- Additional Authors
- Small, Linda
- Description
- 2 streaming files (approximately one hour and 49 minutes ) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Streaming file no. 1 (approximately one hour and 37 minutes). Joan Levy Bernstein speaks about Doris Humphrey including how they first met; taking classes at Humphrey's school and being asked to join the understudy group; her memories of Jane Dudley as a fellow student in Ruth Doing's classes; becoming a member of the regular company [Humphrey-Weidman Company]; the company's first summer at Bennington College; teaching technique, at Bennington and the 92nd St. Y, including her memories of William Kolodny; touring with the company; more on her experience at Bennington College's summer dance program; her early training in dance and music; Humphrey as a person and as a choreographer working with dancers; Bernstein's first role, in The life of the bee; her memories of Humphrey as she appeared when Bernstein first saw her perform; Humphrey's work New dance; reconstructing Humphrey's work With my red fires; the influence of social awareness on dance in the 1930s; Humphrey in the role of the matriarch in With my red fires; Pauline Lawrence; leaving the company; teaching kindergarten, in particular her use of music and dance; her son and daughter; more on touring including various anecdotes; her family; seeing Isadora Duncan perform; Humphrey's work The Shakers; Charles Weidman's dance Atavisms.
- Streaming file no. 2 (approximately 11 minutes). Joan Levy Bernstein speaks with Linda Small about other members of the Humphrey-Weidman Company, including José Limón, Katherine Litz, Sybil Shearer, Katherine Manning, Letitia Ide, and Charles Weidman;
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview with Joan Levy Bernstein conducted by Linda Small, at Levy Bernstein's home on May 1, 1978, for the The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division's Oral History Project.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is extremely poor. The recording is marred throughout by loud "tape hiss," and the speakers' voices are very low in volume, especially that of Linda Small, the interviewer. As a result much of the recording is barely intelligible. However, there is a transcript of the recording available, on site only, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, cataloged under the call number: *MGZMT 5-350.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 5-350
- OCLC
- 81400890
- Author
Bernstein, Joan Levy, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Joan Levy Bernstein. May 1, 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 for The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 1978, May 1, New York (N.Y.)
- 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: one sound reel (approximately one hour and 49 minutes); 5"; polyester; half-track; 1.875 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file formats in 2014.
- Local Note
For transcript of interview, see *MGZMT 5-350.
Former call number: *MGZT 5-350
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Small, Linda, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 5-350