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Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender coaching The Unanswered Question (from Ivesiana)

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Title
Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender coaching The Unanswered Question (from Ivesiana)
Additional title: Unanswered Question
Additional title: Ivesiana (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
Names
Balanchine, George (Choreographer)
Kent, Allegra (Teacher)
Kent, Allegra (Interviewee)
Bolender, Todd (Interviewee)
Bolender, Todd (Teacher)
Gottlieb, Robert, 1931- (Interviewer)
Taylor, Janie, 1980- (Dancer)
Cornejo, Herman (Dancer)
Angle, Jared (Dancer)
Hanna, Stephen (Dancer)
Orza, Seth (Dancer)
Seth, Henry (Dancer)
McDill, Nancy (Instrumentalist)
Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- (Project director)
Brooks, Virginia Loring (Editor)
Hlinka, Nichol (Director)
Otterson, William (Technical director)
Clarke, James (Videographer)
MacDonald, Jim, 1935- (Editor)
New York City Ballet (Dancer)
American Ballet Theatre (Dancer)
George Balanchine Foundation (Producer)
George Balanchine Foundation (Donor)
Ives, Charles, 1874-1954 (Composer)
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George Balanchine Foundation Interpreters Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 2013
Place: New York, N.Y.
Publisher: George Balanchine Foundation
Table of Contents
Coaching session (22 min.) / coaches, Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender ; dancers, Janie Taylor and Herman Cornejo with Jared Angle, Stephen Hanna, Seth Orza, Henry Seth -- Run-through (5 min.) / dancers, Janie Taylor and Herman Cornejo with Jared Angle, Stephen Hanna, Seth Orza, Henry Seth -- Interview (19 min.) / interviewees, Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender ; interviewer, Robert Gottlieb.
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2551
Topics
Kent, Allegra
Bolender, Todd
Balanchine, George
Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. Contemplations. Unanswered question
Ballet -- Study and teaching
Choreography
Music and dance
Genres
Filmed dance
Interviews
Filmed performances
Notes
Content: Title from opening video credits.
Creation/production credits: Music, Charles Ives (The Unanswered Question, 1906) ; technical director, William Otterson ; cameras, James Clarke ; sound, Robert Matteo ; production, Otterson TV, inc.; on-line editor, Jim MacDonald ; photographer, Radford Bascome.
Performers: Pianist, Nancy McDill.
Performers: Dancers, Janie Taylor (principal dancer, New York City Ballet), Herman Cornejo (principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre) ; Jared Angle, Stephen Hanna, Seth Orza, Henry Seth (New York City Ballet) ; assisted by Sara Leland (ballet master, New York City Ballet)
Venue: Videotaped during rehearsal and interview at the New York City Ballet studios, Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y. on 2004 March 21.
Funding: This project was assisted by a special grant for The National Endowment for the Arts.
Acquisition: Gift; George Balanchine Foundation; 2013.
Biographical/historical: The Unanswered Question premiered on September 14, 1954 by New York City Ballet at City Center of Music and Drama, N.Y. with Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender ; Ivesiana originally consisted of six sections: Central Park in the Dark; Hallowe'en; The Unanswered Question; Over the Pavements; In the Inn; In the Night.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (Digital Betacam) (46 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Description
Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender discuss George Balanchine's Unanswered Question; how Kent loved the fall back; the music being jarring and startling; how the piece created anxiety in the audience; Stanley Kubrick attended the first performance; the scariest moment for Kent was the opening because of the lights creating an unstable feeling; the anticipation of the first rehearsal and not knowing what it was going to be; promenade variations used in Balanchine's works; the original costumes for this work had Bolender in cut-off tights and Kent in a white leotard; Kent started dancing late at the age of eleven and decided to become a ballet dancer because of Balanchine's La Sonnambula ; Bolendar started dancing with Ballet Caravan and then briefly Ballet Russe, and after the war, Ballet Society; Balanchine changing some of the movements for television; and the difference between Balanchine and Jerome Robbins.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20244016
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 13fd5f50-3139-0132-a1d0-3c075448cc4b
Rights Statement
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender coaching The Unanswered Question (from Ivesiana)" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 2013. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/15cd0050-3139-0132-3d81-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender coaching The Unanswered Question (from Ivesiana)" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/15cd0050-3139-0132-3d81-3c075448cc4b

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (2013). Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender coaching The Unanswered Question (from Ivesiana) Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/15cd0050-3139-0132-3d81-3c075448cc4b

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Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender coaching The Unanswered Question (from Ivesiana)