Sirens' song answered. (Readers' Forum).

The George Balanchine Foundation's Interpreters Archive series is dedicated to just the sort of issue Ms. Mounsey raises. To date, we have produced more than thirty videos in which the creators (or longtime interpreters) of important Balanchine roles, who were personally coached by the choreographer, analyze and demonstrate these roles with dancers of today. In so doing, they are helping to transmit Balanchine's ideas about his own choreography in the most direct possible way. Such legends of the dance as Maria Tallchief, Frederic Franklin, Dame Alicia Markova, Alicia Alonso, Melissa Hayden, Patricia Wilde, and Todd Bolender, among others, have participated in the project, and we hope there will be many more. We would be delighted to make a "coaching video" with Yvonne Mounsey, whom I well remember as the Siren.

Nancy Reynolds
Director of Research
The George Balanchine Foundation

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