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Accent on the offbeat. 2012, 1 online resource (58 min.). In 1992, Jazz at Lincoln Center and New York City Ballet commissioned the famous jazz musician Wynton Marsalis to compose music for a new ballet by choreographer Peter Martins, Ballet Master in Chief of the NYCB. The film shows the preparation and the performance of the ballet. MUSIC LIBRARY DVD 354 and Streaming video.
Acis and Galatea. 1 online resource (98 min.). Opera in video. Streaming video.
Afternoon of a faun Tanaquil Le Clercq. 1 videodisc (91 min.). Nancy Buirski's documentary on famed prima ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq, the muse of both George Balanchine (who married her), and Jerome Robbins who created his famous choreographic work, Afternoon of a Faun, for her. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 11606 and Streaming video.
Ailey dances. 1 videodisc (119 min.). A ballet performance by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and other musical performances. DVD 9438.
AIR. 2003, 1 online resource (43 min.). Dance in video, volume 2. This is a performance of AIR, performed by Ballet of the Opera national de Paris (Paris Opera Ballet)and choreographed by Saburo Teshigawara. Streaming video.
Alonzo King Lines Ballet. 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr. 24 min., 17 sec.)). Choreographer Alonzo King, acclaimed as "one of the few, true Ballet Masters of our times" by world-famous William Forsythe, works with his company The Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco. Before founding LINES Ballet in 1982, King worked for companies around the world, including the Frankfurt Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the Washington Ballet, and the Hong Kong Ballet. With its global perspective on dance, the LINES Ballet attracts worldwide attention combining modern dance and classical ballet. Alonzo King gives his dancers the chance to get involved into the creative process of the choreography. This film includes live performances of "Scheherazade," "Dust and Light," and "Triangle of the Squinches". Streaming video.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. 199, 1 videodisc (103 min.). In this two-part program, members of Ailey's dance company celebrate his memory by performing three works choreographed by Ailey himself, as well as a special ballet tribute choreographed by Ulysses Dove. DVD 408.
American Ballet Theatre a history. 1 videodisc (approximately 104 minutes). American Masters. Ric Burns presents this rich, 75-year history of one of the most respected and revered dance companies in the world. With unprecedented access to the company, witness dramatic live performances, grueling rehearsals, and iconic dances by Misty Copeland, Gillian Murphy, and many others; as well as rare footage of ballet icons Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and more. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 12296.
Antony Tudor a film. 92, 1 videodisc (60 min.). Tudor revolutionized ballet by replacing princes and princesses with ordinary people who display universal human emotions. In this documentary Tudor speaks about his work - as do Agnes de Mille, Nora Kaye, Sallie Wilson, Margaret Craske, and Martha Hill. Interspersed with their interviews are excerpts of Tudor classics: Dark elegies, Pillar of fire, Jardin aux lilas, Romeo and Juliet, Judgment of Paris and Undertow, among others. Historical black-and-white sequences of Nora Kaye, Hugh Laing, and Sallie Wilson in principal roles are juxtaposed with footage of later interpreters. Finally, Tudor is shown rehearsing and talking about one of his last works, The leaves are fading. DVD 6296.
Armitage Gone Dance! 1 online resource (1 video file (46 min., 16 sec.)). Armitage Gone Dance! Alive & Kicking: Alive & kicking. In this video, Karole Armitage discusses her background, influences, and collaborations. The program features excerpts from The Dream Trilogy (2004-2008) and showcases two works: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood (2004) and Ligeti Essays (2007). Streaming video.
Balanchine essays. 2012, 1 videodisc (45 min.). Drawing upon their experience as principal dancers with George Balanchine's New York City Ballet, Suki Schorer and Merrill Ashley provide a detailed analysis and demonstration of the ballet step arabesque, according to the principles of Balanchine technique. Schorer, a longtime teacher at the School of American Ballet, sets exercises intended to help the dancer learn and practice correct form, and both she and Ashley recall images Balanchine used in class to elicit desired movement qualities from the dancers. Brief phrases from Balanchine's ballets illustrate the choreographic application of Balanchine technique. Excerpts from The nutcracker and Serenade open and close the program. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 13024.
