Early days, early dancers : early years of the National Ballet of Canada / Jocelyn Terell Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Jocelyn Terell, 1939- author.

Series:

Inanna F.A.R. art series.

Inanna F.A.R. art series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ballet companies--History--Canada.

Ballet companies.

Ballet--History--Canada.

Ballet.

National Ballet of Canada--History.

National Ballet of Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Inanna Publications, [2020]

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."--

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781771337748

1771337745

9781771337762

1771337761