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Additional authors

1. Murray, James Briggs
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Description

1. 7 videodiscs (134 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. The Oral History Interview with Donna Wood documents her dance career, her work for Philip Morris, and the activities of the Donna Wood Foundation.Topics covered include: Growing up in Dayton, Ohio.; early interest in dance; influences of dance teachers Geraldine [Blondon] and Josephine and Irving Schwartz; Dayton Ballet Co.; studying with the Dance Theatre of Harlem; auditioning for a number of NYC dance companies; joining the Ailey Co.; training with Judith Jamison and Alvin Ailey; "Cry," "Revelations," and other significant Ailey works; what the Ailey Co. means to her; the decision to retire; teaching dance; Broadway performances; dance preservation; working for Philip Morris as Manager of External Affairs; marriage; and the establishment and future goals of the Donna Wood Foundation.

Subject

1. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
2. Wood, Donna, 1954- > Interviews
3. Choreography
4. Dance, Black
5. Ailey, Alvin > Influence
6. Modern dance
7. Donna Wood Foundation
8. Interviews
9. African American women dancers > Interviews
10. Jamison, Judith
11. African American dancers
12. Oral histories
13. Women dancers
14. African American choreographers

Genre/Form

1. Oral histories.
2. Interviews.

Call number

1. Sc DVD-1521

Event (note)

1. Interview conducted June 25, 1992, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.

Terms of use (note)

1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography (note)

1. Donna Wood (neé Sanders) was a principal dancer for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. At the time of the interview she was the CEO of the Donna Wood Foundation.

Author

1. Wood, Donna, 1954- interviewee.

Title

1. Oral history interview with Donna Wood.

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

Digital file characteristics

1. video file DVD

Event

1. Interview conducted June 25, 1992, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.

Terms of use

1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.

Biography

1. Donna Wood (neé Sanders) was a principal dancer for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. At the time of the interview she was the CEO of the Donna Wood Foundation.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Murray, James Briggs, interviewer.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Holdings

1. Filmed interview.

Research call number

1. Sc DVD-1521
2. Sc Visual VRA-76a-b VHS
3. Sc Visual VRB-2006 U-matic