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Additional authors

1. Horosko, Marian.

Description

1. 1 sound cassette (30 min.) : analog, mono.

Summary

1. Mr. Skibine, artistic director of the Harkness Ballet, discusses the formation of the company; the facilities at Watch Hill, Rhode Island, the company's summer home; American dancers; his own background; his ballet, Daphnis and Chloë, the Harkness Ballet's first European tour; American audiences compared with European audiences; the repertory of the company; its upcoming U.S. tour; some of the outstanding dancers of the company; problems of organizing a New York season.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
2. Gift of Marian Horosko. Oral History Archive.

Uniform title

1. World of dance (Radio program)

Subject

1. Dance > Production and direction
2. Audiotapes > Skibine, G
3. Dance audiences
4. Dancers > United States > 20th century
5. Harkness Ballet
6. Daphnis and Chloe (Choreographic work : Skibine)

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-2086

Note

1. Host: Marian Horosko. Recorded and broadcast in 1965 by radio station WNYC, New York, on its series, World of dance. A recording with overlapping content, in streaming file format (accessible on site only at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts) is cataloged under the title: Interview with George Skibine, and Interview with Ralph Burgard, 1965.

Author

1. Skibine, George, 1920-1981. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with George Skibine [sound recording] : the Harkness Ballet.

Imprint

1. 1965.

Local note

1. Archival original: *MGZTO 5-74; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in. reel; polyester, quarter track.
2. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2086; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
3. Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Skibine, G.

Added author

1. Horosko, Marian. Interviewer

Added title

1. World of dance (Radio program)

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-2086