Product Details

• Actors: Leslie Browne, Fernando Bujones, Paul Connelly, Cynthia Gregory, Susan Jaffe
• Directors: Brian Large
• Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Kultur Video
• DVD Release Date: April 26, 2005
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007TFID8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,953 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "ABT In San Francisco / American Ballet Theatre" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Performing live at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, the American Ballet Theatre presents a sampling of dances from several well-known ballets, including: Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Gottschalk's Great Galloping Gottschalk, Tchaikovsky's The Black Swan, Handel's Airs, and Chausson's Jardin Aux Lilas. Dancing in both traditional and modern ballet styles, the dancers bring the choreography to life with the help of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra.
Genre: Performing Arts - Ballet/Dance
Rating: NR
Release Date: 26-APR-2005
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Dancers!, March 21, 2006

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Lu Lu "lulu" (Argentina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ABT In San Francisco / American Ballet Theatre (DVD)

This is a DVD with some of the finest american dancers ever, most of them are retired by now ( I guess this performance was recorded live in mid '80s).

Airs: Music by Handel, choreography by Paul Taylor, is a nice piece of neo-classical ballet.

Jardin aux Lilas: Music by Chausson, choreography by Anthony Tudor, created in the '30s, kind of "pychological" expressionist ballet, well danced by Leslie Browne, Martine Van Hamel, Robert La Fosse and Michael Owen.

Black Swan: Tchaichovsky/Petipa. Pas de deux extracted from third act of "Swan Lake", one of the most difficult (technical and artistical) pas de deux from the entire ballet repertoire,

danced by two of the best american dancers ever: Cynthia Gregory and Fernando Bujones. Bujones was the first american dancer to win a gold medal in the prestigious Varna International Ballet Competition, and partnership with Cynthia Gregory is legendary. One of the most acclaimed ballet couples.

A MUST SEE!!!

Romeo and Juliet: Prokofiev/MacMillan. Natalia Makarova and Kevin McKenzie dances the Verona lovers. She is superb, a true ballerina and great star. McKenzie has been American Ballet Theater's artistic director since 1992. This is not the most happy pair for this particular ballet ( Alexandra Ferri and Julio Bocca are the best!)in my opinion, he just seems too tall and big for the tiny and delicate Makarova, but still, it's so beautiful and romantic!

Great Galloping Gottschalk: The entire corps comes to stage.

Humor, speed, technical virtuosos, who can say ballet is boring after this?

Overall: Great samples of really fine dancing.

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth its weight in gold...., May 30, 2005

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Richard Dodge "South San Diego Senior" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ABT In San Francisco / American Ballet Theatre (DVD)

ABT in San francisco AND ABT at the Metropolitan...make a very

delightful collection of short, brilliant ballets. Abt in

San Francisco has a very early Baryschnikov dancing 'the poet'

in Les Sylvides. It is like watching a flower open. The Black

Swan is dynamic, but my own favorite is "Great Galloping

Gottschalk"...toward the end of which Johan Renvall has a

brilliant, witty featured solo. Watch for it.

Sometimes I get tired of having the TV YELL at me..and I put

one or the other of these ABT DVD's on...they are both great

collections, beautifully performed, and wildly varied. Just

great music and great dancers...not oblivion, but certainly

serenity.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL, April 29, 2009

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drkhimxz (Freehold, NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: ABT In San Francisco / American Ballet Theatre (DVD)

The American Ballet Theater paid a visit to San Francisco some twenty-five years ago and did themselves proud with a ballet revue.. For those like myself, the ballet naive, it provided an admirably paced program of "classic" and "modern" which gave pleasure beyond the contribution of each individual component. A bow also to kultur for a disc excellent both in picture and sound (at least for one watching on a simple TV unadorned by extensions creating a Home Theater).