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Ballets Russes

Irina Baronova (Actor), Kenneth Kynt Bryan (Actor) Rated:
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4.7 out of 5 stars 82 customer reviews
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Special Features

  • "Encores": a 55-minute, four-part series of additional behind-the-scenes, rehearsal and interview footage with Ballets Russes dancers and collaborators
  • Rare archival footage, including Ballets Russes performances not in the film
  • Extensive photo galleries of Ballets Russes staris, additional dancers and vintage Playbill Covers
  • Original Theatrical Trailers

Product Details

  • Actors: Irina Baronova, Kenneth Kynt Bryan, Yvonne Chouteau
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: Zeitgeist Films
  • DVD Release Date: September 12, 2006
  • Run Time: 118 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (82 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000G5SIBM
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,889 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 stars"What will I do, sell fruit? This is my life."
By A Customer on February 5, 2006
The good news is that in Ballets Russes, viewers don't need to know anything about ballet to enjoy this electrifying documentary by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, This is a lovingly and confidently made documentary that brings to life an era of unequaled artistic excitement. Equally heart-wrenching, and riveting and thoroughly entertaining the Ballet Russes unwinds like a historical thriller, laying bare the politics, rivalries, tremendous egos, and creative appetites that produced two of the world's greatest ballet companies.

Weaving actual historical footage of the companies with interviews of these dancers today, the film starts with a first-ever reunion of Ballets Russes dancers in New Orleans in 2000, and juxtaposes this with the various permutations of the troupes that started with impresario Serge Diaghilev's legendary Paris-based Ballets Russes. When Diaghilev died in 1929, ballet came to a standstill until a pair of entrepreneurs began Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo two years later.

What follows is a beguiling journey through the intoxicating twists and turns of the next 30 years of ballet history, which involved competing companies, the legendary choreographers George Balanchine, Leonide Massine and David Lichine, and almost every major dancer you can think of, including dancers such as Alicia Markova and Alexandra Danilova. The guides through this world are the dancers themselves, many white-haired and elderly, offering up sharp and often-funny anecdotes. Some were barely in their teens at the time, from families who had lost everything in the Russian Revolution.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars"Let's remember the old days."
By CodeMaster Talon on January 16, 2006
Today practically every one-horse town in America has a ballet studio: One room affairs with tinkly piano music and an aging grand dame leading rows of tu-tu-clad little girls. We take it for granted, but at the beginning of the last century ballet was almost nonexistent in the US, and elsewhere in the world it was in serious danger of dying out. When two banker-types decided to restart a legendary dance troupe and give the art of ballet a new, modern face, they single-handedly resurrected the art form and changed the world of dance forever.

"Ballet Russes" documents the golden years of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and its offshoot, the Original Ballet Russe. Through wonderful archival footage and delightful interviews with surviving dancers (of which there are a surprising amount; dancing is very good for your health) we witness incredible athleticism, heartbreaking artistry, and enough drama to fill ten seasons of "Desperate Housewives".

There's the machinations of warring choreographers Massine and Balanchine (he of the "baby ballerinas"), the love affairs and feuds of the dancers ("The Russians weren't very nice to each other," recalls Fredrick Franklin, still delightfully gossipy in his eighties) and of course recollections of playing a Salvador Dali ballet in Middle America ("Strange people dressed in strange costumes doing strange things", as one dancer puts it.).

These were some spectactular-looking people, as the photos attest. Three ballerinas, now pushing ninety, get all giggly remembering the hunkiness of George Zoritch (who is still alive and looks at least twenty years younger than he is).Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFor Every Ballet Fan
By Michael Gunther on March 3, 2007
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This is an absolutely delightful DVD. It combines narration, archival footage, and interviews with original(!) members of the companies to produce a very engaging history. To clarify, the DVD is about two companies: the "Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo" and the so-called "Original Ballet Russe" company, both of which split off from the _real_ original Ballet Russe - which as all of you know was the company of Najinsky etc. - after 1929.

Everything about this DVD is first-class. The archival footage is very clean. The narration clarified many points of history about which I was very confused, including how George Balanchine bounced around like a pinball from place to place during those early years. Best of all was the contemporary footage and oral history interviews of company members. I could hardly believe how many dancers from the two companies are still around in the 21st century! We're talking WWII-era here. If this were Japan, we would declare them National Treasures. Many of them in their 80s, they are still vital and active in teaching, and in at least one case, performing! And they are still such lovely people that my heart just went out to them.

The DVD cover includes a url for more information: [...]; do check it out, and I hope you like it as much as I did!
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5.0 out of 5 starsDeliriously wonderful film
By Phil Clapham on September 30, 2006
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First up, I am not into ballet, or at least not very much. It's never been an artform that has grabbed me, with occasional exceptions. However, this documentary is one of the most beautiful, charming, witty and moving films I have ever seen (and I'm old, so that says a lot). The performers - some of them now in their 90's and still hale - are remarkable, and the ease with which the filmmaker moves through the history of these amazing two companies of artists is a joy to behold. I saw this on a whim in the theater when it first came out; I laughed at some of the dancers' memories, cried at the sheer beauty of the historic footage, and came out feeling wonderful about life and the magic that is performance art at its very best.

At times funny, at times touching, always beautiful, this film is both a loving tribute to an extraordinary time and a consummate work of art.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Came across it while channel cruising and several years ago and now watch a lot of ballets

Published 2 months ago by William M. Rich
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

As described, delivered as promised. Can't ask more than that.

Published 5 months ago by Stephen Thomas
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Very accurate depiction of the not-so-pleasant life of novices at Ballet Russe. Every aspiring ballerina should view this.

Published 8 months ago by Randi O'Brien
5.0 out of 5 starsGratitude

In the midst of the often swirling circumstances of everyday living, I cling to this Apollo's Angels as a kind of refuge in a time of storm. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Alton
4.0 out of 5 starsInteresting, but...

A really interesting documentary, but if you were hoping that it covered the Diaghilev Ballets Russe years, then you'll be disappointed. Read more

Published 10 months ago by Maria Aragon
5.0 out of 5 starsStimulating. Historically fascinating.

Stimulating. Historically fascinating.

Published 14 months ago by Jeannette E. Hanna
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Perfect

Published 15 months ago by David Derrico
5.0 out of 5 starsBeautiful recording of a beautiful ballet era....

I had seen this movie at the theater and wanted a copy as historical keepsake of an important ballet era.

Published 17 months ago by Dora Fidler
5.0 out of 5 starsA trip through ballet history

I loved it! I wish they had the technology then for filming the dancers that they have now. Still it was remarkable to see the dancers tell their own story, and what a story it... Read more

Published 19 months ago by Karin Graybeal
5.0 out of 5 starsMy fourth viewing

The documentary had a very limited run in my area, but appeared at Blockbuster a short time later. I rented it on a recommendation from a ballerina friend who, as a child, studied... Read more

Published 22 months ago by lily t.

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