- Additional Authors
- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately one hour): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 31 minutes). Gertrude Lippincott speaks about her early training and professional experiences; teaching including her use of improvisation; her thoughts on incorporating current trends into her teaching; the value of requiring students to choreograph and to perform; professional dancers as choreographers; the choreographic process including how the dancers' characteristics influence the result; her major works [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio fie 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (29 minutes). Gertrude Lippincott continues to speak about her major works; her hopes for the future including with respect to dance education; various organizations in which she participated with the goal of promoting dance and dance education; her sense of responsibility with respect to dance education; the sacrifices and joys of a life in dance [gap from approximately 24:30 -27:33 followed by a reiteration of the final approximate three minutes of this streaming audio file 2].
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- For transcript of interview, see *MGZMT 3-601.
- Interview with Gertrude Lippincott conducted by Mary Rae Josephson on December 29, 1976 in Minneapolis (Minn.) for the Oral History Archives of the National Dance Association, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
- Sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by "tape hiss."
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Funding (note)
- The conservation and cataloging of this recording was 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.
- Source (note)
- American Alliance of of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-601
- OCLC
- 81240444
- Author
Lippincott, Gertrude, 1913-1996, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Gertrude Lippincott, 1976
- Production
1976
- Type of Content
spoken word
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Event
Recorded by Mary Rae Josephson 1976, December 29 Minneapolis (Minn.)
- Funding
The conservation and cataloging of this recording was 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
Original format: one sound cassette (approximately one hour); quarter-track; 1.875 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: (myd_mgztco3601_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3601_v01f02_sc).
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-601
- Source
Gift American Alliance of of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Josephson, Mary Rae, interviewer.
National Dance Association.
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, sponsor.
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, donor
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-601