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O'Donnell : Master #2

Title
O'Donnell : Master #2, 1983 May 26 / Robt. Kanter Productions.
Publication
1983.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors
  • O'Donnell, May, 1906-2004
  • Green, Ray, 1908-1997
  • O'Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, donor.
Description
1 streaming video file (54 min.) : sound, color.
Summary
May O'Donnell and Ray Green discuss how they met in 1937 and got involved in dance, the problems encountered while performing with Martha Graham during her first transcontinental tour in 1937, Green composing music for O'Donnell, O'Donnell growing up in California and rehearsing with friends as children, touring with Graham and her own company, importance of Green's music for O'Donnell and her work, Green's piece entitled There is a time for innocence, and how the work was created, how she incorporates music and her voice into her dance classes, making money and working together in the studio at the beginning of their careers during the war, performing at Mills College and dancing with José Limón, creating Suspension after seeing an airplane below her in San Francisco while she was up on a hill, performing with Graham again in the 40s-50s and then establishing her first company, working with dancers and creating movement that looked good on each dancer, the money needed for concerts, and dancers leaving to perform with other choreographers, moving on to teaching, staging Suspension and Energies on companies which led to creating another version of her own company, the joys and problems with maintaining a dance company, how dance has gotten off track regarding structured choreographic works and the problems with the audience connecting to it, trouble getting dance out to the public which makes it difficult to raise money to pay dancers, young dancers living and moving to New York City, and the connection that O'Donnell and Green still have after all these years.
Alternative Title
  • Interview with May O'Donnell and Ray Green: Master #2
  • May O'Donnell and Ray Green Collection.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Filmed dance.
  • Interviews.
  • Video.
  • Dance.
  • Nonfiction films.
Note
  • Title from original VHS cassette label.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Source (note)
  • O'Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation;
Call Number
*MGZIDF 3213
OCLC
968935596
Title
O'Donnell : Master #2, 1983 May 26 / Robt. Kanter Productions.
Production
1983.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
video
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Access
Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Performer
Interviewees, May O'Donnell and Ray Green.
Event
Videotaped at dance studio, New York, N.Y., 1983 May 26.
Original Version
Original format: 1 film reel.
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Added Author
O'Donnell, May, 1906-2004, artistic director.
O'Donnell, May, 1906-2004, interviewee.
Green, Ray, 1908-1997, interviewee.
O'Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, donor.
Added Title
May O'Donnell and Ray Green Collection.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 3213
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