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Interview with Debby Lee Cohen

Title
Interview with Debby Lee Cohen [videorecording] / interviewer, Amy Schatz.
Publication
c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Cohen, Debby Lee.
  • Schatz, Amy.
  • Steiner, Charlie.
  • New York Public Library. Dance Division.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (64 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Debby Lee Cohen (set designer) discusses her career and background; her training and the path taken to becoming an artist in New York; the process of collaborating with Meredith Monk and David Rousseve; how the budget of a project influences her work; the experience of using a stage model for the first time with Meredith Monk for the work entitled Acts from under and above; how to approach a non-proscenium stage; her lack of depth perception; working on a project with Beverly Emmons, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and the National Theater of Mozambique; how she manages to be creative when dealing with her family and children; what style and/or quality she brings to the creative process; teaching and training a new generation of artists; and her plans for the future.
Donor/Sponsor
Oral History Project Video Series.
Uniform Title
  • Acts from under and above (Choreographic work : Monk and Harrison)
  • Shadow's child (Choreographic work : Zollar)
  • Whispers of angels (Choreographic work : Rousseve)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Screenshots of designs referenced during the interview follow this video.
  • Works referenced during interview include David Rousseve's Whisper of angels (1995), Meredith Monk's Acts from under and above (1986), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Shadow's child (2002), and Meredith Monk's Atlas (1991).
  • Recording made possible by the cooperation of Debby Lee Cohen, Amy Schatz, Music Division, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
Credits (note)
  • Camera and post production by Charles Steiner, Vagabond Video.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped [in the Oral History studio] at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., on Jan. 15, 2009.
Funding (note)
  • The recording of this interview was made possible by an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-5495
OCLC
606848376
Title
Interview with Debby Lee Cohen [videorecording] / interviewer, Amy Schatz.
Imprint
c2009.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
System Details
DVD.
Event
Videotaped [in the Oral History studio] at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., on Jan. 15, 2009.
Credits
Camera and post production by Charles Steiner, Vagabond Video.
Funding
The recording of this interview was made possible by an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Added Author
Cohen, Debby Lee. Interviewee
Schatz, Amy. Interviewer
Steiner, Charlie. Videographer
New York Public Library. Dance Division.
Added Title
Acts from under and above (Choreographic work : Monk and Harrison)
Shadow's child (Choreographic work : Zollar)
Whispers of angels (Choreographic work : Rousseve)
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-5495
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