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For the love of dance backstage with seven Canadian dance companies.

Title: For the love of dance [electronic resource] : backstage with seven Canadian dance companies.
Publication: 1981.

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1 streaming video file (NTSC) (58 min.) : sd., col.

Uniform Title

Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work). Bluebird pas de deux.
Miraculous mandarin (Choreographic work : Sparemblek)

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Produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the Canada Council. Produced, directed and edited by John N. Smith, Michael McKennirey, Cynthia Scott and David Wilson. Written by David Wilson. Narrated by Adrienne Clarkson. Executive producer: Adam Symansky.
The rigorous and demanding life of a dancer in Canada is reflected in a backstage look at the daily routines - class, rehearsal, performing, touring, workshops - of seven companies.

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Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding (note)

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Contents

Children's class with Fernand Nault of Les Grand Ballets Canadiens. - Kevin Pugh, rising star of the National Ballet of Canada rehearses the Bluebird solo with Alexander Grant as coach. - Sylvie Kinal-Chevalier prepares for opening night as the whore in The miraculous mandarin (Choreography: Milko Sparemblek; music: Béla Bartók) - The Toronto Dance Theatre plays a 1-night stand in remote British Columbia while their booking manager attends a convention in New York; several short dance excerpts shown. - Doug King, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's stage crew chief, packs 20,000 pounds of sets, etc. on tour. Evelyn Hart and David Peregrine dance an excerpt from Norbert Vesak's Belong. - The Winnipeg Contemporary Dance Company conducts workshops in schools while on tour. - Michael Montanaro, with Ottawa's Le Groupe de la Place Royale, talks about his multi-faceted work as dancer, musician, painter, etc. - Anna Wyman and an ex-football player-turned-dancer discuss the unusual avant-garde concepts of Vancouver's Anna Wyman Dance Theatre; two dance excerpts choreographed by Anna Wyman to music of Kreisler and Janacek. - Kevin Pugh rehearses and performs, in costume and partially in slow-motion, the Bluebird solo from Sleeping beauty, and a rehearsal of a new ballet with choreographer Constantin Patsalas.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 7294

OCLC

NYPY837031828-F

Title

For the love of dance [electronic resource] : backstage with seven Canadian dance companies.

Imprint

1981.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding

Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-400.

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Local Subject

Motion pictures. For the love of dance: Backstage with seven Canadian dance companies.

Ballet -- Canada -- 1980-

Dance -- Canada -- 20th century.

Added Author

Pugh, Kevin, dancer.

Grant, Alexander, 1925-2011, teacher.

Peregrine, David, dancer.

Hart, Evelyn, 1956- dancer.

Kinal-Chevalier, Sylvie, dancer.

Montanaro, Michael. Interviewee

Patsalas, Constantin, choreographer.

Sparemblek, Milko, choreographer.

Wyman, Anna, choreographer. Commentator

Grands ballets canadiens.

National Ballet of Canada.

Toronto Dance Theatre.

Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

Contemporary Dancers (Company : Winnipeg, Man.)

Groupe de la Place Royale (Ottawa, Ont.)

Anna Wyman Dance Theatre.

Added Title

Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work). Bluebird pas de deux.

Miraculous mandarin (Choreographic work : Sparemblek)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 7294

*MGZIC 9-400 (former)

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