| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Inanna F.A.R. art series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
"Early Days, Early Dancers documents the first decade of the National Ballet, focusing on the dancers of the 1950s, especially principal dancers Lois Smith, David Adams, Angela Leigh, Donald Mahler, and Celia Franca, herself a dancer and later the Company's Artistic Director. With an enthusiastic foreword by Karen Kain, and a moving afterword by Veronica Tenant, the book includes pieces by twenty-two dancers, plus memorial tributes to dancers who have passed away. Contributions explore the dancer's journey through St. Lawrence Hall, summer school, rehearsal, and life on tour, as well as life after a career in dance. Portraits includes comments by the dancers on such figures as Celia Franca, Betty Oliphant, and Kay Ambrose among others, and memorial tributes to those dance figures who have died are written by well-known writers contemporaries such as Michal Crabbe, John Fraser, Vanessa Harwood, and Veronica Tenant. These memories of the Company's early dancers provide a unique impression of the origins of the National Ballet, and the history of dance in Canada, and highlight the way the present dances on the shoulders of those who have gone before."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Karen Kain -- Introduction -- Places and spaces -- Early training -- Learning on the job -- Performances and touring -- In their own words -- Early champions -- Life after the National -- A brief memoir -- Afterword / Veronica Tennant. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National Ballet of Canada -- History.
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National Ballet of Canada. |
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History. |
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Ballet companies -- Canada -- History.
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Ballet companies. |
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Canada. |
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Ballet -- Canada -- History.
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Ballet. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Allen, Jocelyn Terell, 1939- Early days, early dancers. Toronto : Inanna Publications, 2020 1771337737 9781771337731 (OCoLC)1127656322 |
| ISBN |
9781771337755 Kindle |
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9781771337762 electronic book |
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1771337745 EPUB |
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1771337753 Kindle |
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1771337761 electronic book |
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9781771337748 (electronic book) |
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9781771337731 (softcover) |
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1771337737 |
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