Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Sallie Wilson and Daniel Levans. December 19, 1973.

Author

Wilson, Sallie

Publication

1973

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Details

Additional Authors

• Levans, Daniel
• Stern, Lee Edward

Description

1 sound disc (approximately 25 minutes): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Lee Edward Stern, host, on the radio program Speaking of dance, introduces his guests, Sallie Wilson and Daniel Levans; Sallie Wilson speaks (briefly) about the filming for television of Antony Tudor's ballet Pillar of fire; Wilson speaks about her background and early dance training in Fort Worth, Texas; moving to New York and studying with Margaret Craske and Antony Tudor at Ballet Arts; the circumstances of her joining Ballet Theatre [later American Ballet Theatre] and then the Metropolitan Opera ballet; Daniel Levans speaks about his dance training and professional experience; Wilson speaks about Tudor's statement that he looks for more than technique in a dancer; her thoughts on being frequently cast in the same kinds of dramatic roles; Levans speaks about Tudor's statement; Wilson and Levans speak about the relationship between Tudor's choreography and the psychology of the characters in his works; Levans speaks about his role in Eugene Loring's ballet Billy the Kid including as compared with his role in Tudor's ballet Undertow; the importance of the costumes in Undertow; Levin's and Wilson's view that a dancer should not be typecast, for example as a character dancer; the public's narrow conception of what constitutes classical dance; Wilson's and Levin's definition of classical dance, including its encompassing of Tudor's ballets; Wilson's roles during her year with New York City Ballet; Levans and Wilson speak about Eliot Feld; Stern's concluding remarks.

Uniform Title

Speaking of dance (Radio program)

Subject

• Wilson, Sallie
• Levans, Daniel
• Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987
• Undertow (Choreographic work : Tudor)
• Audiotapes > Wilson, S
• Audiotapes > Levans, D

Note

• Interview with Sallie Wilson and Daniel Levans conducted by Lee Edward Stern as host, in New York City on December 19, 1973 at American Ballet Theatre's studios, for broadcast on January 6, 1974 by radio station WNYC-FM, New York on its series Speaking of dance.
• Sound quality is good. The recording is marred by extraneous noise, but the speakers' voices are easily audible.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Funding (note)

• The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2972, side A

OCLC

867770741

Author

Wilson, Sallie, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Sallie Wilson and Daniel Levans. December 19, 1973.

Production

1973

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

audio disc

Event

Recorded at American Ballet Theatre's studios, New York 1973, December 19 New York (N.Y.)

Funding

The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.

Original Version

Original format: one sound cassette, side A only (approximately 25 minutes); 1 7/8 ips., originally recorded at the American Ballet Theatre studios in New York City, in 1973; transferred to wav file and compact disc formats in 2013. Side B contains an interview with Murray Louis, cataloged under the call number *MGZTL 4-2972, side B.

Added Author

Levans, Daniel, interviewee.

Stern, Lee Edward, host.

Added Title

Speaking of dance (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2972, side A