Ballets Russes (2005)

Directed by

Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 58m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and its split into two rival troupes. It uses old performance footage and interviews with former principal dancers to trace the companies' histories over many decades.

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What happens

Ballets Russes is a 2005 American feature documentary film about the dancers of the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, which split into the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo and the Original Ballet Russe. By showing clips of performances and interviews (recorded in about 2000) with several principal dancers from each troupe, it follows the history of the two troupes over decades. Alicia Markova, George Zoritch, and Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Tchinarova were among the dancers featured. It was narrated by Marian Seldes. It is distributed by Zeitgeist Films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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