WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.140 --> 00:00:11.900 This was a collage of all the dances together. 2 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:15.960 That's a mask by Remesas. 3 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:17.260 You can't see that. 4 00:00:17.260 --> 00:00:17.900 That has a key. 5 00:00:18.040 --> 00:00:18.960 It was called play. 6 00:00:19.180 --> 00:00:21.360 It was a charming idea, I think. 7 00:00:22.820 --> 00:00:23.860 That you can't see either. 8 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:27.300 That's a rope, and I called that toil, and I did this dance with a rope. 9 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:29.980 That's Juliette, the girl. 10 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 11 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 12 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 13 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 14 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 15 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 16 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 17 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 18 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 19 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 20 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 21 00:00:29.980 --> 00:00:29.980 22 00:00:42.060 --> 00:00:47.800 That's a very humorous dance. 23 00:00:47.900 --> 00:00:50.020 It's called Delirious Delusions. 24 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:51.680 It was a comedy. 25 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:53.860 That was fun to do, too. 26 00:00:55.660 --> 00:00:56.640 That's Frankie and Johnny. 27 00:00:57.540 --> 00:00:59.120 Maybe you've seen that. 28 00:00:59.220 --> 00:00:59.960 It's been on television. 29 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 30 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 31 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 32 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 33 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 34 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 35 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 36 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 37 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 38 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 39 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 40 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 41 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 42 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 43 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 44 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 45 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 46 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 47 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 48 00:00:59.960 --> 00:00:59.960 49 00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:05.440 I did that with Bentley Stone, who was my partner for years and years. 50 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:06.640 He was a great dancer. 51 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:08.080 He died just last month. 52 00:01:08.720 --> 00:01:09.880 But we did that together. 53 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:11.400 That was fun to do. 54 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:14.080 It was considered very daring at the time. 55 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:15.540 I know we took it to Paris. 56 00:01:16.160 --> 00:01:17.700 Dance in Paris with Frankie and Johnny. 57 00:01:17.820 --> 00:01:19.160 They were absolutely shocked. 58 00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:21.020 They said, it's not a ballet. 59 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.480 It was done so-called in the vernacular. 60 00:01:27.860 --> 00:01:29.520 That's Frankie and Johnny in the end. 61 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:29.600 That's a very humorous dance. 62 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:29.600 63 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:29.600 64 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:29.600 65 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:29.600 66 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:29.600 67 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:29.600 68 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:29.600 69 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:29.600 70 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:29.700 That's a very humorous dance. 