Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Farlow, Lesley.

Description

1. 4 sound cassettes (5 hours, 45 min.)

Alternative title

1. Dance Oral History Project.

Subject

1. Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958
2. Tamiris, Helen, 1905-1966
3. De Mille, Agnes
4. Graham, Martha
5. Martha Graham Dance Company
6. Tamiment Players
7. Limón, Seckler, Bird Dance Group
8. Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)

Contents

1. SUMMARY: Reel 1. Dorothy Bird discusses her childhood; studying with Martha Graham at the Cornish School; exercises in the Graham technique; working with Doris Humphrey in the Limón, Seckler, Bird Dance Group. - Reel 2. The Limón, Seckler, Bird Dance Group; her friendship with Martha Graham; joining the Graham company; the Neighborhood Playhouse; members of the Graham company; leaving the company for Broadway. - Reel 3. Hooray for what; Agnes de Mille; Primitive Mysteries; Helen Tamiris and the show, Park Avenue; teaching at the School of American Ballet; George Balanchine. - Reel 4. Leaving Broadway; Anna Sokolow; Anita Alvarez; principles of the Graham technique; the Limón, Seckler, Bird Dance Group; Jack Cole; Jerome Robbins at Camp Tamiment; her own choreography; Green Mansions; meeting Paul Villard; her marriage; the McCarthy hearings.

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-953

Note

1. Interviewed by Lesley Farlow 5 & 10 Dec. 1985; 25 Feb. and 1 April 1986 in Merrick, New York.
2. For transcript of interview see: *MGZMT 3-953.

Author

1. Bird, Dorothy, 1912-1996. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Dorothy Bird [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1985-86.

Local note

1. Open as of 11/01/07.

Local subject

1. Modern dance -- Technique -- Graham.
2. Audiotapes -- Bird, D.

Added author

1. Farlow, Lesley. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-953