Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Anna Sokolow [sound recording].

Author

Sokolow, Anna.

Publication

1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McDonagh, Don.
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 36 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 36 min.). Anna Sokolow speaks with Don McDonagh about studying with Blanche Talmud and Bird Larson at the Neighborhood Playhouse; Martha Graham, and her classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse; the atmosphere at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and the support of the arts; Michio Ito's dance classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse; working in Japan on a Fulbright Scholarship; teaching and studying methods of dance in Japan; Graham's inability to compromise, and her bravery in the face of opposition; being asked by Graham to join her company; disagreeing with Graham, and her style of dancing; her belief that the dancers had to be disciples, and not wanting to be one; Louis Horst, and his composition classes; Horst's encouragement of her choreography; serving as Horst's assistant for classes; pre-classic dance forms taught by Horst, and researching the culture, music, and experience of the country whose dance they were studying; choreographing her own work while still working with Graham; Graham's inability to encourage the dancers in their own choreography; feeling as if she did not belong in Graham's company, and subsequently leaving; Gertrude Shurr and May O'Donnell leaving Graham's company at the same time; her favorite Graham dances; leaving the company before Erick Hawkins joined; Panorama, and dancing at Bennington with Alexander Calder's set design; her belief that the dancers were not told enough about the dances to truly understand them, and not knowing until after she left the company the significance of the dances; realizing later how great an artist Graham was; Graham's fortune in having a group of women who were loyal to her, and who kept her financially afloat; sleeping in Graham's studio in a laundry bag due to lack of finances; never receiving any money from Graham for her work in the dances; modeling at the Arts Students League [abrupt end].

Subjects

• Graham, Martha
• Sokolow, Anna > Interviews
• Horst, Louis
• Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)
• Bennington School of the Dance
• Martha Graham Dance Company

Note

• Interview with Anna Sokolow conducted by Don McDonagh on August 29, 1994.
• Open as of August 22, 2012.

Funding (note)

• Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Source (note)

• Don McDonagh;

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2555

OCLC

262557896

Author

Sokolow, Anna. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Anna Sokolow [sound recording].

Imprint

1994.

Funding

Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Local Note

Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2555

Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2555

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2555 sound disc