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The spellbound child

Title: The spellbound child [videorecording] / WNET/Thirteen ; directed by Emile Ardolino ; produced by Emile Ardolino and Judy Kinberg ; conceived for television by George Balanchine in collaboration with Kermit Love ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music by Maurice Ravel (L'enfant et les sortilèges) ; based on a poem by Colette.
Publication: New York, N.Y. : WNET, 1981.

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Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (54 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Lyrical fantasy based on Colette's text, combining music, dance, and puppetry.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of WNET/13, New York.

Genre/Form

Dance.
Music.
Video.

Credits (note)

English translation, Katharine Wolff; design concept, puppets, models, and costumes, Kermit Love; production design supervised by David Mitchell; lighting, Ralph Holmes; creative consultant, Edward Villella; executive producer, Jac Venza.

Performer (note)

Christopher Byars (boy); Francis Sackett (mother); Bryant Young (armchair); Alexia Hess, Julie Johnson Kirsten (lady chair); Richard Ellis (clock); Mel Tomlinson (teapot); Susan Freedman (Chinese cup); Karin von Aroldingen (fire); Patrick Hinson, Kipling Houston, Laurence Matthews, Bruce Padgett, Francis Sackett (shepherds); Stacy Caddell, Susan Gluck, Darla Hoover, Miriam Mahdaviani, Roma Sosenko (shepherdesses); Karen Hunt (princess); Richard Ellis, Bryant Young (cats); Jim Kroupa (wounded tree); Renee Estopinal, Nina Fedorova, Florence Fitzgerald, Jerri Kumery (dragonflies); Antonia Franceschi, Bruce Edward Hall, Lauren Hauser (bats); Helene Alexopoulos, Michele Bailey, Evelyn Carton, Lisa Chalmers, Barbara Seibert, Garielle Whittle (moths); Laurence Matthews, Bryant Young (frogs); Richard Ellis, Timothy Fox (owls); Bartholomew Acocella, Andrew Alleyne, Peter Boal, Knowl Johnson, Justic Model, Demian Schane, John Selya, James Sewell (toads).

Event (note)

Telecast on the Dance in America series on May 25, 1981.

System Details (note)

DVD, transferred from Digital Betacam cassette.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5992

OCLC

NYPY847038735-F

Title

The spellbound child [videorecording] / WNET/Thirteen ; directed by Emile Ardolino ; produced by Emile Ardolino and Judy Kinberg ; conceived for television by George Balanchine in collaboration with Kermit Love ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music by Maurice Ravel (L'enfant et les sortilèges) ; based on a poem by Colette.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : WNET, 1981.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

System Details

DVD, transferred from Digital Betacam cassette.

Event

Telecast on the Dance in America series on May 25, 1981.

Credits

English translation, Katharine Wolff; design concept, puppets, models, and costumes, Kermit Love; production design supervised by David Mitchell; lighting, Ralph Holmes; creative consultant, Edward Villella; executive producer, Jac Venza.

Performer

Danced by members of the New York City Ballet.

Cast

Christopher Byars (boy); Francis Sackett (mother); Bryant Young (armchair); Alexia Hess, Julie Johnson Kirsten (lady chair); Richard Ellis (clock); Mel Tomlinson (teapot); Susan Freedman (Chinese cup); Karin von Aroldingen (fire); Patrick Hinson, Kipling Houston, Laurence Matthews, Bruce Padgett, Francis Sackett (shepherds); Stacy Caddell, Susan Gluck, Darla Hoover, Miriam Mahdaviani, Roma Sosenko (shepherdesses); Karen Hunt (princess); Richard Ellis, Bryant Young (cats); Jim Kroupa (wounded tree); Renee Estopinal, Nina Fedorova, Florence Fitzgerald, Jerri Kumery (dragonflies); Antonia Franceschi, Bruce Edward Hall, Lauren Hauser (bats); Helene Alexopoulos, Michele Bailey, Evelyn Carton, Lisa Chalmers, Barbara Seibert, Garielle Whittle (moths); Laurence Matthews, Bryant Young (frogs); Richard Ellis, Timothy Fox (owls); Bartholomew Acocella, Andrew Alleyne, Peter Boal, Knowl Johnson, Justic Model, Demian Schane, John Selya, James Sewell (toads).

Performer

Puppeters: Richard Ellis, Bruce Edward Hall, Jim Kroupa, Roman Paska, Jim Rowland, Bryant Young.

Vocal cast: Gary Glaze (teapot, arithmetic, frog); Emily Golden (lady chair, cat); Karen Hunt (princess); Elizabeth Pruett (shepherdess, bat); Jane Shaulis (mother, Chinese cup, shepherd, dragonfly, squirrel); William Stone (clock, cat); Dan Sullivan (armchair, wounded tree); Carl Tramon (the boy); Ruth Welting (fire, nightingale).

Music performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra, conducted by Manuel Rosenthal.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-513.

Local Subject

Ballet in television. Enfant et les sortilèges.

Television. Dance in America.

Added Author

Balanchine, George, choreographer.

Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Enfant et les sortilèges.

Love, Kermit. Designer. Costume designer

Ardolino, Emile. Producer

Ardolino, Emile. Director

Kinberg, Judy. Producer

Colette, 1873-1954. Librettist

Wolff, Katharine. Translator

Holmes, Ralph, lighting designer.

Villella, Edward, 1936- Consultant

Venza, Jac, television producer.

Rosenthal, Manuel, 1904-2003. Conductor

Aroldingen, Karin von, 1941-2018, dancer.

Byars, Christopher, dancer.

Sackett, Francis, dancer.

Young, Bryant, dancer.

Hess, Alexia, dancer.

Ellis, Richard, dancer.

Tomlinson, Mel, dancer.

Freedman, Susan, dancer.

Hunt, Karen. Singer

Glaze, Gary. Singer

Golden, Emily. Singer

Pruett, Elizabeth. Singer

Shaulis, Jane. Singer

Stone, William. Singer

Tramon, Carl. Singer

Welting, Ruth. Singer

New York City Ballet.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Balanchine, George. Enfant et les sortilèges.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-5992

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