Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Hanya Holm and Phyllis Lamhut [sound recording].

Author

Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992.

Publication

1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buirge, Susan.
• Lamhut, Phyllis.

Description

2 sound cassettes (127 min.) +

Summary

• Cassette 1, side A, ca. 50 min. [begins abruptly]. Hanya Holm speaks with Susan Buirge about how she first came to study dance; studying with Mary Wigman in Dresden shortly after Wigman opened her school; the collaborative relationship among the students; the difficult economic conditions they and Wigman endured; the composition of Wigman's performing company; Holm's thoughts on Labanotation; Sol Hurok's sponsorship of Wigman's U.S. tour and subsequent role in founding a school to teach Wigman's technique in New York City [New York Wigman School of the Dance] [gap]; the performance-demonstrations given by the school in its early days at universities and high schools; her first summers teaching at Bennington [Bennington College School of the Dance]; her work, Trend, including casting, meaning, and her difficulty with creating the ending; reasons she has not revived Trend, including the complexity of the set [ends abruptly].
• Cassette 1, side B, ca. 22 min. [Phyllis Lamhut arrives ca. 3 min. into the recording.] Holm continues to speak about the set for Trend [gap; Lamhut arrives]; performing with her company, the Hanya Holm Dance Company, while teaching; beginning to teach at Colorado College, in 1941; choreographing The eccentricities of Davey Crockett (part of the Broadway musical show Ballet ballads), her first experience working on Broadway; her thoughts on Alwin Nikolais [ends abruptly].
• Cassette 2, side A, ca. 50 min. [begins abruptly]. Holm and Lamhut speak about the emphasis on [Martha Graham's technique of] contraction and release in the teaching of modern dance in the U.S.; Holm tells anecdotes illustrating the low status of dancers when she first started dancing with Mary Wigman; reminisces about the conditions under which they performed; her guiding principles with respect to teaching [gap]; Holm and Lamhut speak about teaching, including the changes they have seen; the current state of modern dance in the U.S., including their thoughts on the choreographer and dancer, Robert Small; more on the principles of teaching and creating, including the issue of substance versus surface; emotion and form [ends abruptly].
• Cassette 2, side B, ca. 5 min. [begins abruptly]. Holm and Lamhut continue to speak about the current state of modern dance [ends abruptly].

Donor/Sponsor

• Dance Audio Archive.
• New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Subjects

• Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992
• New York Wigman School of the Dance
• Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973
• Audiotapes > Holm, H
• Ballet ballads (Choreographic work : Godkin, Holm and Litz)
• Dance teachers > United States
• Trend (Choreographic work : Holm, H)
• Small, Robert
• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Modern dance > Study and teaching
• Audiotapes > Lamhut, P

Note

• Interview with Hanya Holm and Phyllis Lamhut conducted by Susan Buirge at Holm's home in New York City, on Oct. 15, 1978. Phyllis Lamhut participates only in the latter part of the interview.
• The sound quality is fair, and the recording is marred by extraneous noise. The transcript was not prepared by the Library and contains misspellings and inaccurate and out-of-sequence transcriptions.

Access (note)

• Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1814

OCLC

NYPY05-R10048

Author

Holm, Hanya, 1893-1992. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Hanya Holm and Phyllis Lamhut [sound recording].

Imprint

1978.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-1814 nos. 1-2

Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-1814

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-1814 nos. 1-2

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

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Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Holm, H.

Audiotapes -- Lamhut, P.

Added Author

Buirge, Susan. Interviewer

Lamhut, Phyllis. Interviewee

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1814 [sound cassette]

*MGZMT 3-1814 [transcript]

*MGZTC 3-1814