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Oral history interviews with Diana Saunders conducted by Joyce (Marshall) Moore on May 23, 1996, conducted by Brigid Kelly on July 22, 2002, and conducted by Joanna Goodwin on August 12, 2002 for the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. In her interviews Saunders discusses her dance career in New York City, New York. Saunders discusses working on Broadway and touring internationally in Europe and Australia as a dancer. Saunders discusses working at the Dunes in Las Vegas, Nevada and her experiences as a dancer in Las Vegas. Saunders also talks about the lengths dancers had to go through to be successful.
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Oral history interviews with Diana Saunders conducted by Joyce (Marshall) Moore on May 23, 1996, conducted by Brigid Kelly on July 22, 2002, and conducted by Joanna Goodwin on August 12, 2002 for the Women's Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN) Las Vegas Women Oral History Project. Saunders discusses her career in New York City, New York. Saunders discusses working on Broadway and television and touring internationally in Europe and Australia as a dancer. Saunders worked in New York until labor strikes made it impossible for her to get work. Saunders discusses working at the Dunes in Las Vegas, Nevada, and her experiences as a dancer in Las Vegas including mandatory weigh-ins, and the lengths dancers went through to be successful, like breast augmentation. Saunders also talks about the change of Strip properties from local ownership to corporate ownership and how this had a negative impact on the overall experience. Digital audio available; no transcript available.
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Diana Saunders oral history interviews, 1996 May 23, 2002 July 22, 2002 August 12. OH-01632. [Cite format consulted: Audio recording or Transcript.] Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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This interview was conducted by the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada, part of the UNLV College of Liberal Arts Department of History. Materials from this oral history project were transferred to UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives on an ongoing basis ending in 2017; acquisition number 2017-017.
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Interview materials were processed by Karla Irwin in 2017 and 2019. Access copies were created for digitized and/or born-digital audio and transcript files. Hana Gutierrez wrote the collection description. Audio cassette(s) for this interview have been reformatted by the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada and by an external vendor into a digital format.