Research Catalog
Interview with Luigi
- Title
- Interview with Luigi [sound recording]
- Author
- Luigi.
- Publication
- 1993-1994.
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Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 3 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1843 [sound cassette] reel 3 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 2 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1843 [sound cassette] reel 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | reel 1 | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-1843 [sound cassette] reel 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZMT 3-1843 (transcript) | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 3 sound cassettes (160 min.) +
- Summary
- Cassette 1. Luigi discusses the circumstances of his birth and his family; his early dance training with his brother; first performances; performing with Ted Lewis; joining the navy; the end of World War II; going to California and studying at the Falcon studio under the G.I. bill; his severe injuries from an auto accident and his recovery; using ballet barre exercises in his recuperation; auditioning for Gene Kelly; being involved in motion pictures and continuing to work in clubs; his first choreography job; and Bob Alton encouraging him to teach.
- Cassette 2. Luigi discusses the relationship between his rehabilitation process and the development of Luigi jazz dance technique; bringing the technique from Hollywood to Broadway; and solidifying the international spread of his technique.
- Cassette 3. [Recorded on left speaker only.] Luigi discusses how to use his ideas in performance; other teachers of his technique; the specific details of his classes; the influence of Michio Ito on his own teaching; his interest in choreography; his company; his potential new school; the definition of jazz dance and its relationship to modern dance and ballet; reflections on his past, the auto accident, his own personality and childhood; and the comparison between his own past and the contemporary dancer's method of carving out a career.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Note
- Interviewed May 22, 1994 by Lorraine Kriegel at Luigi's New York City apartment (cassettes 1 and 2), and November 1, 1993 by Sarah Franklin at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (cassette 3)
- For transcript see *MGZMT 3-1843.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-1843
- OCLC
- NYPY96-R11
- Author
- Luigi. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Luigi [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1993-1994.
- Local Note
- Preservation master cassette in: *MGZTC 3-1843.Archival transcript in: *MGZMT 3-1843.
- Restricted Access
- Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
- Added Author
- Kriegel, Lorraine. InterviewerFranklin, Sarah. InterviewerDHCA
- Research Call Number
- *MGZMT 3-1843 [Transcript]*MGZTC 3-1843 [Cassette]