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BOX 1-2 Interview Transcripts, 1972-2001
This series contains two file units. The Library Documentation Project includes unedited transcripts of interviews with former Martha Graham company dancers conducted by the Library of Congress Music Division through funding provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. These interviews, which took place in New York City and England between 1999 and 2001, augment Graham's legacy materials acquired concurrently, which comprise the Library's special collection titled the Martha Graham Collection. Two administrative folders follow the interview transcripts. Additional transcripts include interviews conducted through other sources. For all interview subjects in this series, there is a single interview unless otherwise described.
Arranged alphabetically by subject's last name.
Library Documentation Project
BOX-FOLDER 1/1 Capucilli, Terese, and Christine Dakin, 1999
13 pages typed
Interviewer: Peter Sparling
BOX-FOLDER 1/2 Cohen, Robert, 2001
43 pages typed
Interviewer: Janet Eilber
BOX-FOLDER 1/3 Dudley, Jane, 2001
54 pages typed
Interviewer: Janet Eilber
BOX-FOLDER 1/4 Fonaroff, Nina, 2001
68 pages typed
Interviewer: Janet Eilber
BOX-FOLDER 1/5 Hinkson, Mary, 2000
13 pages typed
Interviewers: Janet Eilber, Peter Sparling
BOX-FOLDER 1/6 Hinkson, Mary and Bertram Ross, 2000
25 pages typed
Interviewers: Janet Eilber, Peter Sparling
BOX-FOLDER 1/7 Hodes, Linda, 2001
40 pages typed
Interviewer: Janet Eilber
BOX-FOLDER 1/8-9 Hodes, Stuart, 1999
Two interviews; 43 pages typed
Interviewer: Peter Sparling
BOX-FOLDER 1/10 Hodes, Stuart, and Helen McGehee, 2001
36 pages typed
Interviewer: Janet Eilber
BOX-FOLDER 1/11-12 Lang, Pearl, 1999-2000
Three interviews; 34 pages typed
Interviewers: Janet Eilber, Anna Kisselgoff, Peter Sparling
BOX-FOLDER 1/13 Maslow, Sophie, 2001
45 pages typed
Interviewer: Janet Eilber
BOX-FOLDER 1/14 McGehee, Helen, 2000
64 pages typed
Interviewer: Janet Eilber
BOX-FOLDER 1/15-16 O'Donnell, May, 1999-2000
Two interviews; 39 pages typed
Interviewers: Janet Eilber, Stan Swan
BOX-FOLDER 1/17 Ross, Bertram, 2000
17 pages typed
Interviewer: Janet Eilber
BOX-FOLDER 1/18 Sparling, Peter, 1999
13 pages typed
Interviewer: Stan Swan
BOX-FOLDER 1/19 Williams, Dudley, 1999
6 pages typed
Interviewer: Peter Sparling, Stan Swan
BOX-FOLDER 2/1 Winter, Ethel, 2000
41 pages typed
Interviewer: Peter Sparling
BOX-FOLDER 2/2-3 Yuriko [Kikuchi], 1999-2001
Three interviews; 76 pages typed
Interviewers: Janet Eilber, Anna Kisselgoff, Stan Swan
BOX-FOLDER 2/4 London interview notes, 2001
Photocopy in comb binding, pages unnumbered
BOX-FOLDER 2/5 Recordings inventory, 2001
Photocopy in comb binding, 14 pages
Other Interviews
BOX-FOLDER 2/6 Armitage, Merle, 1972
30 pages typed
Interviewer: Don McDonagh
Location: Yucca Valley, California
BOX-FOLDER 2/7 Cohan, Robert, 1978
98 pages typed
Interviewer: Tobi Tobias
BOX-FOLDER 2/8 Fonaroff, Nina, 1976
187 pages typed
Interviewer: Elizabeth Kendall
BOX-FOLDER 2/9-10 Ross, Bertram, 1976
243 pages typed
Interviewer: Jean Nuchtern
BOX 3-4, 8-9 MAPCASE-FOLDER 1 Photographs and Artwork, 1920s-1999
This series contains both Library Documentation Project Photographs and Other Subjects. The Library Documentation Project Photographs consist of snapshots from the interviews and recording sessions carried out by the Music Division through funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) and are attributed to photographer Nan Melville (1949-2022). Subjects include former Martha Graham company principal dancers dating to the 1940s through 1970s. The Other Subjects include images obtained through other means, including Library of Congress events, gifts from Graham legacy artists and colleagues, and other sources. Where a specific dance is identified in photographs, Martha Graham is presumed to be the choreographer unless otherwise attributed.
Arranged alphabetically.
Library Documentation Project Photographs
BOX-FOLDER 3/1-4 Coaching sessions, 1999
160 color 4" x 6" prints
Note: Dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Company coached by veteran former company members in preparation for performances at the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium; also includes some shots of preparations for interviews
Laid in: Letter of transmittal
BOX-FOLDER 3/5-14 Interview sessions, 1976
612 color 4" x 6" prints
Locations: Trinity Studios; Noguchi Museum; and unidentified
Laid in: Letter of transmittal and promotional card
Other Subjects
BOX-FOLDER 4/1, 8/1 Acrobats of God, 1960 and undated
Two black-and-white prints
Photographers: Martha Swope and unknown
Dancers: David Wood as Whip Master; Martha Graham
BOX-FOLDER 4/2 Alcestis [?], circa 1960
One black-and-white print
Photographer: unknown
Dancer: Paul Taylor
BOX-FOLDER 4/3-8 Appalachian Spring, 1944, circa 1975-1980, circa 1994, and undated
Fifteen black-and-white prints, five color prints, one color greeting card
Photographers: Arnold Eagle; Library of Congress; Barbara Morgan; Martha Swope; and unknown
Includes: Reprints of original photographs captured at premiere and several of Rudolph Nureyev in role of Revivalist
MAPCASE-FOLDER 1 Denishawn, 1920s
One matted black-and-white photograph
Photographer: unknown
Dancer: Martha Graham in an Orientalist costume for unidentified dance
BOX-FOLDER 4/9 Diversion of Angels, 1970
One black-and-white print; news release
Photographer: AP Newsfeatures
Note: Six unidentified dancers in studio rehearsal
BOX-FOLDER 4/10 Frontier, 1987
One black-and-white print
Photographer: David Fullard
Dancer: Thea Nerissa Barnes
BOX-FOLDER 4/11 Gala dinner, undated
Ten black-and-white prints
Photographer: Aubrey Reuben and unknown
Subjects: Martha Graham; Liza Minnelli; Betty Ford; Mikhail Baryshnikov; others unidentified
BOX-FOLDER 4/12, 9/1 Graham, Martha, undated
One headshot; one composite photograph of headshot and costumed figure
Photographers: unknown
MAPCASE-FOLDER 1 Graham, Martha, undated
One black-and-white drawing printed on board
Artist: R. Mosier
BOX-FOLDER 4/13 Graham, Martha, with Gregory Peck, undated
Two black-and-white prints
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