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New Horizons [and] Beginnings: School of American Ballet.

Title: New Horizons [and] Beginnings: School of American Ballet.
Publication: [19--?],1977.

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Description

1 streaming video file (approximately 44 min.) : sound, color.

Summary

New Horizons is about the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute program held annually, includes Maria Tallchief teaching ballet class and talking to students.
"Beginnings is a film portrait of the School of American Ballet, New York, portrayed through scenes of classes taught by various teachers, auditions for admission, rehearsals for a workshop performance of George Balanchine's Symphony in C, and a rehearsal and performance of a children's dance in Coppélia. Voice-over commentaries by teachers and students give their observations of life at the school. Teachers on screen, in order of appearance, are: Muriel Stuart, Stanley Williams, Antonina Tumkovsky, Andrei Kramarevsky, Felia Doubrovska, Alexandra Danilova, and Suki Schorer. Teachers heard in voice-overs are: Helene Dudin, Richard Rapp, and Elise Reiman. Balanchine briefly appears in the Coppélia rehearsal footage." -- summary note, *MGZIDVD 5-5990 Beginnings.

Uniform Title

Coppélia (Choreographic work : Balanchine and Danilova, A after Petipa, M)

Alternative Title

Beginnings: School of American Ballet [and] New Horizons

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.

Note

Title from opening credits.
Additional copy of Beginnings in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, *MGZIDVD 5-5990.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Source (note)

Maria Tallchief and Elise Paschen.

Contents

New Horizons (13 min.) / presented by Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute ; sponsored by American Federation of Musicians, Music Performance Trust Fund, Kerr Foundation ; film made possible by Phillips Petroleum Company ; [produced by] Tulsa Studios ; participants include Maria Tallchief (teacher) -- Beginnings: School of American Ballet (1977) (31 min.) / by Maren and Reed Erskine ; produced by the School of American Ballet ; camera/editing, Maren Erskine ; sound, Reed Erskine ; dance consultant, Suki Schorer.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 1354

OCLC

859337822

Title

New Horizons [and] Beginnings: School of American Ballet.

Publisher

[19--?],1977.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

video

Type of Carrier

online resource

Original Version

Original format: 1 videocassette (VHS) ; 1/2 in.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video files online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Event

Videotaped at the Quartz Mountain State Park, Oklahoma and the School of American Ballet, New York, N.Y. [19--?] and 1977.

Source

Gift; Maria Tallchief and Elise Paschen.

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Added Author

Tallchief, Maria, teacher.

Stuart, Muriel, 1900-1991, teacher.

Williams, Stanley, 1925-1997, teacher.

Tumkovsky, Antonina, teacher.

Kramarevsky, Andrei, teacher.

Doubrovska, Felia, 1896-1981, teacher.

Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997, teacher.

Schorer, Suki, teacher.

Balanchine, George, choreographer.

Erskine, Maren, filmmaker.

Erskine, Reed, filmmaker.

Tulsa Studios.

Oklahoma Arts Institute.

School of American Ballet.

American Federation of Musicians.

Music Performance Trust Funds.

Kerr Foundation.

Phillips Petroleum Company.

Tallchief, Maria, donor.

Paschen, Elise, donor.

Container of (work): Balanchine, George. Symphony in C

Added Title

Container of (work): Coppélia (Choreographic work : Balanchine and Danilova, A after Petipa, M)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 1354

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