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Interview with Leonide Massine

Title: Interview with Leonide Massine [sound recording].
Author: Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979.
Publication: [1969?]

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Description

1 sound disc (24 min.) : digital; (4 3/4 in.)

Summary

Leonide Massine speaks with Marian Horosko about Serge Diaghilev's engaging him to dance with the Ballets russes in [Michel] Fokine's ballet The legend of Joseph; studying with [Enrico] Cecchetti; the Cecchetti system; Cecchetti as a person and a teacher, including Nijinsky's deference toward him; more on Diaghilev, including the education in the arts Massine received from him; how he began choreographing, including his first work, Midnight sun [Soleil de nuit ]; critics and criticism; his system for training choreographers; his doubt that modern dance choreographers can teach their choreography; Isadora Duncan, including his dancing (informally) with her in Monte Carlo; his hopes for teaching his system in the U.S.

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Note

Interview conducted by Leonide Massine by Marian Horosko in New York City, possibly in 1969.
Sound quality is good overall.

Funding (note)

Preservation funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.

System Details (note)

Transferred from 1 sound tape reel (ca. 24 min.; starts out at 7 1/2 in. per sec. and soon switches to 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 7 in.; half-track, acetate; originally recorded in 1969?) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Source (note)

Gift of Marian Horosko.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-48

OCLC

81084126

Author

Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Leonide Massine [sound recording].

Imprint

[1969?]

Funding

Preservation funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.

System Details

Transferred from 1 sound tape reel (ca. 24 min.; starts out at 7 1/2 in. per sec. and soon switches to 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 7 in.; half-track, acetate; originally recorded in 1969?) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTO 7-48

Added Author

Horosko, Marian. Interviewer

Marian Horosko. Donor

Oral history archive.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-48

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