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Additional authors

1. Makarova, Natalia, 1940-
2. Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931
3. Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991
4. Nagy, Ivan, 1943-2014
5. Fracci, Carla
6. Iancu, Gheorghe
7. Harvey, Cynthia
8. Dowell, Anthony
9. Guillem, Sylvie, 1965-
10. Schaufuss, Peter
11. Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997
12. Jaffe, Susan
13. Samsova, Galina.
14. Sibley, Antoinette
15. Ralov, Kirsten, 1922-
16. Jeppesen, Lis
17. Vaussard, Christiane.
18. Guérin, Isabelle, 1961-
19. Johnson, Virginia, 1950-
20. Smith, Lowell, 1951-2007
21. Sombart, Alexander
22. Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993
23. Efimov, Boris
24. Haydée, Marcia
25. Cragun, Richard
26. Anderson, Reid
27. Aviotte, Jean-Pierre
28. Donn, Jorge
29. Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987
30. Platel, Elisabeth
31. Ulanova, Galina Sergeevna, 1910-1998
32. Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004
33. Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948-
34. Rencher, Derek
35. Jefferies, Stephen
36. Mulligan, Janette
37. James, Martin
38. Karsavina, Tamara
39. Spessivtzeva, Olga, 1895-1991
40. Kerche, Cecilia
41. Bujones, Fernando, 1955-2005
42. Bodtcher, Mette
43. Vu-An, Eric
44. Bailey, Derek
45. Matheson, Julia
46. Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910
47. Ivanov, Lev, 1834-1901
48. Bournonville, August, 1805-1879
49. MacMillan, Kenneth
50. Gsovsky, Victor, 1902-1974
51. Ashton, Frederick, 1904-1988
52. Mitchell, Arthur, 1934-
53. Butler, John, 1920-1993
54. De Mille, Agnes
55. Bettis, Valerie, 1919-1982
56. Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡, 1925-2015
57. Cranko, John
58. Petit, Roland, 1924-2011
59. Béjart, Maurice
60. Robbins, Jerome
61. Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942
62. Neumeier, John, 1939-
63. Crisp, Clement
64. Leningradskoe akademicheskoe khoreograficheskoe uchilishche im. A. ︠I︡A. Vaganovoĭ, performer.
65. School of American Ballet, performer.
66. Royal Ballet. School, performer.
67. Opéra de Paris. Ecole de danse, performer.
68. London's Festival Ballet, performer.
69. Kongelige Danske ballet, performer.
70. British Broadcasting Corporation.
71. Arts and Entertainment Network.
72. RM Arts (Firm)

Description

1. 4 videocassettes (VHS, NTSC) (195 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Documentary in two parts: The making of a ballerina (cassettes 1 & 2) and The great tradition (cassettes 3 & 4).

Uniform title

1. Dying swan (Choreographic work : Fokine)
2. Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
3. Don Quixote (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
4. Swan lake (Choreographic work : Ivanov and Petipa, M)
5. Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
6. Romeo and Juliet (Choreographic work : MacMillan)
7. Grand pas classique (Choreographic work : Gsovsky)
8. Raymonda (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
9. Little humpbacked horse (Choreographic work)
10. Cinderella (Choreographic work : Ashton)
11. Conservatoriet (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
12. Holberg suite (Choreographic work : Mitchell)
13. Othello (Choreographic work : Butler)
14. Fall River legend (Choreographic work : De Mille)
15. Streetcar named desire (Choreographic work : Bettis)
16. Manon (Choreographic work : MacMillan)
17. Thaïs (Choreographic work : Ashton)
18. Marguerite and Armand (Choreographic work : Ashton)
19. Lady with a lapdog (Choreographic work : Plise︠t︡ska︠i︡a)
20. Taming of the shrew (Choreographic work : Cranko)
21. Onegin (Choreographic work : Cranko)
22. Blue angel (Choreographic work : Petit, R)
23. Wien, Wien, nur du allein (Choreographic work : Béjart)
24. Other dances (Choreographic work : Robbins)
25. Giselle (Choreographic work)
26. Romeo and Juliet (Choreographic work : Cranko)
27. Nutcracker (Choreographic work)
28. Bayadère (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
29. Hamlet (Choreographic work : Neumeier)

Subject

1. Ballerinas
2. Ballet dancers > Training of
3. Dance schools
4. Pas de deux

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Educational/cultural films and programs.
3. Video.

