Interview with John Kriza
- Title
- Interview with John Kriza [sound recording].
- Published by
- 1975.
- Author
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Status | Vol/date | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datediscs 1-2 | FormatAudio | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZTL 4-227 discs 1-2 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 2 sound discs (ca. 76 min.) : digital; (4 3/4 in.)
- Summary
- Disc 1 (ca. 38 min.). John Kriza speaks with Joan Kramer about his early dance training, with Bentley Stone; his first job, with Ruth Page; his family's view of his dancing as a career; auditioning for and joining Ballet Theatre [now American Ballet Theatre]; touring in South America with Ruth Page; performing in musical comedies for economic reasons while a member of Ballet Theatre; Jerome Robbins as a choreographer; the ballet Fancy free; the American style of dancing; more on Fancy free; his relationship with his fans; preparing for performance; dancers and acting; his feelings about having retired from performing; his luck in having had good partners; Bentley Stone as a teacher; differences between teachers in Chicago and New York City; dancing as a guest artist; factors in his decision to retire; his current lack of a formal relationship with American Ballet Theatre or much contact with dancers he knew there; teaching dance at the University of Indiana at Bloomington [ends abruptly but continues directly on disc 2].
- Disc 2 (ca. 38 min.). John Kriza continues to speak to Joan Kramer about the students at University of Indiana at Bloomington; more on his student days and his career; reasons he never wanted his own company; more on teaching dance and the students; performing with Ballet Theatre in London, in 1946 including the critical reception; the power of critics; the effect the dancers from the [former] U.S.S.R. who joined American Ballet Theatre had on the company; American Ballet Theatre's style; his thoughts on Rudolf Nureyev; Margot Fonteyn; dancers' bodies; his current interests and activities; dance on television; the reliance on guest artists at American Ballet Theatre.
- Alternative title
- Dance Oral History Project
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subject
- Call number
- *MGZTL 4-227
- Note
- Interview with John Kriza conducted by Joan Kramer at the Library and Museum for the Performing Arts [now the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts] at Lincoln Center, in New York City on Jan. 9, 1975, as part of the Library's Oral history project.
- Sound quality is good overall.
- Funding (note)
- The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
- System details (note)
- Transferred from 1 sound reel (ca. 76 min.; 5 in.; 3 1 7/8 in. per sec.; polyester; 1 channel; half-track; originally recorded in 1975) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2012.
- Author
- Kriza, John. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with John Kriza [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1975.
- Funding
- The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
- System details
- Transferred from 1 sound reel (ca. 76 min.; 5 in.; 3 1 7/8 in. per sec.; polyester; 1 channel; half-track; originally recorded in 1975) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2012.
- Local note
- For transcript of audio recording, see: *MGZMT 5-227.
- Former call number: *MGZT 5-227
- Archive original: *MGZTO 5-227
- Added author
- Kramer, Joan. Interviewer
- Research call number
- *MGZTL 4-227