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Title: SCOTTISH BALLET SPONSORSHIP VIDEO

Reference number: 11345

Date: 1994c

Production company: Scope Picture Productions Ltd.

Sound: sound

Original format: VHS

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 16.38 mins

Description: A short programme about Scottish Ballet, which reports on Scottish Ballet's activities. There is behind the scenes footage of class, rehearsals and performances - including the dancers applying make up, sets being assembled and educational workshops. The video discusses sponsorship, Scottish Ballet's international tours, Scottish Ballet 2, and the importance of music . The stress put on sponsorship indicates that this video may have been a promotional video for sponsors.

The performances include The Nutcracker, Troy Game, Five Brahms Waltzes in the Style of Isadora Duncan, Sea of Troubles, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Forgotten Land, Coppelia, Concerto Barocco, and Vespri.

During the video, the Countess of Dalkeith (Chairman, The Scottish Ballet), Peter Kyle (Chief Executive, The Scottish Ballet), Galina Samsova (Artistic Director, The Scottish Ballet) and Alf Young (Economics Editor, Glasgow Herald) are interviewed.

There is a timecode stamp in the lower right hand corner.

See also ref 11294 for excerpts related to this sponsorship video.

Please note this is a copy of the raw capture of the original analogue video for preservation and as such may display defects such as dropout, washed out colour and sound fluctuation.

Credits: The Nutcracker
Choreographer: Peter Darrell and Lev Ivanov
Scenario: After Marius Petipa
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Arranged for Small Orchestra by Leonard Salzedo
Designer: Philip Prowse
Lighting: John B Read

Troy Game
Troy Game
Choreographer: Robert North
Composer: Jon Keletio, Bob Downes

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Choreography Robert Cohan
Music: Felix Mendelssohn and Barrington Pheloung
Sets and Costumes: Norberto Chiesa
Masks: Andrew Storer
Lighting: Robert Cohan Assisted by Tom Johnston

Five Brahms Waltzes in the Style of Isadora Duncan
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton
Composer: Johannes Brahms

Vespri
Choreographer: Andre Prokovsky
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

Sea of Troubles
Choreographer: Kenneth McMillan
Composer: Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Bohuslav Martinu

Forgotten Land
Choreographer: Jiri Kyli
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Noriko Ohara dances in the pas de deux

Concerto Barocco
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto in D minor for Two Violins)

Choreography: after Marius Petipa and Enrico Cecchetti
Produced with new and additional choreography by: Peter Wright
Production staged by: Dennis Bonner
Scenery and Costumes: Peter Snow
Lighting: John Hall