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Canada carries on. Ballet festival /

From the Canada Carries On series, this is a look at Canada's first national Ballet Festival. Amateur companies from Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Hamilton and Vancouver perform at Toronto's Royal Alexander Theatre. An Ottawa company dances Les Sylphides. The Winnipeg Ballet appears...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: National Film Board of Canada
Other Authors: Blais, Roger (Director), Mulholland, Donald (Producer), Benson, Tom (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Montreal, QC : National Film Board of Canada, 1949.
Series:VAST: academic video online
Subjects:
Ballet > Canada.
Dance > Canada.
Dance festivals.
Danse > Canada.
Festivals de danse.
Ballet
Dance
Dance festivals
Canada
Documentaries and Factual Films
documentary film.
Documentary films
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:From the Canada Carries On series, this is a look at Canada's first national Ballet Festival. Amateur companies from Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Hamilton and Vancouver perform at Toronto's Royal Alexander Theatre. An Ottawa company dances Les Sylphides. The Winnipeg Ballet appears in Visages by Walter Kaufman and the Volkoff Ballet of Toronto in Red Ear of Corn by John Weinzweig, both new Canadian works.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed November 25, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (11 min.).
Playing Time:00:10:33