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
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.