Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Television Dance in America.
2. Jooss, Kurt, 1901-1979
3. WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Description

1. 1 sound disc (ca. 26 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. [Voices of technicians, extraneous noise]. Robert Joffrey speaks about first seeing Kurt Jooss's ballet The green table; Jooss speaks about the creation of The green table; fleeing the Netherlands from the Nazis with his company [Jooss Ballet]; Joffrey speaks about his choice of The green table for his company [City Center Joffrey Ballet] and the work's place in the repertory; Jooss and Joffrey speak about staging the work with the Joffrey Ballet, including the casting of Christian Holder as Death; the use of masks; the spiritual nature of the work; fidelity of the Joffrey Ballet's production to Jooss's original work; the seemingly universal appeal of this work; the character Death; the significance of the table scene.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Oral History Archive.
2. New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Subject

1. Audiotapes > Joffrey, R
2. Green table (Choreographic work : Jooss)
3. Audiotapes > Jooss, K
4. Jooss, Kurt, 1901-1979
5. City Center Joffrey Ballet

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2265

Note

1. Interview with Kurt Jooss and Robert Joffrey; excerpted from documentary footage in a program on the WNET (New York, N.Y.) television series Dance in America, telecast on Jan. 19, 1976. Sound quality of the interviewer is inconsistent. For videorecording of the program see *MGZIC 9-5579.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Author

1. Joffrey, Robert. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Robert Joffrey and Kurt Jooss [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1976.

Funding

1. Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Local note

1. Arch. orig.: *MGZTO 7-2265
2. Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-2265
3. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2265

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Joffrey, R.
2. Audiotapes -- Jooss, K.

Added author

1. Television Dance in America.
2. Jooss, Kurt, 1901-1979, interviewee.
3. WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2265