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1) Ballet shoes
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Series
Shoes volume 1
Description
Determined to make a name for themselves, three adopted sisters living in London train for the ballet and the stage and in the process discover that each has a special talent.
2) Dancer
Publisher
IFC Films
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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.
4) Match
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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
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,...
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,...
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Publisher
Da Capo Press A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
An award-winning author's journey to turn off the comfortable cruise-control of midlife and reclaim the daring of her girlhood by dancing in the world's most popular ballet, The Nutcracker, with a professional company.
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.
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.
11) The Red Shoes
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...
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...
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As the first female African-American principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, Misty Copeland has been breaking down all kinds of barriers in the world of dance. But when she first started dancing -- at the late age of thirteen -- no one would have guessed the shy, underprivileged girl would one day make history in her field. Her road to excellence was not easy -- a chaotic home life, with several siblings and a single mother, was a stark contrast...
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.
16) Brontorina
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
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Despite her size and not having the proper footwear, a determined dinosaur pursues her dream of becoming a ballerina.
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 which...
18) 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,...
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Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Now, they both teach in the family dance studio. When a suspicious accident occurs right before a big performance, the balance of sisterhood is threatened and family tensions rise.
Ballet flows through their veins; Dara and Marie Durant were homeschooled and trained by their mother. Decades later the Durant School of Dance is theirs. The two sisters, together with Charlie, Dara's husband...
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