Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Daniel Nagrin [sound recording].

Author

Nagrin, Daniel.

Publication

1975.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Newman, Barbara, 1944-
• National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.
• New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 65 min.) : digital; (4 3/4 in.)

Summary

Daniel Nagrin speaks with Barbara Newman about the reasons he questions the value of the oral history process and biographical approach to studying or experiencing art; the special relationship of the dancer with the audience; the translation of live stage works to film; more on his doubts that a biographical approach can help to illuminate an artist's work, including his belief that the work must speak for itself; reasons an artist should not explain the meaning of his work; briefly, teaching choreography; briefly, the relationship of his work to that of Helen Tamiris; his fundamental skepticism, including how this contrasts with his earlier way of thinking.

Alternative Title

• Dance Audio Archive
• Dance Oral History Project

Subjects

• Audiotapes > Nagrin, D
• Nagrin, Daniel

Note

• Interview with Daniel Nagrin conducted by Barbara Newman in June, 1975, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York City as part of the Library's Oral History Project.
• Sound quality is good. There is a continuous extraneous hiss but the speakers' voices are clearly audible.

System Details (note)

• Transferred from 1 sound reel (ca. 65 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 1 channel, half-track, 5 in.; polyester; sound reel is a re-recording of a sound cassette, which was originally recorded in 1975) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2208

OCLC

657643510

Author

Nagrin, Daniel. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Daniel Nagrin [sound recording].

Imprint

1975.

System Details

Transferred from 1 sound reel (ca. 65 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 1 channel, half-track, 5 in.; polyester; sound reel is a re-recording of a sound cassette, which was originally recorded in 1975) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTO 5-2208. Restored and rehoused following water damage in 2015.

For the edited transcript of the audio recording see: *MGZMT 3-1892.

Added Author

Newman, Barbara, 1944- Interviewer

National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2208