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Interview with Monica Mason and Leslie Edwards

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	reel 2	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-1370 [sound cassette] reel 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	reel 1	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-1370 [sound cassette] reel 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

2 sound cassettes (approx. 50 min.)

Summary

Part 1 (25 min.): Leslie Edwards discusses the Royal Ballet Choreographic Group and his career with Royal Ballet. Monica Mason discusses dancing Sleeping beauty and Sir Frederick Ashton's infuluence on the English ballet. Edwards recounts the opening of Royal Ballet's Sleeping beauty in New York, 1949, and the subsequent reception of Cinderella in London. Mason discusses audience enthusiasm and the influence of musical theater on her career. Edwards and Mason compare the real temperaments of dancers to characterizations in the motion picture, The red shoes.
Part 2 (25 min.): Monica Mason discusses her versatility as a dancer. Edwards explains the use and teaching of mime techniques in Sadler's Wells Ballet; his studies with Olga Preobajenska in Paris 1937. They discuss the influence of Dame Ninette de Valois; Margot Fonteyn's transition as principal dancer of Alicia Markova's roles; their extra work outside the ballet; Fonteyn's career with Sadler's Wells Ballet and her influence on the company; Edwards contrasts Kenneth MacMillan's and Ashton's choreographic styles; Mason's position as repetiteur for MacMillan; and their hopes for the future.

Donor/Sponsor

Uniform Title

Speaking of dance (Radio program)

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Note

Recorded June 24, 1981, broadcast July 31, 1981 and August 7, 1981.
Host: Lee Edward Stern for the WNYC-FM, New York radio program series, Speaking of dance.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1370

OCLC

NYPY00-R59

Author

Mason, Monica. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Monica Mason and Leslie Edwards [sound recording]

Imprint

1981.

Local Note

Preservation master tape: *MGZTO 7-1370.

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-1370.

Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Mason, M.

Audiotapes -- Edwards, L.

Added Author

Edwards, Leslie. Interviewee

Stern, Lee Edward. Interviewer

Added Title

Speaking of dance (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-1370