NFB Collection
Teach Me to Dance
197828 min 35 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Anne Wheeler
Production: Vladimir ValentaJohn HoweRoman Kroitor
Script: Myrna Kostash
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with the CBC, ATEC Canada, the National Museum of Man and the National Museums of Canada.
Lesia convinces her English-Canadian friend Sarah to perform a Ukrainian dance with her as part of their school's Christmas pageant. However, Sarah's father objects. Angry at the growing number of Ukrainian settlers, he will not allow his daughter to do the Ukrainian dance with Lesia. But in spite of the prejudices of their parents, the girls' friendship remains strong, and they meet in Sarah's barn to celebrate Christmas Day together.
Availability
Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > ChildrenDiscriminationHistorical PerspectivesImmigration in Western CanadaIntercultural RelationsPrairiesUkrainian Origins
- Social Issues > ChildrenCultural Communities and ImmigrationDiscrimination and StereotypingImmigrant Experience
- Children and Youth > Cultural GroupsDiscrimination and Stereotyping
- Health/Personal Development > Bullying & Discrimination
- History > Canada 1867-1914
- History and Citizenship Education > Culture and Currents of Thought (1500-present)
- Diversity > Diversity in Communities
Credits
- director
- Anne Wheeler
- producer
- Vladimir Valenta
- John Howe
- executive producer
- Roman Kroitor
- screenplay
- Myrna Kostash
- camera
- Savas Kalogeras
- sound
- Hans Oomes
- editing
- Ion Webster
- sound editing
- André Galbrand
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- music
- Maurice Marshall
- cast
- Nadia Ostashewski
- Christine Lilge
- John Pichlyk
- Heather MacCallum
Awards
- Diploma of HonourFestival "Child of our Time"