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The Spirit of Dance. Boston Ballet's The body electric

Title
The Spirit of Dance. Boston Ballet's The body electric [videorecording] / Cape Cod Community Television (C3TV) ; directed by Clare O'Hara ; produced by Ken Glazebrook and Norah Dale Allen.
Publication
South Yarmouth, Mass. : Cape Cod Community Television, c1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Kovatch, Karla.
  • Marks, Bruce, 1937-
  • Wallace, Robert.
  • York, Lila.
  • York, Lila
  • Berdo, Laszlo
  • Allen, Norah Dale.
  • Glazebrook, Ken.
  • O'Hara, Clare.
  • Boston Ballet.
  • Cape Cod Community Television.
Description
1 videocassette (59 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequence NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Bruce Marks, artistic director emeritus of the Boston Ballet, discusses aspects of the company's recent past, under his leadership, and the transitional period under the direction of his successor Anna-Marie Holmes. Topics include his own process of letting go ; media reaction to the death of dancer Heidi Guenther ; Citydance, an outreach program for public schools ; the need to develop audiences and present a varied repertory ; the difficulty of finding financial support ; evolving a more racially diverse company ; the new Boston Ballet building ; upcoming productions by the company. He describes the company's Body electric program (first presented on March 5, 1998), consisting of three ballets respectively choreographed by Twyla Tharp, Laszlo Berdo and Lila York, with sets and costumes by Santo Loquasto. In interviews taped on location, dancers Karla Kovatch and Rob Wallace discuss their dance training and experience, and comment on dancing in York's ballet Celts, excerpts from which are seen in dress rehearsal. Wallace is also seen in Berdo's ballet Four hands for two pianos, to music by Rachmaninoff. York, also interviewed on location, discusses the creation of Celts (which predated her first viewing of Riverdance) and her new ballet Ode to joy, to Beethoven's music.
Series Statement
Spirit of Dance ; 35.
Alternative Title
Boston Ballet's The body electric
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Interviews.
  • Video.
Performer (note)
  • Host: Norah Dale Allen.
  • Guests: (in television studio) Bruce Marks ; (on location) Karla Kovatch, Rob Wallace, Lila York.
Event (note)
  • Recorded on March 13, 1998. Telecast by Cape Cod Community Television on the series The Spirit of Dance.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-4899
OCLC
NYPY01-F220
Title
The Spirit of Dance. Boston Ballet's The body electric [videorecording] / Cape Cod Community Television (C3TV) ; directed by Clare O'Hara ; produced by Ken Glazebrook and Norah Dale Allen.
Imprint
South Yarmouth, Mass. : Cape Cod Community Television, c1998.
Series
Spirit of Dance ; 35.
Event
Recorded on March 13, 1998. Telecast by Cape Cod Community Television on the series The Spirit of Dance.
Performer
Host: Norah Dale Allen.
Guests: (in television studio) Bruce Marks ; (on location) Karla Kovatch, Rob Wallace, Lila York.
Added Author
Kovatch, Karla. ive, dancer.
Marks, Bruce, 1937- Interviewee
Wallace, Robert. ive, dancer.
York, Lila. Interviewee
York, Lila, choreographer.
Berdo, Laszlo, choreographer.
Allen, Norah Dale. Producer. Host. Interviewer
Glazebrook, Ken. Producer
O'Hara, Clare. Director
Boston Ballet.
Cape Cod Community Television.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-4899
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