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Additional authors

1. Tobias, Tobi.

Description

1. 2 sound cassettes (4 hours, 4 min.) : analog, mono.

Summary

1. SUMMARY: Jane Dudley discusses her early training especially her studies with Hanya Holm; the progressive political element in American modern dance in the 1930's; the New Dance Group; joining the Martha Graham Company; Louis Horst and his approach to choreography; her works Harmonica breakdown, Ballad of Molly Pitcher, Cante flamenco; the practicality of preserving these dances and others of the 1930's; the Dudley-Maslow-Bales Trio; leaving the Graham Company; her hip injury; teaching; The Place, London; her two years as artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company; her assessment of the current Graham Company; Graham's Letter to the world and Deaths and entrances; Graham as a person.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Alternative title

1. Dance Oral History Project.

Subject

1. Horst, Louis
2. Graham, Martha
3. New Dance Group (New York, N.Y.)
4. Martha Graham Dance Company
5. Dudley-Maslow-Bales Trio
6. Place (London, England)
7. Lahaḳat ha-maḥol Bat-Shevaʻ
8. Harmonica breakdown (Choreographic work : Dudley)
9. Cante flamenco (Choreographic work : Dudley)
10. Politics in art

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-410

Note

1. Interivewed by Tobi Tobias Dec. 29, 1975 and Jan. 2, 1976 in New York City.
2. For transcript of interview, see *MGZMT 5-410.

Author

1. Dudley, Jane. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Jane Dudley [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1975-76.

Local note

1. Archival original: *MGZTO 5-410; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 reels (5 in.); polyester.
2. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-410; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester. Three reels.
3. Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Dudley, J.

Added author

1. Tobias, Tobi. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-410