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Dance, a multi-faceted dance community

Title
Dance, a multi-faceted dance community [sound recording] / the New Dance Group.
Author
Manings, Muriel.
Publication
1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Manings, Muriel.
  • Berke, Stanley.
  • Remer, Jane.
  • McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018
  • Primus, Pearl.
  • Stein, Rebecca.
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.
  • Congress on Research in Dance. Conference (1993 : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
  • Society of Dance History Scholars (U.S.). Conference (1993 : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
Description
2 sound discs (ca. 83 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  • Disc 1 (ca. 63 min.). [Begins abruptly.] Muriel Manings, the moderator, speaks briefly about the origins of The New Dance Group; introduces the panelists, Rebecca Stein, Stanley Berke, Jane Remer, Donald McKayle, and Pearl Primus. Stein speaks about the beginnings and early days of The New Dance Group, including its political aspects; Berke speaks about how he came to join The New Dance Group; Manings speaks briefly about The New Dance Group's student body and curriculum; Remer, McKayle, and Primus each speaks about how he or she came to join The Dance Group; Manings speaks about the Group's scholarship program [gap]; McKayle and Berke each speaks about the benefits of the encouragement he received from the Group, including with respect to their economic circumstances; Stein and Manings speak about the Group's role in creating an audience for dance; Primus speaks about the support she received from the Group, including an anecdote about a costume Jane Dudley created for her; McKayle speaks about his work Games, in particular the circumstances of its creation; Remer speaks about her family's dance background; Manings speaks about the Group's acquisition of its building, at 254 W. 47th Street; various factors that affected the Group during the 1950s and 1960s [ends abruptly].
  • Disc 2 (ca. 20 min.). [Begins abruptly.] Jane Remer speaks about her service as a member of the New Dance Group's Board of Directors, from 1966-1985, focusing on the Group's managerial problems. [Muriel Manings invites comments from the audience; sound quality of audience comments is very poor.] Remer speaks about the Group's lasting influence on her; Manings speaks briefly about the Group's influence on other dance organizations; Stanley Berke speaks about the continuing need of the Group and its alumni to disseminate dance social consciousness; Pearl Primus speaks about the lasting influence of her training at the Group [additional audience comments, largely inaudible]; Berke speaks about competition in the dance world [additional audience comments, inaudible]; unidentified speaker [Lorna Burdsall?] speaks about how, thanks to Pearl Primus, she became involved with dance in Cuba.
Donor/Sponsor
  • New York State Council for the Arts, 2006-2007.
  • National Endowment for the Arts, 2006-2007.
  • Oral History Archive.
Subjects
Note
  • Recording of a panel discussion held by the New Dance Group, titled Dance: a multi-faceted dance community, moderated by Muriel Manings on June 12, 1993, at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, at Lincoln Center, in New York City. The panel was part of a three-day joint conference of The Congress on Research in Dance and The Society of Dance History Scholars, titled "Of, by, and for the people," hosted by the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, on June 11-13, 1993. The panelists are Rebecca Stein, Stanley Berke, Jane Remer, Donald McKayle, and Pearl Primus. The souvenir program for The New Dance Group Gala Concert held on June 11, 1993, is cataloged in the Library's collection as *MGRL 93-8682.
  • The sound quality is very good except for the audience comments, which are for the most part inaudible.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2006-2007.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-1799
OCLC
84849110
Author
Manings, Muriel. Moderator
Title
Dance, a multi-faceted dance community [sound recording] / the New Dance Group.
Imprint
1993.
Funding
Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2006-2007.
Local Note
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1799 nos. 1-2
Preservation master: 3 sound files (ca. 83 min.) : digital, WAV file, 96 kHz, 24 bit; danmgztco31799p1v1, danmgztco31799p2v1, danmgztco31799p1v2; on AIT-2 tape dated 12/04/06, copied by Chicago Audio Works, 11/ 2006; located in the Rose Building workroom as of 04/28/09. When space becomes available in Princeton ReCAP or an alternative off-site storage area, the LTO and AIT master tapes are to be moved to such location.
Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-1799 nos. 1-2
Local Subject
Audiotapes -- Manings, M.
Auditotapes -- Berke, S.
Audiotapes -- Remer, J.
Audiotapes -- McKayle, D.
Audiotapes -- Stein, R.
Audiotapes -- Primus, P.
Added Author
Manings, Muriel. Moderator
Berke, Stanley. Speaker
Remer, Jane. Speaker
McKayle, Donald, 1930-2018, speaker.
Primus, Pearl. Speaker
Stein, Rebecca. Speaker
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.
Congress on Research in Dance. Conference (1993 : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
Society of Dance History Scholars (U.S.). Conference (1993 : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
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Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-1799 [sound disc]
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