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Details

Additional authors

1. Moseley, Monica.
2. National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Description

1. 2 sound cassettes (145 min.) +

Summary

1. Cassette 1. Recorded April 19, 1996, Mr. Migdoll recounts meeting Gerald Arpino; describes the 1965 Robert Joffrey Ballet season at the Rebekah Harkness Foundation Dance Festival at the Delacorte Theater in New York City's Central Park; discusses Edwin Denby; his own attraction to the Joffrey company and its repertory; Arpino's ballet Viva Vivaldi!; the dancing of Robert Blankshine and Luis Fuente; covertly photographing Joffrey Ballet performances at City Center; combining graphic design with photography; the Robert Joffrey Ballet tour to the Harper Theater in Chicago; Lotte Goslar's choreography Charivari; aesthetics in dance photography; craftsmanship in dance photography; time-lapse dance photography; his training in the visual arts at Cooper Union; working at New York's Museum of Modern Art; Alexander Ewing; Isadora Bennett; Massine's ballet Parade; Jooss' choreography The green table; critics' reactions to Arpino's choreography; Meredith Monk; Twyla Tharp; Joffrey's ballet Astarte; dancer Trinette Singleton; Mr. Fuente performing the role of the profiteer in Parade; and compares Fuente's dancing with that of Mikhail Baryshnikov.
2. Cassette 2. Recorded March 11, 1997. Mr. Migdoll discusses first seeing The green table; Mary Whitney; Luis Fuente's interpertation of choreography in The three-cornered hat; Kurt Jooss' directorial style; Lincoln Kirstein's admiration for Robert Joffrey's choreography; Joffrey's use of voice in his choreography; Joffrey's piece Remembrances; his admiration for Francesca Corkle's dancing; Joffrey's integration of various media in his dances; and researching Eric Satie in Paris for the development of Joffrey's Postcards.

Alternative title

1. Dance Oral History Project.
2. Dance Audio Archive

Subject

1. Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979 > Tricorne
2. Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979 > Parade
3. Postcards (Choreographic work : Joffrey)
4. Bennett, Isadora
5. Blankshine, Robert
6. Monk, Meredith
7. Tharp, Twyla
8. Remembrances (Choreographic work : Joffrey)
9. Corkle, Francesca
10. Astarte (Choreographic work : Joffrey)
11. Jooss, Kurt, 1901-1979
12. Dance photography
13. Fuente, Luis
14. Green table (Choreographic work : Jooss)
15. Ewing, Alexander
16. Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
17. Satie, Erik, 1866-1925
18. Singleton, Trinette
19. Viva Vivaldi! (Choreographic work : Arpino)
20. Charivari (Choreographic work : Goslar)
21. Joffrey Ballet
22. Denby, Edwin, 1903-1983
23. Audiotapes > Migdoll, H
24. Audiotapes > Moseley, M
25. Arpino, Gerald

Call number

1. *MGZMT 3-1903 (transcript)

Note

1. Interviewed by Monica Moseley, April 19, 1996 and March 11, 1997, at Mr. Migdoll's studio in New York City.
2. For transcript, see *MGZMT 3-1903.

Access (note)

1. Permission required.
2. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Author

1. Migdoll, Herbert. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Herbert Migdoll [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1996-1997.

Access

1. Permission required.

Local note

1. Interview funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).
2. Preservation master cassette in: *MGZTCO 3-1903.
3. Archival transcript in: *MGZMTO 3-1903.

Restricted access

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Migdoll, H.
2. Audiotapes -- Moseley, M.

Added author

1. Moseley, Monica. Interviewer
2. National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Research call number

1. *MGZMT 3-1903 (transcript)
2. *MGZTC 3-1903 (sound cassette)