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

Published Toronto, Ontario : Inanna Publications, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Series Inanna F.A.R. art series Contents Foreword / Karen Kain -- Introduction -- Places and spaces -- Early training -- Learning on the job -- Performances and touring -- In their own words -- Early champions -- Life after the National -- A brief memoir -- Afterword / Veronica Tennant 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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 29, 2020) Subject National Ballet of Canada -- History SUBJECT National Ballet of Canada fast Subject Ballet companies -- Canada -- History Ballet -- Canada -- History Ballet Ballet companies Canada Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781771337755 9781771337762 1771337745 1771337753 1771337761 9781771337748 9781771337731 1771337737

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