- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (NTSC) (29 min.) : sd., col.
- Summary
- Dancer Paula Weber, now an assistant professor in the dance program of the University of Missouri Kansas City and a member of Leni Wylliams's Wylliams/Henry Danse Theatre in Kansas City, discusses her education and career. After graduating from Butler University in Indiana, where she studied ballet with George Verdak, she danced with Chicago's Lyric Opera Ballet under the leadership of Maria Tallchief, then with the Milwaukee Ballet in choreography by artistic director Jean-Paul Comelin and others. She performs with the Berkshire Ballet while continuing her activities in Kansas City. She compares the different schools of ballet (e.g., Cecchetti, Royal Academy of Dancing, Russian, Balanchine) she has studied in the course of her career, and describes the motivations that keep a dancer performing through injury, illness, and other adversity.
- Series Statement
- Dance on: With Billie Mahoney.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Note
- Date provided by Billie Mahoney.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Billie Mahoney.
- Interviewee: Paula Weber.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped for the public access cable television program Dance on: With Billie Mahoney in Kansas City, Mo., on October 27, 1994 ; produced through the facilities of American Cablevision of Kansas City, Inc.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 4992
- OCLC
- NYPY98-F2830
- Title
Dance on: Paula Weber [electronic resource] / produced by Billie Mahoney in association with Dance Films Association ; directed by Ann Kelly.
- Imprint
c1994.
- Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
- Series
Dance on: With Billie Mahoney.
- Performer
Interviewer: Billie Mahoney.
Interviewee: Paula Weber.
- Event
Videotaped for the public access cable television program Dance on: With Billie Mahoney in Kansas City, Mo., on October 27, 1994 ; produced through the facilities of American Cablevision of Kansas City, Inc.
- 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 9-5541.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Weber, Paula. Interviewee
Mahoney, Billie. Producer. Interviewer
Kelly, Ann. Director
Dance Films Association.
DHCA.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 4992
*MGZIC 9-5541 (former)