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- W1990408344 abstract "I first met Edna Ocko in the early 1980s. She was my mother-in-law's best friend from college days, someone who wrote about dance in the 1930s and took a dim view of critics since. My husband was a little in awe of Edna, and the first time she came to the house, I was told to cook an extra pound of pasta because Edna was coming. To my amazement, she was almost as tiny as my grandmother. We had a lot of pasta left over. Edna Ocko, or Edna Meyers, as we knew her, was a formidable woman. She had been a communist in the 1930s and remained at heart a member o ths mae Party, bonded by decades of friendship to the comrades-in-arms of her youth. She was punchy and articulate, with strong opinions and political convictions that never wavered even when she was named as a communist by Jerome Robbins before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. She was also a first-rate dance critic who knew the difference between art and propaganda, could tell good choreography from bad, and wrote with verve. She was a crack editor, with a nose for a story, who understood intuitively how to balance different voices and views: unsurprisingly, her best days as a dance journalist coincided with the Popular Front, which embraced liberals and leftists alike. Finally, she was an intellectual, curious, well read, stimulated by ideas, who counted even balletomanes like Lincoln Kirstein among her colleagues. In 1993 I did a public interview with Edna for the Society of Dance History Scholars conference Of, By, and For the People. She was eighty-five and nervous about appearing in public, so to allay her fears and also to familiarize myself with her life, I had two lengthy conversations with her at her home about two weeks prior to the conference. The conference interview was never taped. Luckily, I had the presence of mind to tape these preliminary conversations. What follows is largely based on this material. Edna Ocko was born in New York City in 1908. Her father was a cigarmaker, an ardent left-winger, and an activist in one of the era's most progressive unions. She grew up in Harlem, where many immigrant Jews then lived. Her first contact with dance came when a friend of the family took her to a recital by Isadora Duncan, probably during World War I:" @default.
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- W1990408344 title "Writing on the Left: The Remarkable Career of Edna Ocko" @default.
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