Footnotes, the classics of ballet. Volume 4, Don Quixote ; La bayadère / with Frank Augustyn ; produced by Sound Venture Productions and Frank Augustyn Productions ; directed by Derek Diorio ; produced by Neil Bregman and Frank Augustyn.
Publisher:
Kultur International Films,
Copyright Date:
1996?
Description:
1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Performance excerpts danced by performers of the Kirov Ballet: Tatyana Terekhova, Vladimir Ponomaryov, Gabriela Komleva, Rejen Abdyev. Choreographed by Petipa; music by Leon Minkus. Interviewees: Fernando Bujones, Darcy Bussell, Anthony Dowell, Cynthia Gregory, Evelyn Hart, Paloma Herrera, Charles Jude, Karen Kain, Charles Kirby, Monique Loudiéres, Bruce Marks, Monica Mason, Kevin McKenzie, Antoinette Sibley, Veronica Tennant, Robert Wallace ; other interviewees: William Littler, Celia Franca, Peter Ottman.
Summary:
Artist Frank Augustyn sheds new light on some classic ballets by discussing them with some great ballet stars. Don Quixote, based on Cervantes's novel about an old knight who dreams of chivalry and tilts at windmills, was produced chiefly to introduce Spanish dances. La Bayadère is based on an ancient Indian poem, Sakuntala, the story concerns Nikia's love for Solor, who loves her in return, and Solor's obligation to wed Gamzatti. Gamzatti murders her rival and the inconsolable Solor envisions Nikia inviting him to join her in the Kingdom of the Shades.
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