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.

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