Research Catalog

Title

Dance on: Letitia Ide [electronic resource] / produced by Billie Mahoney in association with the Jazz Dance World Congress, Dance Films Association, and the International Dance Association ; director, Sheri Carsello.

Publication

1992.

Details

Additional Authors

• Ide, Letitia.
• Mahoney, Billie.
• Dance Films Association.
• Jazz Dance World Congress.
• DHCA.

Description

1 streaming video file (NTSC) (29 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

Letitia Ide, who now coaches dancers in the works of Doris Humphrey and José Limón, looks back at her early career as a dancer in the Humphrey-Weidman Company. She recalls dancing with Limón in Lysistrata, with Marilyn Miller in the Broadway show As thousands cheer (choreographed by Charles Weidman), and appearing in the premieres of Limón's The exiles and Humphrey's Day on earth. She also shares some observations of dancers and choreographers today.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Billie Mahoney.

Series Statement

Dance on: With Billie Mahoney.

Subjects

• Musical comedies > As thousands cheer
• Incidental dances > Lysistrata
• Television > Dance on: with Billie Mahoney
• Video
• Interviews
• Dance
• Day on earth (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
• Exiles (Choreographic work : Limón)
• Humphrey-Weidman Company
• Miller, Marilyn, 1898-1936
• Limón, José
• Weidman, Charles
• Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Interviews.
• Video.

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Performer (note)

• Interviewer: Billie Mahoney.
• Interviewee: Letitia Ide.

Event (note)

• Program from the public access cable television series Dance on: With Billie Mahoney. Taped at Evanston Community Television, Evanston, Illinois, in August 1992.

Funding (note)

• Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 4974

OCLC

NYPY936018325-F

Title

Dance on: Letitia Ide [electronic resource] / produced by Billie Mahoney in association with the Jazz Dance World Congress, Dance Films Association, and the International Dance Association ; director, Sheri Carsello.

Imprint

1992.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Dance on: With Billie Mahoney.

Performer

Interviewer: Billie Mahoney.

Interviewee: Letitia Ide.

Event

Program from the public access cable television series Dance on: With Billie Mahoney. Taped at Evanston Community Television, Evanston, Illinois, in August 1992.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-3558.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Television. Dance on: with Billie Mahoney.

Incidental dances. Lysistrata.

Musical comedies. As thousands cheer.

Added Author

Ide, Letitia. Interviewee

Mahoney, Billie. Producer. Interviewer

Dance Films Association.

Jazz Dance World Congress.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 4974

*MGZIC 9-3558 (former)