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Additional authors

1. Sommer, Sally R.

Found in

1. Pauline Koner collection.

Description

1. 2 sound discs (approximately one hour and three minutes): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Disc 1 (approximately 45 minutes). Pauline Koner speaks with Sally R. Sommer about her long association with Brooklyn College; her class entitled Elements of performing; the students [in her classes] at Brooklyn College; Koner's choreography including the renewed interest in her style of modern dance; her belief in the need for structure or form in dance; her association with the José Limón Dance Company as a guest artist and the influence of Doris Humphrey on her choreography; Koner's choreographic method prior to her association with José Limón and Doris Humphrey; music as a primary creative impulse; her transition from choreographing solos to choreographing for a company; her difficulties in obtaining funding and appropriate performance spaces for her company [Pauline Koner Dance Consort]; [short gap]; more on the difficulties of obtaining funding; maintaining her individual style of choreography including her conscious effort to be unique; her reluctance to choreograph for other companies; her favorite works, including Solitary songs and A time of crickets; her solo The farewell, which she made as her tribute to Doris Humphrey; her company's dancers [ends abruptly but continues on disc 2].
2. Disc 2 (approximately 18 minutes). Pauline Koner continues to speak with Sally R. Sommer about her company's dancers; performing including her relief that she no longer performs; how she used to prepare for a performance; her post-performance routine and state of mind; more on her state of mind when performing including inner focus [interview ends at 10:38 following which Koner corrects a statement regarding the June Taylor Dance Company that she had made in the course of the interview; the remaining approximate eight minutes of the recording are blank].

Alternative title

1. Pauline Koner collection. Audio materials.

Subject

1. Solitary songs (Choreographic work : Koner)
2. Koner, Pauline
3. Farewell (Choreographic work : Koner)
4. Pauline Koner Dance Consort
5. Brooklyn College
6. Audiotapes > Koner, P
7. Dance > Economic aspects
8. Sommer, Sally R
9. Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2980

Note

1. Interview with Pauline Koner conducted by Sally Sommer on February 7, 1977. The location is probably Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
2. Sound quality is fair. There is significant "tape hiss," but the speakers' voices are easily intelligible. There are also occasional short gaps, and the final approximate eight minutes of disc 2 are blank.
3. Title supplied by cataloger.

Funding (note)

1. The conservation and cataloging of this recording were made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.

Author

1. Koner, Pauline.

Title

1. Interview with Pauline Koner. February 7, 1977, 1977.

Production

1. 1977

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio

Type of carrier

1. audio disc

Event

1. Recorded by Pauline Koner 1977, February 7

Funding

1. The conservation and cataloging of this recording were made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.

Original version

1. Original format: one sound cassette (approximately one hour and three minutes); 1 7/8 ips., originally recorded on February 2, 1977; transferred to wav file and compact disc formats in 2013. Based on a statement made by Pauline Koner in the recording, this sound cassette is a copy of the original recording made by the interviewer Sally R. Sommer.

Local note

1. Archival original: *MGZTCO 3-2980

Added author

1. Sommer, Sally R., interviewer.
2. Estate of Pauline Koner, donor

Added title

1. Pauline Koner collection. Audio materials.

Found in:

1. Pauline Koner collection.

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2980