Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Jennifer Muller [sound recording].

Author

Muller, Jennifer, 1949-

Publication

2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brilliant, Jennifer.

Description

4 sound discs (ca. 223 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

• Disc 1, June 7, 2011 (ca. 60 min.). Jennifer Muller speaks with Jennifer Brilliant about her family background; her first creative movement class; early sources of her creative impulses; the great influence of her teacher Antony Tudor; sources of her own spiritual development; other early influential teachers and experiences, including Anna Sokolow, Pearl Lang and the American Dance Festival; her teacher Carol Friend; teaching to support her early career; the José Limón Dance Company and her experience there, both in terms of the company's dynamics and with José Limón himself; José Limón's reaction to Louis Falco's ballet Sleepers; Muller's early choreography and the elements she feels set it apart from other works of the time; working with Falco; her work Beach; her thoughts on teaching.
• Disc 2, June 7, 2011 cont. (ca. 59 min.). Jennifer Muller speaks with Jennifer Brilliant about her technique; more on her creative process and intentions; her work Lovers; more on dancing with Louis Falco and the Louis Falco Dance Company; choreographing for the Louis Falco Company; working with the artist William Katz on sets and costumes; the transition to having her own company; early experiences with her company; her company's name; some of the major thematic elements of her choreography; her work Island; her strong sense of family within her company and her sense of the company culture she has created.
• Disc 3, June 8, 2011 (ca. 58 min.). Jennifer Muller speaks with Jennifer Brilliant about her home and her studio with reference to the works and programs she has developed there; the influence of Eastern philosophy on her creative life, including the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching, and how she feels the culture of her company and the nature of her work have been informed by these ideas; her creative intentions; the emotional expressive potential of the body; her sources of inspiration; the stages of her choreographic process; the mission of her company; the reception of her work by critics; the nature of dance criticism's changing preference for certain styles of work; how Muller perceives and teaches the use of intention and the portrayal of emotion in performance; the Muller technique.
• Disc 4, June 8, 2011 cont. (ca. 46 min.). Jennifer Muller continues to speak with Jennifer Brilliant about the Muller technique; the atmosphere she creates in the classroom and her method of interacting with students; teaching choreography; her belief in the importance of mentoring and the healing quality of dance; her ideas regarding the development of her audience as well as collaborations with the artists who create her lighting, sets and costumes; some of her collaborative methods and experiences; her use of the spoken word in her pieces; future plans.

Alternative Title

Dance Oral History Project.

Subjects

• Modern dance > Technique > Muller
• Dance critics
• Audiotapes > Muller, J
• José Limón Dance Company
• Muller, Jennifer, 1949-
• Sleepers (Choreographic work : Falco)
• Artistic collaboration
• Louis Falco Dance Company
• Falco, Louis
• Lovers (Choreographic work : Muller)
• Performing arts > Public relations
• Limón, José
• Dance criticism
• Beach (Choreographic work : Muller)

Note

• Interview with Jennifer Muller conducted by Jennifer Brilliant on June 7 and 8, 2011 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City as part of the Oral History Project.
• For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2876.

Access (note)

• Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Funding (note)

• The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2876

OCLC

770403525

Author

Muller, Jennifer, 1949- Interviewee

Title

Interview with Jennifer Muller [sound recording].

Imprint

2011.

Funding

The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Local Subject

Louis Falco Dance Company.

Added Author

Brilliant, Jennifer. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2876

*MGZMT 3-2876