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Interview with Fred Danieli, Part 2 of 3: January 30 and February 6, 1979

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division

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Title
Interview with Fred Danieli, Part 2 of 3: January 30 and February 6, 1979
Names
Danieli, Fred (Interviewee)
Conway, Peter, 1929 July 18- (Interviewer)
Collection

Dance Oral History Project

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1979-01-30
Date Created: 1979-02-06
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZTO 5-735
Topics
Danieli, Fred -- Interviews
Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989. This is the Army
American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Caravan (New York, N.Y.)
World War, 1939-1945
Genres
Oral histories
Interviews
Notes
Additional physical form: For transcript of interviews see *MGZMT 5-735.
Source note: Interview with Fred Danieli conducted by Peter Conway in New York (N.Y.) as part of the Oral History Project of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, on January 30 and February 6, 1979. Part 1 (January 17 and 23, 1979) and Part 3 (March 1 and April 20, 1979) are cataloged separately.
Bibliographic history: Title supplied by cataloger.
Source characteristics: Sound quality is good.
Venue: Recorded by Peter Conway 1979, January 30 and February 6 New York (N.Y.)
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 3 hr., 7 min.); polyester; half-track; 1 7/8 ips; 5 in.
Description
Streaming audio file 1, January 30, 1979 (approximately one hour and 33 minutes). Fred Danieli speaks with Peter Conway about his time at Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre) including his impressions of Mikhail Fokine and Agnes de Mille; the relative conservatism of the choreographers at American Ballet Theatre compared with the progressive approach of Balanchine; the ballet Goyescas; dancing in opera-ballets; very briefly, Nina Stroganova; Ballet Caravan's South American tour, in 1941, including the repertoire; Todd Bolender and others in [Eugene Loring's] Billy the Kid; Lew Christensen and José Fernández's ballet Pastorele; the social aspects of the South American tour; dancing with El Ballet de las Américas upon his return to the United States; the inhospitable conditions for ballet at that time. Streaming audio file 2, February 6, 1979 (approximately one hour and 34 minutes). Fred Danieli speaks with Peter Conway about El Ballet de las Américas; touring with Irving Berlin's show This is the army during World War II including various aspects of life in the U.S. Army and his impressions of Irving Berlin; the end of World War II and his return to the United States; the 1943 film This is the army; his exposure to other cultures through his wartime service.
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 988328664
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21275234
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8117c430-c71c-0135-c1b3-59457ab25ab4
Rights Statement
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Fred Danieli" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1979 - 1979. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/07781000-3b71-0134-9d51-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Fred Danieli" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/07781000-3b71-0134-9d51-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1979 - 1979). Interview with Fred Danieli Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/07781000-3b71-0134-9d51-60f81dd2b63c

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Interview with Fred Danieli