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Interview with Maria Tallchief
- Title
- Interview with Maria Tallchief [sound recording].
- Author
- Tallchief, Maria.
- Publication
- 1979.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 3-1975, side B | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Kaptzan, Kyra Lynn.
- Description
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 34 min.)
- Summary
- Maria Tallchief speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about her American Indian heritage; early dance training beginning at age three; moving to California to study dance at age seven; studying with Bronislava Nijinska; training to be a concert pianist but preferring to dance; dancing with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in Europe at the invitation of Tatiana Riabouchinska; performing with the Ballet Russe in Canada and being invited to join the company; being an understudy in Agnes de Mille's Rodeo; studying Nijinska's Chopin concerto first as understudy and then performing in it; performing George Balanchine's choreography in the musical comedy Song of Norway; her favorite roles with Ballet Russe including in Balanchine's Baiser de la fée; Balanchine's influence on her technique; favorite partners, including Nicholas Magallanes, André Eglevsky and Francisco Moncion; Balanchine's Firebird as her most important role; joining Ballet Society; performing as a guest artist with Erik Bruhn with American Ballet Theatre; dancing on television, including with Rudolf Nureyev on Bell Telephone hour; training dancers in Chicago and forming a dance company with the Chicago Lyric Opera [Chicago City Ballet]; working with Jacques D'Amboise; the company's repertoire of mostly Balanchine works; her decision to retire; her daugher; her sister Marjorie Tallchief's career and work with Dallas Civic Ballet; future plans.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral history archive.
- Uniform Title
- Ballet beat (Radio program)
- Subject
- Note
- Sound quality is good overall, but the recording is marred by continuous extraneous noise in the form of interference from a different radio program, and brief gaps.
- Interview with Maria Tallchief conducted by Kyra Lynn Kaptzan on Aug. 6, 1979 for the radio program Ballet beat on WNYU-FM and broadcast on Nov. 2, 1979.
- Source (note)
- Kyra Lynn Kaptzan.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1975, side B [sound cassette]
- OCLC
- 231619577
- Author
- Tallchief, Maria. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Maria Tallchief [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1979.
- Local Note
- Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-1975, side B
- Source
- Gift; Kyra Lynn Kaptzan. NN-PD
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes -- Tallchief, M.
- Added Author
- Kaptzan, Kyra Lynn. Interviewer
- Added Title
- Ballet beat (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1975, side B [sound cassette]