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Interview with Nini Theilade
- Title
- Interview with Nini Theilade [sound recording].
- Author
- Theilade, Nini.
- Publication
- 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1850 [Cassette] | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | *MGZMT 3-1850 [Transcript] | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Moseley, Monica.
- Description
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 70 min.) +
- Summary
- Side A (ca. 48 min.). Theilade speaks about her life and career beginning with her birth in Java (Indonesia); early dance training in Denmark; moving to France with her family at age 12 where she studied with Nadia Kusova; first attempts at choreography; her debut in The Hague at age 15; European tour where she met Max Reinhardt; working with Reinhardt and Kyra Nijinsky in Berlin, and Reinhardt and Harald Kreutzberg in Vienna; choreographing Midsummer night's dream for Reinhardt in England; choreographing for the Royal Danish Ballet in Denmark; leaving Denmark to join Leonid Massine's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Theilade speaks about other dancers in Massine's company including Alicia Markova, Igor Youskevitch, Alexandra Danilova, and Frederick Franklin; she describes choreographing and dancing for Massine in such works as Seventh symphony and St. Francis; making a film of Midsummer night's dream with Reinhardt in the U.S; working with Nijinska on the film's choreography; she speaks about other roles in the repertory of the Ballet Russe companies, including an odalisque in Scheherezade; the surrealist ballet Bacchanale. Theilade describes Massine's personality and appearance.
- Side B [Continues with description of Massine]. Theilade describes Massine's working methods; meeting her husband-to-be, Pieter Loopuyt, in Rio de Janeiro; living in Rio de Janeiro during World War II and teaching dance; moving to Portugal after the War with her husband and children; moving to Denmark after the death of her husband and starting a school with her second husband; loss of the school after 12 years; moving to Paris where she also created and ran a school; death of her second husband and return to Odense, Denmark.
- Donor/Sponsor
- New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subject
- Note
- Interview conducted by Monica Moseley.
- Recorded on April 28, 1995, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-1850.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1850
- OCLC
- NYPY02-R24
- Author
- Theilade, Nini. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Nini Theilade [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1995.
- Funding
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
- Local Note
- Original: *MGZTCO 3-1850.Arch. transcript: *MGZMTO 3-1850.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes Theilade, N.
- Added Author
- Moseley, Monica. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1850 [Cassette]*MGZMT 3-1850 [Transcript]