Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Kenneth MacMillan [sound recording].

Author

MacMillan, Kenneth.

Publication

1972.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gruen, John.
• National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.
• New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
• Oral history archive.

Description

1 sound disc (39 min.) : digital; (4 3/4 in.)

Summary

Kenneth MacMillan speaks with John Gruen about his career, beginning with his early ballet training and dancing; his early choreography; his first ballet for Dame Ninette [de Valois], Danses concertantes; his Noctambules for the Royal Ballet; his work for other companies, including in Germany and Sweden; his current position as artistic director of the Royal Ballet, including his responsibility for choosing the repertoire and casting; his ballet Anastasia, including his feelings about negative reviews; his attempt to put more realism into ballet, as in Anastasia; his efforts to introduce works into the repertoire by contemporary choreographers such as George Balanchine and Glen Tetley; (briefly) Rudolf Nureyev; (briefly) Margot Fonteyn, as a dancer; (briefly) the attributes of the English style of dancer as compared to the Balanchine style; supervision of new ballets; upcoming works; his response to criticism of his direction of the Royal Ballet; the burden of tradition; his leisure activities; dancers' complaints; his personal life; his feelings about being booed in New York City.

Subjects

• Royal Ballet
• MacMillan, Kenneth
• Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993
• Audiotapes > Macmillan, K
• Anastasia (Choreographic work : MacMillan)

Note

• Interview with Kenneth MacMillan, Kenneth conducted by John Gruen on July 26, 1972, in London, England. The interview was used as a basis for a chapter in John Gruen's book, The private world of ballet, c1975.
• Sound quality is very good. There is occasional extraneous noise.

System Details (note)

• Transferred from 1 side of 1 sound cassette (ca. 39 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 channels; originally recorded on July 26, 1972) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-173

OCLC

81744244

Author

MacMillan, Kenneth. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Kenneth MacMillan [sound recording].

Imprint

1972.

System Details

Transferred from 1 side of 1 sound cassette (ca. 39 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 channels; originally recorded on July 26, 1972) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Local Note

For edited transcript of interview see: *MGZMT 3-173

Former call number: *MGZTC 3-173

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-173

Added Author

Gruen, John. Interviewee

National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.

Oral history archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-173