- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 streaming video files (82 min.) : digital, stereo.
- Alternative Title
- Popular Balanchine collection.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Note
- This interview was created for the Popular Balanchine Collection.
- This interview relates to the Popular Balancine dossiers (Box 35. Courtin' Time) (1951) [Dance Division call number: *MGZMD 146, boxes 35-36, Courtin' time], compiled by Camille Hardy. Binder 1. Inventory, overview materials by Camille Hardy and Jack Lawrence, background materials (prints and photocopies of scene designs by Ralph Alswang, photocopies and typescripts from published and unpublished sources), programs (originals and photocopies), notices and reviews, photocopied images from the press, photographs (rehearsal and performance prints, negatives from photo montage in Tab, September 1938). Binder 2. Transcripts of interviews with Hubert Bland, Saul Bolasni, Peter Deign, Harvey Brown Drake (Mrs. Alfred Drake), Michael Ellis, Audrey Keane, Jack Lawrence, Patricia Poole, Herman Raucher, Theodor Uppman, and Billie Worth. Also includes original souvenir program, oversize print of Carmen Mathews in "Golden Moment," photocopy of stage manager's script, music (photocopies and/or originals of partial conductor's score and piano music), and original music folder entitled "Theresa" with manuscript scores for "Golden Moment" and "Masculinity."
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped during an interview at Audrey Keane Hill's home in Snead's Ferry, N.C., on Aug. 23, 2002.
- Source (note)
- George Balanchine Foundation.
- Contents
- Disc 1 (41 min.). Audrey Keane Hill discusses performing in the Broadway musical Courtin' time; her training while growing up in Jackson Heights, going to Manhattan for culture and training, dancing professionally with her idol Mia Slavenska at age 17; how Keane Hill learned about the audition for Courtin' time; the rehearsal process with George Balanchine; Balanchine shaping the dance score by developing the music with Dorothea Freitag (pianist); discussing the numbers: Today at your house tomorrow at mine, the Wishbone song and waltz, Choose your partner, Garden party scene, Johnny and the puckwudgies. Camille Hardy reads the lyrics for Johnny Ride the sky and talks about Balanchine teaching Carl Stevens to climb the rope; and how Keane Hill never counted while dancing, she just listened to the music.
- Disc 2 (41 min.). Continues with Johnny and the puckwudgies; how Keane Hill felt about dancing a Balanchine ballet; why Balanchine made her dance captain; Balanchine teaching class in Philadelphia; Alfred Drakes performances as replacement in Philadelphia for Lloyd Nolan; interaction between Drake (staging) and Balanchine; what Keane Hill did as dance captain for Courtin' time; the most important thing she learned from Balanchine; performing with Edward Andrews (Tommy [Thomas] Andrew) in Courtin' time and at The Met; how Courtin' time changed with Joe E. Brown in leading role after Lloyd Nolan left; qualities she learned from Balanchine; working with Balanchine again for Boris Godunov at The Met; three photographs shown: Balanchine and Keane Hall looking at Boris Godunov score, Keane Hill in 1956 summer stock Call me madam solo, and posing in the Karinska tutu personally made for her to wear during various solo performances; her sweetest memory of Courtin' time and final comments about Balanchine and the show.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-7311
- OCLC
- 809198351
- Title
Interview with Audrey Keane [Hill] [electronic resource] / interviewed by Camille Hardy ; [presented by] The George Balanchine Foundation.
- Imprint
c2002.
- Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
- Original Version
Original format: 2 DV-CAM cassettes.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Performer
Interviewee, Audrey Keane Hill; interviewer, Camille Hardy.
- Event
Videotaped during an interview at Audrey Keane Hill's home in Snead's Ferry, N.C., on Aug. 23, 2002.
- Source
Gift; George Balanchine Foundation. NN-PD
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Balanchine, George, choreographer.
Keane, Audrey. Interviewee
Hardy, Camille. Interviewer
George Balanchine Foundation.
George Balanchine Foundation. Donor
- Added Title
Popular Balanchine collection.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-7311