Gender Project : interview with Delia Peters. 2000.

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Gender Project : interview with Delia Peters. 2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122616378

Peters speaks about her career beginning with her early ballet training in Queens, New York City and at the School of American Ballet; her love of performing as a stimulus to her career choices; dancing with the New York City Ballet while studying at Fordham University; working as an archivist and a photographer/videographer at City Ballet after retirement as a dancer; entering the School of Law at Columbia University and her new career as an attorney; her sense of humor as a coping mechanism; gender disparities at City Ballet; sexual tension experienced as a dancer and as an attorney; using her gender to her advantage; the predominance of male artistic directors in ballet; advising dancers facing retirement; the pragmatic basis of her decision to become an attorney.

30 leaves ; 29 cm.

New York Public Libraries for the Performing Arts, Dance Collection

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The New York City Ballet is the brainchild of Lincoln Kirstein, who envisioned an American Ballet of young native dancers, trained and schooled to perform new, modern repertory. The company now performs 23 weeks of the year under the direction of Peter Martins. For further information see http://www.nycballet.com. From the guide to the New York City Ballet records, 1934-1976, (The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.) The New York City Ballet ...

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