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Interview with Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane
- Title
- Interview with Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane [sound recording]
- Author
- Jones, Bill T.
- Publication
- 1982.
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Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | disc 1 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTL 4-1562 disc 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | disc 2 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTL 4-1562 disc 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 2 sound discs (ca. 94 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Disc 1, 12/8/82 (ca. 63 min.). Jones and Zane speak about their work-in-progress, Party /remote progress [ultimately entitled Intuitive momentum?]; the set design; the composer Max Roach's collaboration; the work's conceptual and structural framework; significance of the work's title; an earlier work entitled Remote progress; whether there is an avante garde in the contemporary dance world; views on and use of contact improvisation; their parodic use of the ballet vocabulary [short gap]; more on collaborating with Roach; the Dance Umbrella dance festival in the U.K; more on Roach, including his music and his thoughts on Jones' and Zane's work; more on the structure of the work-in-progress; their work Ah! Break it!; more on the work-in-progress, including the theme of cooperation; influence of Robert Wilson's work; Sheryl Sutton; Jones' admiration for modernism and modernists such as Lucinda Childs; autobiographical component of Everybodyworks!; Jones compares Zane's movements to his own [ends abruptly].
- Disc 2, 12/8/82 and 12/9/82 (ca. 31 min.). [Begins abruptly.] Jones and Zane speak about their works Blauvelt mountain and Valley cottage [parts 2 and 3 of an otherwise unidentified trilogy; interview ends and resumes with Zane by telephone on 12/9/82]; Zane speaks about his use of Roach's music; his use of movements from karate; professional work outside of his work with Jones, especially his photography; his collaborations with Johanna Boyce; his and Jones's athletic background; his and Jones's intent to create their own vocabulary; influence on him of Daniel Nagrin and other avant-gardists.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive.
- Gift of David Sears.
- National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview with Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane conducted by David Sears on Dec. 8 and 9, 1982. The recording conducted on Dec. 8 was at a restaurant, probably in New York City, and contains extraneous noise. The recording made on Dec. 9 was solely with Zane and conducted by telephone.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation was made possible in part with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-1562
- OCLC
- NYPY03-R61
- Author
- Jones, Bill T. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1982.
- Funding
- Preservation was made possible in part with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Local Note
- Arch. orig.: *MGZTCO 3-1562 nos. 1-2Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1562 nos. 1-2
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes -- Jones, B.Audiotapes -- Zane, A.
- Added Author
- Zane, Arnie, 1948-1988. IntervieweeSears, David, 1948-1992. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-1562