Balanchine the father of American ballet . 2004, 1 videodisc (156 [i.e. 115] min.). Through rare archival audio and video footage, interviews, film, and photographs, this program traces Balanchine's life from his youth, through his work for Hollywood and Broadway, to his creation of the New York City Ballet. Features selections from many of his ballets, including Chaconne, Agon, Symphony in C, Apollo, A midsummer night's dream, and Western symphony. MUSIC LIBRARY DVD 22.
Ballerina. 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 77 min.). In the grand tradition of the Ballets Russes comes a portrait of five Russian ballerinas from the Mariinsky Theatre (also known as the Kirov). Behind any great ballerina lies the discipline and rigor that comes from decades of training and practice. Superstars like Nijinsky, Baryshnikov and Pavlova established the reputation of Russian dancers as the best in the world. The five dancers profiled in this revealing film are tough, insightful and exceptionally talented; onstage they reveal no hint of the sweat, pain and hard work of the rehearsal studio. From Swan Lake to Romeo and Juliet, from the backstage studio to performing on stages around the world, Ballerina captures the sublime beauty of ballet, in all its resplendent glory. Featuring Diana Vishneva, Svetlana Zakharova, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alina Somova and Evgenia Obraztsova. Streaming video.
Ballerina, The Footnotes The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. 1 online resource (1 video file (28 min., 30 sec)). Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus: Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. This program examines the importance of the Ballerina from a unique perspective. Streaming video.
The ballerinas. 1 videodisc (108 min.). A two-part ballet-drama that features Peter Ustinov and Carla Fracci in a series of dramatic vignettes highlighted with excerpts from classic ballets. Ustinov portrays Theophile Gautier (French poet, writer and ballet critic) in part I and Sergei Diaghilev (Russian ballet impresario) in part II. Fracci acts and dances the roles of Marie Taglioni, Fanny Elssler, Carlotta Grisi, Emma Livry, Giuseppina Bozzacchi, Carlotta Brianza, Matilde Kschessinska, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, and Olga Spessitzeva. DVD 5032.
Ballet Boys. 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 72 minutes). Ballet Boys takes you through disappointments, victories, forging of friendship, first loves, doubt, faith, growing apart from each other, finding your own way and own ambitions, all mixed with the beautiful expression of ballet. Lukas, Syvert and Torgeir experience some very important years in the beginning of their ballet careers. But how do they deal with pressure from parents and teachers. They face new challenges in ballet competitions in France and Sweden. But most important is the audition to enter the Norwegian Ballet Academy. Out of the blue Lukas is offered a try-out in the final audition at the Royal Ballet School in London. He has not even applied! This may be his opportunity of a lifetime, and secure his career. During the course of four years we see these boys becoming young men, and friends that separates. These kids need to sacrifice parties and friends from school to fulfill their dreams, and admission to a ballet academy means everything. It's up to a jury to determine if they are the chosen one. Their school teachers is concerned and ask them what they will you do if they don't make it as ballet dancers. Streaming video.
Ballet in Asia Footnotes The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. 1 online resource (1 video file (28 min., 31 sec)). Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus: Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. Margot Fonteyn said that the future of ballet lies in the hands of the people of Asia. We will focus on the development of ballet in Asia. What have Hong Kong and China done with the Russian "Vaganova" technique and why are they winning all of the ballet competitions around the world? Streaming video.
Ballet in Paris. 1 streaming video file (3 min.). This video clip contains footage of a little girl dancing (2/5/31, Paris) and Russian ballet (11/26/62, Paris). Streaming video.
Ballet in Russia Footnotes The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. 1 online resource (1 video file (29 min., 43 sec)). Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus: Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. A look at the history and influence of the Kirov and Bolshoi Ballet Companies. Streaming video.
Ballet's Greatest Hits Presented by Youth America Grand Prix. 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 38 min., 16 sec.)). Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) presents a one-of-a-kind glimpse of ballet from today and yesterday. The film is hosted by "American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance" Executive Producer, Nigel Lythgoe, and stars leading figures from the world of ballet. Dancers such as Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Marcelo Gomes, Veronika Part and Hee Seo from American Ballet Theater, Taras Domitro and Maria Kochetkova of San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet favorites Ashley Bouder and Daniel Ulbricht, Matthew Golding of Dutch National Ballet, Alejandro Virelles of Boston Ballet and Greta Hodgkinson of National Ballet of Canada perform iconic roles from the classical repertoire including Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Giselle, Flames of Paris and Don Quixote. Audiences will gain special insight from backstage interviews with the performers and ballet luminaries such as Alexei Ratmansky, Angel Corella, Benjamin Millepied, Edward Villella, Jose Manuel Carreño, Mathieu and Denys Gani. Streaming video.
