Great Performances: Dance in America L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges (The Spellbound Child) (Season 6, Episode 3)
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Great Performances: Dance in America

L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges (The Spellbound Child) (Season 6, Episode 3)

TV Episode | Music

The NYC Ballet and Orchestra perform Maurice Ravel's "L'Enfant et les Sortilges" choreographed by George Balanchine. In the story a disobedient boy who must stay in his room has a tantrum and abuses his pets and furniture, that come alive.

Director

Emile Ardolino

Writers

Colette (based on a poem by) | Tobi Tobias (introduction written by)

Producers

Emile Ardolino | Judy Kinberg

Editor

Girish Bhargava

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Updated May 25, 1981

Release date

May 25, 1981 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

Won 18 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 8 wins & 46 nominations

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32 cast members

Name	Known for
Bartholomew Acocella Dancer - Toad Dancer - Toad See fewer	Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)
Helene Alexopoulos Dancer - Moth Dancer - Moth See fewer	Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
Andrew Alleyne Dancer - Toad Dancer - Toad See fewer	Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)
Peter Boal Dancer - Toad Dancer - Toad See fewer	Lives Beyond Motion
Christopher Byars Dancer - Boy Dancer - Boy See fewer	Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
Stacy Caddell Dancer - Sheperdess Dancer - Sheperdess See fewer	The Sopranos (1999)
Evelyn Carton Dancer - Moth Dancer - Moth See fewer	Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)
Lisa Chalmers Dancer - Moth Dancer - Moth See fewer	Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)
Renee Estopinal Dancer - Dragonfly Dancer - Dragonfly See fewer	La valse (1973)
Nina Fedorova Dancer - Dragonfly Dancer - Dragonfly See fewer	Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
Florence Fitzgerald Dancer - Dragonfly Dancer - Dragonfly See fewer	Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
Antonia Franceschi Dancer - Bat Dancer - Bat See fewer	Fame (1980)
Susan Freedman Dancer - Chinese Cup Dancer - Chinese Cup See fewer	Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
Susan Gluck Dancer - Sheperdess Dancer - Sheperdess See fewer	Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
Lauren Hauser Dancer - Bat Dancer - Bat See fewer	The Nutcracker (1993)
Alexia Hess Dancer - Lady Chair Dancer - Lady Chair See fewer	Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
Darla Hoover Dancer - Sheperdess Dancer - Sheperdess See fewer	Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)
Kipling Houston Dancer - Sheperd Dancer - Sheperd See fewer	The Nutcracker (1993)
Julie Kirsten Dancer - Lady Chair Dancer - Lady Chair See fewer	Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)
Jerri Kumery Dancer - Dragonfly Dancer - Dragonfly See fewer	Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)
Miriam Mahdaviani Dancer - Sheperdess Dancer - Sheperdess See fewer	The Nutcracker (1993)
Laurence Matthews Dancer - Sheperd Dancer - Sheperd See fewer	Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)
Bruce Padgett Dancer - Sheperd Dancer - Sheperd See fewer	Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
Francis Sackett Dancer - Shepherd Dancer - Shepherd See fewer	Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
Demian Schane Dancer - Toad Dancer - Toad See fewer	Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)
Barbara Seibert Dancer - Moth Dancer - Moth See fewer	Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
John Selya Dancer - Toad Dancer - Toad See fewer	Across the Universe (2007)
Roma Sosenko Dancer - Sheperdess Dancer - Sheperdess See fewer	The Nutcracker (1993)
Mel A. Tomlinson Dancer - Teapot Dancer - Teapot See fewer	Leonard Part 6 (1987)
Edward Villella Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Playhouse 90 (1956)
Karin von Aroldingen Dancer - Fire Dancer - Fire See fewer	Davidsbündlertänze (1981)
Gabrielle White Dancer - Moth Dancer - Moth See fewer	Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)