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Additional authors

1. McDonagh, Don.

Description

1. 2 sound discs (ca. 84 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Disc 1 (ca. 41 min.). Art Bauman speaks with Don McDonagh about his work, including how his focus changed after his work Dialog; improvisation, including his efforts to dispell common misconceptions regarding it; how he tries to analyze movement; the use of systems in his choreography; more on his use of improvisation; the reasons he is reluctant to put on a full-length program of his work; Louis Horst's encouragement as crucial to his continuing his composition studies at the Juilliard School of Music; performing at Riverside Church in New York City and Contrasts, the dance group he formed with several students from Juilliard; works he choreographed for Contrasts, including Nocturne and a group of religious-themed works such as Desert prayer, Now is the time of singing, and Break forth into joy; his feelings about performing.
2. Disc 2 (ca. 43 min.). Art Bauman continues to speak with Don McDonagh about his work, including his working methods, for example his creation of a sound tape when choreographing Nocturne; his use of chance; his extensive editing and re-working of an initial concept, as for example in his modular works such as Nocturne, Errands and Headquarters; his dance Journal as his first professionally-presented performance; the course of his career beginning with how his perceived failure as a dancer at the Juilliard School led to his becoming a choreographer, including Louis Horst's crucial role in this; his dance group Contrasts; his taking on of various odd jobs to support himself; the significance of his realization that he is an artist regardless of whether he receives any financial or critical recognition; his involvement with Dance Theatre Workshop, including the search for a new performance space; the importance of the role certain performance spaces have had in enabling him to create a work; reasons he is reluctant to apply for grant aid; a period of creative disappointments and dead ends prior to his creation of his work Approximately 20 minutes [ends abruptly].

Donor/Sponsor

1. Oral history archive.
2. New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
3. National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

Subject

1. Dance Theater Workshop
2. Bauman, Art
3. Audiotapes > Dunn, R
4. Improvisation in dance

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2515

Note

1. Interview with Art Bauman conducted by Don McDonagh on April 14, 1970 in New York City.
2. Sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise.
3. Open as of August 22, 2012.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation was funded with in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

Source (note)

1. Don McDonagh

Author

1. Bauman, Art. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Art Bauman [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 1970.

Funding

1. Preservation was funded with in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

Local note

1. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2515 nos. 1-2
2. Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2515

Source

1. Gift; Don McDonagh, 2007. NN-PD

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Dunn, R.

Added author

1. McDonagh, Don. Interviewer
2. McDonagh, Don. Donor

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2515 [sound disc]