71 00:01:31.940 --> 00:01:36.200 That's also Frankie and Johnny, to get to see how good that song was there. 72 00:01:36.460 --> 00:01:38.660 You remember, don't you, Arn? 73 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:39.800 Of course you do. 74 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:44.440 And this is Bentley also in the Boise e la Cicina Rita. 75 00:01:45.540 --> 00:01:48.560 That's a ballet I did called Love Song, which is quite lovely. 76 00:01:49.740 --> 00:01:51.940 But, it's gone. 77 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:53.860 That's Romeo and Juliet again. 78 00:01:55.060 --> 00:01:57.760 And this is the Zephyr and Pharoah. 79 00:01:57.780 --> 00:01:59.680 This was a little comedy, which is the Queen of the World. 80 00:01:59.680 --> 00:01:59.680 81 00:01:59.680 --> 00:01:59.680 82 00:01:59.680 --> 00:01:59.680 83 00:01:59.680 --> 00:01:59.680 84 00:01:59.680 --> 00:01:59.680 85 00:01:59.680 --> 00:01:59.680 86 00:01:59.680 --> 00:01:59.680 87 00:01:59.680 --> 00:01:59.680 88 00:01:59.680 --> 00:01:59.680 89 00:01:59.680 --> 00:01:59.680 90 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:05.080 This is called Park Avenue Atlas. 91 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:07.680 We danced at the Rainbow Room in New York. 92 00:02:07.780 --> 00:02:08.920 I don't know if you've ever heard of that. 93 00:02:08.920 --> 00:02:12.800 That's a very swank, sort of a night clubbing place in New York. 94 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:16.280 And I had to compete with the beefsteak. 95 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:17.920 People were all eating all the time. 96 00:02:18.180 --> 00:02:21.440 I found that rather difficult, so I knocked myself out in this dance, 97 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:24.620 trying to make them look at me instead of eating their beefsteak. 98 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.080 And that's E.E. Cummings. 99 00:02:30.180 --> 00:02:31.660 Do you know the poet E.E. Cummings? 100 00:02:31.940 --> 00:02:32.080 Do you? 101 00:02:34.460 --> 00:02:37.720 This was His Quistal Goes Things. 102 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:41.180 No, this is His Quistal Goes Things. 103 00:02:41.260 --> 00:02:44.020 I did a whole bunch of E.E. Cummings poems. 104 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:46.620 I think they're marvelous to dance to, 105 00:02:46.700 --> 00:02:48.960 and I like to speak and dance at the same time, 106 00:02:49.140 --> 00:02:53.080 which was considered very outrageous at the time. 107 00:02:54.160 --> 00:02:55.200 That's another one. 108 00:02:56.760 --> 00:03:00.220 But do you know the one, the Cambridge ladies who live in furry souls, 109 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:03.060 are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds, 110 00:03:03.420 --> 00:03:06.440 also with the church's pious at lastings adulterers, 111 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:08.180 unscented, in the shape of spirit, 112 00:03:08.440 --> 00:03:11.340 that they believe in Christ and longfellow, both dead, 113 00:03:11.720 --> 00:03:13.780 are invariably interested in so many things, 114 00:03:14.180 --> 00:03:17.240 that the present writing one still divided fingers, 115 00:03:17.380 --> 00:03:19.540 knitting for the, is it poles perhaps? 116 00:03:19.700 --> 00:03:21.880 For permanent thesis, calling down these scandals. 117 00:03:21.880 --> 00:03:23.360 This is in Professor Lee. 118 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:26.400 The Cambridge ladies do not care about Cambridge, 119 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:29.800 if sometimes in its box of sky-locked moon corners, 120 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:33.280 the moon rattles like a frightened, angry candy. 121 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:35.600 Well, that was the Cambridge ladies, 122 00:03:35.640 --> 00:03:36.960 and I did a whole series of those. 123 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:41.280 I like E.E. Cummings because if you read them long enough, 124 00:03:41.420 --> 00:03:41.960 they mean something. 125 00:03:42.020 --> 00:03:45.340 When you first read them, they sound, well, flettable about, you know. 126 00:03:45.740 --> 00:03:49.160 But anyway, I think he's a great poet. 127 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:53.440 Oh, that's Rebecca Sandor-Styrfan, 128 00:03:53.580 --> 00:03:55.180 Perish Miserably by H. Bellack. 129 00:03:55.460 --> 00:03:56.700 I did a lot of little limericks. 