Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Bethsabee de Rothschild [sound recording].

Author

Rothschild, Bethsabée de, Baroness.

Publication

n.d.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McDonagh, Don.
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 64 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• Disc 1 (ca. 32 min.). Bethsabee de Rothschild speaks with Don McDonagh about starting a dance company in Israel with the help of Martha Graham; her initial interest in yoga and movement, not dancing; being connected to Graham as a person; impressions of dancing with Graham; Graham's choreographic process, and the fact that it was always done in solitude; Letter to the world at Bennington, and the premiere in N.Y.; various Graham dances, giving opinions of each dance; the dancers' loyalty to Graham, and the time and effort put into each performance; her belief that Night journey is Graham's best choreographic work through its meaningful movement, and the existence of a pure line from beginning to the end; reactions to Graham's dances while on tour in Europe; Graham's interest in philosophy and oriental art; Graham's voracious reading habits.
• Disc 2 (ca. 32 min.). Bethsabee de Rothschild speaks with Don McDonagh about the teaching of Martha Graham's technique and works in Israel; Graham's problems with alcohol, and some of the reasons for the abuse; Louis Horst's role in the creation of the early dance pieces; Horst's influence on Graham, introducing her to music and art; Graham's need to have someone to react to her artistic expressions, and Horst's role; Graham's constant alterations to dances; Seraphic dialogue; her belief that certain dances cannot be taught and passed along from the original dancer without a loss in emotion and meaning; meeting with the U.S. Ambassador to Israel and being persuaded to open a dance company in Israel; starting the Batsheva Dance Company [abrupt end].

Subjects

• Rothschild, Bethsabée de, Baroness > Interviews
• Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
• Martha Graham Dance Company
• Graham, Martha > Letter to the world
• Horst, Louis > Influence
• Lahaḳat ha-maḥol Bat-Shevaʻ
• Graham, Martha > Night journey

Note

• Interview with Bethsabee de Rothschild conducted by Don McDonagh in Israel, date unknown.
• 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 4-2541

OCLC

262558539

Author

Rothschild, Bethsabée de, Baroness. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Bethsabee de Rothschild [sound recording].

Imprint

n.d.

Funding

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

Local Note

Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2541

Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2541, nos. 1-2

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2541 sound disc