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Title Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender coaching The Unanswered Question (from Ivesiana) / the George Balanchine Foundation ; project director, Nancy Reynolds ; editor, Virginia Brooks ; associate director, Nichol Hlinka ; choreography, George Balanchine ; music, Charles Ives ; [coaching by] Allegra Kent and Todd Bolender
Published New York, N.Y. : George Balanchine Foundation, 2013

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Description 1 streaming video file (46 min.) : sound, color
Series George Balanchine Foundation Interpreters archive
George Balanchine Foundation Interpreters archive
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
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
This project was assisted by a special grant for The National Endowment for the Arts
"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
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
Gift; George Balanchine Foundation; 2013
Subject Kent, Allegra
Bolender, Todd.
Balanchine, George.
Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. Contemplations. Unanswered question.
SUBJECT Balanchine, George fast
Bolender, Todd fast
Kent, Allegra fast
Ivesiana (Choreographic work : Balanchine) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97822518
Contemplations (Ives, Charles) fast
Ivesiana (Choreographic work : Balanchine) fast
Subject Ballet -- Study and teaching.
Choreography.
Music and dance.
Ballet -- Study and teaching
Choreography
Music and dance
Genre/Form interviews.
Interviews
Filmed dance
Filmed dance.
Interviews.
Dance.
Video.
Danse filmée.
Interviews.
Form Streaming video
Author Balanchine, George, choreographer.
Kent, Allegra, teacher
Kent, Allegra, interviewee
Bolender, Todd, interviewee.
Bolender, Todd, teacher.
Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-2023, interviewer
Taylor, Janie, 1980- dancer.
Cornejo, Herman, dancer.
Angle, Jared, dancer.
Hanna, Stephen, dancer.
Orza, Seth, dancer.
Seth, Henry, dancer
McDill, Nancy, instrumentalist.
Bascome, Radford, photographer
Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- project director.
Brooks, Virginia Loring, editor
Hlinka, Nichol, director
Otterson, William, technical director
Clarke, James, videographer
MacDonald, Jim, 1935- editor.
Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. Contemplations. Unanswered question.
New York City Ballet, dancer.
American Ballet Theatre, dancer.
George Balanchine Foundation, producer.
Other Titles Unanswered Question
OTHER TI Container of (work): Ivesiana (Choreographic work : Balanchine) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97822518