CONTENTS: Cassette 1 (approx. 62 min.): Introduction by David Daniel. -- Video: Concerto barocco: second movement (b&w). Performed by Marnee Morris, Conrad Ludlow, and Suzanne Farrell. Originally telecast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on L'heure du concert, 1968. For the complete recording, see: *MGZIC 9-1777 Le New York City Ballet. -- Conversation between Farrell and Daniel. Farrell talks about the benefits of taking class, reminisces about her early years at the School of American Ballet, and discusses Balanchine's use of class as an experimental ground for his choreography. She explains some of his points of emphasis, among them the plié, fifth position, tendu, speed of movement, the use of a wide fourth position as preparation for pirouettes and other steps, head movements and épaulement, hand movements, and pointe work. -- Cassette 2 (approx. 16 min.). Farrell discusses Balanchine's experiments with moving backwards, and his use of imagery in class. -- Question and answer period.
Call number
*MGZIDF 2304
Note
Videotaped for the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image by Penny Ward at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, on May 27, 1993, with the assistance of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. Part of a series of public programs presented by the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in connection with the exhibition Balanchine. Coordinator for Public Programs for the Dance Collection: Sallie Blumenthal.
Access (note)
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Funding (note)
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Title
Conversations about Balanchine with Suzanne Farrell and David Daniel: The classroom [electronic resource]
Imprint
1993.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Local note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-3946.
Additional Copy 1: None.
Additional Copy 2: 2 3/4" videocassettes, copied from A.O., 8/93; in Princeton ReCAP Regular Storage; was vid. viewing copy until xx/201x.
Local subject
Ballet in television. Conversations about Balanchine with Suzanne Farrell and David Daniel.
Ballet technique.
Added author
Farrell, Suzanne, 1945- speaker.
Daniel, David. Speaker
Ludlow, Conrad, dancer.
Morris, Marnee, dancer.
Balanchine, George, choreographer.
Ward, Penny, videographer.
Blumenthal, Sallie.
New York City Ballet.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
Added title
Concerto barocco (Choreographic work : Balanchine)