Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Rogosin, Elinor.
2. National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.
3. New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
4. Oral history archive.

Description

1. 1 sound disc (ca. 26 min.) : digital; (4 3/4 in.)

Summary

1. Anna Halprin speaks with Elinor Rogosin about her new work, Initiations and transformations, to be performed by her company, San Francisco Dancers' Workshop, at the City Center [of Music and Drama]; her ideas about audience participation and the creative process as a collective experience [break in the interview at ca. 2:50 min. into track 2 during which only ambient noise is heard; the interview resumes at ca. 4:40 min.]; Halprin continues to speak with Rogosin about the creative process as a collective experience; her ideas about movement [interview appears to end at ca. 35 sec. into track 4 but after a brief gap resumes]; her use of unconventional techniques, including nudity and contrasting rhythmic patterns for the dancers and the accompanying music; the ritualistic aspects of her choreography.

Uniform title

1. Dance focus (Radio program)

Subject

1. San Francisco Dancers' Workshop
2. Performing arts > Audiences
3. Audiotapes > Halprin, A
4. Participatory theater
5. Initiations and transformations (Choreographic work : Halprin)
6. Halprin, Anna

Call number

1. *MGZTL 3-688 no. 13, side A

Note

1. Interview with Anna Halprin conducted by Elinor Rogosin and broadcast on November 7, 1971 by radio station WBAI, New York on its series Dance focus.
2. Sound quality is good. There is a short gap almost immediately after the recording begins and a break of about two minutes beginning ca. 2:50 min. into track 2.

System details (note)

1. Transferred from 1 sound cassette, side A (ca. 26 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 channels; originally recorded in Nov. 1971) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Author

1. Halprin, Anna. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Anna Halprin [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 1971.

System details

1. Transferred from 1 sound cassette, side A (ca. 26 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 channels; originally recorded in Nov. 1971) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Local note

1. Former call number: *MGZTC 3-688 reel 13, side A.
2. Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-688 no. 13, side A

Added author

1. Rogosin, Elinor. Interviewer
2. National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.
3. New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
4. Oral history archive.

Added title

1. Dance focus (Radio program)

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-688, no. 13, side A