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Margot Fonteyn (2012)

Subject

Dance; Women’s studies

A short podcast looking at the life and legacy of Margot Fonteyn, widely considered to be one of the greatest classical dancers of the 20th century. Part of The New Elizabethans, a series presented by James...

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Dance Sculptor

Series name

London Line

Issue no

584

NoS ID

326874

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Australian-born Tom Merrifield was a successful ballet dancer until an injury put paid to his career. He taught himself to sculpt in bronze and is now the foremost sculptor of dancers in the...

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Gillian Lynne

Date released

1969

Series name

The Pacemakers

Issue no

2

NoS ID

327138

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Gillian Lynne is a choreographer, she designs movements to music. Trained in classical ballet, she became a star of the prestigious Royal Ballet, but felt that the disciplines of classical...

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Still Life at the Penguin Cafe (2007)

Subject

Dance; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 90 minutes), £19.99

Issued to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Simon Jeffes, the founder of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, which had a unique brand of music drawing on classical, avant-garde, pop, folk and ethnic...

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Third International Ballet Festival at the Maryinsky Theatre (2003 Video)

Staged in honour of Rudolf Nureyev on the tenth anniversary of his death. Introduced by Makhar Vaziev, director of the Maryinsky Theatre. Ballet excerpts are performed by dancers from the Kirov Ballet, Paris...

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Romeo and Juliet (1995 Television, Video)

Series

Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet

Director

Derek Diorio

Producer

Frank Augustyn; Neil Bregman

Educational television series on classical ballets created and hosted by Frank Augustyn. Using Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet adaptation of Romeo and Juliet as an example, Frank Augustyn and other dancers...

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Red Shoes Stars Weds

Date released

2 Mar 1950

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1082A

NoS ID

016237

Story no

6 / 8

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Red Shoes Star Weds. DESCRIPTION: Miss Moria Shearer King, the ballerina, was recently married to Mr Ludovic Kennedy at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court. SHOTLIST: KS. GV Moira Shearer...

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The Prince at the Fair

Date released

5 Mar 1959

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1552A

NoS ID

022903

Story no

5 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Prince at a Fair. DESCRIPTION: Prince Philip spent an evening at the latest Fair in Singapore. Chinese hostesses had the honour of being presented to him and entertainment for His...

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Dream, The (1967 Television)

aka: Royal Ballet, The: The Dream

Director

Margaret Dale

Producer

Margaret Dale

Ballet. Television adaptation of the Royal Ballet’s production of Frederick Ashton’s ballet The Dream. Plainly presented in the television studio with the principal dancers from the original 1964...

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Ballet for All (7 Parts) (1970 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 7 x 30 min.

Seven programmes based on those originally written for stage by Peter Brinson and performed by the company Ballet for All which consisted of actors and young soloists of the Royal Ballet companies.

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