Research Catalog

Title

Interviews with Shulamit Bat-Ari Kivel (Shulamite Kornberg Kivel), Fred Berk, Bonnie Bird, Meredith Monk, and Gary Harris, 1978

Author

Berk, Fred, 1911-1980

Publication

1978

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Monk, Meredith
• Harris, Gary
• Ingber, Judith Brin
• Bird, Bonnie
• Kivel, Shulamit Bat-Ari

Description

4 streaming audio files (approximately three hours and four minutes): digital +

Summary

• Streaming file 1 (approximately 45 minutes). [First approximate 13:30 minutes]: Shulamit Bat-Ari Kivel (Shulamite Kornberg Kivel) and Judith Brin Ingber review and comment on Kivel's collection of dance photographs and programs, including those relating to the contemporary Jewish Arts Series at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. [From approximately 13:30 minutes to the end, at 44:53 minutes]: Fred Berk speaks with Ingber about folk dance publications that he has authored, edited or initiated, including: Ha rikud, Machol ha'am, Hora magazine, Ten folk dances in Labanotation, and Guide for the Israeli folk dance teacher; being influenced by the work of Rudolf von Laban [ends abruptly but continues on streaming file 2].
• Streaming file 2 (approximately 45 minutes). [First approximate 13:35 minutes]: Fred Berk speaks with Judith Brin Ingber about making recordings of Israeli folk dances; working with Gerry and Stephanie Katz. [From approximately 13:36 minutes to 26:22 minutes]: Bonnie Bird and Fred Berk speak with Ingber about the sale of the Merry-Go-Rounders; directing and teaching in the dance program of the 92nd Street Y; the genesis and repertory of the Merry-Go-Rounders [short gap; interview with Meredith Monk begins at approximately 26:57 and continues until the end of the streaming file, at 44:53]: Meredith Monk speaks with Ingber about her study of Israeli folk dance; her Jewish background; studying with Berk; attending Camp Blue Star; her first major piece of choreography as a student; seeing Martha Graham's work for the first time [ends abruptly].
• Streaming file 3 (approximately 47 minutes). [First approximate 9:27 minutes]: Gary Harris speaks with Judith Brin Ingber about and reads extensively from an unidentified text describing his lighting designs for Fred Berk's dances; explains shadow patterns as a theatrical lighting choice; his design for Berk's dance, Holiday in Israel. [From approximately 9:27 minutes to the end, at 46:38 minutes]: Fred Berk speaks with Ingber about the singer Lotte Lehmann; meeting Sara Levi-Tanai; his distaste for the use of humiliation as a teaching tool; the Israel Folk Dance Festival; his first introduction to Israeli folk dance; his relationship with Katya [Delakova]; [ends abruptly].
• Streaming file 4 (approximately 47 minutes). [This may be a continuation of the interview recorded in the first approximate 13:30 minutes of streaming file 4.]: Shulamit Bat-Ari Kivel (Shulamite Kornberg Kivel) speaks with Judith Brin Ingber about settling and teaching dance in Israel; her early years as an immigrant in the United States; studying and performing with Katya Delakova and Fred Berk; her impressions of the Delakova/Berk repertoire; leaving Delakova and Berk; her husband [presumably her first husband, Leonard Kornberg; she married Morton Kivel in 1969]; the influence of Delakova and Berk on her teaching; her definition of "Jewish dance"; the importance of the Israel Folk Dance Festival [ends abruptly].

Donor/Sponsor

Trust of Gertrude L. Lippincott.

Alternative Title

• Interview with Gary Harris
• Interview with Bonnie Bird
• Interview with Fred Berk
• Interview with Meredith Monk
• Interview with Shulamit Bat-Ari Kivel
• Dance Audio Archive.

Subjects

• Sound recordings
• Interviews
• Holiday in Israel (Choreographic work : Berk)
• Jewish dance > United States
• Folk dancing > Israel
• Jewish dance > Israel
• Bird, Bonnie > Interviews
• Israel Folk Dance Festival (New York, N.Y.)
• Merry-Go-Rounders
• Monk, Meredith > Interviews
• Harris, Gary > Interviews
• Delakova, Katya
• 92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.)
• Kivel, Shulamit Bat-Ari > Interviews
• Levi-Tanai, Sara
• Berk, Fred, 1911-1980 > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Sound recordings.

Note

• For transcript, see: *MGZMT 3-2131.
• Interviews with Shulamit Bat-Ari Kivel (Shulamite Kornberg Kivel), Fred Berk, Bonnie Bird, Meredith Monk, and Gary Harris conducted by Judith Brin Ingber, in April 1978, in New York City, as part of her research in writing Fred Berk's biography entitled Victory dances: the life of Fred Berk.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Sound quality is fair to poor. The recording is marred by significant extraneous noise including music, people speaking in the background, and other extraneous sounds. However, for the most part the speakers' voices are easily intelligible.

Access (note)

• Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
• Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Funding (note)

• The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.

Source (note)

• Judith Brin Ingber

Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2131 (transcript)

OCLC

40257344

Author

Berk, Fred, 1911-1980, interviewee.

Title

Interviews with Shulamit Bat-Ari Kivel (Shulamite Kornberg Kivel), Fred Berk, Bonnie Bird, Meredith Monk, and Gary Harris, 1978

Production

1978

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

audio file

Restricted Access

Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Event

Recorded by Judith Brin Ingber 1978, New York City

Funding

The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.

Original Version

Original format: two sound cassettes (approximately three hours and four minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file (myd_mgztco32131_v01f01_sc, myd_mgztco32131_v01f02_sc, myd_mgztco32131_v02f01_sc, and myd_mgztco32131_v02f02_sc) in 2015.

Local Note

Identification of the month and year of the recording as April 1978 and identification of the respective speakers are based in large part on the catalog record existing as of December 2015 prior to its revision to reflect the new, streaming file format of the listener copies. Shulamit Bar-Ari Kivel's biography, on the web site of the Jewish Women's Archive, as of December 29, 2015, is under the name "Shulamite Kornberg Kivel".

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Source

Gift, Judith Brin Ingber

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Monk, Meredith, interviewee.

Harris, Gary, interviewee.

Ingber, Judith Brin, interviewer.

Bird, Bonnie, interviewee.

Kivel, Shulamit Bat-Ari, interviewee.

Gift of Judith Brin Ingber

Added Title

Interview with Gary Harris

Interview with Bonnie Bird

Interview with Fred Berk

Interview with Meredith Monk

Interview with Shulamit Bat-Ari Kivel

Research Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2131 (transcript)

*MGZTCO 3-2131 (sound cassette)