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  Tennant Floor
Tennant became interested in music at an early age; he played guitar and cello and began his professional music career in 1970, at the age of 16, in a band called ''Dust''.
Tennant is best known for his discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ores in 1804.
The Honourable Stephen Tennant was born in England, the youngest son of a Scots peer, Lord Glenconner, and the former Pamela Wyndham, one of The Souls.
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 ArtsAlive.ca - Dance : Meet the Artists
Born in London, England, Veronica Tennant became one of the stars of the National Ballet of Canada joining the company as its youngest principal dancer in 1964.
Tennant has shown her intelligence and versatility in subsequent careers, gaining high recognition as a filmmaker and writer, and her works garnering accolades and awards.
In 2004, Tennant was awarded the prestigious Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement, and announced by the Canada Council, as the recipient of the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts.
www.artsalive.ca /en/dan/meet/bios/artistDetail.asp?artistID=138   (437 words)

  
 CBC online chat with Veronica Tennant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Veronica Tennant: If you're referring to my advice to the person who asked about becoming more flexible, I wanted to be sure that they weren't trying to stretch too strenuously, or without guidance, in a balletic sense in their 20s, 30s, or 40s.
Veronica Tennant: I have a good friend whose parents raised race horses and when I stopped dancing professionally with the National Ballet, she cautioned me that they never put a race horse immediately out to pasture.
Veronica Tennant: I always felt it was my choice to become a dancer and I have been forever grateful for her to make it possible.
www.cbc.ca /interact/chats/veronica_tennant.html   (3205 words)

  
 Veronica - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Veronica, a woman of Jerusalem who, according to legend, gave Jesus her veil to wipe his face as he bore his cross to Calvary.
Lake, Veronica (1919–1973), adopted name of Constance Frances Marie Ockleman, American motion-picture actor, whose trademark peekaboo hairstyle was...
- cloth that wiped Jesus Christ's face: the cloth with which Saint Veronica is said to have wiped Jesus...
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 Veronica Tennant: Prima Ballerina, Author, Producer-Director
In 2004, Veronica Tennant was widely honoured for her lifetime contribution to Canada’s arts and culture.
With passion and humour, Tennant shares her story illustrated by video clips of her performances—with candid glimpses at the risks and rewards, and the tumbles and triumphs she experienced along the way.
Veronica Tennant, celebrated Prima Ballerina, Writer and Producer/Director; speaks eloquently of the essential in a life’s vocabulary - DISCOVERY AND SURPRISE - incorporating physical and inventive daring.
www.speakers.ca /tennant_veronica.aspx   (516 words)

  
 Welcome to Southlake Neighbours
Veronica Tennant was selected by a peer assessment committee consisting of Jean Grand-Maître, Artistic Director of Alberta Ballet; Cathy Levy, Producer of Dance Programming at the National Arts Centre; and Menaka Thakkar, Artistic Director of Menaka Thakkar Dance Company.
Veronica Tennant, C.C. During her illustrious 25 year career as Prima Ballerina with the National Ballet of Canada, Veronica Tennant won a devoted following on the national and international stage as a dancer of extraordinary versatility and dramatic power.
She formed Veronica Tennant Productions in 1998 and, as independent producer/director, has created performing arts programming innovative in artistic concept, acting as a catalyst for exceptional combinations of Canadian artists, such as dancers, musicians, actors, writers, designers and choreographers.
www.southlakeneighbours.ca /sef/p/guidebook/id/234.html   (1663 words)

  
 Canada's Walk of Fame: Veronica Tennant, ballet dancer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Last December, Tennant was sidelined for the first time in more than 50 years when she had hip replacement surgery, a common necessity for professional dancers who specialize in challenging, arduous roles.
With typical Tennant aplomb, she was up and about and back to her standard 18-hour days a mere three months later.
Tennant is developing a documentary about Italian dancer Enrico Cecchetti, who worked in Russia as a dancer and teacher during the golden era of Pavlova and Nijinsky.
www.canadaswalkoffame.com /inductees/01_veronica_tennant.xml.htm   (614 words)

  
 CBC: Life And Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Over her 25-year dance career, Veronica Tennant's reputation grew to international stature along with that of the National Ballet of Canada.
With film footage documenting her entire career and interviews with National Ballet of Canada icon Celia Franca, ballet superstars Rex Harrington and Evelyn Hart, writer Timothy Findley, and her friends and family, Veronica Tennant: Renaissance Woman explores the many sides of one of Canada's greatest artists.
In 1955, the Tennants came to Canada from London, England to make a new life for themselves and their two girls.
origin.www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/tennant.html   (392 words)

