The Romantic Ballet (The Magic of Dance part 4) - Margot Fonteyn (performer) (excerpt) (1979)
Title
The Romantic Ballet (The Magic of Dance part 4) - Margot Fonteyn (performer) (excerpt) (1979)
Subject
Ballet dancing
Dance--United States
URL
Excerpt
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Description
Content Description from WorldCat.org (https://www.worldcat.org/title/magic-of-dance-part-4-the-romantic-ballet/oclc/743367963) :
The fourth segment in a six-part series that surveys the history of ballet and dance. In Part 4, host Margot Fonteyn traces the story of Romantic ballet and one of its earliest exponents, Marie Taglioni in the 1830's. Fonteyn describes the eclipse of ballet in the mid-18th century and its revival by the Russians who, in 1909, brought Les Sylphides to Paris. Includes part of that ballet danced by Fonteyn, Marguerite Porter, Yoko Morishita and Ivan Nagy.
Ephemera: available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Eight pages from Under Cover magazine (not all the same year/issue) with program information circled; 1 handwritten note with parts 1-6 listed; 1 newspaper article about Margot Fonteyn and The Magic of Dance program; 1 photocopied page (page 99) from Dance Magazine, vol. LV, No.10, October 1981.
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The fourth segment in a six-part series that surveys the history of ballet and dance. In Part 4, host Margot Fonteyn traces the story of Romantic ballet and one of its earliest exponents, Marie Taglioni in the 1830's. Fonteyn describes the eclipse of ballet in the mid-18th century and its revival by the Russians who, in 1909, brought Les Sylphides to Paris. Includes part of that ballet danced by Fonteyn, Marguerite Porter, Yoko Morishita and Ivan Nagy.
Ephemera: available through CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. Eight pages from Under Cover magazine (not all the same year/issue) with program information circled; 1 handwritten note with parts 1-6 listed; 1 newspaper article about Margot Fonteyn and The Magic of Dance program; 1 photocopied page (page 99) from Dance Magazine, vol. LV, No.10, October 1981.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Margot Fonteyn (narrator)
Ivor Guest (historical consultant)
Patricia Foy (producer)
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
RM Productions Fernseh- und Filmgesellschaft mbH
Time Life Films
Date
1979 November 5
Citation
“The Romantic Ballet (The Magic of Dance part 4) - Margot Fonteyn (performer) (excerpt) (1979),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 18, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/125.