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Ballet Festival
194911 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Roger Blais
Production: Don Mulholland
From the Canada Carries On series, this is a look at Canada's second 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.
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Subject categories
- Dance > BalletCompaniesDance Performances
- History > Canada 1946-1991
- Arts Education > Dance
Credits
- director
- Roger Blais
- producer
- Don Mulholland
- photography
- Lorne C. Batchelor
- editing
- Nicholas Balla
- narrator
- Tom Benson
- music
- Louis Applebaum