciding to leave; her trip to Tunisia; marrying Esty Stowell; getting a job at Bennington College and leaving after a year; the beginnings of her work as a writer; her graduate work; working for the College of New Rochelle.
  3. Cassette 3. 5/07/01 (90 min): Dixon-Gottschild discusses the development of her teaching [interview pauses and resumes that evening]; her academic work in anthropology; thoughts on Katherine Dunham; various people she may have known or seen perform in New York, including Pearl Primus, Robert Farris Thompson, and Allegra Fuller Snyder; the 1990 Dance Critics Association conference; Richard Schechner; teaching criticism; John Szwed and Roger Abrahams; developing the doctoral program at Temple University; her own research; Philadelphia Dance Company; the work of her husband Hellmutt Gottschild; their work together.
  4. Cassette 4. 5/07/01 (10 min.): Conversation continues about her work with Hellmutt Gottschild, the scope of her touring and her work internationally.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
Alternative title
  1. Dance Oral History Project.
  2. Dance Audio Archive.
Subject
  1. African American authors
  2. Thompson, Robert Farris
  3. Philadelphia Dance Company
  4. African American women
  5. Primus, Pearl
  6. African Americans > Race identity
  7. Gottschild, Brenda Dixon
  8. Gottschild, Hellmut
  9. Open Theater
  10. Anthony, Mary
Call number
  1. *MGZMT 3-2315
Note
  1. Recorded on April 30, 2001 and May 7, 2001 in Philadelphia, Pa. For transcript see *MGZMT 3-2315.
  2. Interview conducted by Monica Moseley.
  3. For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2315.
Access (note)
  1. Permission required for sound recording.
  2. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Funding (note)
  1. Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
Author
  1. Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. Interviewee
Title
  1. Interview with Brenda Dixon Gottschild [sound recording].
Imprint
  1. 2001.
Access
  1. Permission required for sound recording.
Funding
  1. Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
Restricted access
  1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Added author
  1. Moseley, Monica. Interviewer
Research call number
  1. *MGZMT 3-2315 [Transcript]
  2. *MGZTC 3-2315 [Sound cassettes]
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