Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Cooper, Erik.
2. King, Sharon.
3. Nielson, Fleming.
4. DHCA

Description

1. 1 sound cassette (25 min.)

Summary

1. Side 1. Ms. Cheremeteff discusses beginning dance classes at age 5; performing at age 7 while going to school; directing a 45-member company at age 15; missing out on her childhood; rejecting a Paris Opéra scholarship because of family obligations; performing Cossack equestrian trick riding in Australia; teaching riding tricks to men in the Calgary stampede; her marriage to a Russian count; riding while eight months pregnant and returning to it three days after giving birth; preferring the world of the circus to that of the theater; moving to Canada and starting a school in 1956; and the types of students that she teaches there.
2. Side 1 (continued). Mr. Cooper discusses starting his life in the theater at an early age; dancing and choreographing in Hollywood musicals; becoming an administrative assistant to the Hawaiian police department; moving to Europe after working in television; meeting Regina Cheremeteff in Finland; assisting her at her Calgary Ballet School; and the school's 30th anniversary performance on May 10th.
3. Side 2 (3 min.). Ms. Cheremeteff discusses her childhood background; and her decision to leave Berlin to form a school in Canada.

Alternative title

1. Dance Audio Archive.

Subject

1. Dance schools > Alberta > Calgary

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-1797 (sound cassette)

Note

1. Regina Cheremeteff and Erik Cooper interviewed by Sharon King; the conclusion of Ms. Cheremeteff's interview by Fleming Nielson.

Author

1. Cheremeteff, Regina. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Regina Cheremeteff and Erik Cooper [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1986.

Added author

1. Cooper, Erik. Interviewee
2. King, Sharon. Interviewer
3. Nielson, Fleming. Interviewer
4. DHCA

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-1797 (sound cassette)