Research Catalog

Title

Step dancing with Alex Mulligan [videorecording] / produced by Ian Turnbull and Bettle Liota for Keeble Cable Television.

Publication

Toronto, Canada : Keeble Cable Television, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mulligan, Alex
• Liota, Bettle.
• Turnbull, Ian.

Description

1 videocassette (40 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Alex Mulligan and his wife Lillian discuss the history of traditional Ontario square dancing and step dancing. He demonstrates how to teach a waltz clog to one of his students. His students Heather Davidson, Bettle Liota, Sue McIlroy and Cathy Murphy perform the waltz clog and various other step dances accompanied by fiddlers Doug Gies and Anne Lederman with Brian Pickell on the banjo. Mr. Mulligan also displays his remarkable collection of small mechanical puppets which he made himself in the form of step dancers and fiddlers.

Subjects

• Television > Step dancing with Alex Mulligan
• Puppets
• Step dancing
• Irish step dancing
• Tap dancing
• Folk dancing > Canada
• Clog dancing
• Video
• Waltz-clog (Dance)
• Dance

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Video.

Event (note)

• Documentary produced in 1979.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4983

OCLC

NYPY847039321-F

Title

Step dancing with Alex Mulligan [videorecording] / produced by Ian Turnbull and Bettle Liota for Keeble Cable Television.

Imprint

Toronto, Canada : Keeble Cable Television, 1979.

Event

Documentary produced in 1979.

Local Subject

Television. Step dancing with Alex Mulligan.

Irish step dancing.

Added Author

Mulligan, Alex, dancer.

Liota, Bettle. Producer

Turnbull, Ian. Producer

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4983