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Conversations on the dance: Robert Joffrey and Clive Barnes [sound recording]

Title
Conversations on the dance: Robert Joffrey and Clive Barnes [sound recording]
Publication
1985.

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Spoken word recordingSupervised use *MGZTL 4-908Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
  • Barnes, Clive, 1927-2008.
  • Joffrey, Robert.
  • Committee for the Dance Collection.
  • New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
Description
1 sound disc (ca. 70 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Donor/Sponsor
Oral History Archive.
Subjects
Note
  • First of a series of events sponsored by the Committee for the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
  • Recorded 25 Nov. 1985 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the Library and Museum for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New York.
Contents
SUMMARY: Allan Gottdenker, member of the Committee for the Dance Collection makes a few opening remarks. Genevieve Oswald, Curator of the Dance Collection, introduces Robert Joffrey and Clive Barnes. Mr. Barnes and Mr. Joffrey discuss the early years of the Joffrey Ballet; Marie Rambert; Vaslav Nijinsky, American dance in the 1940s; John Martin; the function of dance criticism; Mary Ann Wells; the influence of Martha Graham and George Balanchine on dance in America; the current fusion of ballet and modern dance; the Royal Ballet in the 1940s and 1950s. A brief question and answer period concludes the talk.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-908
OCLC
NYPY867020895-R
Title
Conversations on the dance: Robert Joffrey and Clive Barnes [sound recording]
Imprint
1985.
Local Subject
Ballet -- United States -- 20th century.
Dance critics and criticism.
Audiotapes -- Barnes, C.
Audiotapes -- Joffrey, R.
Added Author
Barnes, Clive, 1927-2008.
Joffrey, Robert.
Committee for the Dance Collection.
New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-908
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