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Additional authors

1. Cohen, Debby Lee.
2. Schatz, Amy.
3. Steiner, Charlie.
4. New York Public Library. Dance Division.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (64 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Debby Lee Cohen (set designer) discusses her career and background; her training and the path taken to becoming an artist in New York; the process of collaborating with Meredith Monk and David Rousseve; how the budget of a project influences her work; the experience of using a stage model for the first time with Meredith Monk for the work entitled Acts from under and above; how to approach a non-proscenium stage; her lack of depth perception; working on a project with Beverly Emmons, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and the National Theater of Mozambique; how she manages to be creative when dealing with her family and children; what style and/or quality she brings to the creative process; teaching and training a new generation of artists; and her plans for the future.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Oral History Project Video Series.

Uniform title

1. Acts from under and above (Choreographic work : Monk and Harrison)
2. Shadow's child (Choreographic work : Zollar)
3. Whispers of angels (Choreographic work : Rousseve)

Subject

1. Cohen, Debby Lee
2. Monk, Meredith
3. Rousseve, David
4. Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo
5. Whispers of angels (Choreographic work : Rousseve)
6. Acts from under and above (Choreographic work : Monk and Harrison)
7. Shadow's child (Choreographic work : Zollar)
8. Set designers > Interviews
9. Set designers > New York (State) > New York
10. Dance > Stage-setting and scenery
11. Theaters > Stage-setting and scenery
12. Dance > Production and direction
13. Artistic collaboration > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

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

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-5495

Note

1. Screenshots of designs referenced during the interview follow this video.
2. Works referenced during interview include David Rousseve's Whisper of angels (1995), Meredith Monk's Acts from under and above (1986), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Shadow's child (2002), and Meredith Monk's Atlas (1991).
3. Recording made possible by the cooperation of Debby Lee Cohen, Amy Schatz, Music Division, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.

Credits (note)

1. Camera and post production by Charles Steiner, Vagabond Video.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped [in the Oral History studio] at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., on Jan. 15, 2009.

Funding (note)

1. The recording of this interview was made possible by an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

System details (note)

1. DVD.

Title

1. Interview with Debby Lee Cohen [videorecording] / interviewer, Amy Schatz.

Imprint

1. c2009.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

System details

1. DVD.

Event

1. Videotaped [in the Oral History studio] at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., on Jan. 15, 2009.

Credits

1. Camera and post production by Charles Steiner, Vagabond Video.

Funding

1. The recording of this interview was made possible by an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Added author

1. Cohen, Debby Lee. Interviewee
2. Schatz, Amy. Interviewer
3. Steiner, Charlie. Videographer
4. New York Public Library. Dance Division.

Added title

1. Acts from under and above (Choreographic work : Monk and Harrison)
2. Shadow's child (Choreographic work : Zollar)
3. Whispers of angels (Choreographic work : Rousseve)

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-5495