Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Anton Dolin [sound recording].

Author

Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983.

Publication

1974.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gruen, John.

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 83 min.) : digital.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• Disc 1 (ca. 42 min.). Anton Dolin speaks with John Gruen about various paintings in his apartment; celebrating his 70th birthday; the great advances in ballet technique since his time; the International Ballet Competition at Varna [1974], including how impressed he was by Fernando Bujones; the factors that made Diaghilev's ballets successful without having to rely on virtuoso technique; his view that Mikhail Baryshnikov is the greatest dancer he has ever seen; Marie Rambert and her place in the history of British ballet; Tamara Karsavina including her current state of health; Karsavina as a dancer and as a person; Lydia Lopokova including her current life as a recluse; her acting ability; compares her to Anna Pavlova in that both had what he calls sex appeal [ends abruptly but continues on disc 2].
• Disc 2 (ca. 41 min.). Anton Dolin continues to speak with John Gruen about Lydia Lopokova and other dancers he felt had sex appeal; Alicia Markova including her personality and their partnership; Markova's role in the naming of the London Festival Ballet [now the English National Ballet] and her dislike of John Gilpin; more on Markova's personality, her style, and the reasons their partnership was successful; an anecdote about André Eglevsky's partnering of Markova; Pierre Vladimiroff as his ideal of how to partner; Vladimiroff's wife Felia Doubrovska; Olga Spessivtzeva, including his view that no other ballerina has ever equaled her pure classical form; his current activities including writing about his friends; what he likes and does not like in current ballet works including the reasons he likes John Cranko's Taming of the shrew; Jerome Robbins' ballet Dances at a gathering.

Alternative Title

Dance Oral History Project.

Subjects

• Varna International Ballet Competition
• Dolin, Anton
• Audiotapes > Dolin, A
• Rambert, Marie
• Lopokova, Lydia, 1892-1981
• Spessivtzeva, Olga, 1895-1991
• Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004
• Taming of the shrew (Choreographic work : Cranko)
• Dances at a gathering (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• Doubrovska, Felia, 1896-1981
• Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948-
• Karsavina, Tamara
• Bujones, Fernando, 1955-2005

Note

• Interview with Anton Dolin conducted by John Gruen on July 30, 1974 at Dolin's apartment in London, England for the Oral History Project of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
• Sound quality is fair to good overall. At times the speakers' voices are soft and not completely distinct. Also, there is an extraneous hiss and occasional short gaps.

Funding (note)

• The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-212

OCLC

82995682

Author

Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Anton Dolin [sound recording].

Imprint

1974.

Original Version

Original format : 1 sound reel (ca. 83 min.: 5"; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; half-track; 1 channel; polyester). Originally recorded in 1974.

Funding

The assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.

Local Note

For a transcript of the audio recording see: *MGZMT 5-212.

Former call no.: *MGZT 5-212

Archive original: *MGZTO 5-212

Former call no.: *MGZTC 3-212

Added Author

Gruen, John. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-212