  
 CBC.ca Arts - Veronica Tennant wins Canada Council prize
Tennant is the 2004 recipient of the Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts.
Following her retirement in 1989, Tennant began a second career as an author, cultural spokesperson and TV producer, creating a number of award-winning dance-centred specials, including the International Emmy Award-winning profile of former colleague and close friend, Karen Kain.
Tennant is scheduled to formally receive the prize in Toronto in early September.
www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2004/07/21/tennantprize040721.html   (1233 words)

  
 ROBERT MISSEN ARTISTS - PERFORMING ARTISTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
VERONICA TENNANT, Canada's beloved Prima Ballerina, has created a delightful new show in collaboration with duo-pianists Robert Kortgaard and Peter Tiefenbach.
The distinguished star of the National Ballet, who has moved on to an equally accomplished career as an artist of the spoken word, narrator, television and film producer, has fashioned an exciting and informative introduction to the world of ballet and the dance.
For this venture's orchestral debut in Brantford in October 2000, Courtney Richardson, Dong Hyun Seo and Peggy Dolkas were greeted with tumultuous applause by the audience and critics for their performances of Les Sylphides and Swan Lake.
www.missenlink.com /artists/VeronicaTennant.htm   (163 words)

  
 Veronica: origin of the name & Tennant: origin of the surname at Bill Casselman's Canadian Word of the Day (via ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The popularity of Veronica as a female given name is due to Saint Veronica, a woman of Jerusalem whom pious legend states stood along the via dolorosa and took pity on Jesus and his suffering as he was led to his crucifixion.
July 12 is St. Veronica’s feast day, and girls born on this date are sometimes baptized with the name in the Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, or Roman Catholic churches.
Tennant is common in Yorkshire and southern Scotland.
www.billcasselman.com.cob-web.org:8888 /whats_in_a_canadian_name/wiacn_veronica_tennant.htm   (521 words)

  
 FOOTNOTES - Veronica Tennant
Tennant gave her farewell performances in Romeo and Juliet in 1989 and in a subsequent gala - A Passion For Dance - Celebrating the Tennant Magic.
Veronica Tennant has also expanded into theatre: In the spring of 1997 she performed in a 22 city national tour with Timothy Findley, in the title role of Piano Man’s Daughter and Others.
Tennant created a mixed discipline work, The Little Match Girl, combining narration, a new music score by Christopher Donison, and a choreographed duet for her and a young dancer.
www.soundventure.com /web/footnotes/tennant.html   (1439 words)

  
 The Piano Man's Daughter - play Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
That one-hour show "was supposed to be a one-night thing." But the enthusiastic response of the public, who were "lined up around the block" in Toronto waiting to buy tickets, and the performers' own elation afterwards, was enough to convince them "to take this special blending further".
Said Tennant in a telephone interview from Saint John, New Brunswick during the tour, "...we find that it works in any venue.
For Tennant, the most rewarding aspect was in breaking down the boundaries between artistic disciplines.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1319/is_n1_v31/ai_20042079   (643 words)

  
 Join Legendary Prima Ballerina Veronica Tennant for Ballet Master Class at Dance Gallery Studio, Ann Arbor, Michigan : ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Veronica Tennant, legendary prima ballerina from The National Ballet of Canada and award- winning screenwriter, director and producer, will teach a ballet master class to intermediate and advanced ballet students ages 13 and above.
During her illustrious career as prima ballerina with The National Ballet of Canada, Veronica Tennant won a devoted following on the international stage as a dancer of extraordinary versatility and dramatic power.
Tennant gave her farewell performances in “Romeo and Juliet” in 1989.
press.arrivenet.com /education/article.php/741613.html   (595 words)

  
 Veronica Tennant - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Also on television in 1995, Veronica Tennant shared the title role with the late...
Veronica Tennant has just completed producing and writing a performance...
Veronica Tennant - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Veronica Tennant Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 Unique Lives & Experiences   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As Prima Ballerina, producer/director and writer, Veronica Tennant is truly a Renaissance Woman.
Veronica has an enviable reputation as filmmaker and broadcaster with her productions garnering several prestigious awards including the International Emmy.
Author of children's books, narrator and host, inductee of Canada's Walk of Fame, Canada's Ambassador for UNICEF, and recently elevated to Companion of the Order of Canada, Veronica is a humanitarian who shares her story, with its risks and rewards, tumbles and triumphs.
www.uniquelives.com /cities/bios/05tennant.htm   (126 words)

