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Interview with Kathy Stanford Grant

Title
Interview with Kathy Stanford Grant [videorecording] / conducted by Linda Tarney.
Publication
c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Grant, Kathy Stanford.
  • Tarnay, Linda.
  • Moulton, William, videographer.
  • Galando, Paul.
  • Tisch School of the Arts.
  • New York Public Library. Dance Division.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Kathy [Kathleen Stanford] Grant speaks with Linda Tarnay about the racial prejudice she experienced as a child in Boston, Mass. in connection with her early dance training; her father's involvement in community theater; her moving to New York City, including encountering racial prejudice there; how she came to dance at the Zanzibar Club; changing her [Boston] accent to fit in with her peers in the New York theater and dance worlds; an anecdote about Louis Armstrong; Armstrong as a person; being cast in the musical comedy Finian's rainbow; an anecdote about touring with Annabelle Gold [Annabelle Gamson]; her first experiences with modern dancers, beginning with Danny [Donald] McKayle at the New Dance Group; reason she did not want to study with Katherine Dunham; City Center [City Center of Music and Drama] as a venue where African Americans and Asians could perform, including her performing there with Arthur Mitchell in Kiss me Kate; her participation in civil rights protests country-wide and the rise in civil rights consciousness of the [African American] theatrical community; her involvement with the Clark Center [the 51 St. YWCA's Clark Center for the Performing Arts]; her introduction to Joe [Joseph H.] Pilates and his technique in order to treat a dance injury; her initial skepticism regarding his advice; his first developing his system as therapy for soldiers in Germany; Pilates as a teacher; her start as a teacher of the Pilates method, working for Carola Trier; working with Arthur Mitchell to establish Dance Theatre of Harlem, including her teaching at the school; her thoughts on teaching, including the reasons she continues to teach [the Pilates method at New York University Tisch School of the Arts]; movements she teaches including the movement known as the hundred; her feeling of freedom from segregation in Paris [at ca. 58 min., there is a short break followed by what appears to be a new session]; her family, including her parents' support of her dancing; more on her move to New York City and her life there, including her studying with Burgess Meredith; working as a music copyist to support herself; the circumstances of her going to Europe to dance with a group organized by Claude Marchant; the nature of their performances; Doris Duke's participation in the performances; her time, principally as an observer, in West Africa; more about the Clark Center, including her establishing a new choreographers series; leaving to work for Arthur Mitchell; her teaching at the Dance Theatre of Harlem school; Bill [William] Bales; the challenges of raising money for the Dance Theatre of Harlem school; Arthur Mitchell as an administrator; the closing of her studio at Bendel's [?] and her coming to teach at the Tisch School of the Arts.
Donor/Sponsor
Oral History Project Video Series.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • This interview was a joint oral history project interview with the New York University Tisch School of the Arts and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
  • Recording made possible by the cooperation of Kathy Stanford Grant, Linda Tarney, and The Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
Credits (note)
  • Video, William Moulton and Paul Galando.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York, N.Y., on Nov. 21, 2009.
Funding (note)
  • Additional support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council of the Arts.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-5781
OCLC
681332408
Title
Interview with Kathy Stanford Grant [videorecording] / conducted by Linda Tarney.
Imprint
c2009.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
System Details
DVD.
Event
Videotaped at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York, N.Y., on Nov. 21, 2009.
Credits
Video, William Moulton and Paul Galando.
Funding
Additional support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council of the Arts.
Local Subject
Musical comedies. Finian's rainbow.
Added Author
Grant, Kathy Stanford. Interviewee
Tarnay, Linda. Interviewer
Moulton, William, videographer.
Galando, Paul. Videographer
Tisch School of the Arts.
New York Public Library. Dance Division.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-5781
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