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Interview with Herbert Migdoll

Title: Interview with Herbert Migdoll [sound recording]
Author: Migdoll, Herbert.
Publication: 1996-1997.

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Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	reel 2	Audio	Permit needed	*MGZTC 3-1903 [sound cassette] Permission required reel 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	reel 1	Audio	Permit needed	*MGZTC 3-1903 [sound cassette] Permission required reel 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.		Audio	Permit needed	*MGZMT 3-1903 [transcript] Permission required	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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2 sound cassettes (145 min.) +

Summary

Cassette 1. Recorded April 19, 1996, Mr. Migdoll recounts meeting Gerald Arpino; describes the 1965 Robert Joffrey Ballet season at the Rebekah Harkness Foundation Dance Festival at the Delacorte Theater in New York City's Central Park; discusses Edwin Denby; his own attraction to the Joffrey company and its repertory; Arpino's ballet Viva Vivaldi!; the dancing of Robert Blankshine and Luis Fuente; covertly photographing Joffrey Ballet performances at City Center; combining graphic design with photography; the Robert Joffrey Ballet tour to the Harper Theater in Chicago; Lotte Goslar's choreography Charivari; aesthetics in dance photography; craftsmanship in dance photography; time-lapse dance photography; his training in the visual arts at Cooper Union; working at New York's Museum of Modern Art; Alexander Ewing; Isadora Bennett; Massine's ballet Parade; Jooss' choreography The green table; critics' reactions to Arpino's choreography; Meredith Monk; Twyla Tharp; Joffrey's ballet Astarte; dancer Trinette Singleton; Mr. Fuente performing the role of the profiteer in Parade; and compares Fuente's dancing with that of Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Cassette 2. Recorded March 11, 1997. Mr. Migdoll discusses first seeing The green table; Mary Whitney; Luis Fuente's interpertation of choreography in The three-cornered hat; Kurt Jooss' directorial style; Lincoln Kirstein's admiration for Robert Joffrey's choreography; Joffrey's use of voice in his choreography; Joffrey's piece Remembrances; his admiration for Francesca Corkle's dancing; Joffrey's integration of various media in his dances; and researching Eric Satie in Paris for the development of Joffrey's Postcards.

Alternative Title

Dance Oral History Project.
Dance Audio Archive

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Note

Interviewed by Monica Moseley, April 19, 1996 and March 11, 1997, at Mr. Migdoll's studio in New York City.
For transcript, see *MGZMT 3-1903.

Access (note)

Permission required.
Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Call Number

*MGZMT 3-1903 (transcript)

OCLC

NYPY96-R23

Author

Migdoll, Herbert. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Herbert Migdoll [sound recording]

Imprint

1996-1997.

Access

Permission required.

Local Note

Interview funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).

Preservation master cassette in: *MGZTCO 3-1903.

Archival transcript in: *MGZMTO 3-1903.

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Migdoll, H.

Audiotapes -- Moseley, M.

Added Author

Moseley, Monica. Interviewer

National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Research Call Number

*MGZMT 3-1903 (transcript)

*MGZTC 3-1903 (sound cassette)

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