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Additional authors

1. Moseley, Monica.

Description

1. 1 sound cassette (ca. 70 min.) +

Summary

1. Side A (ca. 48 min.). Theilade speaks about her life and career beginning with her birth in Java (Indonesia); early dance training in Denmark; moving to France with her family at age 12 where she studied with Nadia Kusova; first attempts at choreography; her debut in The Hague at age 15; European tour where she met Max Reinhardt; working with Reinhardt and Kyra Nijinsky in Berlin, and Reinhardt and Harald Kreutzberg in Vienna; choreographing Midsummer night's dream for Reinhardt in England; choreographing for the Royal Danish Ballet in Denmark; leaving Denmark to join Leonid Massine's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Theilade speaks about other dancers in Massine's company including Alicia Markova, Igor Youskevitch, Alexandra Danilova, and Frederick Franklin; she describes choreographing and dancing for Massine in such works as Seventh symphony and St. Francis; making a film of Midsummer night's dream with Reinhardt in the U.S; working with Nijinska on the film's choreography; she speaks about other roles in the repertory of the Ballet Russe companies, including an odalisque in Scheherezade; the surrealist ballet Bacchanale. Theilade describes Massine's personality and appearance.
2. Side B [Continues with description of Massine]. Theilade describes Massine's working methods; meeting her husband-to-be, Pieter Loopuyt, in Rio de Janeiro; living in Rio de Janeiro during World War II and teaching dance; moving to Portugal after the War with her husband and children; moving to Denmark after the death of her husband and starting a school with her second husband; loss of the school after 12 years; moving to Paris where she also created and ran a school; death of her second husband and return to Odense, Denmark.

Donor/Sponsor

1. New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Alternative title

1. Dance Oral History Project.
2. Dance Audio Archive.

Subject

1. Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979
2. Audiotapes > Theilade, N
3. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
4. Bacchanale (Choreographic work : Massine)
5. Seventh symphony (Choreographic work : Massine)
6. Theilade, Nini
7. Dance teachers
8. Choreographers
9. Monte Carlo Ballet Russe

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-1850

Note

1. Interview conducted by Monica Moseley.
2. Recorded on April 28, 1995, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
3. For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-1850.

Access (note)

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

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. Theilade, Nini. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Nini Theilade [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 1995.

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. Original: *MGZTCO 3-1850.
2. Arch. transcript: *MGZMTO 3-1850.

Restricted access

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Local subject

1. Audiotapes Theilade, N.

Added author

1. Moseley, Monica. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-1850 [Cassette]
2. *MGZMT 3-1850 [Transcript]