Janet Rowson Davis

Biographic Data

ID6185317
NAMEJanet Rowson Davis
GIVEN NAMESJanet Rowson
FAMILY NAMEDavis
SIGNATUREDAVIS J R
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
H-INDEX1

  • Ballet on British Television

    Janet Rowson DavisARTICLEDance Chronicle1996References: 1

    (1996). Ballet on British Television: Christian Simpson, Producer, 1949–1959 — Divine or Diabolic? Dance Chronicle: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 17-92

  • Ballet on British television 1948–1949, Part III

    Janet Rowson DavisARTICLEDance Chronicle1993

  • Ballet on British television 1948–1949, part I

    Janet Rowson DavisARTICLEDance Chronicle1992

    By 1948, BBC television had been back on the air for eighteen months after its wartime closure, but like the rest of the country it was still in the grip of austerity. There were an estimated 200,000 viewers, including family groups and their invited friends and neighbors, in an area of some thirty miles radius of the country's sole transmitter, situated in Alexandra Palace in north London. As far as dance was concerned, new developments added va…

  • Ballet on British television 1948–1949, part II

    Janet Rowson DavisARTICLEDance Chronicle1992

    (1992). Ballet on British television 1948–1949, part II: Grand Ballet season and the French connection, 1948–1955. Dance Chronicle: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 153-190

  • Ballet on British television, 1946–1947

    Janet Rowson DavisARTICLEDance Chronicle1990Cited by: 1

    Ballet has always had a recognized place in television programming in Britain, not just from the opening of the official BBC television service in November 1936, but from the time of the unofficial experimental service that took its first faltering steps in 1932. It developed from being able to show only soloists, dancing in front of a plain white backcloth on a checkered floor accompanied by a single piano, through duets, trios, small groups wit…

  • Dance and the BBC

    Janet Rowson DavisARTICLEDance Chronicle1987

    A Catalogue of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in the BBC Television and Film Videotape Library, 1937–1984. Compiled by Robert Penman. 199 pp. London: BBC Data Publications, 1987. £15

  • Ballet on British Television, 1932–1935

    Janet Rowson DavisARTICLEDance Chronicle1983

  • Ballet on British television, 1933–1939

    Janet Rowson DavisARTICLEDance Chronicle1981References: 1