Title:
Ballet favorites
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Summary:
This spectacular compilation showcases the talent of many of the greatest dancers of recent years, filmed at the world's leading venues, and combines the remarkable athleticism of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Wayne Eagling with the beauty and elegance of Irina Kolpakova, Darcey bussell and many more...-- Container.
Audience:
Not rated.
General Note:
Features productions of the Royal Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet and the American Ballet Theatre.
Contents:
Clog dance and Maypole dance from La fille mal gardée / choreography, Frederick Ashton ; music, Ferdinand Hérold ; performed by the Royal Ballet, featuring Brian Shaw -- Variations and Grand pas de deux from The nutcracker / choreography, Lev Ivanov, Peter Wright ; music, P.I. Tchaikovsky ; performed by the Royal Ballet, featuring Lesley Collier and Anthony Dowell -- Mad scene and Myrtha and the Wilis from Giselle / choreography, Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot ; music, Adolphe Adam ; performed by the Kirov Ballet, featuring Galina Mezentseva and Konstantin Zaklinsky -- Garland waltz and Rose adagio from The sleeping beauty / choreography, Marius Petipa ; music, P.I. Tchaikovsky ; performed by the Kirov Ballet, featuring Irina Kolpakova -- Dance of the knights and Juliet's bedroom pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet / choreography, Kenneth MacMillan ; music, Sergei Prokofiev ; performed by the Royal Ballet; featuring Alessandra Ferri and Wayne Eagling -- Kingdom of the shades from La bayadère / choreography, Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa ; music, Ludwig Minkus ; featuring Paris Opera Ballet corps de ballet -- Act III pas de deux from The prince of the pagodas / choreography, Kenneth MacMillan ; music, Benjamin Britten ; performed by the Royal Ballet, featuring Darcey Bussell and Jonathan Cope -- Act I from Don Quixote / choreography, Mikhail Baryshnikov after Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky ; music, Ludwig Minkus ; featuring Cynthia Harvey (Kitri), Mikhail Baryshnikov (Basil) and Richard Schafer (Don Quixote), Brian Adams (Sancho Panza), Victor Barbee (Gamache), Frank Smith (Lorenzo), Patrick Bissell (Espada).
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Publisher:
NVC Arts ; Kultur [distributor],
Publication Date:
1998
ISBN:
9780769776873
Publication Information:
[Place of publication not identified] : NVC Arts ; West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur [distributor], ©1998.
Call Number:
DVD 792.8 BALLET