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Interview with Selma Jeanne Cohen

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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.	reel 2	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-1990 [sound cassette] reel 2	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.	reel 1	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-1990 (sound cassette) reel 1	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.		Audio	Supervised use	*MGZMT 3-1990 (transcript)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Additional Authors

Klyagin, Irina.

Description

2 sound cassettes (135 min.) +

Summary

Cassette 1. Recorded January 22, 1996. Ms. Cohen disucsses her first exposure to dance through ballet and other classes with Edna McCrae; her family background; her dissertation on Gerard Manley Hoplins: her first published work in the American Journal of Aesthetics; teaching and studying at Eugene Loring's school; deciding to come to New York; becoming acquainted with dance forms other than ballet; teaching at the High School of Performing Arts; her experiences as a dance critic; teaching seminars supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities; Al Pischl and developing the idea of Dance Perspectives; becoming the magazine's editor; her decision to leave Dance Perspectives; different teaching experiences; the Dance Perspectives Foundation and the De la Torre Bueno Prize; developing courses in dance writing and criticism; Society of Dance History Scholars; and the pending International Encyclopedia of Dance.
Cassette 2. Recorded February 5, 1996 (side A only). Ms. Cohen describes the influence on her of people in professions other than dance; the resistance of the dance world to her ideas; her books: The modern dance: seven statements of belief, Doris Humphrey: an artist first, Next week, Swan lake, and the pending dance encyclopedia; the historical relationship between modern dance and ballet; the new generation of dance critics; Deborah Jowitt; Mindy Aloff; the training of dance writers; and theoretical issues.

Donor/Sponsor

National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Alternative Title

Subjects

Note

For transcript, see: *MGZMT 3-1990.
Interviewed by Irina Klyagin in Ms. Cohen's New York City apartment, January 22, and February 5, 1996.

Access (note)

Call Number

*MGZMT 3-1990

OCLC

NYPY97-R14

Author

Cohen, Selma Jeanne, 1920-2005. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Selma Jeanne Cohen [sound recording].

Imprint

1996.

Local Note

Preservation master cassettes: *MGZTCO 3-1990.

Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-1990.

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-1990. 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester; half-track.

Interview funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD)

Restricted Access

Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Cohen, S.

Audiotapes -- Klyagin, I.

Added Author

Klyagin, Irina. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZMT 3-1990 (transcript)

*MGZTC 3-1990 (sound cassette)