Oral history interview with Helen B. Knight 1979
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- Name
- Knight, Helen B (Interviewee)
- Bowers, Theresa (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Helen B. Knight 1979
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Helen B. Knight : oral history, 1979
- Abstract
- Early ballet experience, Chicago; dance instructor positions; student, New York University summer camp 1930-33; Bennington Summer School, 1935; classes of Martha Hill, Norman Lloyd and Louis Horst; augmented group, Holm's TREND, summer 1937; comparison of Bennington, Mills and Connecticut College summer schools; Graham technique; dance and politics; physical education circuit; recollections of seve ral dancers.
- Collection Name
- Bennington Summer School of the Dance project
- Subjects
- Dance teachers; Modern dance; Knight, Helen B; Bennington College
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1979
- Note (Biographical)
- Modern dance instructor.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Theresa Bowers on September 19, 1979.
- Note (Provenance)
- Helen B. Knight, Gift 1980
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7094896
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-gxt0-2m48
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.