Contents

1. Cassette 1 (ca. 91 min. total). The making of a ballerina. [Introduction]. Interviewees: Maurice Béjart, Frederick Ashton, Jerome Robbins, Maya Plisetskaya. Dance excerpts: The dying swan / danced by Anna Pavlova -- The sleeping beauty / danced by Margot Fonteyn -- Don Quixote / danced by Maya Plisetskaya -- Swan lake. Act II, pas de deux / chor., Lev Ivanov ; danced by Natalia Makarova and Ivan Nagy.
2. [Different types of ballerina]. Examples illustrated by dance excerpts: Romantic: La sylphide / danced by Carla Fracci and Gheorghe Iancu -- Virtuoso: Paquita / danced by Cynthia Harvey -- Dramatic: Romeo and Juliet / chor., Kenneth MacMillan ; danced by Natalia Makarova and Anthony Dowell -- Classical: Grand pas classique / chor., Victor Gsovsky ; danced by Sylvie Guillem.
3. [Physical requirements of a ballerina ; pointe shoes]. Interviewee: Bernard Kohler. Dance excerpt: Don Quixote pas de deux / danced by Natalia Makarova and Peter Schaufuss.
4. [Schools and styles]. Examples of ballet classes and ballerinas from different countries. Interviewees: Kirsten Ralov, Lis Jeppesen. Russia: Vaganova School -- Raymonda / danced by Natalia Makarova -- The little humpbacked horse / danced by Maya Plisetskaya. U.S.: School of American Ballet, class taught by Alexandra Danilova -- Don Quixote / danced by Susan Jaffe. England: Royal Ballet School, class taught by Galina Samsova -- Cinderella / chor., Frederick Ashton ; danced by Antoinette Sibley. Denmark: Royal Danish Ballet School, class taught by Kirsten Ralov -- Royal Danish Ballet, company class -- Konservatoriet / chor., August Bournonville ; danced by Lis Jeppesen. France: Paris Opéra Ballet School, class taught by Christiane Vaussard -- The sleeping beauty / danced by Isabelle Guérin.
5. [The importance of versatility]. Virginia Johnson of Dance Theatre of Harlem dances excerpts from Holberg suite (chor., Arthur Mitchell), Othello (chor., John Butler), Fall River legend (chor., Agnes de Mille), and A streetcar named desire (chor., Valerie Bettis), the last with Lowell Smith.
6. [Partnering]. Interviewees: Maya Plisetskaya, Marcia Haydée. Dance excerpts: Manon / chor., Kenneth MacMillan ; rehearsal ; danced by Natalia Makarova and male ensemble from the Royal Ballet -- Black swan pas de deux / rehearsal ; danced by Makarova and Anthony Dowell -- Black swan pas de deux / performance ; danced by Makarova and Dowell -- Swan lake. Act II pas de deux / rehearsal ; danced by Makarova and Alexander Sombart -- Swan lake. Act II pas de deux / performance ; danced by Makarova and Ivan Nagy -- Thaïs / chor., Frederick Ashton ; danced by Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell -- Marguerite and Armand / chor., Ashton ; danced by Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev -- The lady with the little dog [The lady with a lapdog] / chor., Plisetskaya ; danced by Plisetskaya and Boris Efimov -- The taming of the shrew / chor., John Cranko ; danced by Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun -- Onegin / chor., Cranko ; danced by Makarova and Reid Anderson. Continued on cassette 2.
