"State of the Arts" radio program, 1986

Item — cassette: 47

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Broadcast on KWHO, Salt Lake City.

The guest is Sondra Sugai, Associate Artistic Director of Ballet West, who discusses the company's 20th anniversary. Other topics include motivating performers; the stages of a dancer's growth; audience recognition of the company's improvement; artistic milestones in the company's history; Bruce Marks; works of the new choreographer (Helen Douglass); Sugai's reasons for her devotion to dance; performing Songs of the Ballet, Mistress of Sorrow and Ballanchine's Stars and Stripes; Helen Douglass and Rite of Spring; performing Etudes; Bruce Marks and Pipe Dreams; the performing of Beauty and the Beast; and the formulation of a successful season. 28 minutes.

Dates

1986

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Conditions Governing Access

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