Ballet robotique

Duration: 3

Year Published: 1983

Creator: PYRAMID FILM AND VIDEO

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Edward Villela, lead dancer of the New York City Ballet, links movements of robots in the auto industry with classical music to present a fascinating look at robotics high technology., Filmed in performance on the assembly line, the stars of this ballet are the robots of General Motors. The computerized dancers pirouette, dip and stretch to the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's excerpts from Carmen, the Nutcracker Suite and Delibes' ballet Sylvie while metal sprayed from extended appendages supplies the fireworks for the finale's 1812 Overture.

Complete Record: Edward Villela, lead dancer of the New York City Ballet, links movements of robots in the auto industry with classical music to present a fascinating look at robotics high technology., Filmed in performance on the assembly line, the stars of this ballet are the robots of General Motors. The computerized dancers pirouette, dip and stretch to the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's excerpts from Carmen, the Nutcracker Suite and Delibes' ballet Sylvie while metal sprayed from extended appendages supplies the fireworks for the finale's 1812 Overture. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.