Interview with Dudley Williams

Title
  1. Interview with Dudley Williams [sound recording]
Published by
  1. 2002.
Author
  1. Williams, Dudley, 1938-2015

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Additional authors
  1. Tracy, Robert.
Description
  1. 4 sound cassettes (ca. 360 min.) +
Summary
  1. Cassette 1. 1/30/02. Williams discusses his family background; his childhood; becoming involved with dance; auditioning for and going to the High School of Performing Arts; his teachers there, including May O'Donnell; his fellow students, including Eleo Pomare; working with Martha Graham; meeting and working with Donald McKayle; his life after high school; more on Graham; Tracy discusses racial discrimination in dance seeking Williams' response.
  2. Cassette 2. 2/4/02. Discussion returns to Graham pieces mentioned in cassette 1, including One more gaudy night, Secular games, Circe; other aspects of working with Graham and in her company; his knee injury; Graham's support during his recovery and her anger when he chose to leave her company; working with Hava Kohav; more on Eleo Pomare and his choreography; working in musical theatre; working with Alvin Ailey; various works of Ailey's, including Reflections in D and Blues suite; the particular challenges of learning Ailey's work.
  3. Cassette 3. 2/11/02. Taking class; working with a variety of people and being exposed to different techniques and styles including that of Karel Shook, Walter Nicks, Matt Mattox and Talley Beatty; his difficulties with jazz technique; the various sections of Revelations; Ailey's attitude toward interpretations and interpreters of his work; Williams' insecurities about Ailey's feelings toward him and the difficulties of their rehearsing together; the creation of the pieces Love songs and Song for you; taking responsibility for the company when Ailey was ill; the origins of Streams; other works, including Mary Lou's mass, Lark ascending and Knoxville: Summer of 1915; teaching pieces to the next generation; the essence of performance; people who worked with the company including ballerina Lynn Seymour and dancer Peter Wooden.
  4. Cassette 4. 2/13/02. The Duke Ellington festival, including Reflections in D; working with musicians; the piece Caravan by Louis Falco; compares Falco's creative process with George Faison's and with Ailey's; the Ailey company's frequent performances in New York; John Butler's Carmina Burana; his feelings about John Butler and Jerome Robbins; the creation of Memoria; Ailey's mental breakdown; the creation of Phases; the division between the private and professional lives of members of the company; For Bird, with love; the creation of Opus McShann; saying goodbye before Ailey's death.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
Alternative title
  1. Dance Oral History Project.
  2. Dance Audio Archive.
Subject
  1. Phases (Choreographic work : Ailey)
  2. Williams, Dudley, 1938-
  3. Lark ascending (Choreographic work : Ailey)
  4. Kohav, Hava
  5. O'Donnell, May
  6. Streams (Choreographic work : Ailey)
  7. Love songs (Choreographic work : Ailey)
  8. Reflections in D (Choreographic work : Ailey)
  9. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
  10. Audiotapes > Williams, D
  11. Song for you (Choreographic work : Ailey)
  12. Memoria (Choreographic work : Ailey)
  13. Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Choreographic work : Ailey)
  14. For Bird - with love (Choregraphic work : Ailey)
  15. Falco, Louis
  16. Mary Lou's mass (Choreographic work : Ailey)
  17. Graham, Martha
  18. Blues suite (Choreographic work : Ailey)
  19. Caravan (Choreographic work : Falco)
  20. Revelations (Choregraphic work : Ailey)
  21. Pomare, Eleo
  22. Ailey, Alvin
Call number
  1. *MGZMT 3-2343
Note
  1. Interview conducted by Robert Tracy on Jan. 30, and Feb. 4, 11, and 13, 2002, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  2. For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2343.
Access (note)
  1. Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
Funding (note)
  1. Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
Author
  1. Williams, Dudley, 1938-2015, interviewee.
Title
  1. Interview with Dudley Williams [sound recording]
Imprint
  1. 2002.
Funding
  1. Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
Restricted access
  1. Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
Local subject
  1. Audiotapes -- Williams, D.
Added author
  1. Tracy, Robert. Interviewer
Research call number
  1. *MGZMT 3-2343 [Transcript]
  2. *MGZTC 3-2343 (sound cassettes)
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