Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Sills, Beverly.
2. Baylis, Meredith.
3. Arpino, Gerald.
4. Arpino, Gerald
5. Danias, Starr
6. Schafer, Richard
7. Han, Daṿid.
8. Sides, Patricia.
9. Ray, Melanie.
10. Krane, David, 1953-
11. Joffrey Ballet School.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (NTSC) (30 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Shows deaf youngsters, eight to eleven years old, who are enrolled in an experimental "Ballet for the deaf" program at Robert Joffrey's American Ballet Center. Teacher Meredith Baylis conducts classical ballet classes the goal of which are to integrate the students into regular dance classes for the hearing; Starr Danias and Richard Schafer perform an excerpt from Gerald Arpino's L'air d'esprit; Mr. Arpino is shown rehearsing two deaf children in a piece choreographed for them; and Miss Sills discusses problems of deaf children with a group of parents. Signed for the hearing-impaired.

Alternative title

1. Skyline.

Subject

1. Deaf children

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Video.

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-1948

Credits (note)

1. Music direction, David Krane.

Event (note)

1. Telecast by WNET/13 on the Skyline series.

Funding (note)

1. This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System details (note)

1. DVD.

Title

1. Silent dancing [videorecording] / produced and directed by David W. Hahn ; executive producer, Patricia Sides ; written by Melanie Ray and David W. Hahn

Imprint

1. 1979.

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

Credits

1. Music direction, David Krane.

Performer

1. Narrator, Beverly Sills.

Event

1. Telecast by WNET/13 on the Skyline series.

Funding

1. This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

System details

1. DVD.

Local note

1. Former classmark: *MGZIC 9-372.

Local subject

1. Deaf dancers.
2. Ballet dancing for children -- Study and teaching.
3. Dance for handicapped children.

Added author

1. Sills, Beverly. Narrator
2. Baylis, Meredith. Teacher
3. Arpino, Gerald. Teacher
4. Arpino, Gerald, choreographer.
5. Danias, Starr, dancer.
6. Schafer, Richard, dancer.
7. Han, Daṿid. Director
8. Han, Daṿid. Producer
9. Han, Daṿid. Author of dialog
10. Sides, Patricia. Producer
11. Ray, Melanie. Author of dialog
12. Krane, David, 1953-
13. Joffrey Ballet School.

Added title

1. Skyline.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-1948