Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Parsons, David, 1959 October 29-
2. Zimmer, Elizabeth.
3. Ward, Penny
4. Hines, Kay
5. New York Public Library. Dance Division.
6. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (93 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

1. David Parsons speaks with Elizabeth Zimmer about his parents and background; taking care of his mother; Kansas City; his time as a gymnast; moving to New York City at the age of seventeen; getting a scholarship with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; choreographing a piece for Ailey; his work as a photographer; being a stunt model; his photographic collaborations with Lois Greenfield; working with Annie Liebowitz; working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support himself; importance of an artist taking care of finances and maintaining a working life outside of the dance company; the Paul Taylor Dance Company ; Taylor's variety; being an understudy at Paul Taylor Dance Company; performing in Latvia; his time with the Taylor Company and learning to be an artist; choreographing as a gymnast; working with Moses Pendleton; working with Mark Morris and the White Oak Project; Eliot Feld as choreographer; building his company in a way that allowed for supporting his dancers with salaries and benefits; the difficulty of making comedy in dance; touring; his relationship with Lois Greenfield; injuries over the years; how he chooses musical collaborators; commissions; his relationship with friend and lighting designer Howell Binkley; how television has changed his company; dancemaking and his artistic process; the contemporary dance world.

Subject

1. Paul Taylor Dance Company
2. Choreographers
3. Dance
4. Binkley, Howell
5. Taylor, Paul, 1930-2018
6. Greenfield, Lois
7. Parsons Dance Company
8. Video
9. Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-5056

Access (note)

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

Credits (note)

1. Director of photography, Penny Ward ; production assistant, Kay Hines ; editor, Kay Hines/Dekart Video.

Event (note)

1. This interview was videotaped at the oral history studio of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York, New York on May 14, 2009.

Funding (note)

1. Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System details (note)

1. DVD, transferred from a DVCAM cassette.

Title

1. Interview with David Parsons [videorecording] / interviewer, Elizabeth Zimmer.

Imprint

1. c2009.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

System details

1. DVD, transferred from a DVCAM cassette.

Event

1. This interview was videotaped at the oral history studio of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York, New York on May 14, 2009.

Credits

1. Director of photography, Penny Ward ; production assistant, Kay Hines ; editor, Kay Hines/Dekart Video.

Performer

1. Interviewee, David Parsons.

Funding

1. Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Restricted access

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

Added author

1. Parsons, David, 1959 October 29- interviewee.
2. Zimmer, Elizabeth. Interviewer
3. Ward, Penny, videographer.
4. Hines, Kay, production personnel.
5. Hines, Kay, editor of moving image work.
6. New York Public Library. Dance Division.
7. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research call number

1. *MGZMT 3-5056