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The horse's mouth greets the new millennium, Interviews

Title: The horse's mouth greets the new millennium, Interviews [videorecording]
Publication: c2000.

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3 videocassettes (181 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Interviews with seventeen of the dancer-choreographers who performed in The horse's mouth greets the new millenium. Most of the interviewees are initially asked how they began to dance.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Interviews.
Video.

Note

Camera Two.
For performance footage of The horse's mouth greets the new millennium, see: *MGZIA 4-3973, 4-3974, and 4-3975, all titled The horse's mouth greets the new millennium.
Recording made possible by the cooperation of Tina Croll/James Cunningham, the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, The Construction Company, Keystone Dance Studio (Mary Seidman and Dancers), and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.

Performer (note)

Interviewees (in order of appearance): Aleta Hayes, Risa Jaroslow, Beth Soll, Catherine Turocy, Julia Gleich, Carolyn Lord, Richard Biles, Arthur Aviles, James Sutton, Diane Lachtrupp, Anahid Sofian, Walter Nicks, James Martin, Cha Lee Chan, Tamar Rogoff, Cathy Kerr, Arawana Hayashi.
Interviewers: Deborah Jowitt, Beverly Blossom.

Event (note)

Videotaped at Keystone Dance Studio (Mary Seidman and Dancers), New York, N.Y., on April 10, 2000, by Johannes Holub.

Funding (note)

This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Contents

Cassette 1. Aleta Hayes (ca. 9 min.) / interviewed by Deborah Jowitt. Hayes discusses the opportunities and benefits brought by her ability to sing as well as dance ; her current explorations in her choreography ; her activities as a teacher at Princeton University and the Ailey school ; some high points of her performing career.
Risa Jaroslow (ca. 12 min.) / interviewed by Deborah Jowitt. Jaroslow discusses the powerful influence of teachers Donya Feuer and Viola Farber ; how various life experiences helped her develop her own choreographic voice ; memorable experiences as a dancer and choreographer, including performing in Sara Rudner's five-hour Dancing-on-view.
Beth Soll (ca. 12 min.) / interviewed by Deborah Jowitt. Soll discusses the influence of her early dance studies in Europe, particularly with Harald Kreutzberg ; how she started to choreograph ; forming her own company in Boston in 1977 ; the values and beliefs that guide her work ; her activities as a teacher ; choreographing Clearfield, her first work for her own company.
Catherine Turocy (ca. 14 min.) / interviewed by Deborah Jowitt. Turocy discusses the beginnings of her interest in Baroque dance, sparked by Shirley Wynne and Lucy Venable at Ohio State University ; the challenge of recreating choreography in period style ; the audience for Baroque dance ; working with opera as stage director and choreographer ; her recent staging of Molière's Le bourgeois gentilhomme ; experiences that have given her fresh insights into performing.
Julia Gleich (ca. 10 min.) / interviewed by Deborah Jowitt. Gleich discusses her dissatisfaction with the ballerina image ; her preference for choreography, and her choreographic approach ; how her solo A light refrain pointed out a new direction for her work.
Cassette 2. Carolyn Lord (ca. 9 min.) / interviewed by Deborah Jowitt. Lord discusses her early performing experiences in New York, among them dancing with Twyla Tharp and the Trockadero Gloxinia Ballet Company ; how she began to choreograph ; the aims of her choreography ; her recent activities in writing music.
Richard Biles (ca. 18 min.) / interviewed by Deborah Jowitt. Biles discusses studying architecture and dance, the latter despite his parents' opposition ; dancing with Alwin Nikolais's company ; the influence of Nikolais's choreographic philosophy ; working as an administrator of the Nikolais school ; his involvement with the Circum-Arts Center and its activities.
Arthur Aviles (ca. 11 min.) / interviewed by Beverly Blossom. Aviles discusses his dance studies with Lenore Latimer, Aileen Passloff and Albert Reid at Bard College ; joining Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Company ; starting his own company, Typical Theater, in 1996 ; his differences of artistic opinion with Bill T. Jones and Aileen Passloff.
James Sutton (ca. 9 min.) / interviewed by Beverly Blossom. Sutton discusses his late start in dance ; his aims and interests as a choreographer, including the use of props, comedy and music ; the evolution of his choreography ; his belief that art and entertainment need not be mutually exclusive ; and his recent choreography for students at La Guardia High School.
Cassette 3. Diane Lachtrupp (ca. 8 min.) / interviewed by Beverly Blossom. Lachtrupp, a ballroom dancer especially interested in the Argentine tango, discusses the difference between social and performance style in partner dancing ; becoming a ballroom dancer after studying musical theater at New York University ; her activities as a performer with her company, Tango Fusion, and teacher and owner of the Stepping Out studio ; improvisation in ballroom dancing ; her reasons for participating
Anahid Sofian (ca. 10 min.) / interviewed by Beverly Blossom. Sofian, who has 30 years of experience in Middle Eastern dance, discusses the activities of her school and company, including a recent appearance at Town Hall ; breaking tradition in her stagings of Middle Eastern dance ; her experiences in the Horse's mouth project.
Walter Nicks (ca. 10 min.) / interviewed by Beverly Blossom. Nicks discusses his studies at the Katherine Dunham school, and his sacrifice of a contract for a Broadway musical in favor of a Dunham scholarship ; his first dancing job in a show with bandleader Benny Goodman.
James Martin (ca. 9 min.) / interviewed by Beverly Blossom. Martin summarizes his multifaceted career as dancer, choreographer and teacher, working in both ballet and modern dance. He also discusses his involvement in the Horse's mouth project.
Cha Lee Chan (ca. 10 min.) / interviewed by Beverly Blossom. Chan discusses her dance studies in Hong Kong and the U.S. ; audiences in Hong Kong and New York ; her aim of combining Chinese and western modern dance in her choreography ; her group work incorporating tai chi, dance and Cantonese opera singing.
Tamar Rogoff (ca. 8 min.) / interviewed by Beverly Blossom. Rogoff discusses studying Graham technique at an early age ; her interest in site-specific choreography, particularly her piece set in Belarus [The Ivye project] ; her work Demeter's daughter, based on her own experience as a mother ; her interest in community-based projects, combined with a high artistic standard ; her belief that success in dance need not be achieved while young.
Cathy Kerr (ca. 10 min.) / interviewed by Beverly Blossom. Kerr discusses her experiences in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, with which she danced for 13 years ; her participation in the Horse's mouth project ; her current position as a teacher of Cunningham technique at SUNY Purchase.
Arawana Hayashi (ca. 12 min.) / interviewed by Beverly Blossom. Hayashi discusses her early dance studies in Ohio ; her activities as a modern dancer in Boston in the 60s ; her introduction to improvisation ; the influence of James Cunningham ; her study of Bugaku, or Japanese court dance ; her recent activities in Boston, including collaborations with visual artists and musicians.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3971