Ballets russes. 2005, 1 videodisc (118 min.). "Tells the straightforward history of the renowned Ballets Russes troupe from 1929 until its demise in 1962, providing ... commentary, as well as tidbits on ballet aesthetics, backstage gossip and clip after clip of rare footage. It also ... offers portraits of the handful of surviving dancers, most of them in their 80s, who provide its commentary. After a brief review of [the Diaghilev years (1909-29)], it tells the tale of the company after Diaghilev, the story of a troupe renamed, split in two and run by various directors and artists until its demise."--Movie Review: 'Ballets Russes', Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune. MUSIC LIBRARY DVD 38 and Streaming video.
Barber's Adagio. 2001, 1 online resource (11 min.). Streaming video.
Bart Cook: Choreographer. 1 online resource (streaming video file). Bart Cook became a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet in 1979. He worked extensively with Jerome Robbins, Associate Artistic Director of NYCB and prolific choreographer. Bart originated and performed soloist roles in The Cage, Glass Pieces, I'm Old Fashioned, Dances at a Gathering, The Concert and Opus 19. Bart was named Assistant Ballet Master to Robbins in 1980 and served in that capacity until 1993. While still at New York City Ballet, Bart began to choreograph at Balanchine's urging. His works for The School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet Education Department included Seven by Five, Saint-Saens; Three Preludes, Gershwin; La Italiana in Algeri, Rossini; and Rondo, Mozart. His last work for New York City Ballet, Flotezart, to a flute composition by Mozart, was performed during the inaugural season of The Diamond Project in May 1992. He has been a "repetiteur" for the George Balanchine Trust and the Robbins Rights Trust for more than 20 years, teaching the choreographers' ballets to many companies in the U.S. and abroad, including: The Royal Ballet, The Paris Opera Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, The Dance Theater of Harlem, and others. Bart and his wife Maria Calegari's staging of Ballet Imperial with the Tchaikovsky State Ballet of Perm won Russia's Golden Mask Award in 2004. Bart Cook: Choreographer is a 30-minute film documenting Cook's creative process as he prepared students from the School of American Ballet for their performance of La Italiana in Algeri for their annual workshop performance at Lincoln Center " (3 )4y (Ba charming and rare glimpse into the choreographic process. Streaming video.
Baryshnikov by Tharp. 2004?, 1 videodisc (60 min.). The Baryshnikov collection. Mikhail Baryshnikov discusses dance and performs in three works choreographed by Twyla Tharp. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 5057.
Baryshnikov the dancer and the dance. 1 videodisc (82 min.). Profile of Mikhail Baryshnikov. Includes the complete ballet "Configurations" choreographed by Choo San Goh. DVD 12466 .
La Bayadere Footnotes The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. 1 online resource (1 video file (27 min., 7 sec)). Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus: Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. Choreographed by Petipa (1877) / Music by Leon Minkus. A look at one of Petipa's most famous choreographies, considered by many as the culmination of his best work. Streaming video.
Ben Munisteri. 1 online resource (1 video file (29 min., 27 sec.)). Alive & Kicking: Alive & kicking. This video presents excerpts from Late Night Sugar Flight by choreographer Ben Munisteri and his company of 6 dancers. Includes a humorous monologue by the choreographer that introduces a section of deliciously sensuous dancing accompanied by the improvised sounds of DJ Michael Hornburg and the improvised lighting designs by Kathy Kaufman. Recorded in 1998 at Performance Space 122 in New York City. Plus excerpts from a revealing interview with the artist. Streaming video.
