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Interview-demonstration with Igor Youskevitch and Maria Youskevitch the art of partnering.

Title
Interview-demonstration with Igor Youskevitch and Maria Youskevitch [sound recording] the art of partnering.
Publication
1962.

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Additional Authors
  • Terry, Walter.
  • Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994.
  • Youskevitch, Maria.
  • Dance Laboratory.
  • 92nd St. Y (New York, N.Y.)
Description
2 sound discs (ca. 88 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
In introduction Mr. Terry discusses Igor Youskevitch's career and background, Ruth St. Denis, famous ballet partners and relates some anecdotes about partnering. Igor Youskevitch discusses the qualities of a good male partner, the difference between partnering in a classical pas de deux, and in a dramatic pas de deux, the technique of partnering for turns, jumps, and balancing. Maria Youskevitch discusses her training. Together they demonstrate entrances, basic holds, pirouettes, balancing lifts. Program closes with performance of the adagio from The nutcracker.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Oral History Archive.
  • New York State Council for the Arts, 2005-2006.
Subjects
Note
  • Interviewer: Walter Terry.
  • Recorded December 16, 1962. The third program in the 1962-63 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, given at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York. The topic of the program was The art of partnering.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council for the Arts, 2005-2006.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-33, pt. 2
OCLC
NYPY737095833-R
Title
Interview-demonstration with Igor Youskevitch and Maria Youskevitch [sound recording] the art of partnering.
Imprint
1962.
Funding
Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council for the Arts, 2005-2006.
Local Note
Sound quality is good to fair.
Former classmark: *MGZT 7-33, pt. 2.
Former user copy *MGZT 7-33, pt. 2 was reclassed (together with former user copy *MGZT 33, pt. 1) as archive original *MGZTO 7-33 and replaced with user sound disc *MGZTL 4-33, pt. 2 as of Jan. 31, 2006.
Local Subject
Ballet technique.
Male dancing.
Partnering in dance.
Audiotapes -- Youskevitch, I.
Audiotapes -- Youskevitch, M.
Added Author
Terry, Walter. Interviewer
Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994. Interviewee
Youskevitch, Maria. Interviewee
Dance Laboratory.
92nd St. Y (New York, N.Y.)
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-33, pt. 2 [sound disc]
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