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Interview with Gemze De Lappe

Title
Interview with Gemze De Lappe [sound recording]
Author
De Lappe, Gemze
Publication
2002.

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cassette 1AudioUse in library *MGZTC 3-2382 cassette 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
cassette 2AudioUse in library *MGZTC 3-2382 cassette 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Gennaro, Liza.
Description
2 sound cassettes (ca. 155 min.)
Summary
  • Cassette 1, side A, 9/23/02 (ca. 45 min.). Gennaro introduces Gemze De Lappe; De Lappe speaks about her early music and dance training, including her studies with Irma Duncan and Michel Fokine; performing with the Fokine ballet during her summer vacations; leaving college to dance professionally with the San Carlo Opera Ballet; touring with the musical comedy, Oklahoma, in the U.S. and in London; Agnes de Mille; audience reception of Oklahoma; role of the dance captain; performing in Oklahoma in Australia; her early professional relationship with de Mille; working with Michael Kidd; dancing in the musical comedy The king and I in New York City; the musical comedy Paint your wagon; working with Jerome Robbins in The king and I.
  • Cassette 1, side B, 9/23/02 (ca. 37 min.). De Lappe continues speaking about working with Robbins in The king and I; De Mille's working methods; her role in staging songs; her lecture-demonstration Conversations around the dance; possible influences on de Mille; Antony Tudor; de Mille's admiration for Martha Graham; Americana in dance, including de Mille's ballet Rodeo.
  • Cassette 2, side A, 9/24/02 (ca. 45 min.). De Lappe speaks about her study of acting; de Mille's acting class; more on Robbins and The king and I; studying ballet technique with Yeichi Nimura; use of period research in new choreography; Jack Cole; learning Eugene Loring's ballet Billy the kid; De Lappe's methods for reconstructing choreography; working with [American] Ballet Theatre; extensive cross-over between ballet and musicals of dancers and choreographers; her own choreography; reviving musicals.
  • Cassette 2, side B, 9/24/02 (ca. 28 min.). De Lappe speaks about shortcomings of contemporary revivals of period pieces, particularly regarding Oklahoma; how she would approach the revival of a period piece; typical time-table for musicals in the 1940s and 1950s; views on choreography in current musicals.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project.
  • Dance Audio Archive.
Subjects
Note
  • Interview with Gemze De Lappe conducted by Liza Gennaro at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on Sept. 23 and 24, 2002.
Call Number
*MGZTC 3-2382
OCLC
NYPY03-R54
Author
De Lappe, Gemze, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Gemze De Lappe [sound recording]
Imprint
2002.
Local Subject
Musical comedies. The king and I.
Musical comedies. Oklahoma.
Audiotapes -- De Lappe, G.
Added Author
Gennaro, Liza. Interviewer
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