Research Catalog

Title

Gloria McLean [videorecording] : Oral history interview / interviewer, Caroline Sutton Clark.

Publication

2010.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• McLean, Gloria.
• Clark, Caroline Sutton.
• 92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.)

Description

1 videodisc (61 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Gloria McLean (dancer) discusses seeing Erick Hawkins in a shared dance concert with Twyla Tharp at the Anta Theater in 1976; taking the beginner 7:30 class at the Hawkins studio in 1978 and then taking the June summer intensive in 1979; how Hawkins began taking other dancers into the company and when Helen [Pelton] became injured McLean auditioned and took over her role, she was then asked to join the company in 1982; the competition in the beginning between the dancers possibly due to her replacing Helen [Pelton]; how she learned roles that were previously performed by other dancers; when Hawkins started using video and the creation of the library; why Hawkins didn't like improvision; length of time needed to create some dances; the steps involved with creating a concept for a dance before the dancers began rehearsing; creating Summer clouds people and notating the choreography in the book; what she learned from Hawkins that influences her own teaching and choreography; the need to dance full out and not mark movements when creating works with Hawkins; creating the first mourner solo from God the reveller; dancing in Hurrah! and having the chance to act while sitting on stage; descriptions of Black lake and the section entitled, Sun setting; learning to work with masks; and the special aesthetic created by Hawkins that is not seen anywhere else today.

Subjects

• Dance
• Nonfiction films
• Interviews
• Erick Hawkins Dance Company
• McLean, Gloria
• Black lake (Choreographic work : Hawkins)
• Hurrah! (Choreographic work : Hawkins)
• Pelton, Helen
• Choreography > New York (State) > New York
• Hawkins, Erick
• God the reveller (Choreographic work : Hawkins)
• Video
• Dance > Study and teaching > New York (State) > New York
• Filmed dance
• Masks
• Summer-clouds people (Choreographic work : Hawkins)

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.
• Interviews.
• Filmed dance.
• Nonfiction films.

Note

• Widescreen.

Event (note)

• Videotaped during interview at the 92nd St. Y, New York, N.Y., as part of the Erick Hawkins Symposium, on Jan. 7, 2010.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• Caroline Sutton Clark;

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6476

OCLC

764672021

Title

Gloria McLean [videorecording] : Oral history interview / interviewer, Caroline Sutton Clark.

Imprint

2010.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD.

Event

Videotaped during interview at the 92nd St. Y, New York, N.Y., as part of the Erick Hawkins Symposium, on Jan. 7, 2010.

Source

Gift; Caroline Sutton Clark; Nov. 2010. NN-PD

Added Author

McLean, Gloria. Interviewee

Clark, Caroline Sutton. Interviewer

92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.)

Clark, Caroline Sutton. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6476