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Additional authors

1. Favors, Ronni.
2. Greskovic, Robert.
3. Ward, Penny
4. Hines, Kay
5. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.
6. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (66 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

1. Ronni Favors speaks with Robert Greskovic about her background; her family and exposure to the arts; being born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa; dance in Iowa City; how she always aspired to become a dancer; starting at Julie Sullivan School of Dance at the age of eight; moving on to the University of Iowa Children's Program for dance; her work with mentor Toni Sostek; deciding to pursue dance as a career; her experience at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan; seeing the Ailey company for the first time in Wolf Trap, Virginia; dance providing an outlet for emotions; moving to New York City; becoming a protoge of Pat Thomas at the Ailey School in 1974; her apprenticeship with Sylvia Waters at the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble in 1975; being a member of the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble; becoming a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1976; her experience at the Ailey Celebrates Ellington Festival in 1976; receiving recognition as a dancer; spending 1978-1980 with the Ailey company; joining the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in 1981; her nine-year career with the Lubovitch company; her exposure to various dance techniques; the Ailey Camp in Kansas City; practicing Buddhism; her ideas about leaving a lasting impression on the world; what she learned from her students at camp; her career transition from dancing to directing the Ailey Camp; being a rehearsal director; "Festa barroca" and Mauro Bigonzetti; the music of Handel; rehearsal and creation of a dance; Mauro Bigonzetti as a dancer; Alvin Ailey as a teacher and a person.

Subject

1. Dance
2. Lubovitch, Lar, 1943- > Influence
3. Interviews
4. Video
5. Bigonzetti, Mauro
6. Ailey, Alvin > Influence
7. Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble
8. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
9. AileyCamp
10. Dancers
11. Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
12. Festa barroca (Choreographic work : Bigonzetti)
13. Ailey School (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.
3. Interviews.

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-3956

Access (note)

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Credits (note)

1. Director of photography, Penny Ward ; production assistant, Kay Hines ; editor, Kay Hines/Dekart Video.

Event (note)

1. This interview was videotaped at the oral history studio of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on April 7, 2009.

Funding (note)

1. Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System details (note)

1. DVD, transferred from DVCAM cassette.

Title

1. Interview with Ronni Favors [videorecording] : / interviewer, Robert Greskovic.

Imprint

1. c2009.

System details

1. DVD, transferred from DVCAM cassette.

Event

1. This interview was videotaped at the oral history studio of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on April 7, 2009.

Credits

1. Director of photography, Penny Ward ; production assistant, Kay Hines ; editor, Kay Hines/Dekart Video.

Performer

1. Interviewee, Ronni Favors.

Funding

1. Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Restricted access

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Added author

1. Favors, Ronni. Interviewee
2. Greskovic, Robert. Interviewer
3. Ward, Penny, videographer.
4. Hines, Kay, production personnel.
5. Hines, Kay, editor of moving image work.
6. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.
7. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research call number

1. *MGZMT 3-3956