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Interview with Lynn Simonson
- Title
- Interview with Lynn Simonson [sound recording]
- Author
- Simonson, Lynn.
- Publication
- 1993.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 2 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1824 [sound cassette] reel 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 1 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1824 [sound cassette] reel 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Sunshine, Louise.
- Description
- 2 sound cassettes (170 min.) +
- Summary
- Cassette 1. Recorded September 29, 1993. Ms. Simonson discusses her childhood; studying ballet; first teaching at age 13; her first choreography at age 12; her initiation to jazz music and musical theater; beginning to teach jazz dance at age 16; moving to New York; her first dancing job at Radio City Music Hall; other early jobs; her knee injury and how it inspired her to study anatomy; studying jazz technique with Luigi, Jaime Rogers and Claude Thompson; describes Luigi's classes; meeting Helen Le Clerq; going to Amsterdam to teach; the development of anatomical awareness in her teaching; meeting Heinz Laurenzen and teaching at his summer courses in Cologne, Germany; first studying modern dance; returning to New York; starting Theatre Dance Collection with Lynne Taylor, Rodney Griffin and others; formalizing and deepening her approach to teaching technique.
- Cassette 2. Recorded November 5, 1993. Ms. Simonson continues her discussion of the 1970's and her philosophies of dance and teaching; the influence of Mabel Elsworth Todd; her connections with Danny Buraczeski andFred Benjamin; researching the history of jazz dance; Liz Thompson and Jacob's Pillow; using improvisation in her class; training teachers; the opening of Dance Space, Inc. in New York and the related nonprofit organization Evolving Arts, Inc.; the influence of her second husband, Charles Wright; her holistic approach to teaching; the beginning of her work with Expanded Dance at Windhover Center for the Performing Arts in Rockport, Mai
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Theatre Dance Collection (Company)
- Benjamin, Fred
- Luigi
- Windhover Center for the Performing Arts
- Leclerc, Hélène
- Thompson, Liz (Elizabeth Lauter)
- Thompson, Claude
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
- Taylor, Lynne
- Todd, Mabel Elsworth
- Griffin, Rodney
- Jazz dance > Study and teaching
- Evolving Arts, Inc
- Dance Space, Inc
- Rogers, Jaime
- Laurenzen, Heinz
- Buraczeski, Danny
- Note
- Interviewed by Louise Sunshine at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- For trancript see: *MGZMT 3-1824.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1824
- OCLC
- NYPY94-R1
- Author
- Simonson, Lynn. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Lynn Simonson [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1993.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Added Author
- Sunshine, Louise. Interviewer