A
CONVERSATION WITH BARBARA HORGAN LEADS OFF THE
DANCE DEPARTMENT'S MONDAY EVENING SERIES, ON
DANCE
New
York, NY, September 18, 2001--Barbara Horgan,
personal assistant to choreographer George Balanchine
for the last 20 years of his life, will kick
off the Department of Dance's Monday evening
series, On Dance: Conversations, Films, and
Lectures, October 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Horgan, who joined the staff of the New York
Ballet in 1953, founded the George Balanchine
Trust in 1987 to coordinate the licensing of
the choreographer's works. She will be interviewed
by On Dance curator Lynn Garafola in
a conversation that will focus on the sometimes
controversial issues of copyright and preservation
in dance.
Three
weeks later on October 29, On Dance pays tribute
to master costumer Barbara Matera, who had been
scheduled to speak on costuming dancers for
the stage, but unexpectedly died on September
13. Leading the tribute will be Holly Hynes,
the New York City Ballet's Director of Costume
and herself a student of Matera, whom she calls
her mentor. Since receiving her Theatre Arts
degree in 1978, Hynes has designed for dance,
theatre, opera, and film. She has created costumes
for over seventy ballets, in addition to supervising
the construction, maintenance, and restoration
of NYCB's huge stock of costumes. She will be
joined by her assistant Carole Divet, a former
NYCB dancer who is now launching her own career
as a designer. This program is cosponsored by
the Theatre Department, Barnard College.
Both
events begin at 7:30 p.m. and will take place
in the Julius S. Held Lecture Hall (304 Barnard
Hall at 117th Street and Broadway).
Two
additional events--Village Voice dance
critic Deborah Jowitt speaking on Jerome Robbins
and a program on Merce Cunningham spotlighting
his longtime muse Carolyn Brown and other collaborators--will
take place in February. More information on
these events will follow.
Contact:
Lynn Garafola, Department of Dance, 212-854-2995
Petra Tuomi, Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7907
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