Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Sara Rudner [sound recording]

Author

Rudner, Sara.

Publication

1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Thom, Rose Anne.

Description

5 sound cassettes (7 hr.) +

Summary

• Cassette 1. Recorded February 19, 1995. Ms. Rudner discusses her earliest physical memories; her family; first dance classes; attending Barnard College; first exposure to modern dance; The New Dance Group; Janet Soares; Donya Feuer; Paul Sanasardo; Pearl Lang; her first contact with Twyla Tharp; auditioning for Tharp; her attraction to Tharp's work, Tharp's dances ReMoves and Jam.
• Cassette 2. Recorded March 3, 1995. Ms. Rudner discusses her early work with Tharp including ReMoves; Tharp's process and personality; early Tharp works including Generation and Medley; other dancers who worked with Tharp; ballet teachers Richard Thomas and Barbara Fallis; Rose Marie Wright; Sheila Raj; Graciela Figuerola; Tharp's dance Suite; Tharp as a dancer; The Bix pieces; her own changing attitude within Tharp's work; the depth of Tharp's work and how it has affected her.
• Cassette 3. Recorded March 21, 1995. Poor sound quality. Ms. Rudner discusses Tharp's piece Eight jelly rolls; costume designer Kermit Love; critical responses to Tharp's work; Rudner's feelings about dance criticism; her decision to leave Tharp's company; watching Tharp's success; working briefly with Pilobolus; her own choreography; collaborating with Wendy Rogers; the Five hour piece; Risa Jaroslow and Wendy Perron; other early pieces; a quartet with David Gordon; Valda Setterfield and Douglas Dunn; returning to work with Tharp; Tharp's Baker's dozen, Sinatra suite and Short stories; conflicts in Tharp's company; Rudner's detached retina; and her realisation that she could not dance and maintain a company simultaneously.
• Cassette 4. Recorded March 31, 1995. Ms. Rudner discusses her own dancing; injury and arthritis; thoughts on training; her own physicality and approach to movement; Tharp's Fait accompli; responses to Rudner's dancing; receiving a "Bessie" award; more on the quality of her dancing; her approach to improvisation; the choreographer/dancer relationship; Vicky Shick; Amy Spencer; Jo McKendry; teaching; discussions with Tharp in relation to teaching and the possibility of a school; establishing herself as a choreographer.
• Cassette 5. March 31 continued. Ms. Rudner discusses the origins and development of her work with Dana Reitz and Jennifer Tipton; discovering osteoarthritis in her hip; having a child; more on teaching and returning to choreography; plans for future work; and her hopes to combine her interest in choreography and pedagogy.

Alternative Title

• Dance Oral History Project.
• Dance Audio Archive.

Subjects

• Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009
• Spencer, Amy
• Audiotapes > Rudner, S
• Reitz, Dana
• Soares, Janet Mansfield
• Sanasardo, Paul
• Tharp, Twyla
• Love, Kermit
• McKendry, Jo
• Feuer, Donya
• Baker's dozen (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Fait accompli (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Generation (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Eight jelly rolls (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Figueroa, Graciela
• Raj, Sheila
• Shick, Vicky
• ReMoves (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Medley (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Wright, Rose Marie
• Sinatra suite (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Jam (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Short stories (Choreographic work : Tharp)
• Bix pieces (Choreographic work : Tharp)

Note

• For transcript, see: *MGZMT 3-2091.
• Interviewed by Rose Ann Thom, February and March 1995, in New York City.

Access (note)

• Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2091 (transcript)

OCLC

NYPY98-R3

Author

Rudner, Sara. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Sara Rudner [sound recording]

Imprint

1995.

Local Note

Preservation master cassette: *MGZTCO 3-2091

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2091. 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester; half-track.

Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2091.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Rudner, S

Added Author

Thom, Rose Anne. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZMT 3-2091 (transcript)

*MGZTC 3-2091 (sound cassette)