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Summary:

Interview with Maria Tallchief (approximately 14 min.). Tallchief, who created the principal ballerina's role in George Balanchine's Pas de dix, first presented by the New York City Ballet in 1955, compares this ballet with Balanchine's earlier Raymonda (1946), staged with Alexandra Danilova for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She discusses how Balanchine taught various ballet steps and movements that appear in the ballet, including passé.

Table of Contents:

• Variation
• Finale.

Contributors:

Balanchine, George

McDill, Nancy

Reynolds, Nancy, 1938-

Somogyi, Jennie

Tallchief, Maria

Tatge, Catherine

Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich, 1865-1936

George Balanchine Foundation

International Cultural Programming, Inc.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Included Works:

Raĭmonda [by Glazunov, A.K.]

Related Series:

Dance in video

George Balanchine Foundation interpreters archive

Subjects:

Balanchine, George

Tallchief, Maria

Balanchine, George — Pas de dix

Raymonda (Choreographic work : Balanchine and Danilova, A after Petipa, M)

Ballet — Study and teaching

Pas de dix (Choreographic work : Balanchine)

Ballet

Genres:

Online media

Internet videos

General Notes:

Previously released on DVD.
Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (VAST-Academic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (82 min)).

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

OCLC Numbers:

1013152842

Other Control Numbers:

1665162 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP1665162/daiv