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Interview with Alison Chase

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Request Appointment 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 3-2437 transcript	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc3	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-2437 disc3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	discs 1-2	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-2437 discs 1-2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Additional Authors

Farlow, Lesley.

Description

3 sound discs (ca. 96 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in. +

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.

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Note

Interview with Alison Chase conducted by Lesley Farlow in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 13, 2004.
For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2437.

Access (note)

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2437

OCLC

NYPY05-R10010

Author

Chase, Alison. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Alison Chase [sound recording].

Imprint

2004.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

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Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Chase, A.

Added Author

Farlow, Lesley. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2437 [sound discs]

*MGZMT 3-2437 [transcript]

*MGZTL 4-2437