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Interview with Sally Silvers.

Title
  1. Interview with Sally Silvers. June 30, 2009 [sound recording].
Published by
  1. 2009.
Author
  1. Silvers, Sally.

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Additional authors
  1. Greskovic, Robert.
  2. National Endowment for the Arts, 2008-2009.
  3. New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009.
Description
  1. 2 sound discs (ca. 85 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in. +
Summary
  1. Disc 1 (ca. 44 min.). Sally Silvers speaks with Robert Greskovic about her family background and various influences during her childhood years; her decision to go to Antioch College; her first modern dance classes there and other experiences and people that influenced her, including jazz musician Cecil Taylor and choreographer Ken Miller; finding her identity as a dancer and the encouragement she received from Sara Rudner; her first choreographic work, Politics of the body microscopes of conduct; her interest in costume; her interest in radical and avant-garde art forms of all kind; collaborating with Lisa Kraus on No standing signatures.
  2. Disc 2 (ca. 41 min.). Sally Silvers speaks with Robert Greskovic about working with film; live music; her response to critics; works she created in the 1980s and the structures, creative process and accompaniment that she explored; the origins of her working with Bruce Andrews; first teaching experiences; her method for finding dancers; creating choreography for the theater festival at Sundance [The Sundance Institute]; working with Yvonne Rainer and the influence Rainer has had on her.
Alternative title
  1. Dance Oral History Project.
  2. Dance Audio Archive.
Subject
  1. Politics of the body microscope of conduct (Choreographic work : Silvers)
  2. Rainer, Yvonne, 1934-
  3. Silvers, Sally
  4. Audiotapes > Silvers, S
  5. Andrews, Bruce, 1948-
  6. Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
Call number
  1. *MGZTL 4-2593
Note
  1. Interview with Sally Silvers conducted by Robert Greskovic on June 30, 2009 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City as part of the Oral History Project. This is part one of a two-part Oral History Project interview; the second interview with Sally Silvers was conducted by Gia Kourlas on July 15, 2010.
  2. For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2593.
Access (note)
  1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Funding (note)
  1. The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
Author
  1. Silvers, Sally. Interviewee
Title
  1. Interview with Sally Silvers. June 30, 2009 [sound recording].
Imprint
  1. 2009.
Funding
  1. The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
Local note
  1. The second part of this interview is cataloged in the Oral History Archive as Interview with Sally Silvers. July 15, 2010 under the call number *MGZTL 4-2710.
Restricted access
  1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Added author
  1. Greskovic, Robert. Interviewer
  2. National Endowment for the Arts, 2008-2009.
  3. New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009.
Research call number
  1. *MGZTL 4-2593
  2. *MGZMT 3-2593
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