A dramatic, energetic adaptation of Heinz Spoerli's ballet based on Grieg's Peer Gynt by the Zurich ballet. Marijn Rademaker is excellent as the title character, clearly telegraphing the emotional range required. Each of the characters and the dramatic scenes are supported by the orchestral passages and songs provided by Grieg; some spoken word passages extracted from the Ibsen play.
A group of ballet boys are being bullied by a group of boxing boys in their local sports gym. The ba...
Set in the Royal India of the past, La Bayadère is a story of eternal love, mystery, fate, vengeance...
In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls i...
Short musical based upon a choreography by Pierre Lacotte.
The showman of 20th century choreography, Maurice Béjart, stages his distinctive rendering of the be...
Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downst...
Don Quixote and his servant Sancho Panza set out to have a chivalrous adventure. They meet Kitri and...
The Gay Parisian is an American short film produced in 1941 by Warner Bros. featuring the Ballet Rus...
In 1931 Shostakovich wrote a full-length score for the Leningrad Music Hall, for a show that involve...
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...
A film adaptation of the Ludwig Minkus ballet, completely re-orchestrated and with additional music ...
Jean-Christophe Maillot's Romeo and Juliet transports us into the tormented soul of Brother Lawrence...
Coppélia, a mechanical doll made by the toy-maker Dr. Coppelius, is so life-like that some believe s...
Live from the State Opera Under the Linden, Berlin 1999. Choreographed by Patrice Bart.
Ballet performance by The Royal Ballet, recorded at Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, July 1984...
An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.
The Bolshoi's acclaimed 80s production of Tchaikovsky's Holiday classic.