- Additional Authors
- DHCA.
- Description
- 3 streaming video files (151 min.) : sd., col.
- Summary
- Looking back at his life and career, choreographer Antony Tudor discusses different aspects of his ballets and the dancers who performed in them. Throughout the course of the interview he reveals his conceptions of characters, settings and situations in various ballets, among them Undertow, Jardin aux lilas (Lilac garden), Pillar of fire, Dark elegies, Judgment of Paris, Gala performance, Romeo and Juliet, and Shadowplay. Topics include his childhood and its reflection in his work ; his experiences as an amateur actor and their influences on his choreography ; his early work with Marie Rambert, and how the limitations of her theater shaped his style ; working with dancers past and present on characterization in his ballets ; his choices and arrangements of musical scores ; qualities he seeks in dancers ; his observations of American Ballet Theatre's current management ; his opinions of the choreography of Twyla Tharp and Jiří Kylián. He tells numerous anecdotes about his contemporaries, among them Rambert, Nora Kaye, Hugh Laing, Tanaquil Le Clercq, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, Anthony Dowell, and Kathleen Moore. More briefly discussed are Frederick Ashton, Viola Essen, Peggy Van Praagh, Lucia Chase, Nana Gollner, Karen Conrad, Cynthia Anderson, Merle Park, Derek Rencher, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and others.
- Subjects
- Interpretation in dance performance
- Video
- Interviews
- Dance > Anecdotes
- Ballet > United States > 20th century
- Ballet > England > 20th century
- Choreographers > 20th century
- Shadowplay (Choreographic work : Tudor)
- Romeo and Juliet (Choreographic work : Tudor)
- Gala performance (Choreographic work : Tudor)
- Judgment of Paris (Choreographic work : Tudor)
- Dark elegies (Choreographic work : Tudor)
- Jardin aux lilas (Choreographic work : Tudor)
- Pillar of fire (Choreographic work : Tudor)
- Undertow (Choreographic work : Tudor)
- American Ballet Theatre
- Ballet Theatre
- Ballet Rambert
- Kylian, Jiri, 1947-
- Tharp, Twyla
- Moore, Kathleen
- Dowell, Anthony
- Robbins, Jerome
- De Mille, Agnes
- Laing, Hugh
- Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987
- Rambert, Marie
- Hunt, Marilyn, 1937- > interviewer
- Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987, > interviewee
- Genre/Form
- Note
- Unedited footage.
- For a transcript of this interview, see: *MGZMT 3-1130 Interview with Antony Tudor.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Marilyn Hunt.
- Interviewee: Antony Tudor.
- Event (note)
- Recorded in Washington, D.C., on November 11, 1986, for the Kennedy Center Honors Oral History Program.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 8831
- OCLC
- NYPY00-F8
- Title
Interview with Antony Tudor [electronic resource]
- Imprint
November 11, 1986.
- Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
- Playing Time
010227 005854 002935
- Event
Recorded in Washington, D.C., on November 11, 1986, for the Kennedy Center Honors Oral History Program.
- Performer
Interviewer: Marilyn Hunt.
Interviewee: Antony Tudor.
- Original Version
Archival Original: 3 videocassettes (U-Matic, NTSC) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-5991
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Interpretation in dance performance.
- Added Author
DHCA.
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- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 8831