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Interview with Virginia Lee [sound recording]

Title
  1. Interview with Virginia Lee [sound recording]
Published by
  1. 1978.
Author
  1. Lee, Virginia, 1904?-1979.

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Vol/datereel 6FormatAudioAccessUse in libraryCall number*MGZTC 3-1113 [sound cassette] reel 6Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
StatusVol/datereel 5FormatAudioAccessUse in libraryCall number*MGZTC 3-1113 [sound cassette] reel 5Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
StatusVol/datereel 4FormatAudioAccessUse in libraryCall number*MGZTC 3-1113 [sound cassette] reel 4Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
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StatusVol/datereel 2FormatAudioAccessUse in libraryCall number*MGZTC 3-1113 [sound cassette] reel 2Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
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Additional authors
  1. Bowers, Theresa.
Description
  1. 6 sound cassettes (5 hours, 20 min.)
Summary
  1. Cassette 1. Virginia Lee discusses her childhood; studying with Andreas Pavley and Serge Oukrainsky; moving to New York; working in films; meeting Michio Ito; John Murray Anderson and his school; starting her own studio; various modern and ballet teachers in New York in the 1920s; meeting Yeichi Nimura; Nimura's early concerts -- Cassette 2. Touring Europe and the Soviet Union with Nimura and Lisan Kay in the 1930s -- Cassette 3. Her first exposure to Denishawn; her first ballet classes; teaching; working in films; Michio Ito's early productions; Kreutzberg and Georgi; John Murray Anderson's school; the influence of German dancers on American modern dance -- Cassette 4. Her family -- Cassette 5. Yeichi Nimura; touring Europe with Nimura and Kay; Ballet Arts Studio at Carnegie Hall; Gluck-Sandor; various teachers and students at the Ballet Arts Studio -- Cassette 6. Dean Crane; other students at Ballet Arts; various teachers, including Margaret Craske and Luigi Albertieri.
Alternative title
  1. Dance Oral History Project.
Subject
  1. Gluck-Sandor, Senia
  2. Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet
  3. Georgi, Yvonne
  4. Anderson, John Murray
  5. Motion pictures
  6. Itō, Michio, 1893-1961
  7. Audiotapes > Lee, V
  8. Kreutzberg, Harald, 1902-1968
  9. Ballet Arts (New York, N.Y.)
  10. Nimura, Yeichi, 1897-1979
  11. Kay, Lisan
Call number
  1. *MGZTC 3-1113
Note
  1. Interviewed by Theresa Bowers 14 April, 30 July, 9 August 1978 in New York City.
  2. Also participating in interview was Amelia Gilmore.
  3. For transcript of interview see: *MGZMT 3-1113.
Author
  1. Lee, Virginia, 1904?-1979. Interviewee
Title
  1. Interview with Virginia Lee [sound recording]
Imprint
  1. 1978.
Local subject
  1. Audiotapes -- Lee, V.
  2. Motion pictures.
Added author
  1. Bowers, Theresa. Interviewer
Research call number
  1. *MGZTC 3-1113
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