7. Cassette 2 (ca. 5 min.). Onegin, continued. End credits for The making of a ballerina.
8. Cassette 3 (ca. 92 min. total). The great tradition. [Introduction]. Interviewee: Maurice Béjart. Dance excerpts: The blue angel / chor., Roland Petit ; rehearsal ; danced by Natalia Makarova and Jean-Pierre Aviotte, supervised by Roland Petit -- Wien, Wien, nur du allein / chor., Béjart ; rehearsal ; danced by Marcia Haydée and Jorge Donn, supervised by Béjart -- Other dances / chor., Jerome Robbins ; rehearsal ; danced by Makarova, supervised by Robbins.
9. [Great ballerina roles of the past: Odette, Aurora, Giselle]. Interviewee: Antony Tudor. Dance excerpts: Swan lake / danced by Natalia Makarova and Anthony Dowell -- The sleeping beauty / danced by Margot Fonteyn -- The sleeping beauty / danced by Elisabeth Platel -- Giselle / danced by Galina Ulanova -- Giselle / danced by Alicia Markova -- Giselle / rehearsal ; danced by Makarova and Alexander Sombart -- Giselle / danced by Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
10. [Characterization]. Interviewee: Kenneth MacMillan. Dance excerpts: Manon / chor., MacMillan ; danced by Natalia Makarova (Manon), Derek Rencher (Monsieur G.M.), Stephen Jeffries (Lescaut) -- Romeo and Juliet / chor., MacMillan ; danced by Makarova.
11. [John Cranko and his choreography]. Interviewee: Carla Fracci. Dance excerpts: Romeo and Juliet / chor., Cranko ; danced by Fracci and Gheorghe Iancu -- Onegin / chor., Cranko ; danced by Natalia Makarova and Reid Anderson.
12. [Ballerinas as links to the past]. Interviewees: Alexandra Danilova, Alicia Markova. Makarova rehearses London Festival Ballet Theatre in La bayadère. Danilova teaches a variation from Paquita to students of the School of American Ballet. Markova rehearses the Sugarplum Fairy variation and the grand pas de deux from The nutcracker with Janette Mulligan and Martin James of London Festival Ballet. Dance excerpt: Giselle / danced by Markova.
13. [Three great ballerinas of the past: Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Olga Spessivtzeva]. Interviewees: Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor. Reminiscences by the two choreographers, illustrated with b&w footage of Pavlova in various roles, including The dying swan, and Spessivtseva in Giselle.
14. [Ballerinas of the future]. Interviewee: Maurice Béjart. Dance excerpts: La bayadère / danced by Cecilia Kerche and Fernando Bujones -- Royal Danish Ballet in company class -- Amleth [Hamlet] / chor., John Neumeier ; danced by Mette Bodtcher (Ophelia) -- Mouvement, rythme, etude / chor., Béjart ; danced by Sylvie Guillem and Eric Vu-An. Re-recorded in full on cassette 4.
15. Cassette 4 (ca. 7 min.). Mouvement, rythme, etude. End credits for The great tradition.

