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Interview with Brenda Dixon Gottschild
- Title
- Interview with Brenda Dixon Gottschild [sound recording].
- Author
- Gottschild, Brenda Dixon.
- Publication
- 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-2315 transcript | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Audio | Permit needed | *MGZTC 3-2315, cassette 1 Permission required | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Audio | Permit needed | *MGZTC 3-2315, cassette 2 Permission required | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Audio | Permit needed | *MGZTC 3-2315, cassette 3 Permission required | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Audio | Permit needed | *MGZTC 3-2315, cassette Permission required | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Moseley, Monica.
- Description
- 4 sound cassettes (ca. 270 min.) +
- Summary
- Cassette 1. 4/30/01 (80 min.): Dixon-Gottschild discusses her family background, exposure to music; education; first experiences with dance; her relationship to the culture and religion around her as a girl and young woman. She then discusses in depth her work in and studies with Mary Anthony; her first trip to Europe; her dance and personal experiences there; her thoughts on race at that time, particularly in reference to her own experiences; performing with the Open Theater and working with director Joe Chaiken and others involved with the theater at that time.
- Cassette 2. 5/07/01 (90 min.): Dixon-Gottschild continues to discuss her family background; racial issues; her life in the late 1960s; more on her work with the Open Theater and deciding to leave; her trip to Tunisia; marrying Esty Stowell; getting a job at Bennington College and leaving after a year; the beginnings of her work as a writer; her graduate work; working for the College of New Rochelle.
- Cassette 3. 5/07/01 (90 min): Dixon-Gottschild discusses the development of her teaching [interview pauses and resumes that evening]; her academic work in anthropology; thoughts on Katherine Dunham; various people she may have known or seen perform in New York, including Pearl Primus, Robert Farris Thompson, and Allegra Fuller Snyder; the 1990 Dance Critics Association conference; Richard Schechner; teaching criticism; John Szwed and Roger Abrahams; developing the doctoral program at Temple University; her own research; Philadelphia Dance Company; the work of her husband Hellmutt Gottschild; their work together.
- Cassette 4. 5/07/01 (10 min.): Conversation continues about her work with Hellmutt Gottschild, the scope of her touring and her work internationally.
- Donor/Sponsor
- National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Note
- Recorded on April 30, 2001 and May 7, 2001 in Philadelphia, Pa. For transcript see *MGZMT 3-2315.
- Interview conducted by Monica Moseley.
- For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2315.
- Access (note)
- Permission required for sound recording.
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-2315
- OCLC
- NYPY02-R0
- Author
- Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Brenda Dixon Gottschild [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 2001.
- Access
- Permission required for sound recording.
- Funding
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Added Author
- Moseley, Monica. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-2315 [Transcript]*MGZTC 3-2315 [Sound cassettes]