Ballets Russes
by Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
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Actor: Irina Baronova, Marc Platt, Rochelle Zide, Tamara Tchinarova Finch, Wakefield PooleDirector: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, 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
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Movie 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.
Summary of Ballets Russes
Part 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 FetzerMusicals & Performing Arts DVD Video
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