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Additional authors

1. Thom, Rose Anne.

Description

1. 5 sound cassettes (7 hr.) +

Summary

1. Cassette 1. Recorded February 19, 1995. Ms. Rudner discusses her earliest physical memories; her family; first dance classes; attending Barnard College; first exposure to modern dance; The New Dance Group; Janet Soares; Donya Feuer; Paul Sanasardo; Pearl Lang; her first contact with Twyla Tharp; auditioning for Tharp; her attraction to Tharp's work, Tharp's dances ReMoves and Jam.
2. Cassette 2. Recorded March 3, 1995. Ms. Rudner discusses her early work with Tharp including ReMoves; Tharp's process and personality; early Tharp works including Generation and Medley; other dancers who worked with Tharp; ballet teachers Richard Thomas and Barbara Fallis; Rose Marie Wright; Sheila Raj; Graciela Figuerola; Tharp's dance Suite; Tharp as a dancer; The Bix pieces; her own changing attitude within Tharp's work; the depth of Tharp's work and how it has affected her.
3. Cassette 3. Recorded March 21, 1995. Poor sound quality. Ms. Rudner discusses Tharp's piece Eight jelly rolls; costume designer Kermit Love; critical responses to Tharp's work; Rudner's feelings about dance criticism; her decision to leave Tharp's company; watching Tharp's success; working briefly with Pilobolus; her own choreography; collaborating with Wendy Rogers; the Five hour piece; Risa Jaroslow and Wendy Perron; other early pieces; a quartet with David Gordon; Valda Setterfield and Douglas Dunn; returning to work with Tharp; Tharp's Baker's dozen, Sinatra suite and Short stories; conflicts in Tharp's company; Rudner's detached retina; and her realisation that she could not dance and maintain a company simultaneously.
4. Cassette 4. Recorded March 31, 1995. Ms. Rudner discusses her own dancing; injury and arthritis; thoughts on training; her own physicality and approach to movement; Tharp's Fait accompli; responses to Rudner's dancing; receiving a "Bessie" award; more on the quality of her dancing; her approach to improvisation; the choreographer/dancer relationship; Vicky Shick; Amy Spencer; Jo McKendry; teaching; discussions with Tharp in relation to teaching and the possibility of a school; establishing herself as a choreographer.
5. Cassette 5. March 31 continued. Ms. Rudner discusses the origins and development of her work with Dana Reitz and Jennifer Tipton; discovering osteoarthritis in her hip; having a child; more on teaching and returning to choreography; plans for future work; and her hopes to combine her interest in choreography and pedagogy.

Alternative title

1. Dance Oral History Project.
2. Dance Audio Archive.

Subject

1. Generation (Choreographic work : Tharp)
2. Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009
3. Sanasardo, Paul
4. Sinatra suite (Choreographic work : Tharp)
5. Baker's dozen (Choreographic work : Tharp)
6. Reitz, Dana
7. Bix pieces (Choreographic work : Tharp)
8. Wright, Rose Marie
9. Jam (Choreographic work : Tharp)
10. Short stories (Choreographic work : Tharp)
11. Raj, Sheila
12. Spencer, Amy
13. Love, Kermit
14. McKendry, Jo
15. Soares, Janet Mansfield
16. Tharp, Twyla
17. Shick, Vicky
18. Eight jelly rolls (Choreographic work : Tharp)
19. Medley (Choreographic work : Tharp)
20. Figueroa, Graciela
21. Audiotapes > Rudner, S
22. ReMoves (Choreographic work : Tharp)
23. Feuer, Donya
24. Fait accompli (Choreographic work : Tharp)

Call number

1. *MGZMT 3-2091 (transcript)

Note

1. For transcript, see: *MGZMT 3-2091.
2. Interviewed by Rose Ann Thom, February and March 1995, in New York City.

Access (note)

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Author

1. Rudner, Sara. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Sara Rudner [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1995.

Local note

1. Preservation master cassette: *MGZTCO 3-2091
2. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2091. 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester; half-track.
3. Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2091.

Restricted access

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Rudner, S

Added author

1. Thom, Rose Anne. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZMT 3-2091 (transcript)
2. *MGZTC 3-2091 (sound cassette)