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Interview with Moses Pendleton
- Title
- Interview with Moses Pendleton [sound recording].
- Author
- Pendleton, Moses.
- Publication
- 2004.
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Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 3-2436 transcript | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | cassette 1 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2436 cassette 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | cassette 2 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2436 cassette 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | cassette 3 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2436 cassette 3 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Farlow, Lesley.
- Description
- 3 sound cassettes (ca. 165 min.) +
- Summary
- Cassette 1, 06/22/04 (ca. 55 min.). Moses Pendleton speaks about the social and political environment in which Pilobolus [Dance Theatre] was born and the atmosphere of life at Dartmouth College during this time; creating a dance with Michael Tracy to fulfill the requirements of Tracy's chemistry class; Pendleton's personal background; growing up in Vermont and training as a competitive skier; his life changing injury; personal relationships and early experiences with dance; encounter groups, sexual freedom and other aspects of the cultural atmosphere of the period; meeting Alison Chase and taking her class at Dartmouth.
- Cassette 2, 06/22/04 and 06/28/04 (ca. 90 min.). Pendleton speaks about the Vermont Natural Theater Company; the beginnings of Pilobolus; classes and people that he sees as key influences including Murray Louis and Alwin Nikolais; his interest in collective work and experience throughout his time at Dartmouth. [Interview session stops and resumes on 6/28/04]. Pendleton discusses his creative sources, particularly in the natural environment; more on the Vermont Natural Theater and the connection between that work and Pilobolus and Momix, the philosophical basis of his creativity; his class with Alison Chase and other classes at Dartmouth that influenced him including Don Cherry's jazz improvisational workshop and a lecture-demonstration by the Nikolais Louis Company; the formation of Pilobolus as a company; the company's early years; Alison Chase and Martha Clarke joining the company and the personal and creative dynamic that resulted; the creation of the work Untitled; the formation of the companies Crowsnest and Momix; more on Pilobolus' development and diverging paths of its founders; the support received by the company from Pierre Cardin.
- Cassette 3, 06/28/04 (ca. 20 min.). Pendleton speaks about his ongoing friendship with, and the influence of, Phillip Holland, Pendleton's French language teacher from Dartmouth; working with the Paris Opera Ballet, his first work for a company other than Pilobolus; other projects that developed around that time; his piece Day too.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview with Moses Pendleton conducted by Lesley Farlow at Pendleton's home in Washington, Conn., on June 22 and 28, 2004.
- For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2436.
- The sound quality of side B of cassette 1 is uneven. A brief portion of the recording documented in the transcript is missing at the start of side B. Additional material may be missing between the abrupt ending on side B and the resumption of the recording on cassette 2.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-2436
- OCLC
- NYPY05-R10008
- Author
- Pendleton, Moses. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Moses Pendleton [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 2004.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes -- Pendleton, M.
- Added Author
- Farlow, Lesley. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-2436 [sound cassettes]*MGZMT 3-2436 [transcript]*MGZTC 3-2436