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.