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Interview with Peter Boal
- Title
- Interview with Peter Boal [videorecording]
- Author
- Boal, Peter.
- Publication
- 2005.
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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. | Moving image | Supervised use | *MGZMT 5-1601 transcript | 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. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIDVD 5-1601 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Newman, Barbara, 1944-
- Description
- 1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +
- Summary
- Peter Boal speaks about how he first became interested in studying ballet; auditioning for Antonia Tumovsky and Natasha [Natalie] Gleboff at the School of American Ballet; his first two years, including his teachers Elise Reiman and Helene Dudin; his first boys' class, taught by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux; his first experiences dancing before the public; the compartmentalization of his life as a ballet student at the School and his life as a middle school student in Westchester; his decision to enter the Professional Children's School; his feelings about being singled out by his teachers due to his talent; his teachers, including Andrei Kramarevsky, Richard Rapp, Jean-Pierre [Bonnefoux], Muriel Stuart, and Stanley Williams; the different styles and traditions of the School's teachers; his learning style; the atmosphere of the advanced men's class taught by Williams; the smaller, special class for male students created by George Balanchine and taught by Williams and Kramarevsky; Boal's contact with Balanchine; partnering, including his initial difficulties; tells an anecdote about himself, Rudolf Nureyev, and a class at the Paris Opera Ballet; more on partnering; learning variations through participating in the School's workshop performances and the lecture-demonstration program; the sometimes difficult adjustment from being a student to being a corps member of New York City Ballet, including the different nature of the classes at the company; his continuing to attend classes at the School; how the School does and does not help its students prepare for the transition from student to corps member; his feelings about the difficulties the company was experiencing when he joined; more on the classes he attended at the School after joining the company; how he came to begin teaching at the School; the challenge of teaching and dancing full schedules; his de facto teaching apprenticeship with Richard Rapp; the expansion of the boys' program and other changes at the School since he started; his own experience as a teacher; his goal of passing on Rapp's teaching legacy; his plans, in general terms, for the schools in Seattle [the Phelps Center in Seattle and the Francia Russell Center in Bellevue, both of which are associated with the Pacific Northwest Ballet]; various aspects of the relationship between a ballet company and its associated school, with reference to both the School of American Ballet and the schools in Seattle as examples.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of School of American Ballet.
- Series Statement
- School of American Ballet Oral Preservation Project
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Video.
- Note
- Interview with Peter Boal conducted by Barbara Newman on April 4, 2005, at the School of American Ballet, in New York City. This interview is part of the School of American Ballet Oral Preservation Project, and the DVD and transcript were created by the School of American Ballet.
- The picture quality is excellent. The sound quality is also excellent but marred by occasional extraneous noise.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-1601
- OCLC
- NYPY06-F60
- Author
- Boal, Peter. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Peter Boal [videorecording]
- Imprint
- 2005.
- Country of Producing Entity
- New York (N.Y.)
- Series
- School of American Ballet Oral Preservation Project
- Performer
- Interviewer: Barbara Newman. Interviewee: Peter Boal.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Local Subject
- Partnering in dance.
- Added Author
- Newman, Barbara, 1944- Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-1601*MGZMT 5-1601 [transcript]