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Agnes de Mille interview
- Title
- Agnes de Mille interview [videorecording]
- Publication
- 1980.
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- Description
- 3 videocassettes (U-matic, NTSC) (140 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Agnes de Mille Collection.
- Subjects
- Drums sound in Hackensack (Choreographic work : De Mille)
- Interviews
- Graham, Martha
- Genée, Adeline, 1878-1970
- Black ritual (Choreographic work : De Mille)
- Ballet Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
- Video
- De Mille, Agnes > Interviews
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990
- Dance
- Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931
- Ballet in television
- Jooss Ballet
- Music and dance
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Musical comedies > Oklahoma
- Choreography
- Laing, Hugh
- Rodeo (Choreographic work : De Mille)
- Rambert, Marie
- Musical comedies > Brigadoon
- Choreographers > United States > 20th century
- Prude, Walter
- Television > Agnes de Mille interview
- Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987
- Dance, Black > United States
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Interviews.
- Video.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Dick Cavett.
- Event (note)
- Recorded at Agnes de Mille's home in New York in 1980.
- Contents
- Cassette 1 (ca. 55 min.). Among the subjects discussed by de Mille in cassette 1 are writing, contrasted with choreography; her childhood decision to dance, inspired by Adeline Genée and Anna Pavlova; reminiscences of her family, including her uncle Cecil B. de Mille; the beginning of her dance career; her studies with Marie Rambert in England; her stroke and its effects -- Cassette 2 (ca. 58 min.). She continues to recall her experiences in England, including her friendship with Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing; her return to the U.S. and involvement with Ballet Theatre; the creation of her ballets Obeah and Three virgins and a devil; her impressions of Martha Graham; her first contacts with her husband Walter Prude; the creation of Rodeo and her collaboration with Aaron Copland; her work in musical comedy, particularly on Oklahoma!; the choreographic process, especially in relation to music; her creation of Drums sound in Hackensack for the Jooss Ballet; and dance in television -- Cassette 3 (ca. 27 min.). She discusses the creative process, citing the example of the funeral dance in Brigadoon; the development of Rodeo from concept to performance; the Russian tradition in ballet; and her interest in costume and changing body images.
- Call Number
- *MGZIC 9-2315
- OCLC
- NYPY916016644-F
- Title
- Agnes de Mille interview [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 1980.
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Performer
- Interviewer: Dick Cavett.
- Event
- Recorded at Agnes de Mille's home in New York in 1980.
- Local Subject
- Television. Agnes de Mille interview.
- Local Subject
- Musical comedies. Brigadoon.Musical comedies. Oklahoma.Ballet in television.
- Added Author
- De Mille, Agnes, interviewee.Cavett, Dick, interviewer.DHCA.
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIC 9-2315