The Magnificent Beginnings (The Magic of Dance part 5) - Margot Fonteyn (performer) (excerpt) (1979)(no video link)
Title
The Magnificent Beginnings (The Magic of Dance part 5) - Margot Fonteyn (performer) (excerpt) (1979)(no video link)
Subject
Ballet dancing
Dance--United States
Ballet--History
Description
Content description from WorldCat.org (https://www.worldcat.org/title/magic-of-dance-episode-5-the-magnificent-beginning/oclc/317360635):
The first ballet school was founded by King Louis XIV of France in 1669. Fonteyn introduces this program from Louis' great palace at Versailles. She chronicles the monarch's love of dance and traces this art from the courtly dances of 17th-century France to ballet as it is known today. At Drottningholm in Sweden, Fonteyn visits the Court Theatre and observes ballet performed in the original settings and under the original conditions. By contrast, this segment also includes performances of parts of "La Fille Mal GardeĢe" with Wendy Ellis, David Wall and Ronald Emblen (first performed in 1789 two weeks before the outbreak of the French Revolution) and a more recent French ballet, Roland Petit's "Carmen" (1948), danced by Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire. Other performances include: a Spanish bolero; a scene from "The Little Match Girl" performed by the Dance Academy of the Peking Ballet School; a rehearsal at the Paris Opera; and the Trick Dance from "La Dansomanie."
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 first ballet school was founded by King Louis XIV of France in 1669. Fonteyn introduces this program from Louis' great palace at Versailles. She chronicles the monarch's love of dance and traces this art from the courtly dances of 17th-century France to ballet as it is known today. At Drottningholm in Sweden, Fonteyn visits the Court Theatre and observes ballet performed in the original settings and under the original conditions. By contrast, this segment also includes performances of parts of "La Fille Mal GardeĢe" with Wendy Ellis, David Wall and Ronald Emblen (first performed in 1789 two weeks before the outbreak of the French Revolution) and a more recent French ballet, Roland Petit's "Carmen" (1948), danced by Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire. Other performances include: a Spanish bolero; a scene from "The Little Match Girl" performed by the Dance Academy of the Peking Ballet School; a rehearsal at the Paris Opera; and the Trick Dance from "La Dansomanie."
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 Magnificent Beginnings (The Magic of Dance part 5) - Margot Fonteyn (performer) (excerpt) (1979)(no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed April 20, 2024, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/126.