130 00:03:56.860 --> 00:04:00.780 I had to lighten up my program a bit so people would laugh. 131 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:03.800 And that's A Lot of Wine Among Flowers, 132 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.060 I Alone, Drinking Without Compagny. 133 00:04:06.420 --> 00:04:09.700 That was inspired by that lovely statue in the art institute 134 00:04:09.700 --> 00:04:11.600 of the Goddess of Mercy. 135 00:04:12.820 --> 00:04:14.520 And that's Devin Harlow. 136 00:04:16.260 --> 00:04:18.920 Oh, this is Carl Sandberg's songs. 137 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:20.960 Carl Sandberg's songs. 138 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:25.660 This is I Had a Horse and His Name was Bill. 139 00:04:25.900 --> 00:04:27.480 Woody ran, he couldn't stand still. 140 00:04:27.780 --> 00:04:31.040 He ran away one day, and I ran with him. 141 00:04:33.060 --> 00:04:34.260 That's the same horse. 142 00:04:37.220 --> 00:04:38.880 This is also the same horse. 143 00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:40.900 There were a whole series of little ones. 144 00:04:41.400 --> 00:04:44.300 This is Obe Joyful, the one that's made the most of spring. 145 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.540 And this was I'm Sad and I'm Lonely. 146 00:04:50.100 --> 00:04:52.920 My Heart Will Break, My Sweetie Loves Another. 147 00:04:53.380 --> 00:04:54.840 I Wish I Were Dead. 148 00:04:57.740 --> 00:05:00.660 And there's Bentley Stowell and me and some of those Stravinsky things. 149 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:02.820 I'm going to go fast because I've got some more to show you, 150 00:05:02.820 --> 00:05:04.200 and I think I'm going on too long. 151 00:05:04.440 --> 00:05:06.960 Can you tell me when I should stop, Lauren, if you get bored? 152 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:11.480 This is me in my house, my home. 153 00:05:12.220 --> 00:05:15.620 My husband did all those pictures of all the dancers. 154 00:05:15.700 --> 00:05:16.580 He's a French artist. 155 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.320 He did all the pictures of the dancers on the walls. 156 00:05:20.580 --> 00:05:22.720 And this is Nuria that teaches having fun. 157 00:05:23.140 --> 00:05:24.560 Now we'll go to the ballets. 158 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:25.340 Can you change? 159 00:05:25.980 --> 00:05:26.180 What? 160 00:05:26.380 --> 00:05:29.840 Oh, we have to change now. 161 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:32.600 So I'll show you some of my ballets now. 162 00:05:34.260 --> 00:05:35.800 How much longer should I go on? 163 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:38.160 What? 164 00:05:39.300 --> 00:05:42.680 Can we have an hour more? 165 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:43.600 166 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:43.720 167 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:44.260 Yes. 168 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:45.200 All right. 169 00:05:45.740 --> 00:05:52.080 Well, now that's where I got all my ideas was by making dances all myself. 170 00:05:53.080 --> 00:05:57.160 Now, these are ballets. 171 00:05:58.700 --> 00:06:00.420 That one is called Oak Street Beach. 172 00:06:00.520 --> 00:06:02.020 You've all been to Oak Street Beach. 173 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:06.380 And this is when I was trying desperately to be American. 174 00:06:06.960 --> 00:06:10.200 And Oak Street Beach seems about the most American thing I've ever known. 175 00:06:10.280 --> 00:06:14.020 The skyscrapers right there on the beach practically. 176 00:06:16.220 --> 00:06:17.420 That's Oak Street Beach also. 177 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:19.460 See how realistic it is. 178 00:06:21.320 --> 00:06:25.560 Oh, that's here, that's the first ballet that Aaron Copland ever did. 179 00:06:25.740 --> 00:06:27.180 And I commissioned it from him. 180 00:06:27.820 --> 00:06:28.960 I thought he was talented. 181 00:06:29.060 --> 00:06:33.120 And this was a ballet about a child on a law court. 182 00:06:33.500 --> 00:06:34.440 And it was interesting. 183 00:06:34.440 --> 00:06:36.340 He's, of course, a great composer. 184 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:42.440 That's the same ballet that Mastiff and Jury, Remesov did those costumes. 185 00:06:42.640 --> 00:06:46.820 You know, it's very important in ballets that you pick the right people to work with. 186 00:06:46.840 --> 00:06:48.320 You have to pick a good composer. 