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Fokine brings ballet into a new age: Les sylphides

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Fokine brings ballet into a new age

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Title
Fokine brings ballet into a new age: Les sylphides
Additional title: Arabesques (Radio program)
Names
Manchester, P. W. (Phyllis Winifred) (Speaker)
Watts, Carolyn, 1914-2002 (Speaker)
Collection

Dance Audio Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1975
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZTO 5-496
Topics
Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942
Sylphides (Choreographic work : Fokin)
Genres
Radio programs
Notes
Content: Title supplied by cataloger.
Venue: Recorded by WGUC-FM, the radio station of the University of Cincinnati 1975 Cincinnati (Ohio)
Funding: The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part 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.
Physical Description
Audiotape reel
Extent: 1 audiotape reel (approximately 31 min.) : polyester, full-track, 3 3/4 ips ; 5 in.
Sound quality is excellent.
Description
P. W. Manchester and Carolyn Watts discuss how Michel Fokine brought ballet into a new age; recorded at WGUC-FM, the radio station of the University of Cincinnati, for the radio program Arabesques, and broadcast on the National Public Radio network, in 1975. Streaming audio file (approximately 31 minutes). [Music and announcements.] P.W. Manchester and Carolyn Watts discuss the development of ballet after [Marius] Petipa, namely Michel Fokine and the changes he brought to ballet; his rejected proposal in 1905 for a ballet based on the story of Daphnis and Chloe; his experimenting with students and dancers at the Mariinsky Theatre, including Anna Pavlova; his choreographing of The dying swan for Pavlova; Fokine's 1908 work Shopeniana [as revised now known as Les sylphides]; Serge Diaghilev's short tenure at the Imperial Ballet; Diaghilev's bringing of Russian dancers and Fokine's choreography to western Europe [a recording of a mazurka by Frédéric Chopin from Les sylphides is played]; Fokine's innovations including his break from the tradition of evening-length ballets [a recording of the music for the second variation for the male dancer in Les sylphides is played]; Fokine's practice of making changes in Les sylphides for each company on which he set it; the work's status as the first abstract ballet; the question as to whether a certain step was added by Pierre Vladimiroff or had been danced by Vasclaw Nijinsky in the original version; an anecdote about André Eglevsky and this step; Les sylphides as both the seed for future ballets and as a classic work in its own right [music and announcements].
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 81025485
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12118341
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5112dc30-c643-0135-3e69-457dc3adaddb
Rights Statement
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  • 1975: Created
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Fokine brings ballet into a new age" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1975. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6f359790-3b78-0134-2bef-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Fokine brings ballet into a new age" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6f359790-3b78-0134-2bef-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1975). Fokine brings ballet into a new age Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6f359790-3b78-0134-2bef-60f81dd2b63c

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Fokine brings ballet into a new age