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Interview with Robert Dunn
- Title
- Interview with Robert Dunn [sound recording].
- Author
- Dunn, Robert.
- Publication
- 1971.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | part 1 | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZTL 4-2536 part 1 | 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 2 | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZTL 4-2536 part 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
- Description
- 2 sound discs (ca. 81 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Part 1, disc 1 (ca. 56 min.). Robert Dunn speaks with Don McDonagh about working with Martha Graham; the 1959-1960 revivals of dances, including Clytemnestra, Diversion of angels, Embattled garden, etc.; working in the wings during the 1961-1962 season, prompting Graham during Acrobats of God due to her heavy alcohol use; the amount of alcohol Graham would drink in a day; his belief that Graham was a suppressed homosexual; Geordie Graham, and dancing with Ruth St. Denis; working on the set of Alcestis, including plots, scenery, sets, etc.; Graham's relationship to Bertram Ross and other male dancers; Graham's treatment of Ross with dignity as a person, but not as a dancer; his belief that Graham respected Paul Taylor's dancing; Graham's personality; Graham's treatment of men and women in the company; working with George Balanchine on Mary Queen of Scots, and the fact that Graham would work with the ballet dancers; Graham's age, and her ability to hide it.
- Part 1, disc 2 (ca. 25 min.). Robert Dunn speaks with Don McDonagh about Martha Graham, and her relations with other choreographers; his belief that Graham was isolated by her own legend; Graham's agelessness made her exist in a separate world; Graham's interest in reading and books, including a collection of Spanish mystics, and yoga; the way in which Graham responded to adversity; Graham's musical sense; Louis Horst's influence on Graham, including music and dance phrasing; the fact that Horst would compose the music after a dance was created; counterpoint phrasing in dance composition; Horst's influence on her creative decisions; the fact that Graham needed motivation, especially when her own inspirational impulses had left her; letters written between Graham and Craig Barton, and the relationship they had [abrupt end].
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview with Robert Dunn conducted by Don McDonagh on July 7, 1971.
- 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 4-2536
- OCLC
- 262558514
- Author
- Dunn, Robert. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Robert Dunn [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1971.
- Funding
- Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
- Local Note
- Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2536, nos. 1-2Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2536, nos. 1-2
- Source
- Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007
- Added Author
- McDonagh, Don. DonorDoris Duke Charitable Foundation.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-2536 sound disc