- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (NTSC) (29 min.) : sd., col.
- Summary
- Elizabeth Hard-Simms, who now directs the Westport Ballet Theatre and its associated school in Kansas City, Missouri, recalls her dance training with Lillian Cushing in Denver and Ruth Ambrose in Boston, and reminisces about her subsequent career with Frank and Irina Pal's Wichita Falls Ballet Theatre and Tatiana Dokoudovska's Kansas City Civic Ballet. In discussing her school, she compares traditional and newer approaches to teaching, the latter emphasizing more positive attitudes. She discusses the work of her husband Michael Simms, ballet master at Stephens College, and the varied activities of the Westport Ballet Theatre, which include special performances for children and seniors, and free open-air performances at a shopping mall.
- Series Statement
- Dance on: With Billie Mahoney.
- Subjects
- Children, Performances for
- Television > Dance on: with Billie Mahoney
- Video
- Interviews
- Dance
- Ballet dancing for children > Study and teaching
- Stephens College > Dept. of Dance
- Kansas City Civic Ballet
- Wichita Falls Ballet Theatre
- Westport Ballet Theatre
- Simms, Michael
- Dokoudovska, Tatiana
- Pal, Irina, 1921-1992
- Pal, Frank, 1914-
- Ambrose, Ruth Marion, 1916-
- Cushing, Lillian
- Genre/Form
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Billie Mahoney.
- Interviewee: Elizabeth Hard-Simms.
- Event (note)
- Program from the public access cable television program Dance on: with Billie Mahoney. Recorded in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 16, 1993. Produced through the facilities of American Cablevision of Kansas City, Missouri.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 4985
- OCLC
- NYPY936061403-F
- Title
Dance on: Elizabeth Hard-Simms [electronic resource] / produced by Billie Mahoney in association with Dance Films Association, inc. ; director, Ann Kelly.
- Imprint
1993.
- Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
- Series
Dance on: With Billie Mahoney.
- Performer
Interviewer: Billie Mahoney.
Interviewee: Elizabeth Hard-Simms.
- Event
Program from the public access cable television program Dance on: with Billie Mahoney. Recorded in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 16, 1993. Produced through the facilities of American Cablevision of Kansas City, Missouri.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-3980.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Television. Dance on: with Billie Mahoney.
Children, Performances for.
- Added Author
Mahoney, Billie. Producer. Interviewer
Hard-Simms, Elizabeth. Interviewee
Kelly, Ann. Director
Dance Films Association.
DHCA.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 4985
*MGZIC 9-3980 (former)