Call number

1. *MGZIA 4-5506

Credits (note)

1. Program consultant, Clement Crisp.

Event (note)

1. Telecast by the Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E).

Title

1. Ballerina [videorecording] / a BBC-TV production in association with Arts and Entertainment Network and RM Arts ; directed by Derek Bailey ; produced by Derek Bailey and Julia Matheson ; written and presented by Natalia Makarova.

Imprint

1. U.K. : BBC-TV, c1987.

Country of producing entity

1. U.K.

Event

1. Telecast by the Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E).

Credits

1. Program consultant, Clement Crisp.

Local subject

1. Interpretation in dance performance.
2. Partnering in dance.

Local subject

1. Ballet dancers -- Style.

Added author

1. Makarova, Natalia, 1940- dancer.
2. Makarova, Natalia, 1940- interviewer (expression)
3. Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931, dancer.
4. Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991, dancer.
5. Nagy, Ivan, 1943-2014, dancer.
6. Fracci, Carla, dancer.
7. Fracci, Carla, interviewee (expression)
8. Iancu, Gheorghe, dancer.
9. Harvey, Cynthia, dancer.
10. Dowell, Anthony, dancer.
11. Guillem, Sylvie, 1965- dancer.
12. Schaufuss, Peter, dancer.
13. Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997, interviewee (expression)
14. Jaffe, Susan, dancer.
15. Samsova, Galina.
16. Sibley, Antoinette, dancer.
17. Ralov, Kirsten, 1922- interviewee (expression)
18. Jeppesen, Lis, dancer.
19. Jeppesen, Lis, interviewee (expression)
20. Vaussard, Christiane.
21. Guérin, Isabelle, 1961- dancer.
22. Johnson, Virginia, 1950- dancer.
23. Smith, Lowell, 1951-2007, dancer.
24. Sombart, Alexander, dancer.
25. Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer.
26. Efimov, Boris, dancer.
27. Haydée, Marcia, dancer.
28. Haydée, Marcia, interviewee (expression)
29. Cragun, Richard, dancer.
30. Anderson, Reid, dancer.
31. Aviotte, Jean-Pierre, dancer.
32. Donn, Jorge, dancer.
33. Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987, interviewee (expression)
34. Platel, Elisabeth, dancer.
35. Ulanova, Galina Sergeevna, 1910-1998, dancer.
36. Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004, dancer.
37. Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004, interviewee (expression)
38. Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- dancer.
39. Rencher, Derek, dancer.
40. Jefferies, Stephen, dancer.
41. Mulligan, Janette, dancer.
42. James, Martin, dancer.
43. Karsavina, Tamara, dancer.
44. Spessivtzeva, Olga, 1895-1991, dancer.
45. Kerche, Cecilia, dancer.
46. Bujones, Fernando, 1955-2005, dancer.
47. Bodtcher, Mette, dancer.
48. Vu-An, Eric, dancer.
49. Bailey, Derek, producer.
50. Matheson, Julia, producer.
51. Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910, choreographer.
52. Ivanov, Lev, 1834-1901, choreographer.
53. Bournonville, August, 1805-1879, choreographer.
54. MacMillan, Kenneth, choreographer.
55. MacMillan, Kenneth, interviewee (expression)
56. Gsovsky, Victor, 1902-1974, choreographer.
57. Ashton, Frederick, 1904-1988, choreographer.
58. Ashton, Frederick, 1904-1988, interviewee.
59. Mitchell, Arthur, 1934- choreographer.
60. Butler, John, 1920-1993, choreographer.
61. De Mille, Agnes, choreographer.
62. Bettis, Valerie, 1919-1982, choreographer.
63. Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡, 1925-2015, choreographer.
64. Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡, 1925-2015, dancer.
65. Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡, 1925-2015, interviewee (expression)
66. Cranko, John, choreographer.
67. Petit, Roland, 1924-2011, choreographer.
68. Petit, Roland, 1924-2011, interviewee (expression)
69. Béjart, Maurice, choreographer.
70. Béjart, Maurice, interviewee (expression)
71. Robbins, Jerome, choreographer.
72. Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.
73. Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942, choreographer.
74. Neumeier, John, 1939- choreographer.
75. Crisp, Clement, consultant.
76. Leningradskoe akademicheskoe khoreograficheskoe uchilishche im. A. ︠I︡A. Vaganovoĭ, performer.
77. School of American Ballet, performer.
78. Royal Ballet. School, performer.
79. Opéra de Paris. Ecole de danse, performer.
80. London's Festival Ballet, performer.
81. Kongelige Danske ballet, performer.
82. British Broadcasting Corporation.
83. Arts and Entertainment Network.
84. RM Arts (Firm)

Added title

1. Dying swan (Choreographic work : Fokine)
2. Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
3. Don Quixote (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
4. Swan lake (Choreographic work : Ivanov and Petipa, M)
5. Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
6. Romeo and Juliet (Choreographic work : MacMillan)
7. Grand pas classique (Choreographic work : Gsovsky)
8. Raymonda (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
9. Little humpbacked horse (Choreographic work)
10. Cinderella (Choreographic work : Ashton)
11. Conservatoriet (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
12. Holberg suite (Choreographic work : Mitchell)
13. Othello (Choreographic work : Butler)
14. Fall River legend (Choreographic work : De Mille)
15. Streetcar named desire (Choreographic work : Bettis)
16. Manon (Choreographic work : MacMillan)
17. Thaïs (Choreographic work : Ashton)
18. Marguerite and Armand (Choreographic work : Ashton)
19. Lady with a lapdog (Choreographic work : Plise︠t︡ska︠i︡a)
20. Taming of the shrew (Choreographic work : Cranko)
21. Onegin (Choreographic work : Cranko)
22. Blue angel (Choreographic work : Petit, R)
23. Wien, Wien, nur du allein (Choreographic work : Béjart)
24. Other dances (Choreographic work : Robbins)
25. Giselle (Choreographic work)
26. Romeo and Juliet (Choreographic work : Cranko)
27. Nutcracker (Choreographic work)
28. Bayadère (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
29. Hamlet (Choreographic work : Neumeier)

Research call number

1. *MGZIA 4-5506