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Interview with Lynn Glauber.

Title
Interview with Lynn Glauber. December 20 and 21, 2012.
Author
Glauber, Lynn
Publication
2012

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Part 1AudioSupervised use *MGZMT 3-2994 Part 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Part 2AudioSupervised use *MGZMT 3-2994 Part 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
disc 1AudioUse in library *MGZTL 4-2994 disc 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
disc 2AudioUse in library *MGZTL 4-2994 disc 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
disc 3AudioUse in library *MGZTL 4-2994 disc 3Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
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Additional Authors
Aloff, Mindy, 1947-
Description
4 compact discs (approximately four hours and one minute ) : digital; 4 3/4 in. +
Summary
  • Disc 1, Dec. 20, 2012, approximately one hour and 11 minutes. Lynn Glauber speaks with Mindy Aloff about her early dance training in Buffalo, N.Y, including with Stella Applebaum; taking a class with Robert Joffrey when the Joffrey Ballet was performing in Buffalo; being offered a Ford Foundation scholarship by George Balanchine [for the School of American Ballet] and reasons she could not accept it; her summer course at The National Ballet of Canada; performing with New York City Ballet in [Balanchine's ballets] Midsummer night's dream and Harlequinade, at the Saratoga Arts Performing Center; her classes at The Briansky School including guest teachers Violette Verdy and Melissa Hayden; seeing Allegra Kent in [Balanchine's ballet] La sonnambula; the Ballet Center of Buffalo including her mother's role in bringing dance teachers to Buffalo; Kathleen Crofton; her summer in 1968 at the School of American Ballet including reminiscences of her teachers; taking class at the newly-created Ballet Center of Buffalo; more on Kathleen Crofton including her influence on Glauber's technique; performing in ballets staged by Bronislava Nijinska at Jacob's Pillow [Dance Festival]; more about Crofton and the Ballet Center of Buffalo; The Company of Man [a dance company] and artists active in Buffalo at that time [late 1960s] including Lukas Foss; living in New York City and studying at the Joffrey Ballet School; reasons she did not accept an invitation to join Joffrey II [Dancers]; working with Antony Tudor in staging his work Fandango for Joffrey II; auditioning for Maurice Béjart; leaving the Joffrey Ballet School to join Ballet du XXe siècle; reminiscences of her fellow student, Billy [William] Forsythe, including seeing him again in Europe.
  • Disc 2, Dec. 20, 2012, approximately 31 minutes. Lynn Glauber speaks with Mindy Aloff about moving to Brussels to join Ballet du XXe siècle ; her first impressions of Brussels and of the company; the intense pace at which she had to accustom herself to her new life and learning the repertory; briefly, other dancers in the company including Rudolf Nureyev, Suzanne Farrell, and Dyane Gray; Christyne Lawson; performing in David Lichine's ballet Graduation ball while still at the Joffrey Ballet School, with Lichine's coaching; [Bronislava] Nijinska, including being coached by her in the Singing canary [variation] in Aurora's wedding; Nijinska's work Les biches; briefly, Anna-Marie Holmes.
  • Disc 3, Dec. 21, 2012, approximately one hour and six minutes. Lynn Glauber speaks with Mindy Aloff about the period when she had just joined Ballet du XXe siècle including meeting Rudolf Nureyev and Robert Denvers; consulting with Nureyev about her career; marrying Daryl Gray and returning to the United States in 1977, where she joined the Joffrey Ballet; Roseanne Germer; the Joffrey's six-month layoff period and her working as an extra in films and commercials in order to make a living; more on her time at Ballet du XXe siècle including her teachers; her roles including a performance anecdote about Jorge Donn; performing in almost every work in the repertoire; performing Juliet in Oscar Araiz's Romeo and Juliet; touring by boat around northern Africa and the Middle East including performance anecdotes; Béjart's work Pli selon pli, which he created for her and Iván Markó; Béjart's work Seraphita; Jorge Donn as a partner, as a person, and as a dancer; her own physical characteristics including her weak ankles and petite stature; performing in John Cranko's work Brouillards.
  • Disc 4, Dec. 21, 2012, approximately one hour and thirteen minutes. Lynn Glauber speaks with Mindy Aloff about some of her favorite ballets; Stanley Williams as a teacher; her own approach to technique when teaching; seeing her [former] students dance in an Alvin Ailey [Dance Theater] performance; more on her repertoire at the Joffrey Ballet including Agnes de Mille's Rodeo; working with De Mille; Robert Joffrey's ballet Postcards; briefly, Robert Joffrey; the diversity of her roles, including roles in works by Laura Dean and Senta Driver; more on her role of Juliet in Maurice Béjart's Romeo and Juliet; the circumstances that led to her returning to Béjart's company [now Béjart Ballet Lausanne, in Switzerland]; her repertoire during this second period with Béjart; her family background including her family's Judaism; her [second] husband and her son; touring with Béjart in the United States, with Maya Plisetskaya as the only other female dancer; reminisces about other legendary dancers she encountered, including Alicia Alonso; her final performances, in a work by Francis Petrelle; ending her performing career after she injured her back; teaching, including how her career developed, beginning outside of New York City and eventually coming to the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater's school; guest teaching including in Israel and [South] Korea; her teaching, including discussion of some of her students.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project.
  • Dance Audio Archive.
Subjects
Note
  • Interview with Lynn Glauber conducted by Mindy Aloff on December 20 and 21, 2012 at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City as part of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division's Oral History Project.
  • For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2994.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
Access (note)
  • Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Funding (note)
  • This interview was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-2994
OCLC
892516934
Author
Glauber, Lynn, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Lynn Glauber. December 20 and 21, 2012.
Production
2012
Type of Content
text
spoken word
Type of Medium
unmediated
audio
Type of Carrier
audio disc
volume
Event
Recorded by Mindy Aloff 2012, December 20 and 21 New York, New York.
Funding
This interview was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
Restricted Access
Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Added Author
Aloff, Mindy, 1947- interviewer.
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-2994
*MGZMT 3-2994
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