187 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:54.320 You have to pick a good designer for your costumes, a good designer for your sets. 188 00:06:54.640 --> 00:06:58.140 And then the dancers can make you or break you. 189 00:06:58.460 --> 00:07:01.540 I mean, you can do a perfectly lousy ballet, and if you have wonderful dancers, 190 00:07:01.540 --> 00:07:04.240 I'd say it's a good ballet and vice versa. 191 00:07:04.740 --> 00:07:08.000 So you have to be very careful who you pick. 192 00:07:10.460 --> 00:07:12.360 Oh, this one was called American Pattern. 193 00:07:12.620 --> 00:07:13.860 This is an interesting ballet. 194 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:18.440 I did that in 48, wasn't it? 195 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:19.420 37. 196 00:07:19.860 --> 00:07:21.520 I'm never going to remember days. 197 00:07:21.860 --> 00:07:23.100 I'm sorry, I apologize. 198 00:07:23.100 --> 00:07:31.820 And that was a ballet about a wife who didn't want to be domestic. 199 00:07:32.120 --> 00:07:34.000 She was bored with domesticity. 200 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:37.540 And these three women that come in represent domesticity. 201 00:07:37.820 --> 00:07:39.660 And she was always trying different things. 202 00:07:39.860 --> 00:07:45.000 She tried to, well, she didn't like to be a housekeeper. 203 00:07:46.060 --> 00:07:48.200 Oh, this is the one, the Bentley Stone. 204 00:07:48.200 --> 00:07:52.520 Oh, that was the Millicent Museum. 205 00:07:53.580 --> 00:07:58.300 She was attracted to him and was going to stay with him forever. 206 00:07:58.740 --> 00:08:04.760 But he was too much for her, so she finally at the end goes back to being a housewife and bored. 207 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:06.960 That's Frankie and Johnny. 208 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:13.520 That's Frankie and Johnny also with Nellie Blythe. 209 00:08:14.900 --> 00:08:17.460 This is Frankie and Johnny also. 210 00:08:18.260 --> 00:08:20.480 That's what's that Frankie and Johnny, the Bentley Stone and myself. 211 00:08:23.080 --> 00:08:23.980 That's Carmen. 212 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:25.740 Do you all know Carmen? 213 00:08:26.420 --> 00:08:28.600 I guess everybody in the world knows Carmen. 214 00:08:29.140 --> 00:08:31.160 And you can't fail with Carmen. 215 00:08:31.300 --> 00:08:32.220 I found that out. 216 00:08:32.280 --> 00:08:33.840 You can do anything to it. 217 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.500 You can sing it, even badly, and people will love it. 218 00:08:37.620 --> 00:08:38.120 You can dance. 219 00:08:38.300 --> 00:08:41.140 So I've done four different versions of Carmen. 220 00:08:41.140 --> 00:08:43.420 And I finally gave up. 221 00:08:43.420 --> 00:08:45.780 I said I can't do any more of Carmen's. 222 00:08:45.980 --> 00:08:49.020 This is the first one I did. 223 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:50.420 This is the contraband one. 224 00:08:50.580 --> 00:08:52.780 This is kind of ringing contraband. 225 00:08:54.500 --> 00:08:55.780 That's Walter Cameron. 226 00:08:57.860 --> 00:08:59.900 And that's Carmen also. 227 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:01.620 It's the first one I did. 228 00:09:02.520 --> 00:09:05.240 This is myself in the middle of Carmen. 229 00:09:07.060 --> 00:09:09.100 And that's Bentley Stone as Escamillo. 230 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:14.300 I did it with Escamillo as a fascist. 231 00:09:15.800 --> 00:09:17.960 And Jose as a loyal soldier. 232 00:09:18.220 --> 00:09:21.820 And Carmen didn't know how to do with politics. 233 00:09:22.060 --> 00:09:22.780 She didn't know anything about them. 234 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:24.240 She was just interested in the two men. 235 00:09:24.760 --> 00:09:27.000 And I think that's kind of an interesting version of it. 236 00:09:27.380 --> 00:09:29.380 Actually, somebody else just did one now. 237 00:09:29.500 --> 00:09:31.600 I think it was Beverly Sills. 238 00:09:31.700 --> 00:09:33.160 She used that same idea. 239 00:09:33.420 --> 00:09:37.000 But just last year, mine was, I don't know what date this was. 240 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:38.020 Do you know the date? 241 00:09:39.740 --> 00:09:40.260 39. 242 00:09:40.520 --> 00:09:41.020 39? 243 00:09:41.820 --> 00:09:42.960 Well, that was a long time ago. 244 00:09:44.560 --> 00:09:47.580 And then I did a Carmen, oh, every four. 245 00:09:49.300 --> 00:09:53.660 Oh, that's me on the floor dead with Walter Cameron as host. 246 00:09:53.700 --> 00:09:54.900 That ain't killing me. 247 00:09:55.220 --> 00:09:56.860 That was a very dramatic ending. 