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Interviews with New York City Ballet and with Joffrey Ballet corps de ballet members, 1970

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Interviews with New York City Ballet and with Joffrey Ballet corps de ballet members

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Title
Interviews with New York City Ballet and with Joffrey Ballet corps de ballet members, 1970
Additional title: Dance focus (Radio program)
Names
Rogosin, Elinor (Contributor)
Rogosin, Elinor (Donor)
WBAI Radio (New York, N.Y.) (Contributor)
Collection

Dance Audio Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1970-11-22
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZTC 3-688 reel 10, side A (former)
Topics
New York City Ballet
Joffrey Ballet
Strikes and lockouts -- Performing arts
Labor unions
Dance -- Economic aspects
Genres
Interviews
Radio programs
Notes
Content: Title supplied by cataloger.
Venue: Recorded by Elinor Rogosin November 22, 1970 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.
Acquisition: Gift of Elinor Rogosin
Physical Description
Audiocassette
Extent: 1 audiocassette (approximately 26 min.) : polyester
Sound quality is good to fair. The recording is marred by gaps throughout, and the section of the recording in which the Joffrey Ballet dancers speak is also marred by extraneous noise as well as some distortion in the sound.
Description
Interviews with corps members of the New York City Ballet and of the Joffrey Ballet conducted by Elinor Rogosin, as host, for broadcast on November 22, 1970 by radio station WBAI, New York on its series, Dance focus. Streaming file (approximately 26 minutes). Elinor Rogosin speaks with three corps de ballet members of New York City Ballet about the effect on them of the musicians' strike in the spring of 1970; their overall good relationship with management, and their working conditions; [interviews end; Rogosin comments on the dancers' remarks and speaks briefly about the respective corporate relationships of New York City Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet with the City Center of Music and Drama]; Rogosin speaks with two male dancers of the Joffrey Ballet about the economic aspects of dancing with the Joffrey Ballet including as compared with other companies and in commercial productions; their thoughts on AGMA [American Guild of Musical Artists]; the economic difficulties of obtaining public and private money for a small ballet company; touring as an economic tool; [interviews end; Rogosin speaks about structural differences between New York City Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet.].
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 84618361
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12118511
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5287a4a0-b2b4-0133-63d2-60f81dd2b63c
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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interviews with New York City Ballet and with Joffrey Ballet corps de ballet members" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1970. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/563fa0c0-b2b4-0133-0c41-60f81dd2b63c

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Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interviews with New York City Ballet and with Joffrey Ballet corps de ballet members" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 23, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/563fa0c0-b2b4-0133-0c41-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1970). Interviews with New York City Ballet and with Joffrey Ballet corps de ballet members Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/563fa0c0-b2b4-0133-0c41-60f81dd2b63c

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Interviews with New York City Ballet and with Joffrey Ballet corps de ballet members