Benjamin Millepied Ballet Moves Into the 21st Century. 1 online resource (1 video file (41 min., 7 sec.)). Alive & Kicking: Alive & kicking. This program features a profile of choreographer/dancer Benjamin Millepied, one of dance's rising stars due to his dual careers as a New York City Ballet dancer and sought-after choreographer. The program includes excerpts from his 2006 concert at the Joyce Theater in New York City. Featured is Closer, a duet with guest artist Gillian Murphy of American Ballet Theatre with music by Philip Glass and Phrases, Now, a non-stop work by Adonis Foniadakis for four men including Millepied and one woman that blurs the boundaries between the sexes; plus excerpts from an in-depth interview with Benjamin Millepied. Streaming video.
Benoit LaChambre. 1 online resource (1 video file (27 min., 28 sec.)). Alive & Kicking: Alive & kicking. This video presents excerpts from "The Water Fait Mal." Stunningly original movement theater by this French-Canadian dancer/choreographer. LaChambre manages to create a highly personal and emotional body language. Recorded in 1996 at Performance Space 122 in New York City. Plus excerpts from a revealing interview with the artist. Streaming video.
Billy Elliot. 2001, 1 videodisc (111 min.). Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 8316.
Black marigolds. p1962, 1 online resource (17 min.). Streaming video.
Black swan. 2011, 1 videodisc (108 min.). Nina is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company. Her life, like most in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her mother Erica, a former ballerina who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: new dancer Lily, who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her. DVD 8300 and Streaming video.
Cambodian Royal Ballet. 1 online resource (1 video file (28 min., 31 sec.)). The Palace Dancers of Cambodia, once one of the finest Asian troupes in the world, perform two dances from the classical repertoire: "Indra''s Garden and the Queen of the Apsaras," and "Mekhala and the Diamond." There is a demonstration of styles and commentary on training methods and Faubion Bowers, Asian arts expert, talks with an 18-year-old star dancer who demonstrates bending the wrist backward, hyperflexing the elbow, and balancing on one foot. This film was made before the political upheavals in Cambodia virtually destroyed that country and either killed or exiled The Palace Dancers. Streaming video.
Can't stop now. 1 online resource (56 min.). Filmakers library online. This film features six dancers, who at the height of their powers were among the world's most praised artists. Thanks to the vision of Jiri Kylian of Netherlands Dance Theatre III, these superb dancers have been able to continue their careers beyond the age of forty. Their remarkable performances break all stereotypes of the older dancer. These articulate men and women feel that wisdom and experience gives a depth to their performance that is out of the reach of the younger dancer. Their appreciative audiences worldwide have been touched by their spirituality and expressiveness. Among the performers featured are Karen Kain, National Dance Theater of Canada; Gary Cryst, protégé of Nureyev; Jeanne Solan, former dancer with the Harkness Ballet and collaborator of George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Here is a film not just for dance afficionados, but for all those who need confirmation that aging need not diminish their capabilities, but may even enhance them. Streaming video.
The car man an auto-erotic thriller. 2003, 1 videodisc (87 min.). This new musical dance sensation uses the stirring and passionate music of Bizet's Carmen as the basis for a completely new and original tale. The dreams and passions of a small community are shattered by the arrival of a handsome stranger. Fuelled by heat and desire, the inhabitants are drawn into a spiral of greed, opportunism, sex and murder. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 712.
Carmen. 2002, 1 videodisc (50 min.). Mats Ek's version of the fiery tale of passion and murderous jealousy is an exciting suspenseful mix of bravura dancing and inventive, powerful storytelling. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 749.
Carmina Burana. 2010, 1 online resource (72 min.). This is a performance of Carmina Burana, performed by Orchestra de l'Opera National d'Ukraine and conducted by Grigori Penteleitchouk. Streaming video.
Center stage. 2000, 1 videodisc (116 min.). The artistic director of the American Ballet Company is evaluating a tight-knit group of students as they face the growing pains of their world of dance. Managing their ambitions, romances, and heartbreaks proves to be both invigorating and painful. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 8298.
Cherevichki The Tsarina's Slippers. 2009, 1 online resource (155 min.). Olga Guryakova (Oxana) ; Vsevolod Grivnov (Vakula) ; Larissa Diadkova (Solokha) ; Vladimir Matorin (Chub) ; Maxim Mikhailov (the Devil) ; Viacheslav Voynarovskiy (the Schoolmaster) ; Alexander Vassiliev (Pan Golova) ; John Upperton (Panas) ; Sergei Leiferkus (His Highness) ; Jeremy White (Master of Ceremonies) ; with supporting singers ; Mara Galeazzi, Gary Avis, principal dancers ; Dancers of the Royal Ballet ; Royal Opera Chorus ; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House ; Alexander Polianichko, conductor. Streaming video.