248 00:09:58.040 --> 00:09:59.640 And that's the same thing. 249 00:10:00.940 --> 00:10:02.960 And this is Prudhusha Klekovich. 250 00:10:03.660 --> 00:10:04.580 And Kevin Johnson. 251 00:10:04.680 --> 00:10:06.080 They were wonderful in Carmen. 252 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.180 This was done by Bernard Diddy. 253 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:09.180 Have you ever heard of him? 254 00:10:10.040 --> 00:10:10.820 I bet you have. 255 00:10:11.040 --> 00:10:12.600 You see, you don't know very much. 256 00:10:13.460 --> 00:10:14.560 You're here to learn. 257 00:10:17.220 --> 00:10:21.640 But this is a strange way to kiss, but it's very effective, 258 00:10:21.700 --> 00:10:21.980 Valerie. 259 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:23.880 You might try it some time. 260 00:10:24.820 --> 00:10:26.160 You like kissing that way. 261 00:10:26.180 --> 00:10:28.120 Kissing in a perfect arabesque. 262 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:33.720 And that's a big kiss too. 263 00:10:36.420 --> 00:10:38.520 Oh, now this is the last Carmen I did. 264 00:10:38.620 --> 00:10:42.440 You see how different, this is completely in the, 265 00:10:42.560 --> 00:10:44.900 without any of the broccoli ruffles and anything. 266 00:10:45.640 --> 00:10:48.680 And we took these costumes, they were made in Paris. 267 00:10:48.860 --> 00:10:51.620 And when we unpacked them, the wardrobe mistress said, 268 00:10:51.680 --> 00:10:53.440 oh, my goodness, that is in Carmen. 269 00:10:53.520 --> 00:10:55.220 I could do a better Carmen than that. 270 00:10:55.220 --> 00:10:58.440 You don't have the ruffles, red ruffles, and lots of ruffles, 271 00:10:58.480 --> 00:10:59.420 and ruffles, and ruffles. 272 00:10:59.980 --> 00:11:02.040 So you see, she didn't know. 273 00:11:02.500 --> 00:11:05.460 And this was by a very great artist, Andre Del Fou. 274 00:11:05.760 --> 00:11:08.580 And I think this was the most interesting Carmen that we did. 275 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:13.420 But you see how you can take Carmen and do practically anything 276 00:11:13.420 --> 00:11:14.200 with it. 277 00:11:16.660 --> 00:11:19.800 This was a, I did this for the Dance Theatre of Harlem. 278 00:11:19.920 --> 00:11:20.740 They're all black. 279 00:11:21.100 --> 00:11:22.680 And they did it marvelously. 280 00:11:22.680 --> 00:11:25.140 That's Lydia Barker, she's a black girl. 281 00:11:25.460 --> 00:11:26.980 She was a terrific Carmen. 282 00:11:29.740 --> 00:11:32.180 This is Carmina Barana, this is the figure of the, 283 00:11:32.380 --> 00:11:34.180 do you know the music to Carmina Barana? 284 00:11:35.060 --> 00:11:36.320 It's wonderful, isn't it? 285 00:11:36.580 --> 00:11:40.080 Well, I did, first I did it with a lyric opera. 286 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:41.260 It was an opera. 287 00:11:41.920 --> 00:11:43.540 And there was a lot of dancing in it. 288 00:11:43.540 --> 00:11:46.680 And I loved the music, so I finally made a ballet out of it. 289 00:11:46.680 --> 00:11:48.040 It was very successful. 290 00:11:48.140 --> 00:11:50.280 I don't know if I have any more pictures of it. 291 00:11:50.280 --> 00:11:52.940 Oh, no, this is the bells, the Bissamo Novici. 292 00:11:53.280 --> 00:11:56.500 You know the poem, I suppose, the bells, the bells, the bells, 293 00:11:57.020 --> 00:11:58.600 the tinted tangle-lations of the bells. 294 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:01.000 And that's a very interesting set. 295 00:12:01.580 --> 00:12:02.760 Noguchi designed that. 296 00:12:03.900 --> 00:12:07.500 And with each, the gold, the silver bells, the golden bells, 297 00:12:07.540 --> 00:12:12.840 and so forth, the set kept rising up until it was like this. 298 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:13.340 Wait a minute. 299 00:12:13.980 --> 00:12:14.540 Oh. 300 00:12:14.540 --> 00:12:17.740 Ah. No. 301 00:12:19.060 --> 00:12:21.160 You see what an interesting set that is? 302 00:12:21.400 --> 00:12:23.080 And then at the end of the ballet, 303 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:27.660 the whole church collapsed down as when all the bells were finished. 304 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:30.140 It was a very interesting idea that he had there. 305 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:33.760 So you see how many things go into the making of a ballet. 306 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:36.160 It isn't just the choreography at all. 307 00:12:36.420 --> 00:12:37.580 It isn't just the dancers. 308 00:12:37.740 --> 00:12:39.120 It takes a little bit of everything. 