OCLC

NYPY00-F954

Title

The horse's mouth greets the new millennium, Interviews [videorecording]

Imprint

c2000.

Event

Videotaped at Keystone Dance Studio (Mary Seidman and Dancers), New York, N.Y., on April 10, 2000, by Johannes Holub.

Performer

Interviewees (in order of appearance): Aleta Hayes, Risa Jaroslow, Beth Soll, Catherine Turocy, Julia Gleich, Carolyn Lord, Richard Biles, Arthur Aviles, James Sutton, Diane Lachtrupp, Anahid Sofian, Walter Nicks, James Martin, Cha Lee Chan, Tamar Rogoff, Cathy Kerr, Arawana Hayashi.

Interviewers: Deborah Jowitt, Beverly Blossom.

Funding

This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Added Author

Hayes, Aleta. Interviewee

Jaroslow, Risa. Interviewee

Soll, Beth. Interviewee

Turocy, Catherine. Interviewee

Gleich, Julia K. Interviewee

Lord, Carolyn. Interviewee

Biles, Richard. Interviewee

Aviles, Arthur. Interviewee

Sutton, James. Interviewee

Lachtrupp, Diane. Interviewee

Sofian, Anahid. Interviewee

Nicks, Walter. Interviewee

Martin, James. Interviewee

Chan, Cha Lee. Interviewee

Rogoff, Tamar. Interviewee

Kerr, Catherine. Interviewee

Hayashi, Arawana. Interviewee

Jowitt, Deborah, interviewer.

Blossom, Beverly. Interviewer

Holub, Johannes.

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-3971

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