Description |
1 streaming video file (46 min.) : sound, color |
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George Balanchine Foundation Interpreters archive |
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George Balanchine Foundation Interpreters archive
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Contents |
Coaching session (22 min.) / coaches, Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender ; dancers, Janie Taylor and Herman Cornejo with Jared Angle, Stephen Hanna, Seth Orza, Henry Seth -- Run-through (5 min.) / dancers, Janie Taylor and Herman Cornejo with Jared Angle, Stephen Hanna, Seth Orza, Henry Seth -- Interview (19 min.) / interviewees, Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender ; interviewer, Robert Gottlieb |
Summary |
Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender discuss George Balanchine's Unanswered Question; how Kent loved the fall back; the music being jarring and startling; how the piece created anxiety in the audience; Stanley Kubrick attended the first performance; the scariest moment for Kent was the opening because of the lights creating an unstable feeling; the anticipation of the first rehearsal and not knowing what it was going to be; promenade variations used in Balanchine's works; the original costumes for this work had Bolender in cut-off tights and Kent in a white leotard; Kent started dancing late at the age of eleven and decided to become a ballet dancer because of Balanchine's La Sonnambula ; Bolendar started dancing with Ballet Caravan and then briefly Ballet Russe, and after the war, Ballet Society; Balanchine changing some of the movements for television; and the difference between Balanchine and Jerome Robbins |
Notes |
Title from opening video credits |
Credits |
Music, Charles Ives (The Unanswered Question, 1906) ; technical director, William Otterson ; cameras, James Clarke ; sound, Robert Matteo ; production, Otterson TV, inc.; on-line editor, Jim MacDonald ; photographer, Radford Bascome |
Performer |
Interviewer, Robert Gottlieb ; pianist, Nancy McDill |
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Dancers, Janie Taylor (principal dancer, New York City Ballet), Herman Cornejo (principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre) ; Jared Angle, Stephen Hanna, Seth Orza, Henry Seth (New York City Ballet) ; assisted by Sara Leland (ballet master, New York City Ballet) |
Event |
Videotaped during rehearsal and interview at the New York City Ballet studios, Lincoln Center, New York, N.Y. on 2004 March 21 |
Notes |
Original format: 1 Betacam ; 3/4 in |
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This project was assisted by a special grant for The National Endowment for the Arts |
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"This tape has been produced for archival purposes with released funds from the Nancy Remick Reynolds Endowment for the George Balanchine Foundation. Requests for any other use of the material shold be directed in writing to: The George Balanchine Foundation, David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, N.Y., 10023"--Credits |
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The Unanswered Question premiered on September 14, 1954 by New York City Ballet at City Center of Music and Drama, N.Y. with Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender ; Ivesiana originally consisted of six sections: Central Park in the Dark; Hallowe'en; The Unanswered Question; Over the Pavements; In the Inn; In the Night |
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Gift; George Balanchine Foundation; 2013 |
Subject |
Kent, Allegra
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Bolender, Todd.
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Balanchine, George.
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Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. Contemplations. Unanswered question.
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SUBJECT |
Balanchine, George fast |
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Bolender, Todd fast |
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Kent, Allegra fast |
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Ivesiana (Choreographic work : Balanchine) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97822518
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Contemplations (Ives, Charles) fast |
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Ivesiana (Choreographic work : Balanchine) fast |
Subject |
Ballet -- Study and teaching.
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Choreography.
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Music and dance.
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Ballet -- Study and teaching
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Choreography
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Music and dance
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Genre/Form |
interviews.
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Interviews
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Filmed dance
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Filmed dance.
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Interviews.
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Dance.
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Video.
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Danse filmée.
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Interviews.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Balanchine, George, choreographer.
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Kent, Allegra, teacher
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Kent, Allegra, interviewee
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Bolender, Todd, interviewee.
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Bolender, Todd, teacher.
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Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-2023, interviewer
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Taylor, Janie, 1980- dancer.
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Cornejo, Herman, dancer.
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Angle, Jared, dancer.
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Hanna, Stephen, dancer.
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Orza, Seth, dancer.
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Seth, Henry, dancer
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McDill, Nancy, instrumentalist.
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Bascome, Radford, photographer
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Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- project director.
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Brooks, Virginia Loring, editor
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Hlinka, Nichol, director
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Otterson, William, technical director
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Clarke, James, videographer
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MacDonald, Jim, 1935- editor.
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Ives, Charles, 1874-1954.
Contemplations. Unanswered question.
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New York City Ballet, dancer.
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American Ballet Theatre, dancer.
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George Balanchine Foundation, producer.
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