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Interview with Helen Rogers
- Title
- Interview with Helen Rogers [sound recording].
- Author
- Rogers, Helen.
- Publication
- 1972.
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Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | part 2 | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZTL 4-2550 part 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | part 1, two discs in one case | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZTL 4-2550 part 1, two discs in one case | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- 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. 1-2Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2550, nos. 1-3
- Source
- Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007
- Added Author
- McDonagh, Don. DonorDoris Duke Charitable Foundation.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-2550 sound disc