309 00:12:41.860 --> 00:12:43.220 This is Billy Sunday. 310 00:12:43.220 --> 00:12:44.820 You might have seen this on television. 311 00:12:45.260 --> 00:12:47.240 We've done this on television. 312 00:12:48.220 --> 00:12:51.400 And Andy Wendick here, he did a long prelude to it 313 00:12:51.400 --> 00:12:52.440 that is so interesting. 314 00:12:53.020 --> 00:12:55.480 It was all about Billy Sunday. 315 00:12:55.880 --> 00:12:56.860 I don't know if you know who he is. 316 00:12:57.020 --> 00:12:58.320 Do you know who Billy Sunday was? 317 00:12:59.200 --> 00:12:59.800 You do. 318 00:13:00.680 --> 00:13:08.520 He was a person who told the Bible stories in the vernacular. 319 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:11.040 He told them in slang. 320 00:13:12.400 --> 00:13:14.400 I've always been interested in the Bible. 321 00:13:14.520 --> 00:13:15.420 I love the Bible. 322 00:13:15.860 --> 00:13:17.560 I wanted to do some Bible stories, 323 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:21.680 but I thought, oh my God, everybody's done Bible ballets. 324 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:23.660 I've got to have a point of view. 325 00:13:23.740 --> 00:13:24.620 I did something different. 326 00:13:24.980 --> 00:13:26.760 So then I discovered about Billy Sunday. 327 00:13:27.620 --> 00:13:28.820 So I did this ballet. 328 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:31.920 This is Bathsheba with her bath. 329 00:13:33.860 --> 00:13:35.720 That's the wise and foolish Burgess. 330 00:13:35.820 --> 00:13:36.800 That's Frederick Franklin there. 331 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:37.660 I don't know if you've heard of him. 332 00:13:37.660 --> 00:13:39.820 He's a very famous dancer. 333 00:13:40.920 --> 00:13:43.680 And you see the wise version in white 334 00:13:43.680 --> 00:13:45.080 and the foolish version there on the floor. 335 00:13:45.420 --> 00:13:46.900 It's amusing, I think. 336 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:50.000 This is Danila. 337 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:51.120 Have you ever heard of her? 338 00:13:51.880 --> 00:13:53.220 Well, you have to. 339 00:13:53.400 --> 00:13:55.480 She's one of the greatest dancers that ever lived. 340 00:13:56.860 --> 00:13:57.980 And she doesn't dance anymore. 341 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:59.760 She's the teacher now in New York. 342 00:13:59.920 --> 00:14:02.480 But she was a terrific personality, a Russian. 343 00:14:02.660 --> 00:14:04.380 She had to speak a few lines in this. 344 00:14:04.380 --> 00:14:06.220 She was marvelous in it. 345 00:14:09.280 --> 00:14:10.580 Well, this skips right away. 346 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:13.880 Now, this is a ballet that I did called Revenge. 347 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:18.080 And you know, I worked with opera so much. 348 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:19.440 I love opera. 349 00:14:19.580 --> 00:14:20.320 I adore opera. 350 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:26.040 And they didn't rehearse the ballets till the very end 351 00:14:26.040 --> 00:14:29.500 because they had to pay overtime or something for the seniors. 352 00:14:29.580 --> 00:14:30.680 So we waited till the end. 353 00:14:30.680 --> 00:14:33.660 I had to sit all through the whole operas 354 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:36.600 to wait for the ballet. 355 00:14:37.380 --> 00:14:39.560 And I found them so marvelous. 356 00:14:39.700 --> 00:14:40.680 The music was so marvelous. 357 00:14:40.760 --> 00:14:42.260 But I didn't like the way they looked. 358 00:14:42.820 --> 00:14:45.040 And so then I started making a... 359 00:14:45.040 --> 00:14:46.880 Come on in and shut the door and stop talking. 360 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:49.940 And I don't mean to be rude, 361 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:51.440 but I can't talk while you're talking. 362 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:54.880 If you want to talk, I'd be delighted to hear you. 363 00:14:54.880 --> 00:14:55.840 Are you guys willing to say? 364 00:14:56.420 --> 00:14:57.260 Whatever you say. 365 00:14:58.860 --> 00:15:00.120 What was I talking about? 366 00:15:00.180 --> 00:15:02.300 Oh, I was talking about doing the operas and the ballets. 367 00:15:02.680 --> 00:15:04.260 So I did... 368 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:08.380 This one was called Revenge. 369 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:10.740 And it was based on a Trovatore. 