| Description |
9 sound cassettes (29 hrs., 39 min.) : analog, mono. |
| Note |
Recorded Dec. 1 & 8, 1976; Jan. 12; Feb. 23; Mar. 9, 16 & 30; Apr. 6 & 20; May 11; June 6, 8, 13, 15, 21, 22, 27; and July 1, 6, 13, 1977 in Bronxville, N.Y. |
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For transcript of interview see: *MGZMT 5-1018. |
| Summary |
Cassette 1. Bessie Schoenberg discusses her early childhood and art training; Dresden, Germany; her first trip to America; dance classes with Martha Hill; meeting Martha Graham and joining the Graham Company; Graham's technique classes -- Cassette 2. Dancing with Graham; Louis Horst; her injuries and leaving the company; Neighborhood Playhouse classes and productions; teaching at the Henry St. Settlement; the Bennington School of the Dance; Martha Hill; Stokowski's revival of Le sacre du printemps; Bennington -- Cassette 3. Bennington; developing her own approach to teaching; Martha Graham; Norman and Ruth Lloyd; John Martin; Helen Tamiris; Agnes de Mille; Anna Sokolow; José Limón; Sybil Shearer; Lincoln Kirstein; Lloyd Shaw -- Cassette 4. Folk dancing with Lloyd Shaw; the Bennington School of the Dance at Mills College; Briarcliff Junior College; developing a teaching philosophy; the New Dance League; the early years of Sarah Lawrence College -- Cassette 5. Reforming the Sarah Lawrence dance department; her composition classes; her accompanists; the "Friday program"; personal life; collaborative theater productions; Sarah Lawrence Dance Group's Carnegie Hall debut; teaching technique to college students -- Cassette 6. Principles of teaching; various productions at Sarah Lawrence; teaching composition; rhythm; advanced composition classes -- |
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Cassette 7. The projects class; Ruth Lloyd's music classes for dancers; classes in teaching dance; the graduate dance program; ballet, dance notation and production classes -- Cassette 8. Bringing men to Sarah Lawrence for dance and theatre productions; co-education; guest technique teachers; the Performing Arts Building; former students, including Carolyn Adams, Meredith Monk, Lucinda Childs, Elizabeth Keen, Beverly Emmons -- Cassette 9-10. Former students Alice Reyes and Stuart Hopps; the Connecticut College American Dance Festival; teaching dance to Juilliard singers; her family's experiences during World War II; her husband, Dimitri Varley; retirement; designing dance departments for colleges; other dance activities; the 1977 revival of Primitive mysteries. |
| Local Note |
Archival original: *MGZTO 5-1018; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 10 reels (5 in.) |
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Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-1018; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester. |
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Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance. |
| Subject |
Horst, Louis.
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Hill, Martha.
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Lloyd, Norman, 1909-
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Lloyd, Ruth.
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Shearer, Sybil.
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Shaw, Lloyd, 1890-1958.
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Monk, Meredith.
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Graham, Martha.
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Sarah Lawrence College.
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Sarah Lawrence College. Dance Group.
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Bennington School of the Dance.
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American Dance Festival.
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Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)
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Martha Graham Dance Company.
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Choreography.
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Dance -- Study and teaching.
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| Local Subject |
Dance -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Modern dance -- Technique.
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Audiotapes -- Schoenberg, B.
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| Added Author |
Thom, Rose Anne, Interviewer.
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| Donor/Sponsor |
National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
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Oral History Archive - Oral History Project.
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| Standard no. |
*MGZT 5-1018 (Former classmark) |
| Call No. |
*MGZTC 3-1018
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| Research Call Number |
*MGZTC 3-1018
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