Conversations about the dance: Agnes de Mille, 1974

Item data

Title

Conversations about the dance: Agnes de Mille, 1974

Collection

Dance Audio Archive

Names

De Mille, Agnes (Speaker)
Hunter College (Contributor)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1974

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZTO 5-1769

Subjects

De Mille, Agnes
Dance -- History -- 19th century
Dance -- Study and teaching -- United States

Genres

Lectures

Notes

Content: Title supplied by cataloger.
Venue: Recorded at Hunter College 1974 New York (New York, N.Y.)
Funding: The processing 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.

Physical Description

Extent: 2 audiotape reels (approximately 1 hr., 46 min.) : polyester; half-track; 3.75 ips; 7 in.
Sound quality is good overall.

Abstract

Conversations about the dance, a lecture-demonstration given by Agnes de Mille in 1974 at Hunter College, in New York (N.Y.). Applause, laughter, and music are heard periodically throughout the recording. Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 31 minutes). Agnes de Mille speaks about the most basic elements of dance; dancing and acting [dance demonstrations, including exercises and an excerpt from De Mille's ballet Rodeo]; comedy and timing [dance demonstration intended to illustrate timing; excerpt from the dream ballet from the musical comedy Oklahoma]; early English dancing [demonstration of an English dance from around 1650]. Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 29 minutes). Agnes de Mille speaks about English dancing in colonial America [dance demonstration with called steps]; Elizabethan upper-class dancing [demonstrations of a galliard and a volta]; the refining of English upper-class dance styles in the 18th century [dance demonstration]; dance in 18th century United States [demonstration of a rigaudon]; new elements brought by enslaved Africans and Irish famine refugees [demonstrations of a slip jig and of a reel jig]; the incorporation of aspects of Irish dancing into the dancing of the Africans [dance demonstration]; other American dance styles, including tap dancing; De Mille introduces Honi Coles [tap dance performance by Coles followed by intermission]. Streaming audio file 3 (approximately 32 minutes). Agnes de Mille speaks about social dancing after Waterloo; the waltz [demonstrations of the waltz, the polka, and the galop]; the introduction of ballet to the United States, beginning in the 19th century with Fanny Essler's American tour [dance demonstration]; the low standards of many of the European ballet dancers who subsequently toured the United States [dance demonstration]; Isadora Duncan and her revolutionary innovations [performance of Duncan's work The three graces]; the flowering of ballet in the United States.; Martha Graham and modern dance [demonstration of Graham floor exercises]. Streaming audio file 4 (approximately 14 minutes). [First approximate 2:35 minutes consists of ambient noise of Graham floor exercises followed by applause.] Agnes de Mille speaks about dance and the Broadway musical [dance demonstration set to a song from the musical Hair]; closing remarks.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 1002075099
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16090652
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 17d6dde0-c802-0135-91a1-519dde5ee869

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Type Of Resource

Sound Recording

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