- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately 56 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 32 minutes). Dorothy Alexander speaks about dance education for children, including the curricula she created for elementary school students; the ways in which dance education benefits children [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 24 minutes). Dorothy Alexander continues to speak about the benefits of dance education for children; the principles she tried to impart; the role of the teacher and teacher education; poetry as a educational tool [quotes from students' poems and other writings]; more on the value of incorporating dance into children's education.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral history archive
- Oral History Archive.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Dorothy Alexander speaks about dance education, in January 1979. The cirucmstances and location are not identified other than that she is speaking into a tape recorder.
- Sound quality is good. There is occasional extraneous noise.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-657
- OCLC
- 79936281
- Author
Alexander, Dorothy, 1904-1986, speaker.
- Title
Dance in education/ Dorothy Alexander
- Production
1979
- 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 Dorothy Alexander 1979, January
- 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 56 minutes); transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: (myd_mgztco3657_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3657_v01f02_sc).
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-657
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