Interview with Gemze De Lappe
- Title
- Interview with Gemze De Lappe [sound recording]
- Published by
- 2002.
- Author
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Status | Vol/date | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datecassette 2 | FormatAudio | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZTC 3-2382 cassette 2 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datecassette 1 | FormatAudio | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZTC 3-2382 cassette 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 155 min.)
- Summary
- Cassette 1, side A, 9/23/02 (ca. 45 min.). Gennaro introduces Gemze De Lappe; De Lappe speaks about her early music and dance training, including her studies with Irma Duncan and Michel Fokine; performing with the Fokine ballet during her summer vacations; leaving college to dance professionally with the San Carlo Opera Ballet; touring with the musical comedy, Oklahoma, in the U.S. and in London; Agnes de Mille; audience reception of Oklahoma; role of the dance captain; performing in Oklahoma in Australia; her early professional relationship with de Mille; working with Michael Kidd; dancing in the musical comedy The king and I in New York City; the musical comedy Paint your wagon; working with Jerome Robbins in The king and I.
- Cassette 1, side B, 9/23/02 (ca. 37 min.). De Lappe continues speaking about working with Robbins in The king and I; De Mille's working methods; her role in staging songs; her lecture-demonstration Conversations around the dance; possible influences on de Mille; Antony Tudor; de Mille's admiration for Martha Graham; Americana in dance, including de Mille's ballet Rodeo.
- Cassette 2, side A, 9/24/02 (ca. 45 min.). De Lappe speaks about her study of acting; de Mille's acting class; more on Robbins and The king and I; studying ballet technique with Yeichi Nimura; use of period research in new choreography; Jack Cole; learning Eugene Loring's ballet Billy the kid; De Lappe's methods for reconstructing choreography; working with [American] Ballet Theatre; extensive cross-over between ballet and musicals of dancers and choreographers; her own choreography; reviving musicals.
- Cassette 2, side B, 9/24/02 (ca. 28 min.). De Lappe speaks about shortcomings of contemporary revivals of period pieces, particularly regarding Oklahoma; how she would approach the revival of a period piece; typical time-table for musicals in the 1940s and 1950s; views on choreography in current musicals.
- Alternative title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subject
- Call number
- *MGZTC 3-2382
- Note
- Interview with Gemze De Lappe conducted by Liza Gennaro at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on Sept. 23 and 24, 2002.
- Author
- De Lappe, Gemze, interviewee.
- Title
- Interview with Gemze De Lappe [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 2002.
- Local subject
- Musical comedies. The king and I.
- Musical comedies. Oklahoma.
- Audiotapes -- De Lappe, G.
- Added author
- Gennaro, Liza. Interviewer