Research Catalog

Title

Lynn Seymour [videorecording] : when the dancing had to stop / BBC-TV ; producer, Vanya Kewley.

Publication

U.K. : BBC-TV, 1981.

Details

Additional Authors

• Seymour, Lynn, 1939-
• De Valois, Ninette, 1898-2001.
• Crisp, Clement.
• Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993
• Cauley, Geoffrey
• Westmoreland, Terry
• Forsythe, William, 1949-
• MacMillan, Kenneth
• Wall, David
• Eagling, Wayne
• Dowell, Anthony
• Kewley, Vanya.
• Royal Ballet.
• British Broadcasting Corporation.
• DHCA.

Description

• 1 streaming video file (60 min., 46 sec.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
• 1 videocassette (U-matic, PAL) (61 min.) : sd., col. ;

Uniform Title

• Romeo and Juliet (Choreographic work : MacMillan)
• Mayerling (Choreographic work : MacMillan)
• Gloriana (Choreographic work : MacMillan)
• Month in the country (Choreographic work : Ashton)
• Anastasia (Choreographic work : MacMillan)
• Brahms waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan (Choreographic work : Ashton)

Subjects

• Television
• Television > Omnibus
• Ballet in television > Lynn Seymour
• Biographies
• Dance
• Seymour, Lynn, 1939-

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Biographies.
• Television.

Access (note)

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

Event (note)

• Telecast in 1981 on the BBC-TV series Omnibus.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 8725

OCLC

NYPY867013559-F

Title

Lynn Seymour [videorecording] : when the dancing had to stop / BBC-TV ; producer, Vanya Kewley.

Imprint

U.K. : BBC-TV, 1981.

Country of Producing Entity

U.K.

Event

Telecast in 1981 on the BBC-TV series Omnibus.

Summary

Documentary on the career of ballerina Lynn Seymour, touching upon her struggle to dance again after injuries and health problems, her marriages, money problems, three children, favorite roles, and her work with choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, the Royal Ballet and other companies. Includes interviews with Seymour, Ninette de Valois, and Clement Crisp. Seymour is shown in class and rehearsal with Rudolf Nureyev, Geoffrey Cauley, Terry Westmoreland, and William Forsythe, and in performance excerpts from the ballets Romeo and Juliet (1971) and Giselle (1979) with Nureyev, Mayerling (1978) with David Wall, Gloriana (1977) with Wayne Eagling, A month in the country (1978) with Anthony Dowell, Anastasia (1967), Brahms waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan (1978), and a solo choreographed by Forsythe, which Seymour performs at the Gala for One-Parent Families at the London Palladium in 1981.

Restricted Access

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

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-555.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Ballet in television. Lynn Seymour.

Television. Omnibus.

Added Author

Seymour, Lynn, 1939- dancer. Interviewee

De Valois, Ninette, 1898-2001. Interviewee

Crisp, Clement. Interviewee

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer.

Cauley, Geoffrey, dancer.

Westmoreland, Terry, dancer.

Forsythe, William, 1949- choreographer.

MacMillan, Kenneth, choreographer.

Wall, David, dancer.

Eagling, Wayne, dancer.

Dowell, Anthony, dancer.

Kewley, Vanya. Producer

Royal Ballet.

British Broadcasting Corporation.

DHCA.

Added Title

Romeo and Juliet (Choreographic work : MacMillan)

Mayerling (Choreographic work : MacMillan)

Gloriana (Choreographic work : MacMillan)

Month in the country (Choreographic work : Ashton)

Anastasia (Choreographic work : MacMillan)

Brahms waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan (Choreographic work : Ashton)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 8725