Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Christian Holder [sound recording].

Author

Holder, Christian.

Publication

[1979].

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Details

Additional Authors

Kaptzan, Kyra Lynn.

Description

1 sound cassette (ca. 31 min.)

Summary

Side A. [Music and announcements.] Christian Holder speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his family's performing arts background; his early training in London in dance and theater; seeing Jerome Robbins' musical comedy West Side Story and Ballets: U.S.A. as an influence on his decision to dance; moving to New York City in l964; his scholarship to the Martha Graham School [Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance]; attending the New York City High School of the Performing Arts; joining the Joffrey Ballet in 1966; his theatrical experience as a child; his favorite role, Death, in Kurt Jooss's The green table; other roles he enjoys, including in [José Limón's] Moor's pavane, [Robert Joffrey's] Astarte, and the narrator in [Frederick Ashton's] Wedding bouquet; roles he and Gary Chryst perform; his preference for a diverse repertory [short gap]; working with Leonide Massine; dancing in Massine's work Parade; dancing in the Joffrey Ballet's program titled Homage to Diaghilev [Parade, Petruschka, Spectre de la rose, and Afternoon of a faun], including the difficulty of performing the same roles every night; working with Rudolf Nureyev; the Joffrey repertoire and how works are selected for performance; the attempted censorship of certain works when the Joffrey toured in the former Soviet Union; touring in the U.S., including audience reactions; Holder's choreographing, including his work Five dances; how working with Jerome Robbins and other choreographers has helped him as a choreographer; his experience with costume design. [Music and announcements.] Side B is blank.

Donor/Sponsor

Oral history archive.

Uniform Title

Ballet beat (Radio program)

Subject

• Holder, Christian
• Joffrey Ballet

Note

• Sound quality is good overall.
• Side B is blank.
• Interview with Christian Holder conducted by Kyra Lynn Kaptzan for the radio program Ballet beat on WNYU-FM and broadcast on June 29, 1979.

Source (note)

• Kyra Lynn Kaptzan.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1996 [sound cassette]

OCLC

227002985

Author

Holder, Christian. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Christian Holder [sound recording].

Imprint

[1979].

Local Note

Dubbing master: 10-1996

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-1996

Source

Gift; Kyra Lynn Kaptzan. NN-PD

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Holder, C.

Audiotapes -- Kaptzan, K.

Added Author

Kaptzan, Kyra Lynn. Interviewer

Added Title

Ballet beat (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1996 [sound cassette]