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Additional authors

1. McDonagh, Don.
2. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

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

Summary

1. Disc 1 (ca. 26 min.). Ann Barzel speaks with Don McDonagh about the first time she saw Martha Graham dance, in the early 1930s; early Denishawn dances, and seeing Doris Humphrey dance; attitudes toward dance in the 1930s and 1940s, mixing modern, ballet, and other genres together to create a new genre; concerts and performances in the early years of modern dance; antagonism against modern dance, especially by N.Y. dance circles; national tours of dance companies in the 1930s and 1940s; dance councils and societies, with memberships across the country; the fact that modern dance in the U.S. was greatly influenced by German and Eastern dance, and the avant garde; barefoot dancing and interpretative dancing taking place in gymnasiums across the U.S.; Bennington's offering of college credit for the summer dance program; the dance program at Bennington, and the fact that it established modern dance on the university level; modern dance championed by physical education teachers; the influence of Isadora Duncan and the Denishawn dancers on modern dance; Graham's fame in the U.S., and the fact that the name equates modern dance in the minds of most people.

Subject

1. Graham, Martha
2. Barzel, Ann > Interviews
3. Bennington School of the Dance
4. Denishawn Dancers

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2539

Note

1. Sound quality is poor; disc ends abruptly.
2. Interview with Ann Barzel conducted by Don McDonagh on Feb. 9, 1972.
3. Open as of August 22, 2012.

Funding (note)

1. Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Source (note)

1. Don McDonagh;

Author

1. Barzel, Ann. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Ann Barzel [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 1972.

Funding

1. Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Local note

1. Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2539
2. Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2539

Source

1. Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007

Added author

1. McDonagh, Don. Interviewer
2. McDonagh, Don. Donor
3. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2539 sound disc