The children of Theatre Street Fascinating story of the Kirov Ballet School. 2004, 1 videodisc (92 min.). The late Princess Grace of Monaco narrates this Oscar-nominated look at one of the world's greatest schools of dance, The Kirov School, whose elite graduates have become some of the greatest dancers in the history of ballet. Streaming video.
Chopiniana. 2001, 1 online resource (31 min.). Streaming video.
Choreography by Balanchine. 1 videodisc (54 min.). Dance in America: Nonesuch dance collection: The Balanchine library. Presents performances of dances choreographed by Balanchine: Tzigane by Ravel, Andante from Divertimento no. 15 by Mozart, and the Four temperaments by Hindemith, performed by the New York City Ballet. DVD 13570.
Choreography by Balanchine. 2004, 1 videodisc (110 min.). A collection of selected Balanchine ballets. MUSIC LIBRARY DVD 90 and MUSIC LIBRARY DVD 204 and HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6674.
Cinderella a ballet. 2005, 1 videodisc (88 min.). Contemporary adaptation of the classic fairy tale of Cinderella, with the characters represented as dolls in a dollhouse, conceived for and performed by the Lyon Opera Ballet. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 12076.
Cinderella Footnotes The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. 1 online resource (1 video file (27 min., 16 sec)). Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus: Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. Choreographed by Petipa, Ceccetti, Ivanov (1893)/Music by B. Fitinghof-Schell. This popular ballet was based on Perrault's classic fairy tale and became the cornerstone of the growth and development of The Royal Ballet in London. Streaming video.
The company. 2004, 1 videodisc (112 min.). A behind-the-scenes look at the world of dance as seen through the eyes of a talented young dancer on the brink of success. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 964.
Coppelía. 2004, 1 online resource (60 min.). The story explores a young man's passion for a beautiful girl who actually is a mechanical doll. The setting is a modern, run-down urban environment. Streaming video.
Coppelia Footnotes The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. 1 online resource (1 video file (27 min., 12 sec)). Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus: Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Leon (1870) / Music by Leo Delibes. The czardas were first introduced into ballet and after this, national and folk dances became very popular. Coppelia was also one of the first ballets to have a doll come to life. Streaming video.
Le Corsaire. 2001, 1 online resource (8 min.). Streaming video.
Covent Garden tales. 99, 1 online resource (27 min.). Streaming video.
Creole Giselle. 2005, 1 videodisc (88 min.). The Dance Theatre of Harlem is presented in Creole Giselle, their acclaimed interpretation of the ballet classic. Arthur Mitchell has set the ballet in 1841 Louisiana. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4642.
Cuban Dance Examples A Glimpse of Cuba Through Dance. 1 online resource (1 video file (36 min., 43 sec.)). This video by anthropologist Yvonne Daniel presents excerpts from Cuban dance performances that were selected to show the styles and techniques of dance in Cuba. Streaming video.
Daddy long legs. 2005, 1 videodisc (126 min.). Marquee musicals. Millionaire playboy Jervis Pendleton III becomes enamored with a young woman living in a French orphanage, and decides to anonymously sponsor her college education in America. When they finally meet face-to-face two years later, romance blossoms but is complicated by Jervis's hesitance towards their age differences. MUSIC LIBRARY DVD 290 and Streaming video.
The Dance Goodbye. 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 minutes). What is life like for a dancer when they can no longer dance? Inspired by Merrill Ashley's departure from the New York City Ballet as an acclaimed principal dancer, this documentary, created by Ron Steinman and Eileen Douglas, captures the poignancy of this life turning point. After a struggle to find her next step, today Merrill Ashley travels around the world teaching Balanchine to dance companies which perform his works as once she did. This is the story of any dancer - or, in truth any one of us - who needs to find their way into a new life. ! Excellent! Bravo! Bravo! - Jacques d'Amboise, Longtime Principle Balanchine / Founder, National Dance Institute In this delicate exploration of artistic tradition, a Balanchine dancer facing retirement transforms herself from muse into keeper of the flame. - Jan Huttner, Filmsfor2. Streaming video.