  
 It might happen that Veronica Tennant has seen and enjoyed Real Monsters .Veronica Tennant probably ponder Real ...
It might happen that Veronica Tennant has seen and enjoyed Real Monsters.Veronica Tennant probably ponder Real Monsters to be a witty thing that beautify childhood.
Compared to Veronica Tennant everything is likely to appear as something bad.
In fact, surrealist thinkers have tried with little success to correlate the essence of Real Monsters with the essence of Veronica Tennant.
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 The Canada Council for the Arts - Veronica Tennant wins Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts
The Canada Council for the Arts - Veronica Tennant wins Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts
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Veronica Tennant wins Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts
www.canadacouncil.ca /news/releases/2004/at127347413405625000.htm   (1450 words)

  
 Sound Venture | Press Releases
Neil Bregman, President of Sound Venture Productions, Veronica Tennant and Mark Adam, are pleased to announce the broadcast premiere of their unique, ballet performance documentary about the National Ballet of Canada's 50 years on CBC-TV's Opening Night on Thursday, March 28th at 8:00PM.
was directed by Mark Adam, written, produced and directed by Veronica Tennant and executive produced and produced by Neil Bregman.
Sound Venture Productions is an Ottawa-based, independent television production company specializing in arts and culture programming.
www.soundventure.com /web/website/PressDetails.asp?y=34   (306 words)

  
 Movie Search Results - Moviefone
Veronica Guerin (2003, R) Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds, Brenda Fricker
The Life and Times of Veronica Tennant: Renaissance Woman (2001)
Veronica (1972, R) Veronica Mars: A Trip to the Dentist (2005)
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 Sleeping Beauty - Starring Rudolph Nureyev and Veronica Tennant, with the National Ballet of Canada, on VAI!
Sleeping Beauty - Starring Rudolph Nureyev and Veronica Tennant, with the National Ballet of Canada, on VAI!
features Rudolph Nureyev as Prince Florimund and Veronica Tennant as Princess Aurora.
The National Ballet of Canada production is classically sumptuous and the dancing of the principals is brilliant.
www.vaimusic.com /VIDEO/DVD_4288_SleepingBeauty.htm   (105 words)

  
 Veronica Tennant receives Banff arts award - May 2, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Veronica Tennant receives Banff arts award - May 2, 2001
The awards honour the memory of Paul Fleck, president of the Banff Centre from 1982 to 1992.
The artists include Winnipeg photographer Diana Thorneycroft, Toronto choreographer Veronica Tennant, dancer Byron Chief-Moon from Alberta's Blood Reserve and Calgary-raised composers Heather Schmidt and Kelly-Marie Murphy.
www.digitalbanff.com /banff/news/2001/05/3166.html   (97 words)

  
 National Ballet of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Much of the success of the company is due to the excellent training that most of the Company's dancers received at The National Ballet School of Canada (founded in 1959 with Celia Franca and Betty Oliphant).
Karen Kain, Frank Augustyn, Veronica Tennant, Martine Lamy, Kimberley Glasco, Margaret Illmann, Nadia Potts, Serge Lavoie, Jeremy Ransom, Rex Harrington, Robert Tewsley, Yseult Lendvai, Sonia Rodriguez, Chan Hon Goh, Aleksandar Antonijevic.
This page was last modified 02:07, 27 November 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Ballet_of_Canada   (510 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : DVD : Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty - Rudolf Nureyev/Veronica Tennant : Chapters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
VH1.com : Movies : DVD : Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty - Rudolf Nureyev/Veronica Tennant : Chapters
Prologue: Lilac Fairy's Entrance and Revocation of the Curse [2:51]
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 Life and Times: Episode Guide : Veronica Tennant
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When's Veronica Tennant coming up on UK TV Unfortunately the episode
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 The Sleeping Beauty (National Ballet of Canada) | DVDs | MTV Movies
The Sleeping Beauty (National Ballet of Canada)
The National Ballet of Canada interprets Tchaikovsky's timeless three-act opera in this 1972 performance starring Veronica Tennant and Rudolf Nureyev and featuring The Orchestra of the National Ballet of Canada under conductor George Crum.
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty - Rudolf Nureyev/Veronica Tennant
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/179437/dvds.jhtml   (75 words)

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