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Speaking of dance. Ethel Butler
- Title
- Speaking of dance. Ethel Butler [videorecording] / American Dance Festival Video ; direction and camera by Douglas Rosenberg ; produced by Meriam Rosen and Douglas Rosenberg.
- Publication
- Oregon, Wis. : American Dance Festival Video, c1995.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (54 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Summary
- In interviews interspersed with footage of her dance class, Ethel Butler looks back at her long career as dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She reminisces about Martha Graham, with whom she was associated as performer, teaching assistant, dresser, and confidante. She recalls her early years of studying and performing ; teaching at Bennington and Mills College ; touring with the Graham company ; surviving the Depression on a dancer's limited wages. She discusses Louis Horst's inspirational role in her life, and her assistance to him in producing his magazine Dance Observer. Anecdotes illustrate her friendly relationships (rare at the time) with dancers from rival camps: José Limón, Hanya Holm. Dance historian Sally Banes reads tributes to Butler from her former students Paul Taylor and Kenneth Rinker, and provides a summary of Butler's active career after her Graham years. Butler received the American Dance Festival's Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Chair for Distinguished Teaching in 1995.
- Series Statement
- Speaking of dance
- Alternative Title
- Ethel Butler
- Subjects
- Dance
- Modern dance > Technique > Graham
- Dance teachers > United States > Interviews
- Limón, José
- Rinker, Kenneth
- Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992
- Horst, Louis
- Dance > Anecdotes
- Dancers > United States > Interviews
- Video
- Dancers > United States > 20th century > Economic conditions
- Taylor, Paul, 1930-2018
- Dancers > United States > 20th century > Social conditions
- Graham, Martha
- Butler, Ethel
- Martha Graham Dance Company
- Interviews
- Mills College > Dance Dept
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Interviews.
- Video.
- Note
- Series subtitle: Conversations with contemporary masters of American modern dance.
- Credits (note)
- Executive producers, Charles Reinhart and Stephanie Reinhart, American Dance Festival.
- Performer (note)
- Speakers: Ethel Butler, Sally Banes.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-5888
- OCLC
- NYPY02-F435
- Title
- Speaking of dance. Ethel Butler [videorecording] / American Dance Festival Video ; direction and camera by Douglas Rosenberg ; produced by Meriam Rosen and Douglas Rosenberg.
- Imprint
- Oregon, Wis. : American Dance Festival Video, c1995.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Speaking of dance
- Credits
- Executive producers, Charles Reinhart and Stephanie Reinhart, American Dance Festival.
- Performer
- Speakers: Ethel Butler, Sally Banes.
- Local Subject
- Modern dance -- Technique -- Graham.Dance -- Anecdotes.
- Added Author
- Butler, Ethel. Interviewee. SpeakerBanes, Sally. SpeakerRosenberg, Douglas. Producer. DirectorRosen, Meriam. ProducerReinhart, Charles. ProducerReinhart, Stephanie. ProducerAmerican Dance Festival.American Dance Festival Video (Firm)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-5888