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Author Cheremeteff, Regina, Interviewee.
Title Interview with Regina Cheremeteff and Erik Cooper [sound recording]
Imprint 1986.
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 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance  *MGZTC 3-1797 (sound cassette)    AVAILABLE CLOSED STACKS

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Description 1 sound cassette (25 min.)
Note Regina Cheremeteff and Erik Cooper interviewed by Sharon King; the conclusion of Ms. Cheremeteff's interview by Fleming Nielson.
Summary Side 1. Ms. Cheremeteff discusses beginning dance classes at age 5; performing at age 7 while going to school; directing a 45-member company at age 15; missing out on her childhood; rejecting a Paris Opéra scholarship because of family obligations; performing Cossack equestrian trick riding in Australia; teaching riding tricks to men in the Calgary stampede; her marriage to a Russian count; riding while eight months pregnant and returning to it three days after giving birth; preferring the world of the circus to that of the theater; moving to Canada and starting a school in 1956; and the types of students that she teaches there.
Side 1 (continued). Mr. Cooper discusses starting his life in the theater at an early age; dancing and choreographing in Hollywood musicals; becoming an administrative assistant to the Hawaiian police department; moving to Europe after working in television; meeting Regina Cheremeteff in Finland; assisting her at her Calgary Ballet School; and the school's 30th anniversary performance on May 10th.
Side 2 (3 min.). Ms. Cheremeteff discusses her childhood background; and her decision to leave Berlin to form a school in Canada.
Subject Dance schools -- Alberta -- Calgary.
Added Author Cooper, Erik, Interviewee.
King, Sharon, Interviewer.
Nielson, Fleming, Interviewer.
DHCA
Donor/Sponsor Oral History Archive. Oral History Project.
Call No. *MGZTC 3-1797 (sound cassette)
Research Call Number *MGZTC 3-1797 (sound cassette)