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[Interview with Clay Taliaferro]

Title
[Interview with Clay Taliaferro] [videorecording] / Dance Conduit/Antidote Films ; directed by Malachi Roth ; produced by Ann Vachon and Jeffrey Levy-Hinte.
Publication
1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Taliaferro, Clay.
  • Stone, Alison.
  • Roth, Malachi.
  • Vachon, Ann.
  • Levy-Hinte, Jeff.
  • Dance Conduit (Company)
  • Antidote Films (Firm)
Description
1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (51 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
Unedited footage recorded for the documentary Limón: a life beyond words. This interview with Clay Taliaferro, a former member of the José Limón Dance Company, was recorded on the occasion of his restaging of Limón's The moor's pavane for Charleston Ballet Theatre. Taliaferro discusses his first viewing of Limón on television, ca. 1953; studying dance at Boston Conservatory; meeting Limón in New York City; joining the Limón company; Limón's illness and death; learning the title role of The Emperor Jones; Limón's outsider status, which he shared; the unity of Limón's personal qualities and his works; Limón's idealization of women in his works; his assumption of Limón's roles after his death; his enduring belief in Limón and his work as a "guiding light"; his direction of The moor's pavane; the cast of the Charleston staging.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Ann Vachon, Dance Conduit/Antidote Films.
Series Statement
Limón: a life beyond words
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Interviews.
  • Video.
Note
  • For an interview with Clay Taliaferro taped in New York City, see *MGZIA 4-8181 [Interview with Clay Taliaferro]. For views of Taliaferro at work with members of Charleston Ballet Theatre, see *MGZIA 4-8174 [Interview with Mel Tomlinson] ; [and] [Clay Taliaferro restaging The moor's pavane] and *MGZIA 4-8175 [Clay Taliaferro restaging The moor's pavane].
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 19, 1996.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-8171
OCLC
NYPY05-F10135
Title
[Interview with Clay Taliaferro] [videorecording] / Dance Conduit/Antidote Films ; directed by Malachi Roth ; produced by Ann Vachon and Jeffrey Levy-Hinte.
Imprint
1996.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Limón: a life beyond words
Performer
Interviewer: Alison Stone.
Event
Videotaped in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 19, 1996.
Added Author
Taliaferro, Clay. Interviewee
Stone, Alison. Interviewer
Roth, Malachi. Director
Vachon, Ann. Producer
Levy-Hinte, Jeff. Producer
Dance Conduit (Company)
Antidote Films (Firm)
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-8171
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