1 streaming video file (124 min.) : sound, black and white.
Summary
Question and Answer session discusses the creation of the company, learning to dance on pointe, audiences reactions to the company, having pointe shoes custom made, reconstructing Nijinska's Les Biches, various ballets in their repertory, having class taught by Nijinsky's daughter (Kyra), upcoming performance locations, tradition of en travesti in Russia, and how movements taken from original ballets are now considered funny.
Uniform title
Swan lake (Choreographic work : after Ivanov)
Phaedra (Choreographic work)
Harlequinade (Choreographic work : Petipa)
Pas de quatre (Choreographic work : Perrot)
Ecole de ballet (Choreographic work : Anastos)
Alternative title
Lively Arts at Stanford: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Swan Lake (Le Lac de Cygnes, Act II) [begins abruptly] (31 min.) / staged by Trutti Gasparinetti, after Ivanov ; music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky ; costumes by Natch Taylor ; decor by Cleo Young ; dancers, Vera Namethatunova (en travesti) (Benno), Alexis Ivanovitch Lermontov (Prince Siegfried), Olga Tchikaboumskaya (Odette), Noximova (en travesti) (Von Rothbart) ; Eugenia Repelskii, Zamarina Zamarkova, Ida Neversayneva, Bertha Vinayshinsky, Vanya Verikosa, Natasha Veceslova (Swans).
Phaedra/Monotonous no. 1148 (11 min.) / choreography by Shawn Avrea ; music by AC/DC ; costumes by Lo-fat-diet ; dancers Eugenia Repelskii (The Outsider) ; Bertha Vinayshinsky, Vanya Verikosa, Ida Neversayneva (People).
Harlequinade (Pas de Deux) (10 min.) / staged by Yelena Tchernichova after Petipa ; music by Riccardo Drigo ; costumes by Natch Taylor ; dancers, Olga Tchikaboumskaya and Alexis Lermontov.
Pas de Quatre (15 min.) / staged by Trutti Gasparinetti after Perrot ; music by Cesare Pugni ; costumes by Natch Taylor ; dancers, Ida Neversayneva (Lucille Grahn), Zamarina Zamarkova (Carlotta Grisi), Natasha Veceslova (Fanny Cerrito), Eugenia Repelskii (Marie Taglioni).
Ecole de Ballet (30 min.) / choreography by Peter Anastos ; music by Jean-Claude Pastiche ; costumes by Natch Taylor ; dancers, Scene 1 (Madame Repeskii's Terpsichorean Academy): Eugenia Repelskii (Madame), Vanya Verikosa (en travesti) (a boy) and the company ; Scene 2 (The Recital): Ida Neversayneva (Variation 1), Olga Tchikaboumskaya (Variation 2), Zamarina Zamarkova (Variations 3), LaFuzziovitch (Variations 4), Natasha Veceslova and Vanya Verikosa (Pas de deux) and The company (coda).
Audience Q & A (27 min.) / moderator, Peter Anastos ; participants, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.
Call number
*MGZIDF 6603
Note
Title from original Betamax cassette label.
Credits from program located in the Dance Division's program file: *MGZB Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo [Programs].
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits (note)
Artistic directors, Peter Anastos and Natch Taylor.
Source (note)
Tory Dobrin
Title
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo : Stanford, 1976 October 29.
Production
1976.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Type of content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
video
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Access
Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Credits
Artistic directors, Peter Anastos and Natch Taylor.
Performer
Dancers, Peter Anastos (Olga Tchikaboumskaya), Natch Taylor (Alexis Lermontov and Suzina LaFuzziovitch), Clinton W. Smith (Natasha Veceslova and Aubrey Smythe-Wickes), Shawn Avrea (Eugenia Repelskii and Fjord Tord), Zamie Zamora (Zamarina Zamarkova), Brent Mason (Vanya Verikosa), Joel Paley (Bertha Vinayshinsky), William Curtis Gooden (Noximova), William Toth (Vera Namethatunova).
Event
Videotaped during performance at Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., 1976 October 29.
Original version
Original format: 1 videocassette (Betamax II) ; 1/2 in.