1 streaming video file (NTSC) (39 min.) : sd., col.
Summary
Lecture-demonstration about the bride's solo from Bronislava Nijinska's ballet Le baiser de la fée, first performed in 1928. Dance critic Jack Anderson opens the session with a historical overview of the ballet, then moderates a panel discussion with Nijinska's daughter Irina Nijinska and Nina Youshkevitch, who danced the role of the bride in 1934. The solo is performed twice in the course of the lecture-demonstration.
Donor/Sponsor
nys.
Uniform title
Baiser de la fée (Choreographic work : Nijinska)
Alternative title
Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation.
Videotaped for the Jerome Robbins Archive at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on November 10, 1990, by Penny Ward/Video, with the assistance of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, during the seminar Bronislava Nijinska: Choreographer, dancer, teacher, presented by the Dance Critics Association and the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library.
Choreography: Bronislava Nijinska, reconstructed by Irina Nijinska with Nina Youshkevitch. Music: Igor Stravinsky.
Performed by Jennie Somogyi, accompanied by pianist Michael McFrederick.
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Title
Le baiser de la fée: Bride's solo [electronic resource]
Imprint
1990.
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