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Interview with Daniel Nagrin

Title
Interview with Daniel Nagrin [sound recording].
Author
Nagrin, Daniel.
Publication
[ca. 1970].

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AudioUse in library *MGZTL 4-1235Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Nathanson, Lucile Brahms.
Description
1 sound disc (ca. 30 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Interview 2 (tracks 4-6, ca. 15 min.). Daniel Nagrin speaks with Lucile Brahms Nathanson about Helen Tamiris's disillusionment upon the break-up of the Federal Dance Project; her subsequent wok with Nagrin in Broadway theater and their personal relationship; his dislike of Broadway theater and moving towards solo performances; his fulfillment as a solo artist; unrealized artistic goals, including filming dance and working with musicians to transpose his ideas in dance into music; the circumstances of the establishing of the Nagrin Studio at SUNY [State University of New York] in Brockport, N.Y.; recent theatrical activities and his current lack of concrete projects.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Oral history archive.
  • New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008
Subjects
Note
  • Two interviews with Daniel Nagrin conducted one week apart by Lucile Brahms Nathanson for WHPC-FM, the radio station of Nassau Community College, on its series Making the dance scene, ca. 1970. The second interview is a continuation of the first.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Interview 1 (tracks 1-4, ca. 15 min.). Daniel Nagrin speaks with Lucile Brahms Nathanson about how he first became interested in dance, beginning with his attempts to learn social dancing; his discovery of ethnic music; his first teachers, including Ray Moses; his scholarship to study with Martha Graham; working with Anna Sokolow; the Federal Dance Project; working with Helen Tamiris, including her influence on him.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was funded in part with public funds from theNational Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
Source (note)
  • Lucile Brahms Nathanson.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-1235
OCLC
277407451
Author
Nagrin, Daniel. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Daniel Nagrin [sound recording].
Imprint
[ca. 1970].
Additional Formats
Interview 1 (tracks 1-4, ca. 15 min.). Daniel Nagrin speaks with Lucile Brahms Nathanson about how he first became interested in dance, beginning with his attempts to learn social dancing; his discovery of ethnic music; his first teachers, including Ray Moses; his scholarship to study with Martha Graham; working with Anna Sokolow; the Federal Dance Project; working with Helen Tamiris, including her influence on him.
Funding
Preservation was funded in part with public funds from theNational Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
Local Note
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1235
Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-1235
Source
Gift. Lucile Brahms Nathanson. NN-PD
Local Subject
Audiotapes -- Nagrin, D.
Added Author
Nathanson, Lucile Brahms. Interviewer
Nathanson, Lucile Brahms. Donor
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-1235 [sound disc]
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