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Interview with Annabelle Gamson

Title
Interview with Annabelle Gamson [sound recording].
Author
Gamson, Annabelle.
Publication
2006.

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AudioSupervised use *MGZMT 3-2471Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
disc 1-2AudioUse in library *MGZTL 4-2471 disc 1-2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Thom, Rose Anne.
Description
2 sound discs (ca. 83 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in. +
Summary
  • Disc 1 (ca. 63 min.). Annabelle Gamson speaks about her return to the work of Isadora Duncan after a 15 year performance hiatus; studying with Julia Levien and at the Katherine Dunham school; her memories of Café Society (nightclub); dancing as an emotional base in her life; her first professional auditions and getting the job to work with Jerome Robbins in On the town; living in Europe; returning to New York and dancing with Anna Sokolow; her own first exposure to choreographing, as a child, when working with Levien; Levien's dance lineage; other work Gamson did after Sokolow; touring with American Ballet Theatre; more on living in Europe; living in Westchester, New York and teaching; returning to performance through the influence of Barbara Roan; the challenges of performing Mary Wigman's dances.
  • Disc 2 (ca. 20 min.). Annabelle Gamson speaks further about Wigman's solos and the help she received from Hanya Holm in recreating them; her intellectual interests and their relationship to her early life; dance's relationship to the time in which it is created.
Donor/Sponsor
  • New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007.
  • National Endowment for the Arts, 2006-2007.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project.
  • Dance Audio Archive.
Subjects
Note
  • Interview with Annabelle Gamson conducted by Rose Anne Thom on Jan. 10, 2006, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in New York City.
  • For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2471.
Access (note)
  • Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2006-2007.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-2471
OCLC
78231113
Author
Gamson, Annabelle. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Annabelle Gamson [sound recording].
Imprint
2006.
Funding
Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2006-2007.
Restricted Access
Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
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Local Subject
Audiotapes -- Gamson, A.
Added Author
Thom, Rose Anne. Interviewer
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-2471 [sound disc]
*MGZMT 3-2471 [transcript]
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