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Archive of Lost Choreography
*DAME ALICIA MARKOVA recreating excerpts from Le Chant du Rossignol (Nightingale variation; excerpts from pas de deux of Nightingale and Death) §
Igor Stravinsky
Dancers:
Iohna Loots (Royal Ballet School)
Interviewers:
Millicent Hodson, Kenneth Archer
Taped:
January 30-February 3, 1995, London; 116 minutes
Interpreters Archive
*MARIA TALLCHIEF coaching excerpts from Firebird and Orpheus (Firebird Berceuse; Eurydice's solo) §
Igor Stravinsky
Dancers:
Heléne Alexopoulos (New York City Ballet)
Interviewers:
Arlene Croce, Nancy Reynolds
Taped:
June 27, 1995, New York City; 82 minutes
Interpreters Archive
*MARIA TALLCHIEF coaching ballerina variation, 1st movement, from Symphony in C §
Georges Bizet
Dancers:
Jennie Somogyi (New York City Ballet)
Interviewers:
Arlene Croce, Nancy Reynolds
Taped:
June 28, 1995, New York City; 77 minutes
Interpreters Archive
*MARIA TALLCHIEF coaching excerpts from Pas de Dix (ballerina variation; excerpt from finale) §
Alexander Glazounov
Dancers:
Jennie Somogyi (New York City Ballet)
Interviewers:
Arlene Croce, Nancy Reynolds
Taped:
June 28, 1995, New York City; 86 minutes
Interpreters Archive
*MARIA TALLCHIEF coaching excerpts from George Balanchine's The Nutcracker § Sugar Plum Fairy variation (partial); pas de deux
Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
Dancers:
Jennie Somogyi, Wendy Whelan, Damian Woetzel (New York City Ballet)
Interviewers:
Arlene Croce, Francis Mason, Nancy Reynolds
Taped:
June 28, 1995, and April 15, 1996, New York City; 110 minutes
Interpreters Archive
*MARIA TALLCHIEF coaching the pas de deux from Scotch Symphony §
Felix Mendelssohn
Dancers:
Judith Fugate, Peter Boal (New York City Ballet)
Interviewers:
Francis Mason, Nancy Reynolds
Taped:
April 14-15, 1996, New York City; 109 minutes
Interpreters Archive
*MARIA TALLCHIEF coaching "Sanguinic" variation from The Four Temperaments and Sylvia: Pas de Deux (ballerina solo) §
Paul Hindemith, Léo Delibes
Dancers:
Wendy Whelan, Damian Woetzel, Judith Fugate (New York City Ballet)
Interviewers:
Arlene Croce, Francis Mason, Nancy Reynolds
Taped:
April 14-15, 1996, New York City; 112 minutes
Interpreters Archive
*PATRICIA WILDE coaching excerpts from Raymonda Variations (2 ballerina variations; pas de deux) §
Alexander Glazounov
Dancers:
Laura Desiree, Blythe Turner, Stanko Milov (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre)
Interviewers:
Nancy Goldner
Taped:
May 23-24, 1996, Pittsburgh; 120 minutes
Interpreters Archive
*PATRICIA WILDE coaching excerpts from Square Dance (pas de deux from 1st movement; excerpts from "girls dance"; finale) §
Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli
Dancers:
Laura Desiree, Alexander Nagiba (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre)
Interviewers:
Nancy Goldner
Taped:
May 24, 1996, Pittsburgh; 70 minutes
Interpreters Archive
*MARIE-JEANNE coaching Concerto Barocco, with JOHN TARAS, SUKI SCHORER, and MERRILL ASHLEY §
Johann Sebastian Bach
Dancers:
Students from School of American Ballet
Interviewers:
Stephanie Jordan, Nancy Reynolds
Taped:
June 16-17, 1996, New York City; 116 minutes