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Life & times. Veronica Tennant, Renaissance woman

Title: Life & times. Veronica Tennant, Renaissance woman [videorecording] / produced by M.D.I. Productions Inc. in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ; directed by David Langer ; produced by Peter Gentile.
Publication: Canada : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, c2001.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (57 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

Profile of Veronica Tennant, for many years a principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada. In interviews and in readings at a recording session, Tennant describes her passionate quest for perfection as a dancer, which enabled her to surmount physical shortcomings and injuries. She recalls her early success as Juliet in John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet; dancing opposite the Russian legends Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov; the new approach to performing she developed after the birth of her daughter; and her retirement from performing at the age of 43. Following her retirement, she has pursued a richly rewarding career as a producer and director of television dance specials, and received an Emmy award for her documentary Karen Kain: dancing in the moment. Among the many dance excerpts included in this documentary are excerpts from Tennant's performances in Romeo and Juliet [with Earl Kraul in 1965 and Raymond Smith in 1982], The sleeping beauty (with Nureyev), a rehearsal of La sylphide with Baryshnikov, and the adagio from Le corsaire pas de deux. Tennant is also seen teaching students at Canada's National Ballet School, and directing a dance film featuring dancer Peggy Baker and cellist Shauna Rolston.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation.

Series Statement

Rudolf Nureyev Collection

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Documentaries and factual films and programs.
Video.

Note

Includes commercial breaks of ca. 4 min. each at 20, 34, and 47 min. into the tape.

Credits (note)

Editor, Rick Clarke ; writer, Paul McGrath.

Performer (note)

Interviewees: Veronica Tennant, with Doris Tennant, Victoria Bertram, Gillian McClosky, Celia Franca, Dr. John Wright, Evelyn Hart, Roger Vernon, James Kudelka, Rex Harrington, Timothy Findley.
Narrator: Donald Sutherland.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4369 RNC

OCLC

NYPY04-F324

Title

Life & times. Veronica Tennant, Renaissance woman [videorecording] / produced by M.D.I. Productions Inc. in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ; directed by David Langer ; produced by Peter Gentile.

Imprint

Canada : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, c2001.

Series

Rudolf Nureyev Collection

Credits

Editor, Rick Clarke ; writer, Paul McGrath.

Performer

Interviewees: Veronica Tennant, with Doris Tennant, Victoria Bertram, Gillian McClosky, Celia Franca, Dr. John Wright, Evelyn Hart, Roger Vernon, James Kudelka, Rex Harrington, Timothy Findley.

Narrator: Donald Sutherland.

Added Author

Tennant, Veronica. ive, dancer.

Bertram, Victoria. Interviewee

Franca, Celia, 1921-2007, interviewee.

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer, choreographer.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- dancer.

Hart, Evelyn, 1956- Interviewee

Kudelka, James. Interviewee

Harrington, Rex. Interviewee

Findley, Timothy. Interviewee

Baker, Peggy Smith, dancer.

Rolston, Shauna. Instrumentalist

Sutherland, Donald, 1935- Narrator

Langer, David. Director

Gentile, Peter. Producer

National Ballet School (Canada)

M. D. I. Productions.

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4369 RNC

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