Dance on screen. 1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.). "In this revelatory new documentary, director Reiner E. Moritz poses the question: How has the media influenced dance in the twentieth century and vice versa? Over this period an extensive archive of beautiful choreography, performed by the finest dancers has accumulated on film and television, resulting in a major dispersion of dance through the media. In addition, new art forms such as dance movies and ballet films have emerged from this development in moving images, where dance is created specifically for the camera. 'A History Of Dance On Screen' contains an impressive amount of archive footage featuring the greatest dancers and choreographers of the twentieth and twenty first centuries, framed by in-depth interviews with great personalities of the contemporary dance scene--featuring Alvin Ailey, Pina Bausch, Maurice Béjart, Matthew Bourne, Margot Fonteyn, Martha Graham, John Neumeier, Rudolf Nureyev, Anna Pavlova, Roland Petit, Sasha Waltz and many others"--Arthaus website. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 5061 and Streaming video.
Dance Theatre of Harlem. 2000, 1 videodisc (59 min.). Dazzling performances by the Dance Theatre of Harlem, America's first outstanding classical ballet company of black dancers. In this special studio production, members of the Theatre perform a selection of its most popular works. The pieces are introduced by choreographer Robert North and the founder of the Theatre, Arthur Mitchell. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 8921.
Dance Vivaldi a contemporary baroque ballet. 2006, 1 online resource (35 min.). A contemporary poetic interpretation that blends Vivaldi's Four Seasons with baroque dance. Streaming video.
The dancer. 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 96 min.). The dancer follows the young and gifted Katja Björner through years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School as she develops into an international ballet star. Filmed with an eye toward conveying the physical aspects of dancing, the pain, sweat, and tears, as well as the exquisite beauty. The dancer captures the fierce determination and struggle that goes into the desire to dance at the highest level. Streaming video.
A Dancer's New Step Suzanne Farrell (12/27/01). 1 online resource (1 video file (6 min., 55 sec)). Renowned ballerina Suzanne Farrell beganpassing down alegacy she helped create thirteen years after her retirement. In this video, Farrell discusses teaching ballet students, insisting on detail while allowing freedom, making a step fascinating, and more. Streaming video.
Dancer's Story, The The National Ballet of Canada. 1 online resource (1 video file (59 min., 31 sec)). This is a choreographed documentary weaving past with present using the vocabulary of dance. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the National Ballet of Canada, a sampling of five generations of dancers gathers at the ballet barre. THE DANCERS' STORY is a blend of novel documentary with an abundance of freshly filmed performance. Streaming video.
Dancing. 8 videodiscs (ca. 464 min.). Probes the traditions of dance in communities around the world -- from the often misunderstood waltz to the eloquent gestures of an Asante court dancer in Ghana, and from the latest hip-hop in Morocco to a ballet class in Russia and a modern dance rehearsal in New York. DVD 10326.
Dancing for Mr. B six Balanchine ballerinas. 2008, 1 videodisc (82 min.). Six ballerinas -- Mary Ellen Moylan, Maria Tallchief, Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent, Merrill Ashley, and Darci Kistler -- keep alive Balanchine's ballets and the inspiration they learned from him. They also discuss other Balanchine dancers, such as Tanaquil Le Clercq and Suzanne Farrell. Balanchine was the single most powerful influence in their lives. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 13190.
Dancing on the edge. 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 45 min.). Includes highlights from ADF performances by: The Paul Taylor Dance Company, Jin Xing Ballet Du Lac Tumba, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company Reijo Kela Claude Brumachon. Streaming video.
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Dans le pas de Trisha Brown Glacial Decoy à l'Opéra. 1 streaming video file (79 min.). The dancers of the Ballet de l'Opera company of Paris learn to perform choreographer Trisha Brown's seminal 1979 dance "Glacial Decoy.". Streaming video.
David Hallberg Extended Interview (7/1/13). 1 online resource (1 video file (23 min., 54 sec)). In this interview, American classical ballet dancer David Hallberg discusses returning to the Bolshoi Ballet. He shares insight on the transition from New York to Moscow, what it means to be a Bolshoi dancer, his experience with bullying, and more. Streaming video.
