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Author Chase, Alison, Interviewee.
Title Interview with Alison Chase [sound recording].
Imprint 2004.
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 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance  *MGZTL 4-2437  discs 1-2    AVAILABLE CLOSED STACKS
 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance  *MGZTL 4-2437  disc3    AVAILABLE CLOSED STACKS
 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance  *MGZMT 3-2437 transcript    AVAILABLE CLOSED STACKS

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Description 3 sound discs (ca. 96 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + transcript (55 leaves)
Note Interview with Alison Chase conducted by Lesley Farlow in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 13, 2004.
Summary Discs 1-2 (ca. 92 min.). Chase discusses her early experiences in dance, particularly the graduate program at UCLA [University of California, Los Angeles]; arriving to teach at Dartmouth with no prior teaching experience; the development of her first class there and the first performance of [Moses Pendleton's and Jonathan Wolken's work] Pilobolus; the influence of Murray Louis' positive response; performing opportunities that developed; expanding Pilobolus Dance Theatre to six collaborators; creating Ciona and other works that followed, including Mutsut and Untitled; responses to the first performance of Untitled including the aspect of nudity; consolidating the company and expanding to include other collaborators, administrators and performers; Martha Clarke's leaving the company and the replacement dancers and changes that resulted; the transition from the original Pilobolus as founding members left to do other projects and eventually returned to create work on new company members; the administrative challenges of running the company; her own trajectory and work including a piece for the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes and other pieces on Pilobolus.
Disc 3 (ca. 4 min.). Chase continues to talk about newer works.
Local Note Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2437 nos. 1-2
Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2437
Subject Chase, Alison.
Pilobolus Dance Theatre.
University of California, Los Angeles.
Untitled (Choreographic work : Pilobolus Dance Theatre)
Pilobolus (Choreographic work : Pendleton and Wolken)
Local Subject Audiotapes -- Chase, A.
Added Author Farlow, Lesley, Interviewer.
Donor/Sponsor Oral History Archive. Oral History Project.
Call No. *MGZTL 4-2437 [sound discs]
Research Call Number *MGZTL 4-2437 [sound discs]
*MGZMT 3-2437 [transcript]
*MGZTL 4-2437