Product Details

• Actors: The Moiseyev Dance Company
• Directors: Igor Moiseyev
• Format: Classical, Color, Digital Sound, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD, Full length, Full Screen, Special Edition, 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
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: V.I.E.W., Inc.
• DVD Release Date: May 10, 2006
• Run Time: 70 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000A2S9II
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #80,705 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The New York Times
"...Stupendous!"

Product Description
The Moiseyev Dance Company, Russia's most traveled troupe, has broken box office records in more than 50 countries. Trained in classical ballet, folk dancing and acrobatics, their repertoire includes dances from all of the former Soviet regions as well as from Poland, Mexico and Japan.

The company's creator, Igor Moiseyev, a distinquished choreographer, ballet master and leading dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet set his sights on establishing a state ensemble of folk dancing. "My dancers," Moiseyev says, "should not only have unusual stamina, but the daring of an acrobat, the skill of a juggler, the speed of a fencer and know how to act as well." This wonderful DVD includes a Photo Gallery, Over 10 Scene Selections, and a biography on The Moiseyev Ballet Company.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worse than a bootleg copy, March 14, 2007

By	Vestris (Lancaster, CA USA) - See all my reviews

I am a professional dance videographer. It is obvious that this was not taken from any source material. It is not even a good copy of the original VHS tape. It has dropouts all over it in a very non VHS fashion. It looks more like a third generation copy that was made from a Hi8 copy. The extra pictures are awful. They are the poorest still shots taken from the video. They were not full frame and no attempt was made to enhance them. This is an amateur copy made with low end equipment and without skill. There was nothing new so it should not even be advertised as such. This is DVD should never have been released. It is nothing like the original which is excellent. I was personally familiar with some of the Moiseyev dancers and it is a disservice to display an otherwise fabulous performance in such a manner. Buy the original VHS tape version.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, January 9, 2007

By	George P. Miller - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There were several deceptive items in the listing for this DVD. One was the cover photograph-made apparently from a recent performance at a low angle, and NOT from any of the dance made in this video's timeframe.. The copyright was recent from the 90's, the sound was Dolby probably from a mono source and not a very good one, BUT the technical quality was terrible-good for the year, this was an historic preformance and should have been advertised as such-the actuall video it says on the box was made for the 1980 Olympics. I was hoping for the sparkle that I had witnessed in Moscow from a like company and copied by the residents of Sitka Alaska that I videoed in 1995-that produced better sound from a camera mike.

In all I had hoped for a better product, this was terribly disappointing. As a historical video its fine, but the picture on the box and the quality of the sound and video was good for that age-I think we were taken in and wasted our money.

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Moiseyev, September 6, 2008

By	Giorgio Stern - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Due to "VIEW Video" DVD I can relive the unforgottable experience given to me by Igor Moiseyev National Popular Dance Company of the USSR in theyr permformace in Venice, Milan and Trieste too, forty years ago.
Not only, due to this DVD, now I can share my wonderful experience with my grandson, family and friends too. Thank you.
Giorgio Stern