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Interview with Virginia Lee [sound recording]
- Title
- Interview with Virginia Lee [sound recording]
- Author
- Lee, Virginia, 1904?-1979.
- Publication
- 1978.
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6 Items
| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 6 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1113 [sound cassette] reel 6 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 5 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1113 [sound cassette] reel 5 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 4 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1113 [sound cassette] reel 4 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 3 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1113 [sound cassette] reel 3 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 2 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1113 [sound cassette] reel 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 1 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1113 [sound cassette] reel 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bowers, Theresa.
- Description
- 6 sound cassettes (5 hours, 20 min.)
- Summary
- Cassette 1. Virginia Lee discusses her childhood; studying with Andreas Pavley and Serge Oukrainsky; moving to New York; working in films; meeting Michio Ito; John Murray Anderson and his school; starting her own studio; various modern and ballet teachers in New York in the 1920s; meeting Yeichi Nimura; Nimura's early concerts -- Cassette 2. Touring Europe and the Soviet Union with Nimura and Lisan Kay in the 1930s -- Cassette 3. Her first exposure to Denishawn; her first ballet classes; teaching; working in films; Michio Ito's early productions; Kreutzberg and Georgi; John Murray Anderson's school; the influence of German dancers on American modern dance -- Cassette 4. Her family -- Cassette 5. Yeichi Nimura; touring Europe with Nimura and Kay; Ballet Arts Studio at Carnegie Hall; Gluck-Sandor; various teachers and students at the Ballet Arts Studio -- Cassette 6. Dean Crane; other students at Ballet Arts; various teachers, including Margaret Craske and Luigi Albertieri.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Subjects
- Note
- Interviewed by Theresa Bowers 14 April, 30 July, 9 August 1978 in New York City.
- Also participating in interview was Amelia Gilmore.
- For transcript of interview see: *MGZMT 3-1113.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1113
- OCLC
- NYPY906024980-R
- Author
- Lee, Virginia, 1904?-1979. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Virginia Lee [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1978.
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes -- Lee, V.Motion pictures.
- Added Author
- Bowers, Theresa. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1113