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| 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.
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| Item Description: | Title from opening video credits. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 streaming video file (46 min.) : sound, color |
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| Production 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. |
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| Access: | Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts. |
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| Participant or 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) |
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| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | "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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| Funding Information Note: | This project was assisted by a special grant for The National Endowment for the Arts. |
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| Biographical or Historical Data: | 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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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | George Balanchine Foundation; |
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