Interview with Helen Gebig
- Title
- Interview with Helen Gebig [sound recording].
- Published by
- 2010.
- Author
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datedisc 2 | FormatAudio | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZTL 4-2627 disc 2 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/datedisc 1 | FormatAudio | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZTL 4-2627 disc 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | Vol/date | FormatAudio | AccessSupervised use | Call number*MGZMT 3-2627 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 2 sound discs (ca. 130 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in. +
- Summary
- Disc 1 (ca. 68 min.). Helen Gebig speaks with Diana Chapman about seeing ballet for first time, New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's Swan lake; her personal background and feeling of connection to Balanchine; various ballets and her responses to them; Balanchine's sources of inspiration; changes in Balanchine's ballet La valse since his death with particular reference to the colors of the costumes; Balanchine's molding of the ballets for individual dancers; her favorite dancers from the past, as well as the present; the sexual component of ballet in general, and in Balanchine's ballet The prodigal son and Edward Villella's dancing, in particular.
- Disc 2 (ca. 62 min.). Helen Gebig continues to speak with Diana Chapman, about the ballets of Jerome Robbins including as compared with those of Balanchine; Balanchine's Le tombeau de Couperin; other choreographers as compared to Balanchine; modern dance as compared to ballet; the nature of the audiences throughout the years that she has watched ballet including the warmth and enthusiasm of New York City Ballet audiences during Balanchine's life time; Peter Martins, including as compared to Balanchine; her thoughts on the company's current direction; some further thoughts on the choreography of Jerome Robbins; Robbins' leadership at New York City Ballet and the relationship between Robbins and Balanchine.
- Alternative title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Subject
- Call number
- *MGZTL 4-2627
- Note
- Interview with Helen Gebig conducted by Diana Chapman on June 22, 2010 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City as part of the Oral History Project.
- For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2627.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Funding (note)
- The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
- Author
- Gebig, Helen. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Helen Gebig [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 2010.
- Funding
- The assistance of the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.
- Restricted access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Added author
- Chapman, Diana G. Interviewer
- National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.
- New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
- Research call number
- *MGZTL 4-2627
- *MGZMT 3-2627