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Interview with Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone

Title
Interview with Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone [sound recording].
Author
Camryn, Walter.
Publication
1974.

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AudioUse in library *MGZTL 4-642Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
  • Wentink, Andrew Mark.
  • Stone, Bentley.
Description
1 sound disc (ca. 73 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
[Begins abruptly.] Walter Camryn speaks with Andrew Mark Wentink about his rural background in Montana, including how he came to be interested in dance through square dancing; moving to Chicago to study dance; studying ballet with Adolf Bolm; dancing with the opera company [Chicago Civic Opera ]; his study of folk dance and teaching character dance; teaching at his own school [short gap]; how he first met Bentley Stone and their subsequent careers as teachers [at the Stone-Camryn School of Ballet]; Americana ballets starting with [Ted Shawn's] Turkey in the straw; the lack of critical attention and support for ballet in Chicago; reasons he thinks the Joffrey Ballet is successful; dance performances he saw as a child in Montana including Martha Graham and Ted Shawn dancing a tango; specialization in classical and character dancing; folk dancing including Igor Moiseev's company; dance in Chicago during the Great Depression including Page's and Stone's work Guns and castanets [gap at end of track 10 followed by repetition of last ca. 30 sec. of track 10]; his professional relationship with Ruth Page, in particular, ballets by her in which he danced including American pattern [gap]; Camryn and Bentley Stone [who has now joined the conversation] speak with Wentink about various dancers and teachers including Bernice Holmes and Leon Danielian; Robert Joffrey's ballet Astarte; Rudi van Dantzig's Monument for a dead boy; Page as a dancer and as a choreographer; thoughts on [ballet] dancers today;
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project.
  • Dance Audio Archive
Subjects
Note
  • Interview with Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone conducted by Andrew Mark Wentink on Sept. 11, 1974, in Chicago for the New York Public Library's Oral History Project.
  • Open as of March 1984.
  • Sound quality is fair. For the most part, the speakers' voices are easily intelligible but there are occasional extraneous noises as well as continuing tape hiss.
Funding (note)
  • The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-642
OCLC
81838183
Author
Camryn, Walter. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Walter Camryn and Bentley Stone [sound recording].
Imprint
1974.
Original Version
Original format : 1 sound reel (ca. 73 min.; 5"; 1 channel; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; half-track; polyester). Originally recorded in 1974.
Funding
The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
Local Note
For a transcript of the audio recording see: *MGZMT 5-642.
Former call no.: *MGZT 5-642
Archive original: *MGZTO 5-642. Restored and rehoused following water damage in 2015
Added Author
Wentink, Andrew Mark. Interviewer
Stone, Bentley. Interviewee
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-642
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