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Interview with Patricia Wilde

Title
Interview with Patricia Wilde [sound recording].
Author
Wilde, Patricia, 1928-
Publication
1975-76.

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discs 1-4AudioSupervised use *MGZTL 4-390 discs 1-4Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
  • Tobias, Tobi.
  • Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.
Description
4 sound discs (ca. 227 min.) : digitial; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  • Disc 1, Nov. 25, 1975 (ca. 41 min.). Patricia Wilde speaks with Tobi Tobias about her childhood in Canada; her parents and her siblings; her and her sister Nora White's early dance training, including their dance teacher Gwendolyn Osborne; more on her childhood including anecdotes about her first dance performances; her audition at SAB [School of American Ballet]; her studies with Dorothie Littlefield; joining the Marquis George de Cuevas' Ballet International; her teachers at SAB, including Pierre Vladimiroff and [Anatole] Oboukhoff and their influence on her own teaching; performing on tour in Mexico under Balanchine's direction with Bill [William] Dollar, Marie-Jeanne and others; working with [Bronislava] Nijinksa; [Leonide] Massine [ends abruptly but continues directly on disc 2].
  • Disc 2, Nov. 25, 1975 (ca. 41 min.). Patricia Wilde continues to speak with Tobi Tobias about working with Massine; Balanchine's frequent revisions of his works including Concerto barocco and The four temperaments; her time in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo including her roles; reasons Balanchine's choreography is so difficult to dance; other dancers in the company at that time; touring; Nina Novak; reasons for leaving the company and going to Paris to study; performing with Roland Petit's company [Ballets de Paris]; her season with the Metropolitan Ballet in London; her joining New York City Ballet, in London, in 1950; performance anecdotes; New York City Ballet's relationship with the audience at City Center [City Center of Music and Drama]; the change in choreographic style after the company moved to a bigger theater.
  • Disc 3, Jan. 27, 1976 (ca. 72 min.). Patricia Wilde speaks with Tobi Tobias about roles Balanchine created for her; working with Balanchine; his practice of constantly revising his choreography; the various roles in Balanchine's ballet Serenade, including how they were revised from time to time; the different versions of Balanchine's The firebird; her pleasure in dancing in Balanchine's Divertimento no. 15 and Serenade; the physical demands of his choreography, in particular over the course of a season; the frequency of injuries among company members; New York City Ballet now as compared to her time, including the types of dancers and the company classes; taking class outside of the company; Balanchine as a person; his casting of new roles; Suzanne Farrell and her effect on the company; [break]; her teaching, including as compared to Balanchine's teaching; her strengths as a teacher; the qualities that are requisite to become a professional ballet dancer; her strong and weak points as a dancer.
  • Disc 4, Feb. 10, 1976 (ca. 73 min.). Patricia Wilde speaks with Tobi Tobias about her reasons for leaving New York City Ballet including the problems with performing infrequently; Rebekah Harkness, as a person and as a financial sponsor; the creation of the Harkness Ballet and Wilde's appointment as director of the Harkness Ballet School [at the Harkness House for Ballet Arts]; the curriculum; the introduction of kinesiology into the curriculum and her leaving Harkness; teaching, briefly, at New York City Ballet; teaching at the school at American Ballet Theatre; setting up a ballet school in Geneva; her reasons for preferring to teach at the American Ballet Theatre school rather than the company; the relationship between the school and the company; the students; her husband, George Bardyguine, including his personal and professional background and how they first met; her children, including the balancing of their care and her work.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project
  • Dance Audio Archive
Subjects
Note
  • Interview with Patricia Wilde conducted by Tobi Tobias on Nov. 25, 1975, Jan. 27 and Feb. 10, 1976 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City as part of the Library's Oral History Project.
  • For transcript of interview see: *MGZMT 5-390
  • Sound quality is good.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.
System Details (note)
  • Transferred from 2 sound tape reels (ca. 227 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 5 in.; polyester, half track; originally recorded in 1975-76) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-390
OCLC
80320638
Author
Wilde, Patricia, 1928- Interviewee
Title
Interview with Patricia Wilde [sound recording].
Imprint
1975-76.
Funding
Preservation was funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.
System Details
Transferred from 2 sound tape reels (ca. 227 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 5 in.; polyester, half track; originally recorded in 1975-76) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.
Local Note
Former call number: *MGZT 5-390 reels no. 1-2
Archival original: *MGZTO 5-390 reels 1-2
Added Author
Tobias, Tobi. Interviewer
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-390
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