- Description
- Two streaming files (approximately two hours and 11 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Streaming file 1 (approximately one hour and five minutes). Eugene Loring begins his lecture by asking an audience member to speak about how she would start choreographing a dance; he responds to her responses with additional questions and comments; Loring speaks, at times in a dialogue with the listeners, about choreographing movement appropriate to the dancers at hand compared to so-called "show piece" choreography; the importance of making your dancers look good and creating a certain atmosphere in the theater; emotion as a basis of choreography; imitation as contrasted with influence; the choreographic process; choreographing the ballet Billy the Kid including working with Aaron Copland; finding the right score for a dance; the elements of movement; use of a particular movement or sequence of movement to illustrate an idea or emotion, with reference to an example from Billy the Kid [ends abruptly but continues on streaming file 2].
- Streaming file 2 (approximately one hour and six minutes). Eugene Loring continues to speak about the choice of movement; stage composition; various choreographic methods including the use of dancers' improvisations, as for example Agnes de Mille did in Three virgins and a devil; choreography as a synthesis of all the arts; projection from the stage and on the motion picture screen [ends abruptly].
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Alan Boehmer.
- Subjects
- Note
- Lecture given by Eugene Loring on choreography for stage and screen in June 1975. Sections of the recording include demonstrations of movement and at least one stage exercise. The location of the lecture is not identified.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is fair to poor. The recording is marred by extraneous noise including "tape hiss" and frequent changes in volume. Eugene Loring's voice is, for the most part, easily intelligible, but the voices of the audience members are often soft and difficult to understand.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The 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.
- OCLC
- 84610031
- Author
Loring, Eugene, 1911-1982.
- Title
Lecture on choreography for stage and screen [sound recording].
- Imprint
1975.
- 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 The NYPL research libraries.
- Event
Recorded by Alan Boehmer? June , 1975
- 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 reel (approximately two hours and 11 minutes); 7"; polyester; quarter-track; 3.75 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file formats in 2014
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZT 7-859
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