- Additional Authors
- Reynolds, Nancy, 1938-
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 16 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 46 minutes). [Sound quality is poor until approximately 38:36 minutes.] Jerome Robbins speaks with Nancy Reynolds about Mikhail Baryshnikov and his technique; disappointment among New York City Ballet dancers that Baryshnikov did not join the company; Robbins' approach to directing dancers; his working methods including his extensive research; his decision to stop dancing; older dancers; Eddy [Edward] Villella in Watermill; Robbins' assessment of himself as a dancer; his work Dancers [at a gathering]; working with Balanchine [ends abruptly but continues on streaming file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 30 minutes). Jerome Robbins speaks with Nancy Reynolds about Balanchine's working methods; his (Robbins') dislike of working with a large group of dancers; dance in performance as a reminder of one's mortality; seeing performances of other choreographers' works; Robert Wilson; possible future projects including a work for the Royal Ballet; the many factual errors in what has been written about him.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Jerome Robbins conducted by Nancy Reynolds on June 8, 1974, for her book, Repertory in review: 40 years of the New York City Ballet (New York: Dial Press, 1977).
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is poor in streaming file 1 until approximately 38:36 minutes, when it improves significantly. Sound quality is fair in the final approximate 7:30 minutes of streaming file 1 and in streaming file 2.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Funding (note)
- The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Source (note)
- OCLC
- 938008562
- Author
Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Jerome Robbins, 1974
- Production
1974
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- Event
Recorded by Nancy Reynolds 1974, June New York (N.Y.)
- Funding
The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound cassette (one hour and 16 minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file (myd_mgztco33324_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco33324_v01f02_sc) in 2015. The archival original sound cassette, from which the streaming audio files were made, may be a copy of the original recording.
- Source
Gift Jowitt, Deborah
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- interviewer.