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Interview with Zelda Wynn

Title
Interview with Zelda Wynn [sound recording]
Author
Wynn, Zelda.
Publication
1995.

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AudioSupervised use *MGZMT 3-1864 (transcript)Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
AudioUse in library *MGZTC 3-1864 (sound cassette)Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Schoelwer, Ed.
Description
1 sound cassette (ca. 90 min) +
Summary
Recorded May 4, 1995. Ms. Wynn discusses her childhood in Chambersburg, Penn.; segregation; learning to sew from her grandmother; moving to New York City; working at her uncle's tailor shop in White Plains, N.Y.; opening her first dressmaking business; Ella Fitzgerald; Josephine Baker; Marian Anderson; the War Against Poverty; Arthur Mitchell; the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell; the Dance Theatre of Harlem and its tour to Spoleto; experiencing racism; costuming Mr. Mitchell's Holberg suite; the process of working with choreographers and building costumes from sketches; George Balanchine's Bugaku; teaching dance students to sew; Bill Blass; open houses at Dance Theatre of Harlem; Pamela Allen; Fashion Designers of America; dying tights to match dancers' skin tones; pointe shoe maintenance; fundraising for the Dance Theatre of Harlem; performing in Giselle; and Frederic Franklin.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project.
  • Dance Audio Archive.
Subjects
Note
  • Interviewed by Ed Schoelwer.
  • For transcript see *MGZMT 3-1864.
Access (note)
  • Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
Call Number
*MGZMT 3-1864
OCLC
NYPY96-R5
Author
Wynn, Zelda. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Zelda Wynn [sound recording]
Imprint
1995.
Local Note
Preservation master cassette in: *MGZTCO 3-1864.
Archival transcript in: *MGZMTO 3-1864.
Restricted Access
Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
Added Author
Schoelwer, Ed. Interviewer
Research Call Number
*MGZMT 3-1864 [Transcript]
*MGZTC 3-1864 [Cassette]
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