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The Performing Arts on Film and Television Catalogue THE PERFORMING ARTS ON FILM & TELEVISION CATALOGUE Film and video materials held by the archives and collections of BFI, Arts Council England, LUX, Central St Martins British Artists Film & Video Study Collection relating to theatre, dance, music, performance art, politics and poetry Balletomines, 1954 2011 Acknowledgements This catalogue was commissioned by MI:LL (Moving Image: Legacy and Learning), an Arts Council England initiative to support projects and develop strategies that promote engagement with the arts through the moving image. Researched, written, edited, designed and published by Helena Blaker James Bell Michael Brooke Elaine Burrows Bryony Dixon Christophe Dupin Jane Giles Amy Howerska Edward Lawrenson Deborah Salter Dan Smith Louise Watson With thanks to Karen Alexander, Nigel Algar, Nigel Arthur, Steve Bryant, Mike Caldwell, Ros Cranston, David Curtis, Will Fowler, Philippa Johns, Nathalie Morris, Patrick Russell, David Sin, Mike Sperlinger, Gary Thomas, Rebecca Vick, Ian White, Andrew Youdell and Juliane Zenke. All stills courtesy of BFI Stills, Posters & Designs A BFI Publication 2011 available to download from www.bfi.org.uk BFI 21 Stephen Street London W1T 1LN UK Telephone +44 (020) 7255 1444 www.bfi.org.uk 2 Contents Please click on a word/link to be taken automatically to that part of the Catalogue Acknowledgements................................................................................................................. 2 Contents ................................................................................................................................... 3 How to Access Films ............................................................................................................... 5 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 10 Chapter 1: British Music Hall and Variety on Film 1895 - 1930 ....................................... 12 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 12 Records of Performances and Actualities ....................................................................... 13 Music Hall Artistes and Themes in films made for Cinema......................................... 28 Films based on Music Hall Sketches and Plays .............................................................. 35 Fiction films about Music Hall .......................................................................................... 36 Chapter 2: Theatre................................................................................................................. 48 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 48 Classical Theatre ................................................................................................................ 50 William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) .................................................................................. 54 Seventeenth to nineteenth century playwrights ........................................................... 71 European Playwrights of the Twentieth Century........................................................... 85 Pre-War British and Irish Writers..................................................................................... 91 Post-War Theatre in Britain and Ireland....................................................................... 100 Other Dramatists:............................................................................................................. 128 American Theatre ............................................................................................................ 132 Television Drama ............................................................................................................. 140 Missing Believed Wiped................................................................................................... 147 Chapter 3: Dance ................................................................................................................. 154 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 154 Classical Dance.................................................................................................................... 155 Ballet Film Collections ..................................................................................................... 155 Classical Performers......................................................................................................... 165 Choreographers & Companies........................................................................................ 178 Ballet Films........................................................................................................................ 198 Composers......................................................................................................................... 206 Modern, Postmodern and Contemporary Dance ............................................................ 211 Modern Performers .......................................................................................................... 212 Modern Dance Films ........................................................................................................ 227 Dance Films for the Camera ........................................................................................... 232 Contemporary Dance Film-Makers................................................................................ 237 Avant-Garde Dance Films ............................................................................................... 256 Folk Dance ......................................................................................................................... 272 Popular Dance and Entertainment................................................................................. 280 Chapter 4: Music.................................................................................................................. 297 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 297 Musicals............................................................................................................................. 297 Opera.................................................................................................................................. 340 Composers......................................................................................................................... 373 Performers......................................................................................................................... 385 Instruments....................................................................................................................... 400 Folk Music.......................................................................................................................... 402 Jazz Music.......................................................................................................................... 405 3 Popular music ................................................................................................................... 414 World Music ...................................................................................................................... 530 Feature films with music themes (A-Z)......................................................................... 535 Music: See also.................................................................................................................. 540 Chapter 5: Performance Art and Artists’ Film & Video .................................................. 542 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 542 Artistic Contexts............................................................................................................... 543 Chapter 6: From Politics to Poetry..................................................................................... 657 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 657 Speech and deconstructing language............................................................................ 657 Political Oratory ................................................................................................................ 660 Propaganda........................................................................................................................ 664 Protest ................................................................................................................................668 Identity............................................................................................................................... 677 Social Order....................................................................................................................... 696 Film Poems & Adaptations (A-Z) .................................................................................... 708 Poets and Poetry ............................................................................................................... 726 Chapter 7: Cinema Acting 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