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THE PLANETS

55 minutes
Grades 10 - Adult
Stereo Sound
Produced by Rhombus Media
A film by Barbara Willis Sweete
Music by Gustav Holst

A spectacular ice fantasia featuring the Olympic skating
champions, Paul and Isabelle Duchesnay and former world
champion Brian Orser. Set to the music of the symphonic
masterpiece by Gustav Holst, this dazzling production
incorporates both solo and ensemble ice dance, precision group
skating and synchronized swimming. The setting is Mount
Olympus with a starry firmament all around, and the elaborate
ice and dance show as entertainment for the gods. Charles
Dutoit conducts the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. The dancers
include Sonia Rodriguez, Owen Montague and members of the
Toronto Dance Theatre. The choreography is by the
internationally renowned Lar Lubovitch.

Awards: Gold Camera Award, US International Film & Video
Festival; Gold Award, Worldfest Houston USA; Bronze Apple,
National Educational Film Festival; Golden Sheaf Nomination,
Yorkton Film Festival

• -"..spectacular...in its beauty, grace and adoration of the
  pure flame of imagination...a sublimely elegant celebration of
  visual, aural and bodily splendour...a remarkably successful
  cross-fertilization of the popular and high performance arts"
  Broadcast Week
  

• -"Skating never looked like this before. Neither has dance,
  (or) swimming... THE PLANETS..has all three - and at the same
  time." The Toronto Star
  

MUSIC, SKATING, DANCE, PERFORMING ARTS

ISBN:1-56029-620-8

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