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Interview and lecture-demonstration with Alicia Markova

Title: Interview and lecture-demonstration with Alicia Markova [sound recording].
Author: Terry, Walter.
Publication: 1963.

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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.	discs 1-2	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-30B discs 1-2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

2 sound discs (ca. 96 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 41 min.). Walter Terry speaks about guest speaker Alicia Markova, including her recent retirement and her new career as a coach; identifies the two dancers, Hans Meister and Caroline [Carolina?] Kroon and pianist, Jess Meeker, who will be performing; and introduces Markova. In response to Terry's questions, Markova speaks about what she thinks most important when coaching a dancer; her interpretation of the role of Giselle, including innocence as the key to her character; ballet technique of the romantic era as seen in Giselle, for example, pirouettes that are not relevé; the role of Odette/Odile in Swan lake, including diiferences between today's interpretation and that of her era, with reference to [Olga] Spessivtzeva's interpretation of Odette and Vera Nemchinova's interpretation of Odile; the softer shoes as one cause of differences in ballet technique [trails off and continues directly on disc 2].
Disc 2 (ca. 45 min.). Alicia Markova continues to speak with Walter Terry about the role of softer shoes in influencing technique; her approach to coaching and teaching; the role of the girl in Michel Fokine's Spectre de la rose; the introduction to the dance is performed with piano accompaniment. Terry introduces Fokine's ballet Les sylphides; Markova speaks about Fokine's coaching instructions for the work; the role of the male dancer in Les sylphides; Fokine's emphasis on fluidity; several excerpts from Les sylphides are performed with piano accompaniment as Markova coaches the dancers, including specific instructions given by Fokine and occasional comments by Terry and Markova between the excerpts; an abridged version of the Rose adagio from The sleeping beauty is performed with piano accompaniment as Markova coaches the dancers.

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Interview and lecture-demonstration with Alicia Markova recorded on Feb. 28, 1963 as the fourth program in the 1962-1963 season of Walter Terry's series, Dance laboratory, given at the Young Men's-Young Women's Hebrew Association, 92nd Street, New York.
Overall sound quality is good.

Funding (note)

Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009.

System Details (note)

Transferred from track 2 of 1 sound tape reel (ca. 96 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 7 in.; polyester, half track; originally recorded on Jan. 27, 1963) to wav file and compact disc formats in spring 2009.

Source (note)

Walter Terry.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-30B

OCLC

457893467

Author

Terry, Walter. Speaker

Title

Interview and lecture-demonstration with Alicia Markova [sound recording].

Imprint

1963.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009.

System Details

Transferred from track 2 of 1 sound tape reel (ca. 96 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 7 in.; polyester, half track; originally recorded on Jan. 27, 1963) to wav file and compact disc formats in spring 2009.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZT 7-30

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-30B

Archive original: *MGZTO 7-30, track 2. Restored and rehoused following water damage in 2015.

Pres. master: 1 sound file (ca. 96 min.): digital, WAV file, 48 kHz, 16 bit; copied from Archive orig. onto Cavalry CACE 3.5 500 GB external hard drive by Safe Sound Archive, in March and April 2009 ; located in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division as of Sept. 17, 2009.

Pres. master: 1 LTO-4 tape: digital, stereo, 4 in.; copied by Safe Sound Archive, in March and April 2009 ; in the Rose Building workroom. When space becomes available in Princeton ReCAP or an alternative off-site storage area, the LTO master tapes are to be moved to such location.

Source

Gift; Walter Terry. NN-PD

Added Author

Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004. Speaker

Dance Laboratory.

Terry, Walter. Donor

National Endowment for the Arts, 2008-2009.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009.

Oral history archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-30B

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