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Interview with Herbert Migdoll

Title
Interview with Herbert Migdoll [sound recording]
Author
Migdoll, Herbert.
Publication
1996-1997.

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reel 2AudioPermit needed *MGZTC 3-1903 [sound cassette] Permission required reel 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
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Additional Authors
  • Moseley, Monica.
  • National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Description
2 sound cassettes (145 min.) +
Summary
  • Cassette 1. Recorded April 19, 1996, Mr. Migdoll recounts meeting Gerald Arpino; describes the 1965 Robert Joffrey Ballet season at the Rebekah Harkness Foundation Dance Festival at the Delacorte Theater in New York City's Central Park; discusses Edwin Denby; his own attraction to the Joffrey company and its repertory; Arpino's ballet Viva Vivaldi!; the dancing of Robert Blankshine and Luis Fuente; covertly photographing Joffrey Ballet performances at City Center; combining graphic design with photography; the Robert Joffrey Ballet tour to the Harper Theater in Chicago; Lotte Goslar's choreography Charivari; aesthetics in dance photography; craftsmanship in dance photography; time-lapse dance photography; his training in the visual arts at Cooper Union; working at New York's Museum of Modern Art; Alexander Ewing; Isadora Bennett; Massine's ballet Parade; Jooss' choreography The green table; critics' reactions to Arpino's choreography; Meredith Monk; Twyla Tharp; Joffrey's ballet Astarte; dancer Trinette Singleton; Mr. Fuente performing the role of the profiteer in Parade; and compares Fuente's dancing with that of Mikhail Baryshnikov.
  • Cassette 2. Recorded March 11, 1997. Mr. Migdoll discusses first seeing The green table; Mary Whitney; Luis Fuente's interpertation of choreography in The three-cornered hat; Kurt Jooss' directorial style; Lincoln Kirstein's admiration for Robert Joffrey's choreography; Joffrey's use of voice in his choreography; Joffrey's piece Remembrances; his admiration for Francesca Corkle's dancing; Joffrey's integration of various media in his dances; and researching Eric Satie in Paris for the development of Joffrey's Postcards.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project.
  • Dance Audio Archive
Subject
  • Arpino, Gerald
  • Denby, Edwin, 1903-1983
  • Blankshine, Robert
  • Fuente, Luis
  • Ewing, Alexander
  • Bennett, Isadora
  • Monk, Meredith
  • Tharp, Twyla
  • Singleton, Trinette
  • Jooss, Kurt, 1901-1979
  • Corkle, Francesca
  • Satie, Erik, 1866-1925
  • Joffrey Ballet
  • Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
  • Viva Vivaldi! (Choreographic work : Arpino)
  • Charivari (Choreographic work : Goslar)
  • Parade (Choreographic work : Massine)
  • Green table (Choreographic work : Jooss)
  • Astarte (Choreographic work : Joffrey)
  • Three-cornered hat (Choreographic work : Massine)
  • Remembrances (Choreographic work : Joffrey)
  • Postcards (Choreographic work : Joffrey)
  • Dance photography
Note
  • Interviewed by Monica Moseley, April 19, 1996 and March 11, 1997, at Mr. Migdoll's studio in New York City.
  • For transcript, see *MGZMT 3-1903.
Access (note)
  • Permission required.
  • Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Call Number
*MGZMT 3-1903 (transcript)
OCLC
NYPY96-R23
Author
Migdoll, Herbert. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Herbert Migdoll [sound recording]
Imprint
1996-1997.
Access
Permission required.
Local Note
Interview funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).
Preservation master cassette in: *MGZTCO 3-1903.
Archival transcript in: *MGZMTO 3-1903.
Restricted Access
Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Local Subject
Audiotapes -- Migdoll, H.
Audiotapes -- Moseley, M.
Added Author
Moseley, Monica. Interviewer
National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Research Call Number
*MGZMT 3-1903 (transcript)
*MGZTC 3-1903 (sound cassette)
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