Ballet Performance Videos and DVDs 6

Great Pas de Deux Video

DVD Only (D2022) - $19.99
This superb collection of stunning pas de deux, from many of the best-loved classical ballets, features some of the most celebrated partnerships of recent times, including Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in a convert performance from Le Corsaire.

91 mins. (1995)
DVD - Region 1

Grupo Corpo Brazilian Dance Theatre Video

DVD Only - $24.99
The 19-member Grupo Corpo, Brazil's most popular contemporary dance ensemble, constructs adventurous feasts for the senses. With captivating performances presented throughout the world, Grupo Corpo presents an in-your-face spirit and sense of full-out dynamism that is visually riveting and viscerally charged. Its compelling style grafts the pliancy of modern dance and rhythmic complexity of Afro-Brazilian dance onto ballet.

129 mins. (2004)
DVD - Region 1.

Classic Kirov Performances Video (1341)

VHS Only - $19.95
This remarkable video offers a unique chance to see some of the greatest dancers in Russia, in archive and contemporary film taken at the Kirov Theatre, St. Petersburg. It begins with a brief and very rare extract from a film shot in 1930 showing the legendary Tatyana Vecheslova as Aurora. There follows a celebrated film, from 1940, featuring the great Natalya Dudinskaya and Vakhtang Chabukiani in Bayaderka. An extract from Don Quixote features the dazzling Ninella Kurgapkina, and Vecheslova is featured in a scene from Gayane, with another legendary ballerina, Galina Ulanova, filmed in 1948 in Fokin's Chopiniana. A rare extract from Fokin's dances for Ruslan and Ludmila is danced by Gabriela Komleva, and Irina Kolpakova is next partnered by Vladilen Semenyov in a pas de deux from The Nutcracker. One of today's Kirov ballerinas, TatyanaTerekhova is seen in a solo from Don Quixote, while Svetlana Yefremova and Sergey Vikulov are shown in a pas de deux from Cinderella, and Fokin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor feature Anneline Kashirina and Yury Gumba. Among the treasures to be found in this program is the immortal Anna Pavlova performing her legendary role of The Dying Swan. Olga Likhovskaya and Sergey Vikharev are seen in part of Les Sylphides, and next, two of St. Petersburg's greatest dancers, Natalya Dudinskaya and Konstantin Sergeyev are seen in a celebrated 1948 film extract from Petipa's Raimonda. The illustrious Gabriella Komleva appears as Aurora and a 1981 film of part of The Fountains of Bakhchisarai features Alla Sizova, Andrey Bosov, Nikolay Ostaltsov and Lyudmila Galinskaya. The great Galina Ulanova and Konstantin Sergeyev are preserved in the roles they created in a fragment from Romeo and Juliet, and the prodigious Vakhtang Chabukiani is seen with Mikhail Dudko in a 1940 film of Taras Bulba.   Finally Altynai Asylmuratova, one of today's Kirov stars, is partnered by Kyril Melnikov in a scene from Esmeralda.

110 minutes.
VHS - NTSC format only (Canada, USA).

Kirov Classics Video

DVD Only (D0086) - $29.99
This production of Les Sylphides is from Agrippina Vaganova's 1928 restaging under its original name. The dancers include soloists Altynai Asylmuratova and Konstantin Zaklinsky (Mazurka and Valse), Yelena Pankova (second Valse) and Anna Polikarpove (Prelude).

Like many spectacular Soviet ballets, Oleg Vinogradov's Petrushka is a glorious feast of vigorous steps, danced with inexhaustible energy by a large cast. However, it is far removed from Fokine's original Petrushka about the sad puppet who could not win the love of a heartless ballerina. Instead, this innovative ballet concerns itself with the politics of today and shows a populace intoxicated by propaganda. Barber's Adagio, set to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, is an example of Vinogradov's more lyrical choreography, and is beautifully danced by Yelena Yevteeva and Eldar Aliev.

In contrast, the pas de deux from Le Corsaire is a showpiece danced with dazzling virtuosity by Lyubov Kunakova and Faroukh Ruzimatov. The Fairy Doll, staged by Nicolai and Sergei Legat in 1903, is a pantomimic divertissement, charmingly danced by Larissa Lezhnina, Dmitry Gruzdev and Yaroslav Fadayev, and Arthur Saint-Leon's Markitenka to a lively score by Cesare Pugni is a pas de six of exuberant dancing.

Originally a two-act ballet, the Pacquita we know today is essentially the ballet's glittering core, the Grand Pas, which was choreographed by Petipa in 1881. Inspired by the flamboyance of Ludwig Minkus' music, Petipa created a stylistic showpiece, flavored with a delectable Spanish air.

147 mins. (1991)
DVD - Region 1

Kirov Celebrates Nijinsky Video (D2918)

DVD Only - $19.99
Mikhail Fokine was Diaghilev's chief choreographer 1909-14 and he is considered to have been the creator of modern dance. This sparkling Russian gala features four Fokine ballets, all associated with Nijinsky.

Recorded live from the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Kirov Ballet brings to life, once again, the full glory of the Ballets Russes. Featuring Sheherazade, Le Spectre de la Rose, The Polovtsian Dances, and The Firebird.

110 mins. (2005)
DVD - Region 1

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