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Interview with Charles Ward
- Title
- Interview with Charles Ward [sound recording].
- Author
- Ward, Charles, 1952 or 1953-
- Publication
- 1979.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1977 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Kaptzan, Kyra Lynn.
- Description
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 67 min.)
- Summary
- Side A (ca. 50 min.). Charles Ward speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his childhood in Los Angeles; his acting as a teenager in musical comedies such as Camelot and West Side story; beginning ballet training at a local Los Angeles school at age 16; training at Gene Marinaccio's school; attending his first ballet performance, of the Stuttgart Ballet, at age 17; joining and dancing with Houston Ballet; Houston Ballet dancers Judith Aaen and John Sellers [Anthony Sellers]; training with a scholarship at American Ballet Theatre School; joining American Ballet Theatre, including an anecdote about Lucia Chase; dancing soloist roles for American Ballet Theatre, including in [Harald Lander's] Etudes; dancing with Carla Fracci in Glen Tetley's Nocturne at the Spoleto Festival [Spoleto Festival U.S.A.] in Charleston, S. C.; being cast as a principal in Tetley's Gemini; reasons a tall male dancer has difficulty in obtaining soloist roles; his feelings about the presence at American Ballet Theatre of the foreign dancers, Natalia Makarova, Fracci, Marcia Haydée and Misha [Mikhail] Baryshnikov; reasons he likes to partner Gelsey Kirkland; partnering Cynthia Gregory; the flatness of almost all male roles in classical story ballets; his reasons for leaving American Ballet Theatre; auditioning for Bob Fosse's musical comedy Dancin'; Bob Fosse's extensive theatrical knowledge; working with him, including Fosse's use of Ward's ballet training; critical and popular response to Dancin', including Ward's and Kaptzan's extensive discussion of their differing opinions of the work [ends abruptly].
- Side B (ca. 17 min.). Charles Ward continues speaking about performing in Dancin' ; compares manner of preparing for a performance in Dancin' with preparation for performing in a ballet; his relationship with Ann Reinking; his career aspirations after he has finished touring with Dancin'.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral history archive.
- Uniform Title
- Ballet beat (Radio program)
- Subjects
- Note
- Sound quality is fair, but the recording is marred by a continuous hiss. On side A the sound quality deteriorates just before the recording abruptly ends.
- Interview with Charles Ward conducted by Kyra Lynn Kaptzan on Feb. 27, 1979 for the radio program Ballet beat on WNYU-FM and broadcast on March 14, 1979.
- Source (note)
- Kyra Lynn Kaptzan.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1977 [sound cassette]
- OCLC
- 227002863
- Author
- Ward, Charles, 1952 or 1953-
- Title
- Interview with Charles Ward [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1979.
- Local Note
- Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-1977
- Source
- Gift; Kyra Lynn Kaptzan. NN-PD
- Local Subject
- Musical comedies. Dancin'Audiotapes -- Ward, C.Audiotapes -- Kaptzan, K.
- Added Author
- Kaptzan, Kyra Lynn. Interviewer
- Added Title
- Ballet beat (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1977 [sound cassette]