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The art of performing interview-demonstration with Alicia Markova.

Title: The art of performing [sound recording] : interview-demonstration with Alicia Markova.
Author: Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004.
Publication: 1952.

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1 sound cassette (50 min.) : analog, mono.

Summary

Alicia Markova discusses the stylistic alterations in classroom ballet technique for specific ballets with examples from Swan lake and The nutcracker; her role of Taglioni in Pas de quatre (Dolin); her interpretation of the role of Giselle; Léonide Massine's use of traditional ballet technique in his ballets, Rouge et noir, and Aleko; mistakes and accidents during performance; how she projects to an audience.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Walter Terry. Oral History Archive.

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Note

Interviewer: Walter Terry.
Recorded October 26, 1952: The first in the 1952-1953 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, held at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-111

OCLC

NYPY737097267-R

Author

Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004. Interviewee

Title

The art of performing [sound recording] : interview-demonstration with Alicia Markova.

Imprint

1952.

Local Note

Archival original: *MGZTO 5-111; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; acetate, half track.

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-111; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.

Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Local Subject

Ballet technique.

Audiotapes -- Markova, A.

Added Author

Terry, Walter. Interviewer

Dance Laboratory.

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-111

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