Gender Project : interview with Muriel Manings. 2000.

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Gender Project : interview with Muriel Manings. 2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122687241

Muriel Manings speaks about the different phases of her career beginning with her early dance training; studying and working with the Dudley-Bales Maslow Trio, the New Dance Group and later with Martha Graham; her marriage; influence of Sophie Maslow; choreographing to a Woody Guthrie song and his response; gender disparities including the far higher standards for female dancers than for male dancers; working as a dance company director and teacher in New York; working as a choreographer in Cuba in 1971; teaching dance in the physical education department of Queensborough Community College and the discrimination against women in the department; developing the dance program at the College; gender influences on her career, especially her teaching; her feelings regarding the value of her work; coping mechanisms and her marriage; gender disparities and female choreographers.

21 leaves ; 29 cm.

New York Public Libraries for the Performing Arts, Dance Collection

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