Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Kisselgoff, Anna.
2. Ailey, Alvin.
3. Committee for the Dance Collection.
4. New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

Description

1. 1 sound disc (ca. 69 min.)

Donor/Sponsor

1. Oral History Archive.

Subject

1. Audiotapes > Kisselgoff, A
2. Audiotapes > Ailey, A
3. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Contents

1. SUMMARY: Alvin Ailey discusses his decision to stop dancing; the development of the Ailey Company as a repertory company; Revelations; a recent company tour to China and Europe; classical training for modern dancers; his desire to maintain a multi-racial company. He answers a number of questions from the audience.

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-917

Note

1. Second of a series of events sponsored by the Committee for the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
2. Recorded 20 Jan. 1986 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at The Library and Museum for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New York City.

System details (note)

1. The original recording was transferred from a sound cassette to wav file and compact disc formats in Oct. 2010 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Title

1. Conversations on the dance: Alvin Ailey and Anna Kisselgoff [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1986.

System details

1. The original recording was transferred from a sound cassette to wav file and compact disc formats in Oct. 2010 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Local note

1. Former call number: *MGZTC 3-917
2. Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-917
3. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-917

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Ailey, A.
2. Audiotapes -- Kisselgoff, A.

Added author

1. Kisselgoff, Anna.
2. Ailey, Alvin.
3. Committee for the Dance Collection.
4. New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-917