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Interview with Irine Fokine
- Title
- Interview with Irine Fokine [sound recording]
- Author
- Fokine, Irine.
- Publication
- 1973.
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| Status | Vol/Date | 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. | disc 1 | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZTL 4-153 disc 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | disc 2 | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZTL 4-153 disc 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gruen, John.
- Description
- 2 sound discs (ca. 91 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Irine Fokine, teacher and director of the Irine Fokine School of Ballet and the Irine Fokine Ballet Company, discusses her early years in Russia and Latvia; her mother Alexandra Fedorova-Fokine; her brother, Leon Fokine; her uncle, Michel Fokine; her mother's dancing and teaching career with the Latvian Opera and Ballet Theater and in New York City; some of her mother's students, including Alicia Alonso. She discusses her marriage and children; her dance career in opera ballets during World War II; the establishment of her school in Ridgewood, New Jersey, and later her professional ballet company and children's theater; her thoughts on the ballet world and teaching children.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive.
- National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- John Gruen collection of oral history tapes.
- Subjects
- Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019
- Fokina, Vera Petrovna, 1886-1958
- Irine Fokine Ballet Company
- Fokine family
- Rīga (Latvia) > Latvian Opera and Ballet Theater > Ballet
- Fokine, Leon, 1905-1973
- Fokine, Irine
- Ballet > Study and teaching
- Fokine, Vitale
- Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942
- Fedorova, Alexandra, 1884-1972
- Audiotapes > Fokine, I
- Fokin, Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich, 1877-1936
- Note
- Interviewed by John Gruen February 15, 1973, in New York City.
- For transcript, see: *MGZMT 3-153.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-153
- OCLC
- NYPY747040272-R
- Author
- Fokine, Irine. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Irine Fokine [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1973.
- Funding
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Local Note
- *MGZTC 3-153 (Former classmark)Arch. orig.: *MGZTCO 3-153.Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-153 no. 1 and 2.
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes -- Fokine, I.
- Added Author
- Gruen, John. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-153