- Additional Authors
- Rogosin, Elinor
- Description
- 1 streaming file (approximately 37 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Streaming file (approximately 37 minutes). Bella Lewitzky speaks with Elinor Rogosin about Lester Horton; the Horton technique; virtuosity as a tool rather than as an end in itself; her dancers; collaborating with the composers Cara Bradbury Rhodes Marcus [Cara Bradbury Rhodes] and Larry Attaway, and the designers Darleene Neel and Rudi Gernreich; methods for recording her choreography including her own notation system and videotape; her tendency to revise her works depending on the dancers; her interest in the transmission of cultural inheritance; the much broader public awareness today of modern dance; the continuing growth and change in modern dance; how the arts further learning and understanding life; touring.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Elinor Rogosin. Oral History Archive.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Bella Lewitzky conducted by Elinor Rogosin, probably in California, in 1979, as research for her book, The dance makers (1980).
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by extraneous noise (the interview is taking place in what sounds like a restaurant), but the speakers' voices are easily intelligible overall.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- 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 3-688 reel 15
- OCLC
- 81670871
- Author
Lewitzky, Bella, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Bella Lewitzky, 1979.
- Production
1979
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Event
Recorded by Elinor Rogosin 1979 California?
- 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 37 minutes); polyester; quarter-track; transferred to wav file and streaming file formats in 2015.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-688 reel 15
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Rogosin, Elinor, interviewer.
Rogosin, Elinor, donor.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-688 reel 15