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Interview with Helen Rogers

Title
Interview with Helen Rogers [sound recording].
Author
Rogers, Helen.
Publication
1972.

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part 2AudioSupervised use *MGZTL 4-2550 part 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
part 1, two discs in one caseAudioSupervised use *MGZTL 4-2550 part 1, two discs in one casePerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Description
3 sound discs (ca. 121 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  • Part 1, disc 1 (ca. 31 min.). Helen Rogers speaks with Don McDonagh about Martha Graham, and her dislike of filming dances for posterity, and the fact that Graham wanted the films destroyed; the myth of Graham, and the fact that the history of Graham can be hard to recreate; Louis Horst, and when he stopped conducting for Graham; Horst's reaction toward Erick Hawkins; trying to convince Graham to preserve her dances through dance notation and filming; nearly becoming the notator for the Graham company; studying notation in Germany, and returning to N.Y. to seek out other notators; starting the Dance Notation Bureau; dancing at Bennington the summer of 1938, and attending workshops with Graham; dancing in American document; Lincoln Kirstein bringing Erick Hawkins to Bennington, and Hawkins' invitation to join the company; taking ballet classes taught by Hawkins; recreating Primitive mysteries, and working with original Graham dancers; seeing Graham dance for the first time, at Bennington; early Graham dances, and the effect Graham and her dances had on her; dancing and studying with Hanya Holm; Sybil Shearer, and becoming friends with her at Bennington; the difference between ballet and modern dancing; American document, and the rehearsals for the dance; interacting with Graham in the dance studio.
  • Part 1, disc 2 (ca. 59 min.). Helen Rogers speaks with Don McDonagh about Martha Graham, and the effect Graham and her dances had on her; dancing and studying with Hanya Holm; Holm's technique seeming more clear and easier to understand; Sybil Shearer, and becoming friends with her at Bennington; the difference between ballet and modern dancing; American document, and the rehearsals for the dance; receiving money for rehearsals; interacting with Graham in the dance studio.
  • Part 2 (ca. 31 min.). Helen Rogers speaks with Don McDonagh about Martha Graham's dance, Panorama, and the set design by Alexander Calder; meeting Alexander Calder; anecdotes about Graham, and not being able to remember things clearly; visiting Graham's apartment once; connecting with Graham over their mutual love of dogs; studying with Louis Horst; practice classes at Graham's studio; Graham's relationship with Horst, and the affection they had for one another; Graham's temper; the possibility of a student of Graham's writing a book on Graham's technique and choreographic output; Graham's level of intensity and ability to maintain it throughout a performance; Graham's technique, and feeling like a winding up of energy; Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham and their performances with Graham; wanting to see Graham's dances performed, even if done differently than originally choreographed; Graham's periods of choreography; the percussive aspect of Graham's technique, and the difficulty contemporary dancers have in learning the technique [abrupt end].
Subjects
Note
  • Interview with Helen Rogers conducted by Don McDonagh on Nov. 28, 1972.
  • Each disc ends abruptly.
  • 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 4-2550
OCLC
262558915
Author
Rogers, Helen. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Helen Rogers [sound recording].
Imprint
1972.
Funding
Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Local Note
Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2550, nos. 1-2
Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2550, nos. 1-3
Source
Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007
Added Author
McDonagh, Don. Donor
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-2550 sound disc
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