De Nederlandse Opera presenets Les Vêpres siciliennes opera in five acts. 2011, 1 online resource (208 min.). Les vepres siciliennes, like the similarly epic Don Carlos, was conceived as a grand opera for Paris and is driven by the tensions between private passions and public politics. Originally set during Sicily's 13th-century uprising against French rule, in Christof Loy's staging for the Netherlands Opera the action is transposed to a 1940s world of sudden violence and shadowy double-dealing. Imaginatively cast and idiomatically conducted, the performance presents this magnificent score in its entirety, including the allegorical ballet The Four Seasons. Streaming video.
Degas' Dancers. 1 online resource (streaming video file). In this film, as in other key titles in the Roland Collection, a meeting takes place between several media: the dance of Degas' subject matter, the dynamism of his draftsmanship, the drama of the score by Marius Constant, and the exploratory and expressive direction of the film-maker's camera work. The elements are mutually illuminating. Degas anticipates photographic and filmic qualities in his use of light and the 'verism' of his cropping and composition. The dancers 'draw' and compose in space, transposing music into visual form, which is in turn reinterpreted in the score, synchronized with Anthony Roland's moving, extemporizing camera work. This film, like others in the collection, collaborates with its subject in a way that complements and perhaps challenges more cerebral, analytical films in this and other sections. Where a more conventional narrator might hasten to make a didactic point about Degas - for example, about the frequent misery of girls forced into the 'marriage market' of ballet training - this film, with no narration, respects the silence and inscrutability of the artist's images. It permits us a slower, more meditative entry into the pictures, during which we may indeed come to sense tensions, ambivalences, even pain, existing side by side with delicacy and beauty. Credits Documentation: Lilian Browse Original music: Marius Constant Awards Silver Cup, Salerno Chriss Award, Columbus. Streaming video.
Der Feuervogel. 2005, 1 online resource (52 min.). Streaming video.
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909-1929 when art danced with music. ©2013 , 1 videodisc (55 min.). Profiles impresario Serge Diaghilev, the founder and creative force behind the Ballets Russes, who, under the banner of his company, brought together some of the greatest talents of the 20th century, including painters Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, composers Igor Stravinsky and Erik Satie, choreographers Michel Fokine and George Balanchine, and dancers Vaslav Nijinksy and Anna Pavlova. Includes footage of revivals of Ballets Russes performances by the Joffrey Ballet and the New York City Ballet. HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6447
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes Footnotes The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. 1 online resource (1 video file (28 min., 18 sec)). Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus: Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. Ballets include Spectra de la Rose (1911), Petrushka (1911), L'Après-midi d'un Faune (1912). The great producer Sergei Diaghilev was a major force in the development of ballet in the 1900's, and today Les Ballets de Monte Carlo maintains his proud tradition. Streaming video.
Dido & Aeneas. 95, 1 videodisc (56 min.). A danced performance of the Baroque opera Dido and Aeneas. Dido, the noble queen of Carthage, has fallen in love with the Trojan Prince Aeneas. While the court celebrates the imminent union of the two monarchs, the evil sorceress with her coven of witches plots their downfall. Romance leads to heartbreak and tragedy. DVD 8714 and Streaming video.
Don Quichot The Dutch National Ballet. 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr. 8 min., 10 sec.)). Don Quichot is a dazzling display of high spirits, virtuosity and Spanish temperament. The flamboyant leaps, dizzying pirouettes and crisp pointe work that are standard features of the production give the performers every opportunity to show off their technical prowess. But at the same time, the comic story based on Cervantes' masterpiece makes strong demands on the dancers' acting abilities. The leading Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky drew inspiration for his production from the libretto of the first version of Don Quichot by Marius Petipa, created in 1869. The former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet and Artist in Residence of the American Ballet Theatre has also added his own elements and choreography to the ballet. The modern designs by the renowned French designer Jérôme Kaplan, refer to the times of Cervantes. Streaming video.
Don Quixote Footnotes The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. 1 online resource (1 video file (27 min., 7 sec)). Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus: Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet with Frank Augus. Choreographed by Petipa (1869) / Music by Leon Minkus. Based on Cervantes' novel of the same name, this ballet was produced chiefly to introduce Spanish dances. Streaming video.