Ballets Russes
by Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
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Actor: Alan Howard, Frederic Franklin, Irina Baronova, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne CraigDirector: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Producer: Daniel Geller
Writer: Daniel Geller
Writer: Dayna Goldfine
Producer: Celeste Schaefer Snyder
Writer: Celeste Schaefer Snyder
Writer: Gary Weimberg
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
DVD Reviews of Ballets Russes
DVD Review: Historic and biographic of Ballet Russes
Summary: 5 Stars
This was not a requested gift, but the recipient loved it. She is a dancer. I was a dancer and loved this film.DVD Review: Bravo!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love dance history and this DVD was marvelous. All dancers should learn about their history and this would be a wonderful introduction. DVD Review: A Golden Age
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this company first in 1947, and followed them for about ten years. They were my introduction to ballet, and the dancers I remember were Alexandra Danilova, Natalie Krassovska, Frederic Franklin, and Nicolas Magellanes. Others came -- Ruthanna Boris, Mia Slavenska, Nina Novak -- but my memory of ballet is full of these early performances and those early dancers. It is inspiring to see them in this film, as full of love for their art as they were when performing.
There is one area where I disagre slightly. I remember Nina Novak in the chorus, and she had charisma. You watched her. When she was given more important roles, you continued to watch her. What she did in her private life was irrelevant; she drew the eye.
This is a must-see for every lover of ballet who is curious about how it started in America, and became the center of interest that it holds today.
Baronova is astonishing!
DVD Review: An Insight Into Little Known History
Summary: 5 Stars
A beautifully woven tale of the dancers that shaped contemporary dance performance. I was in awe at the history, ego, and humility of remarkable pioneers. DVD Review: All Encompassing DVD on the History of Ballets Russes
Summary: 5 Stars
This dvd is wonderfully done documentary about the history of "Ballets Russes". Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine do an excellent job of putting an entire history of one of the world's greatest ballet company's to ever exist. We see interviews of the actual dancers talk about themselves as well as the history of Ballets Russes... along with actual footage of them dancing the ballets themselves.
The focus of this documentary also includes other topics as well like the founders of Ballet Russes, the choreographers, the set and costume designers and so on it. This dvd documentary is quite engaging and flows great from start to finish. I highly recommend "Ballets Russes" to all ballet and dance lovers whom want to know more about the major players of the ballet world.
Description of Ballets Russes
An intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists - now in their 70s 80s & 90s - who gave birth to modern ballet. Studio: Zeitgeist Films Release Date: 09/12/2006 Run time: 118 minutesPart history, part love letter, Ballets Russes may be the most purely delightful documentary in years. The movie follows the birth of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the early 1930s, an event that eventually led--after years of exhilarating experiments, bitter artistic battles, and exhausting tours--to the establishment of modern ballet around the world. Ballet Russes combines astonishing film footage of fantastical ballets (featuring extravagant sets designed by Salvador Dali and costumes by Henri Matisse) and interviews with surviving dancers in their 70s, 80s, and 90s (ranging from Dame Alicia Markova, who was a prima ballerina with the original Ballet Russe under impresario Sergei Diaghilev, to Yvonne Craig, who went on to become Batgirl in the '60s tv show Batman); the result is a breathtaking range of scholarship and depth of feeling. The heart of the film is the dancers themselves, who are sly, thoughtful, gossipy, and amazingly youthful in spirit--even the most difficult times are discussed with humor and honesty. Ballet fans will find this an essential document, while anyone who's never even thought of going to ballet will be completely caught up in these dancers' passion and wonder. A beautiful, entrancing movie. --Bret Fetzer
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