Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972.
2. Dance Laboratory.

Description

1. 3 reels : 3 3/4 in. per sec.; (5 in.)

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Walter Terry. Oral History Archive.

Subject

1. Giselle (Choreographic work)
2. Guests (Choreographic work : Robbins)
3. Dark meadow (Choreographic work : Graham)
4. Prodigal son (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
5. Tallchief, Maria
6. Magallanes, Nicholas
7. Courting dances
8. Schéhérazade (Choreographic work : Fokin)
9. Fertility dances
10. Pillar of fire (Choreographic work : Tudor)
11. Horn dances
12. Eroticism in dance
13. Ramadan (Choreographic work : Shawn)
14. Orpheus (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
15. Swan lake (Choreographic work) > Black swan pas de deux
16. Pas de deux

Contents

1. CONTENTS. - Reel 1. Mr. Terry discusses the series, Dance laboratory; the creative sources of dance; eroticism; fertility dances; courtship dances; English horn dances; eroticism in Theatrical dance; burlesque dancing; Martha Graham's dance work, Dark meadow. - Reel 2. Mr. Terry discusses eroticism in ballet, commenting specifically on: Giselle, Antony Tudor's Pillar of fire, Jerome Robbins' The guests, and Mikhail Fokin's Schéhérazade. Ted Shawn is introduced. Shawn discusses the Delsarte system of movement analysis; Spanish dancing; the hula. Terry discusses examples of eroticism in ballet; Shawn's dance, Ramadan; The guests (Robbins); Schéhérazade (Fokin). - Reel 3. Terry discusses the role of the Siren in Balanchine's Prodigal son; Shawn's Ramadan; Shawn's American Indian solo; eroticism in the classical pas de deux, specifically the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan lake; Shawn's dance, Cutting the sugar cane; the love duet from Balanchine's Orpheus.

Call number

1. *MGZT 5-118

Note

1. Recorded November 4, 1951. First in the 1951-1952 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, given at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York. Guest artists for this program were: Maria Tallchief and Nicolas Magallanes of the New York City Ballet, and Ted Shawn.
2. Acetate; half track.
3. Duration: Reel 1: 23 min. Reel 2: 27 1/2 min. Reel 3 (tracks 1 and 2): 25 min.

Author

1. Terry, Walter.

Title

1. Lecture-demonstration: Eroticism and the dance. [Phonotape]

Imprint

1. 1951.

Local subject

1. Eroticism in dance.
2. Courting dances.
3. Fertility dances.
4. Horn dances.

Added author

1. Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972.
2. Dance Laboratory.

Research call number

1. *MGZT 5-118