Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Smedley, Ronald.
2. Royal Ballet.

Description

1. 1 streaming video file (NTSC) (20 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

1. Informal studio lecture-demonstration of English folk dances. Includes a clog dance from County Durham, a morris dance jug from Sherbourne, Gloucestershire, and the "Rapper" sword dance of the coal miners of Northumberland, County Durham.

Alternative title

1. Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation.

Subject

1. Jig (Dance)
2. Rapper sword dance (Dance)
3. Folk dancing > England
4. Clog dancing
5. Morris dances
6. Sword-dance

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 2153

Note

1. Videotaped for the Jerome Robbins Archive on April 20, 1983 in New York by Michael Schwartz.
2. Commentary by Ronald Smedley. Performed by dancers of the Royal Ballet of London: Stephen Beagley, Jonathan Burrows, Anthony Dowson, Guy Niblett, and Simon Rice. Musical accompaniment performed by Henry Roche, Fiddler, and Jonathan Burrows, melodeon.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Title

1. A demonstration of English folk dances [electronic resource]

Imprint

1. 1983.

Restricted access

1. Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Local note

1. Former call number: *MGZIC 9-563.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Local subject

1. Television. A demonstration of English folk dances.

Added author

1. Smedley, Ronald. Commentator
2. Royal Ballet.

Added title

1. Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image Original Documentation.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDF 2153
2. *MGZIC 9-563 (former)