Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. De Mille, Agnes
2. DHCA.

Description

1. 1 sound cassette (43 min.)

Summary

1. Mr. Howard discusses seeing Graham's company for the first time in London; inviting Graham and her company to his Elizabethan banquet; paying for the company's return visit to London; arranging for the company's appearance at Covent Garden; long-range plans for the Graham company when Craig Barton died and being asked to take over by Bethsabée de Rothschild; getting British students to study Graham technique; starting Graham classes in London; Graham's inability to stop dancing; arranging for Graham to commute between New York and London; the changing relationship of Graham with The Place theater in London after Ron Protas took over the Graham company. (Side 2 blank)

Donor/Sponsor

1. Oral History Archive. Gift of Agnes de Mille.

Subject

1. Graham, Martha
2. Barton, Craig
3. Rothschild, Bethsabée de, Baroness
4. Protas, Ron
5. Martha Graham Dance Company
6. Royal Opera House (London, England)
7. Place (London, England)
8. Modern dance > England

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-1623

Note

1. Interview conducted by Agnes de Mille as part of her research for the biography of Martha Graham entitled Martha.

Event (note)

1. Recorded March 12, 1986.

Author

1. Howard, Robin, 1924-1989. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Robin Howard [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1986.

Event

1. Recorded March 12, 1986.

Local note

1. Preservation master tape: *MGZTCO 3-1623.

Local subject

1. Modern dance -- Technique -- Graham.
2. Audiotapes -- De Mille, A.
3. Audiotapes -- Howard, R.

Added author

1. De Mille, Agnes. Interviewer
2. De Mille, Agnes. Martha.
3. DHCA.

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-1623