Ballet

Maria Plisetskaya, Nikolai Fadeyechev, Sergei Radchenko, Bolshoi Ballet. Choregraphy by Alberto Alonso. Music by Bizet adapted by Rodion Schedrin. Bonuses of Plisetskaya in performance - "Dying Swan", "Raymonda Variations", Bach Prelude.

These performances from 1975 and 1988 include Russian Dance Suite; Kalmyk Dance; Venezuela Dance; Mexican Dance - Gauchos; Aragon Jota; Moldavian Suite; Old City Quadrille; Gypsy Dance; Greek Suite.

Her body is long and slender - emaciated, almost. But certainly not lacking strength. Those distinctive lines - once in motion - are reminiscent of the rapid strokes of a calligrapher's brush moving across a sheet of paper. Yet for all the spontaneity, ev

Nederlands Dans Theater: the name has long stood for innovative dance theater on the cutting edge. But when Czech choreographer Ji'? Kyli?n works with the ballet, something completely new is created. For Kyli?n combines his experience in neoclassical danc

A few ballets", The Nutcracker", Sleeping Beauty", and Swan Lake", which at the end of the 19th Century brought together to the stage the composer Pyotr IlyichTchaikovsky and two ballet masters of the imperial theatre, Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, were...

The 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 has been worki

A JOURNEY INTO AN EXTRAORDINARY DREAM WORLD WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEDrift into a fantastical forest full of life and unexpected encounters. Like all good tales the feeling of going encompasses both the darkness and the light in playful co-existence. A...

Legend has it that Cloud Gate" is the name of the oldest known dance in China, a ritualistic dance which was supposed to have been performed more than 5000 years ago. In 1973 the choreographer Lin Hwai-min used this classical name for the company he foun

Three By Rambert DVD

A DVD of a stunning 2014 performance choreographed by Belgian modern great Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, performed by members of the Paris Opera Ballet and set to Music for Eighteen Musicians, Steve Reich's major score composed in 1976. In tandem with the...

Paul Taylor, among the last living members of the second generation of America's modern dance artists, is widely considered to be one of the foremost American choreographers of the 20th century. This program recorded in 2012 at the Theatre National de...

Russian Ballet: Giselle 2017 - DVD - 113 Minutes - This moving and picturesque work of French romantic ballet caused a sensation in 1841. With music by Adolphe Adam and choreography by Jules Perrot (the solos) and Jean Coralli (the ensemble), Giselle...