Ballets Russes

Marian Seldes narrates this informative, in-depth documentary that gives a four-decade history of the origins of ballet beginning in the early 1930s by interweaving interviews with legendary ballet dancers such as Nathalie Krassovska, Dame Alicia Markova, Tania Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne Craig, Frederic Franklin, Marc Platt, George Zoritch, Alan Howard, and Maria Tallchief with black-and-white photographs, films clips, and snippets of live performances from famous ballets, including Union Pacific, Le Beau Danube, Camille, the Nutcracker, 7th Symphony, Aurora's Wedding, Rodeo, and Song of Norway.
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