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Interview with Vitale Fokine

Title
Interview with Vitale Fokine [sound recording].
Author
Fokine, Vitale.
Publication
1965.

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Spoken word recordingSupervised use *MGZTL 4-2047Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
  • Horosko, Marian.
  • Oral history archive.
  • Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010
Description
1 sound disc (ca. 30 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Vitale Fokine speaks with Marian Horosko, host of the radio series Profiles on WNYC, New York, about his father Michel Fokine, including his skill as a painter and as a mandolinist; his teaching at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg; his dissatisfaction with ballet at the time; his experiments in choreography for the graduating students; choreographing the The dying swan for Anna Pavlova; his Chopiniania (Les sylphides), including Diaghilev's role in renaming it Les sylphides; the resistance to Fokine's innovative style among certain ballerinas in St. Petersburg; his Prince Igor including an anecdote about the Tatars and the Polovetsian dances; his working method; the very favorable reception of Prince Igor at its premiere in Paris; Vitale's staging of Prince Igor [Horosko broadcasts the swan section (le cygne) of Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the animals (Carnaval des animaux)]; his current activities; Michel Fokine's thoughts on modern dance, including his great admiration for Isadora Duncan, La Argentina and La Argentinita, and others; Michel's belief that even a modern dance choreographer should have substantial training in ballet.
Donor/Sponsor
National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Uniform Title
Profiles (Radio program)
Subject
  • Fokine, Vitale
  • Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942
  • Dying swan (Choreographic work : Fokine)
  • Prince Igor (Choreographic work : Fokine)
  • Sylphides (Choreographic work : Fokin)
  • Audiotapes > Fokine, V
Note
  • Interview with Vitale Fokine conducted by Marian Horosko, as host, for the series Profiles on radio station WNYC, New York, in 1965.
  • Sound quality is fair. The speakers' voice are clearly audible but at times the voice of the oral author is distorted due to distortion in the recording.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.
System Details (note)
  • Transferred from 1 sound tape reel (ca. 30 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in.; polyester base, half track; originally recorded in 1965) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-2047
OCLC
37473865
Author
Fokine, Vitale. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Vitale Fokine [sound recording].
Imprint
1965.
Funding
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.
System Details
Transferred from 1 sound tape reel (ca. 30 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in.; polyester base, half track; originally recorded in 1965) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.
Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-2047
Former call number: *MGZT 5-26
Archival original: *MGZTO 5-26
Added Author
Horosko, Marian. Interviewer
Oral history archive.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010
Added Title
Profiles (Radio program)
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-2047
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