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Additional authors

1. Horosko, Marian.

Description

1. 1 sound cassette (30 min.) : analog, mono.

Summary

1. Miss Shurr, dance instructor at the High School of Performing Arts, New York, discusses her memories of Isadora Duncan and Michel Fokine; how she began study at the Denishawn School in New York; a typical class at the Denishawn School; her private lessons with Charles Weidman and technique classes with Doris Humphrey; early experimental work at Denishawn by Humphrey and Weidman; Ruth St. Denis teaching methods; Ted Shawn's teaching methods; working with Humphrey and Weidman after their split with Denishawn.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
2. Oral History Archive.

Subject

1. Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927
2. Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942
3. Graham, Martha
4. Humphrey, Doris, 1895-1958
5. Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972
6. Weidman, Charles
7. St. Denis, Ruth, 1880-1968
8. Denishawn Dancers
9. Denishawn School of Dancing
10. Modern dance > United States

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-2082

Note

1. Interviewed by Marian Horosko June 27, 1967.

Author

1. Shurr, Gertrude. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Gertrude Shurr [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1967.

Local note

1. Archival original: *MGZTO 5-73; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; acetate, dual track.
2. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2082; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
3. Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Shurr, G.

Added author

1. Horosko, Marian. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-2082