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[Balanchine rehearses L'enfant et les sortilèges]

Title
[Balanchine rehearses L'enfant et les sortilèges] [electronic resource] / [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music by Maurice Ravel.
Publication
1981.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Balanchine, George
  • Ardolino, Emile.
  • Dunleavy, Rosemary.
  • Boelzner, Gordon.
  • Aroldingen, Karin von, 1941-2018
  • Hunt, Karen
  • Byars, Christopher.
  • Freedman, Susan
  • Tomlinson, Mel
  • Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937.
  • New York City Ballet.
  • DHCA.
Description
2 streaming video files (NTSC) (212 min.) : sd., col.
Summary
Compilation of five rehearsals for the Dance in America program The spellbound child, first telecast on May 25, 1981. In addition to working with the dancers, choreographer George Balanchine occasionally confers with the television director Emile Ardolino (heard from off-camera) on camera angles and special effects.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of New York City Ballet.
Uniform Title
Enfant et les sortilèges (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
  • Unedited footage.
  • Dance rehearsals.
Note
  • Title from information provided by donor.
  • For the finished version of L'enfant et les sortilèges, reconceived for television by George Balanchine and directed by Emile Ardolino, see *MGZIC 9-513 The spellbound child.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Performer (note)
  • Pianist: Gordon Boelzner.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, with piano and recorded accompaniment, at New York State Theater, New York, on February 10, 11, and 12, 1981, by Emile Ardolino or his staff.
Contents
Rehearsal for Fire / recorded on February 10, 1981. Balanchine, assisted by Rosemary Dunleavy, rehearses Karin von Aroldingen in the role of Fire (ca. 62 min.). -- Continuation of rehearsal for Fire (ca. 26 min.) / Christopher Byars, who plays the title role of the child, briefly joins the rehearsal -- Rehearsal for the princess and the child (ca. 7 min.) / recorded on February 10, 1981. Balanchine blocks out movements for Karen Hunt as the princess and Byars -- Rehearsal for the Teapot and the Chinese Cup (ca. 25 min.) / recorded on February 11, 1981. Balanchine and Dunleavy work with Susan Freedman (Chinese Cup) and Mel Tomlinson (?) (Teapot). -- Continuation of rehearsal for the Teapot and the Chinese Cup (ca. 31 min.) -- Rehearsal for Fire and the child (ca. 14 min.) / recorded on February 12, 1981. Balanchine and Dunleavy work with von Aroldingen and Byars -- Rehearsal for the Teapot and the Chinese Cup (ca. 17 min.) / recorded on February 12, 1981. Balanchine works with Freedman, with Dunleavy standing in for the Teapot. -- Continuation of rehearsal for the Teapot and the Chinese Cup (ca. 31 min.).
Call Number
*MGZIDF 1670
OCLC
NYPY97-F441
Title
[Balanchine rehearses L'enfant et les sortilèges] [electronic resource] / [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music by Maurice Ravel.
Imprint
1981.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Event
Videotaped in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, with piano and recorded accompaniment, at New York State Theater, New York, on February 10, 11, and 12, 1981, by Emile Ardolino or his staff.
Performer
Danced by members of New York City Ballet.
Pianist: Gordon Boelzner.
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIC 9-4821
Connect to:
NYPL Digital Collections
Local Subject
Literature and dance.
Ballet in television. Enfant et les sortilèges.
Television. Dance in America.
Added Author
Balanchine, George, choreographer
Balanchine, George, commentator
Ardolino, Emile. Director
Ardolino, Emile. Commentator
Dunleavy, Rosemary. cmm, dancer.
Boelzner, Gordon. Instrumentalist
Aroldingen, Karin von, 1941-2018, dancer.
Hunt, Karen, dancer.
Byars, Christopher. Performer
Freedman, Susan, dancer.
Tomlinson, Mel, dancer.
Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Composer
New York City Ballet.
DHCA.
Added Title
Enfant et les sortilèges (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 1670
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