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Wooing in absence the love affair in letters between Lydia Lopokova of the Diaghilev Ballet and John Maynard Keynes, the Cambridge intellectual and economist

Title
Wooing in absence [videorecording] : the love affair in letters between Lydia Lopokova of the Diaghilev Ballet and John Maynard Keynes, the Cambridge intellectual and economist / presented by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center ; series producer, Alan J. Pally ; [created by] Patrick Garland.
Publication
c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Garland, Patrick.
  • Makarova, Natalia, 1940-
  • Johnson, Collin.
  • Bernadi, François
  • Pally, Alan J.
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.
Description
1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (82 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
An "entertainment-reading" compiled from the correspondence and other writings of ballerina Lydia Lopokova and the economist John Maynard Keynes, a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Includes Lopokova's reminiscences of her dance training and early career at the Maryinsky Theater in Russia, and her performances with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
Subject
  • Lopokova, Lydia, 1892-1981 > Correspondence
  • Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 > Correspondence
  • Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929
  • Ballets russes
  • Petrouchka (Choreographic work : Fokine)
  • Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work : Nijinska after Petipa, M)
Genre/Form
  • Plays.
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Note
  • Recording made possible by the cooperation of Natalia Makarova; Collin Johnson; Patrick Garland; Public Programs, Bruno Walter Auditorium; and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
Performer (note)
  • Introduced by Patrick Garland.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in performance at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., on Nov. 5, 2001; video documentation, François Bernadi.
Funding (note)
  • This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
  • Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-7488
OCLC
NYPY04-F165
Title
Wooing in absence [videorecording] : the love affair in letters between Lydia Lopokova of the Diaghilev Ballet and John Maynard Keynes, the Cambridge intellectual and economist / presented by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center ; series producer, Alan J. Pally ; [created by] Patrick Garland.
Imprint
c2001.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Event
Videotaped in performance at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., on Nov. 5, 2001; video documentation, François Bernadi.
Performer
Introduced by Patrick Garland.
Performed by Patrick Garland, Natalia Makarova (Lydia Lopokova), and Collin Johnson (John Maynard Keynes).
Funding
This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Added Author
Garland, Patrick. Creator
Makarova, Natalia, 1940- Actor
Johnson, Collin. Actor
Bernadi, François, videographer.
Pally, Alan J. Producer
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-7488
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