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"Ever, Lindsay, and Josie have ushered their daughters -- Bea, Olive, and Savvy -- through years of dance classes in their coastal California town. They've tended bloodied feet, stitched ribbons to countless pairs of pointe shoes, and in the process, forged friendships that seem to transcend rivalry. But now Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, has come to their conservatory. Not only will he direct this year's production of The Nutcracker,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The film is made as a concert which is composed of unique fragments of dances from the famous performances of the great ballet dancers of the XX century, who brought fame to the Bolshoi theatre. The film depicts stories about their creative activities. One could see Ann Pavlova in the dance "The Dying swan, Sulamifj Messerer and Asaf Messerer in the dances specially staged for them, Marina Semenova in the Swan lake, Olga Lepeshinskaya and Peter Gusev,...
3) Dancer
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Bad boy ballet superstar Sergei Polunin was the youngest principal male dancer in the Royal Ballet until stardom pushed him to the brink of self-destruction.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
Centered around his 1995 staging of Voluntaries, one of the choreographer’s most beautiful and moving ballets, this documentary presents an eye opening peek into the creative process of dance. “I have always wanted to be free,” says Tetley in this portrait, explaining why he never had an exclusive association with one particular dance company. As a result he led an extremely varied life in dance, working with many superior talents in many places,...
6) Match
Publisher
IFC Films
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Toby is an eccentric, pot-smoking Manhattan ballet instructor whose quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of a young couple from Seattle, presumably there to interview him about his colorful life as a dancer in the 1960's. As Tobi spins salacious tales from his former career, an ulterior motive for the couple's visit emerges, forcing the trio to confront a secret that may connect them all. Driven by Stewart's tour-de-force performance, it moves...
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
World renowned choreographer Boris Eifman offers a remarkable vision of the core ideas within the famed novel, expanding upon them through body language as a way of exploring the origins of the moral devastation of the Karamazovs; creating through choreographic art an equivalent of what Dostoyevsky investigated so masterfully in his book, the excruciating burden of destructive passions and evil heredity.
Publisher
Illuminations
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Filmed at Sadler’s Wells in 2019, Matthew Bourne’s THE RED SHOES is a triumphant adaptation of the legendary 1948 feature film by Micheal Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The double Olivier Award-winning show is Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of obsession, possession, and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page, played by Ashley Shaw who won a National Dance Award for her performance, lives to dance, but her ambitions...
10) Really Love
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Set in contemporary Washington D.C., a rising black painter strives to break into the competitive art world, while balancing a bittersweet romance he never expected.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Etoiles celebrates the legacy of the famed Paris Opera Ballet by weaving together rehearsals and tour snapshots of classical ballets as well as contemporary works. Celebrated filmmaker Nils Tavernier delves into the psychology of dance by talking candidly with some of the biggest stars in dance today, who give perspectives on how and why they endure the emotional and physical hardships of the drive to be on stage.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN offers an intimate portrait of prima ballerina Wendy Whelan as she prepares to leave New York City Ballet after a record-setting three decades with the company. One of the modern era’s most acclaimed dancers, Whelan was a principal ballerina for NYCB and, over the course of her celebrated career, danced numerous ballets by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, as well as new works by more modern standout choreographers...
16) Ballets Russes
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
A dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes. What began as a group of Russian refugees who never danced in Russia became not one but two rival dance troupes who fought the infamous “ballet battles” that consumed London society before World War II. BALLETS RUSSES maps the company’s Diaghilev-era beginnings in turn-of-the-century Paris--when artists such as Nijinsky, Balanchine, Picasso,...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
“When I die,” George Balanchine stated in his most apocalyptic utterance, “everything should vanish.” The artist did not expect his ballets to survive, and if it were up to him, they would no longer be seen and yet his dances are being staged more often than ever, abetted by the tireless efforts of his followers. Though he passed away in 1983, Balanchine’s works have been kept alive through the Balanchine Trust, established in 1987, through...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
This feel-good documentary follows Irlan and Isabela, two teenagers from the violent favelas of Rio de Janeiro, as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional ballet dancers. This inspiring story takes us from Rio - where their communities must raise the funds to support their ambitions - to exhilarating ballet competitions in New York and Switzerland. It's a film about their determination to dance, and the price one must pay for talent, ambition...
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