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Title

Great performers [videorecording]

Publication

1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994.
• D'Antuono, Eleanor.
• Ipiotis, Celia.
• Webb, Margot, 1910-
• Bush, Jeffrey C.
• ARC Videodance (Firm)

Description

1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (29 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Summary

Ballet dancers Igor Youskevitch and Eleanor D'Antuono look back over their performing careers. Youskevitch notes how his gymnastic training helped his ballet dancing. He and D'Antuono compare the advantages and disadvantages of starting exceptionally early or late in a ballet career. They discuss the qualities they strove for in performing, and deplore the lacks of today, in comparison to qualities such as the attention to detail shown by Olga Preobrajenska and Alicia Alonso in coaching dancers for the ballet Giselle. In discussing the importance of good rapport between partners, Youskevitch recounts his mishap with Nora Kaye in A streetcar named desire. The program opens with footage of Youskevitch in the Circus section of the film Invitation to the dance. In Esoterica balletica, Margot Webb reminisces about her experiences as half of the interpretive ballroom dancing team of Norton and Margo. She recalls their nightclub performances, and comments upon their encounters with racism in the U.S.

Series Statement

Eye on dance ; 113

Subject

• Preobrajenska, Olga, 1870-1962
• Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019
• Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987
• Norton, Harold
• Norton and Margot (Dance team)
• Giselle (Choreographic work)
• Streetcar named desire (Choreographic work : Bettis)
• Dance, Black > United States

Note

• Produced by ARC Videodance as part of the television series Eye on dance. Recorded on March 15, 1984 at the studios of WNYC, New York. Telecast on March 26, 1984. Producers: Celia Ipiotis and Jeff Bush. Video director: Richard Sheridan. Program director: Celia Ipiotis. Technical director: Jeff Bush. Host: Celia Ipiotis.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-2905

OCLC

NYPY916074329-F

Title

Great performers [videorecording]

Imprint

1984.

Series

Eye on dance ; 113

Local Subject

Television. Great performers.

Motion pictures. Invitation to the dance.

Television. Eye on dance.

Ballet -- Anecdotes.

Television. Esoterica balletica.

Exhibition ballroom dancing -- 1925-1950.

Variety dancing.

Added Author

Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994. ive, dancer.

D'Antuono, Eleanor. Interviewee

Ipiotis, Celia. Host. Producer. Director

Webb, Margot, 1910- Speaker

Bush, Jeffrey C. Producer

ARC Videodance (Firm)

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-2905