DVDs

NUREYEV AND THE JOFFREY BALLET in TRIBUTE TO NIJINSKY

Petrouchka Music: Igor Stravinsky Choreography: Michel Fokine Denise Jackson, Christian Holder and Rudolf Nureyev “Le Spectre de la Rose” Music: Carl Maria von Weber Choreography: Michel Fokine Denise Jackson, Rudolf Nureyev “L’Après-midi d’un faune” Music: Claude Debussy Choreography: Vaslav Nijinsky…

DANCING THROUGH DARKNESS

Coverage of the illness of the dancer, his last years. One-sided, partial coverage of the life and career of the performer. The editing of the various interviews is biased and gives the spectator a negative and false impression of the…

LA BAYADERE

Nikiya: Isabelle Guérin Solor: Laurent Hilaire Gamzatti: Elisabeth Platel and the soloists and the corps de ballet from the Paris Opera. Nureyev’s last production, first unabridged version of the ballet staged at the Paris Opera. Scenery and costumes by Ezio…

SLEEPING BEAUTY

Performance filmed in Toronto at the O’Keefe Centre with the National Ballet of Canada in 1972. The production won an “Emmy Award” that same year when it was first shown. The Bluebird Pas de Deux is performed by Karin Kain…

SWAN LAKE – DVD

Film made in 1966 from the version of the ballet staged by Nureyev in 1964 for the Vienna State Opera Ballet. The only great ballet from the repertoire with the legendary couple captured on film. Costumes and scenery by Nicholas…

FONTEYN and NUREYEV, THE PERFECT PARTNERSHIP – DVD

Excellent documentary about the legendary couple with large excerpts from Marguerite and Armand, Le Corsaire, Romeo and Juliet. Lots of pictures from the archives, interviews with the two performers, with Dame Ninette de Valois, etc.…

RUDOLF NUREYEV – dvd

The English version of the documentary was filmed in 1990. Nureyev insisted on shooting the interviews in French for the French version a few months prior to his death. Latest documentary on the life of the dancer, excellent film about…

THE NUTCRACKER – DVD

Performance filmed in Covent Garden with Nureyev and Merle Park in 1968. This version shows Nureyev in the dual role of Drosselmeyer and the Prince. Clara: Merle Park Drosselmeyer and the Prince: Rudolf Nureyev With the soloists and the corps…

DON QUIXOTE

Distribution : Basilio Rudolf Noureev Kitri Lucette Aldous Don Quixote Robert Helpmann Sancho Panca Ray Powell Gamache Colin Peasley Lorenzo Francis Croese With the soloists and the corps de ballet from the Australian Ballet Nureyev restaged the ballet for the…

AN EVENING WITH THE ROYAL BALLET – DVD

“Le Corsaire” Music: Drigo Choreography: Nureyev after Petipa Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev “Les Sylphides” Music: Chopin Choreography: Michel Fokine Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev with the soloists and the corps de ballet from the London Royal Ballet. Recorded on…

SLEEPING BEAUTY – 1972

DON QUIXOTE – 1973

Nureyev restaged the ballet for the Australian Ballet Company, during the Arts Festival held in Adelaide in 1970. He revised this version and adapted it for filming. The shooting took place in a disused hangar close to Melbourne at the…