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Interview with Edith Segal [sound recording]

Title
Interview with Edith Segal [sound recording]
Author
Segal, Edith, 1902-1997.
Publication
1991.

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reel 4AudioRestricted use *MGZTC 3-1153 [sound cassette] reel 4Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
reel 3AudioRestricted use *MGZTC 3-1153 [sound cassette] reel 3Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
reel 2AudioRestricted use *MGZTC 3-1153 [sound cassette] reel 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
reel 1AudioRestricted use *MGZTC 3-1153 [sound cassette] reel 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Farlow, Lesley.
Description
4 sound cassettes (4 hours, 15 min.)
Alternative Title
Dance Oral History Project.
Subjects
Note
  • Interviewed by Lesley Farlow 14 & 25 Jan.; 1 Feb. 1991 in Brooklyn, NY.
  • The other voices on the tape are those of Miss Segal's husband, Samuel Kamen, and her friend, Elfrida Mahler.
  • For transcript of interview see, *MGZMT 3-1153.
Contents
SUMMARY: Reel 1. Miss Segal discusses studying dance at the Neighborhood Playhouse; eloping; the Lenin Memorial in Chicago; performing at Madison Square Garden; Nature Friends Dance Group; Needle Trades Dance Group; Federal Theatre Project in Detroit; going to the Soviet Union in 1931; the Yiddish operetta, Bunt mit a Statchke. - Reel 2. Her works: Memorial dance, The belt goes red, Black and white, The third degree; Workers' Dance League; her philosophy of art; studying with Martha Graham; her own choreography; touring on the Publix Circuit; The Magic fountain; performing for Moiseyev. - Reel 3. The McCarthy investigations; her involvement with the Rosenbergs; Camp Kinderland; the Sherele, a folk dance; teaching folk dancing; her poetry for children. - Reel 4. Working with children using movement and poetry.
Call Number
*MGZTC 3-1153
OCLC
NYPY916054353-R
Author
Segal, Edith, 1902-1997. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Edith Segal [sound recording]
Imprint
1991.
Local Subject
Jewish dance.
Audiotapes -- Segal, E.
Added Author
Farlow, Lesley. Interviewer
Research Call Number
*MGZTC 3-1153
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