- Additional Authors
- Terry, Walter
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 10 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming file 1 (approximately 41 minutes). [Begins abruptly.] Klarna Pinska speaks with Walter Terry about her collaboration with Joyce Trisler, to stage a program of recreated Denishawn dances [entitled: The spirit of Denishawn]; other Denishawn revival projects including possible funding sources; her own dance background; auditioning for Ruth St. Denis in Canada and again in California; studying at the Denishawn School of Dancing and dancing in the Denishawn company [Denishawn Dancers]; becoming qualified to teach at the Denishawn School of Dancing; her personal background, including her birth in Kiev and emigrating with her family to Canada.
- Streaming file 2 (approximately 29 minutes). Klarna Pinska speaks with Walter Terry about the Denishawn Dancers' repertoire; some of her students at the Denishawn School of Dancing; the Denishawn heritage and her hope that Joyce Trisler's company [Joyce Trisler Danscompany] will keep it alive; discussion of Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis, including Shawn's envy of St. Denis's charisma; anecdotes about St. Denis.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Walter Terry.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Klarna Pinska conducted by Walter Terry in 1976 in New York City.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by extraneous noise due to the fact that the interview is being conducted in a restaurant. However, the speakers' voices are easily intelligible.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-827
- OCLC
- 79220631
- Author
Pinska, Klarna, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Klarna Pinska, 1976
- Production
1976
- 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 Walter Terry 1976, New York City
- 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 (approximately one hour and 10 minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file (myd_mgztco3827_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3827_v01f02_sc) formats in 2015.
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- Added Author
Terry, Walter, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-827