SUMMARY: Cassette 1. Baird Hastings relates his impressions, accumulated over many years as a dance writer, of various performers, choreographers and specific dance works. He outlines his point of view as a critic and discusses Fred Astaire; La Argentina and Vicente Escudero; George Balanchine; Apollo (Balanchine); André Eglevsky; Maurice Chevalier; Jean Cocteau; classicism and romanticism; Étienne Decroux; Anton Dolin; Alexandra Danilova; Reinhardt's Everyman; Eglevsky. -- Cassette 2. Balanchine and ballet tempi; Danilova; Michel Fokin; Martha Graham; Martha Hill; various ballerinas in Giselle; Louis Horst; Robert Irving and conducting for ballet; Kurt Jooss and The green table; Ninette de Valois' Job; Lincoln Kirstein. -- Cassette 3. Lincoln Kirstein; Michael Larionov; Pablo Picasso; Leonide Massine; New York City Ballet; Todd Bolender. -- Cassette 4. Ballet Society and New York City Ballet; Alicia Markova; opera ballet; Paris Opera Ballet and Serge Lifar; Olga Preobrajenska; Royal Danish Ballet. -- Cassette 5. Max Reinhardt's production of Everyman; Helen Thimig; Dame Marie Rambert; Petrouchka; Wagner's Der Meistersinger; Pierre Vladimiroff; Marian Hannah Winter and Lillian Moore.
Call number
*MGZTC 3-1509
Language
English
Note
Interviewed by Lesley Farlow Dec. 11, 17 and 23, 1991 at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New York.