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Interview-demonstration with Florence Rogge The art of choreography.

Title
Interview-demonstration with Florence Rogge [sound recording] : The art of choreography.
Author
Rogge, Florence.
Publication
1951.

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Additional Authors
  • Terry, Walter.
  • Dance Laboratory.
Description
1 sound cassette (57 min.) : analog, mono.
Summary
Part 1 (54 min.) Miss Rogge discusses the problems and conditions she faces in choreographing for the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall: the audience, the size of the theater, the production-spectacle format, and the mechanical equipment. The discussion focusses on the following ballets: La valse, Rhapsody in blue, Les sylphides, Swan lake, Sleeping beauty, Chopin concerto, and Victoriana suite -- Part 2 (3 min.) Miss Rogge introduces the ten dancers who are about to perform Victoriana suite.
Donor/Sponsor
  • National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
  • Gift of Walter Terry. Oral History Archive.
Subjects
Note
  • Interviewer: Walter Terry.
  • Recorded May 20, 1951. The seventh in the 1950-1951 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, given at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York City.
  • The 1950-1951 season consisted of eight "open interviews" on The art of choreography. The guest artist for the program was Florence Rogge, director and choreographer for the Radio City Music Hall corps de ballet.
Call Number
*MGZTC 3-115
OCLC
NYPY737095782-R
Author
Rogge, Florence. Interviewee
Title
Interview-demonstration with Florence Rogge [sound recording] : The art of choreography.
Imprint
1951.
Local Note
Archival original: *MGZTO 5-115; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; acetate, half track.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-115; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Local Subject
Audiotapes -- Rogge, F.
Added Author
Terry, Walter. Interviewer
Dance Laboratory.
Research Call Number
*MGZTC 3-115
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