Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Eliot Feld [sound recording].

Author

Feld, Eliot.

Publication

1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

McDonagh, Don.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 64 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

[Begins abruptly.] Eliot Feld speaks with Don McDonagh about the filming of excerpts from his works for a television program [The Feld Ballet, WNET/13, 1979], including the choice of dances and adjustments made to accommodate the medium; reasons he did not want to have his work Intermezzo included; the special problems for a dancer when performing for televison; his working methods, including his initial inspiration from the music; reasons he does not choreograph without at least one other dancer; Aaron Copland as a composer and parallels Feld sees to himself as a choreographer; Feld's work Danzon cubano; extent to which he choreographs with a specific dancer in mind; choreographing for other companies as compared to choreographing for his own [Feld Ballet]; casting ballets, including an anecdote about himself and Jerome Robbins; his emotional state while choreographing and during the production process; circumstances as to how the artist Leonard Baskin came to design the scenery for Feld's work At midnight, including Lucia Chase's and Jean Rosenthal's reactions to the designs; the role of a set; the role of lighting; working with Ralph Holmes on the lighting on the WNET/13 television program The Feld Ballet; more on the choreographic process, including coping with a creative impasse; his attempt to define what is meant by a "dance idea"; his complete absorption with whatever new dance he is creating; his earliest works, including Harbinger [ends abruptly].

Donor/Sponsor

• Oral history archive.
• New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
• National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008

Subject

• Feld, Eliot
• Feld Ballet
• Danzon cubano (Choreographic work : Feld)
• Dance in motion pictures, television, etc

Note

• Open as of August 22, 2012.
• Sound quality is fair. At times the voice of Don McDonagh, the interviewer, is almost unintelligible. There is a brief gap in track 7.
• Interview with Eliot Feld conducted by Don McDonagh on Jan. 8, 1981, in New York City.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.

Source (note)

• Don McDonagh.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2494

OCLC

265031537

Author

Feld, Eliot. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Eliot Feld [sound recording].

Imprint

1981.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.

Local Note

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2494

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2494

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh. NN-PD

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Feld, S.

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2494 [sound disc]