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Highlights from the sixty-seventh Blackpool Dance Festival

Title: Highlights from the sixty-seventh Blackpool Dance Festival [videorecording] / Quasar Video ; directed by Peter Pember ; produced by Peter Pember and Julia Pember.
Publication: Hereford, England : Quasar Video ; Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. : See-Do Productions, c1992.

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Description

1 videocassette (95 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Semi-finals and finals of the British Professional Latin and Ballroom Dance Championships, accompanied by a running commentary on individuals and dance technique by Bryan Allen and Pat Thompson. The dances performed for the Latin championship are the cha cha, samba, rumba, pasodoble, and jive; for the ballroom dance championship, the waltz, foxtrot, tango, and quickstep. The competition footage is interspersed with behind-the-scenes views of the judges' room, introduction of the judges, presentation of awards, and interviews with winners.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.
Special event coverage and commentary.
Latin dancing.

Performer (note)

Compère: Bill Irvine.
Commentators: Bryan Allen and Pat Thompson.
Interviewees: Sammy Stopford and Barbara McColl ; Gillian MacKenzie, festival organizer ; Marcus and Karen Hilton.

Event (note)

Recorded in the Empress Ballroom, Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England, in summer 1992.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-2363

OCLC

NYPY97-F403

Title

Highlights from the sixty-seventh Blackpool Dance Festival [videorecording] / Quasar Video ; directed by Peter Pember ; produced by Peter Pember and Julia Pember.

Imprint

Hereford, England : Quasar Video ; Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y. : See-Do Productions, c1992.

Country of Producing Entity

U.K.

Performer

Compère: Bill Irvine.

Commentators: Bryan Allen and Pat Thompson.

Dancers in semi-finals of the British Professional Latin Championship: Hans Galke and Bianca Schreiber, Johan and Nadia Eftedal, Richard and Els Porter, Ralf Lepehne and Lydia Weisser, Jean-Marc Genereux and France Mousseau, Sammy Stopford and Barbara McColl, Jason Gilkison and Peta Roby, Martin and Alison Lamb, Martin Dihlmann and Tone Nyhagen, Corky and Shirley Ballas, Tatsu Ohtake and Takako Suzuki, Rick Valenzuela and Melissa Dexter, Jukka Haapalainen and Sirpa Suutari, Bill Sparks and Shirley Jackson [jive only; names announced orally].

Dancers in semi-finals of the British Professional Ballroom Dance Championship: Andrew and Loraine Sinkinson, Kim Rygel and Cecilie Brinck, Hidekazu and Yoko Tanaka, John Wood and Anne Lewis, Hiro and Kyoko Amano, Marcus and Karen Hilton, Lasse Odegaard and Laila Kragebol, Stephen and Connie Hannah, Denis and Adele Tremblay, Luca Baricchi and Amanda Owen, Chu and Tomiko Shinoda, Steve and Carol Powell; additional couples announced orally only.

Interviewees: Sammy Stopford and Barbara McColl ; Gillian MacKenzie, festival organizer ; Marcus and Karen Hilton.

Event

Recorded in the Empress Ballroom, Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England, in summer 1992.

Local Subject

Social dancing -- Competitions.

Exhibition ballroom dancing -- Competitions.

Added Author

Allen, Bryan L. Commentator

Thompson, Pat Lupino. Commentator

Irvine, Bill. Host

Eftedal, Johan, dancer.

Eftedal, Nadia, dancer.

Porter, Richard, dancer.

Porter, Els, dancer.

Lepehne, Ralf, dancer.

Weisser, Lydia, dancer.

Stopford, Sammy, dancer. Interviewee

McColl, Barbara, dancer. Interviewee

Ballas, Corky, dancer.

Ballas, Shirley, dancer.

Sparks, Bill, dancer.

Wood, John, dancer.

Wood, Anne Lewis, dancer.

Hilton, Marcus, dancer. Interviewee

Hilton, Karen, dancer. Interviewee

Hannah, Stephen, dancer.

Hannah, Connie, dancer.

Tremblay, Denis, dancer.

Tremblay, Adele, dancer.

Pember, Peter. Producer. Director

Pember, Julia. Producer

Quasar Video (Firm)

See-Do Productions.

Blackpool Dance Festival.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-2363

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