Interview with Allegra Fuller Snyder, Part 1

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Interviewee	Snyder, Allegra Fuller
Interviewer	Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (Jeffrey Thompson), 1954-

Subject	Architecture > United States > History > 20th century
Subject	Snyder, Allegra Fuller
Subject	Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983
Genre	Interview

Biographical note	Founder, and first President, now Chairwoman of the Board of Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Allegra Fuller Snyder is Bucky's only child. She is also Professor Emerita of Dance and Dance Ethnology, UCLA, 1992 American Dance Guild Honoree of the Year, former Chair of the Department of Dance, and founding Coordinator of the World Arts and Cultures Program. She has been on the Dance Faculty at Cal Arts as well as Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, and Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. She began her career as a performer and choreographer and has been concerned with the relation of dance to film since the late 1940s. She has made several prize winning documentary films on dance. She has done dance research around the world, was the recipient of several Fulbright Scholarships. Among many special projects Snyder was a Core Consultant on the PBS series DANCING for WNET/Channel 13. Recently returning to performance Jennifer Fisher of the LA times said of her in "Spirit Dances 6: Inspired by Isadora," "She was a haiku and an epic".
Source ID	M1915_b1_07
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/nt958bn9005
Collection call number	M1915
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