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Interview-demonstration with Pearl Primus the art of performing.

Title
Interview-demonstration with Pearl Primus [sound recording] : the art of performing.
Author
Primus, Pearl
Publication
1953.

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Additional Authors
  • Terry, Walter
  • Dance Laboratory
Description
1 sound cassette (51 min.) : analog, mono.
Donor/Sponsor
  • National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
  • Gift of Walter Terry. Oral History Archive.
Subject
  • Interpretation in dance performance
  • Calypso
  • Blues
  • Dance > Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Tutsi (African people) > Dances
  • Dance, Black > United States
  • Snake dances
  • Audiotapes > Primus, P
Note
  • Interviewer: Walter Terry.
  • Recorded February 15, 1953. The fifth in the 1952-1953 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, held at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York.
Local note
  • Archival original: *MGZTO 5-110; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; acetate, half track.
  • Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-110; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; polyester
  • Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Call Number
*MGZTC 3-110
OCLC
NYPY737248585-R
Author
Primus, Pearl. Interviewee
Title
Interview-demonstration with Pearl Primus [sound recording] : the art of performing.
Imprint
1953.
Summary
Miss Primus discusses how she projects different moods and meanings to the audience, focusing on the Calypso, the Blues and dances of the African Watusi; the African and Afro-American dance heritages; the use of body parts in African dance as seen in the Fanga, a Swahili prayer, and in a serpent dance; the Watusi king's dancers; how to teach the art of performing.
Local Note
Archival original: *MGZTO 5-110; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; acetate, half track.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-110; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; polyester
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Local Subject
Tutsi (African people) -- Dances.
Local Subject
Snake dances.
Audiotapes -- Primus, P.
Added Author
Terry, Walter. Interviewer
Dance Laboratory.
Research Call Number
*MGZTC 3-110
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