370 00:15:11.800 --> 00:15:15.100 And I made an opera, usually two or three hours long. 371 00:15:15.140 --> 00:15:16.900 So I did them all in about one hour. 372 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:17.800 I did it with dancing. 373 00:15:18.280 --> 00:15:19.760 And they were very successful. 374 00:15:20.140 --> 00:15:21.200 Oh, interesting, I think. 375 00:15:21.640 --> 00:15:22.520 That's Clave. 376 00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:24.600 He's an artist that you should all know. 377 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:27.600 That's this design from Leonoro. 378 00:15:29.060 --> 00:15:30.660 And that's Alicia Marker. 379 00:15:30.720 --> 00:15:31.580 Have you ever heard of her? 380 00:15:32.780 --> 00:15:33.120 No? 381 00:15:34.040 --> 00:15:35.740 Well, she's one of the greatest dancers in everybody. 382 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:36.780 She was terrific. 383 00:15:37.160 --> 00:15:38.880 She's a very frightening person. 384 00:15:40.580 --> 00:15:42.600 She takes centripetal, where I go in the summer, 385 00:15:42.660 --> 00:15:45.580 I used to go every summer, to learn this part. 386 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:47.900 And I made a terribly hard dance. 387 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:51.320 Oh, quick and little and on toes and sticking around. 388 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:53.880 And I thought she never once did it. 389 00:15:53.880 --> 00:15:56.260 She'd say after we'd been working for about an hour, 390 00:15:56.340 --> 00:15:58.120 she'd say, I wasn't in time to go to the beach. 391 00:15:58.960 --> 00:15:59.980 I thought she could. 392 00:16:00.160 --> 00:16:02.260 I never once saw her do it. 393 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:04.060 But when she came to the performance, 394 00:16:04.100 --> 00:16:05.620 she was absolutely starling. 395 00:16:05.620 --> 00:16:07.000 She was so good, so quick. 396 00:16:07.400 --> 00:16:09.280 But she was a sort of a... 397 00:16:09.280 --> 00:16:11.260 I wouldn't suggest any of you try that. 398 00:16:11.660 --> 00:16:13.160 It's better to rehearse your dances. 399 00:16:15.700 --> 00:16:20.520 Oh, well, that's the gypsy scene in the same ballet. 400 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:22.700 You can't very well see this. 401 00:16:22.700 --> 00:16:24.780 This is the Azucena. 402 00:16:25.420 --> 00:16:28.660 It's a part of the work with Azucena and her son, Manrico. 403 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:31.700 You have to know all these stories to be able to see what... 404 00:16:31.700 --> 00:16:33.400 You can't see them very well here either. 405 00:16:33.680 --> 00:16:35.720 That was by Clavet, who, as I said, 406 00:16:35.760 --> 00:16:38.040 was a very great artist and designer. 407 00:16:38.140 --> 00:16:41.480 And this is me, I, if I don't be correct. 408 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:45.880 This is I as Salome, which is a rather unusual interpretation 409 00:16:45.880 --> 00:16:46.880 of Salome. 410 00:16:50.060 --> 00:16:50.980 It wasn't... 411 00:16:50.980 --> 00:16:52.440 I think it's interesting anyway. 412 00:16:52.620 --> 00:16:53.820 Remesov did the costume. 413 00:16:54.020 --> 00:16:57.380 It was all Lacey Silver Russells. 414 00:16:58.080 --> 00:17:00.200 I'd call it the Daughter of Perodias. 415 00:17:03.160 --> 00:17:06.740 I think it's quite an interesting conception. 416 00:17:08.620 --> 00:17:11.520 And this is Alicia Markleburg in the Mary Widow. 417 00:17:11.780 --> 00:17:14.320 Now, the Mary Widow was my most famous ballet. 418 00:17:14.460 --> 00:17:15.200 Maybe you've seen it. 419 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:16.300 Did you see it on television? 420 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.200 It took a Peabody Award. 421 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:22.300 I did it for the Larry Garber in 1955. 422 00:17:22.560 --> 00:17:23.560 I do know that date. 423 00:17:24.180 --> 00:17:25.400 And we've been doing it ever since. 424 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:26.560 Ever since everybody's been picking up. 425 00:17:26.980 --> 00:17:29.880 It's often to be a failure, but it's even worse to be a success. 426 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:34.060 Because when you're a success, then you're stuck with it all your life. 427 00:17:36.100 --> 00:17:36.200 And that's... 428 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:37.940 This is a lovely picture of her. 429 00:17:38.020 --> 00:17:39.380 The costumes were so beautiful. 430 00:17:39.420 --> 00:17:41.480 That was all white, pink, rose.