Supprot video: video

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…

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.…

SLEEPING BEAUTY – 1972

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…

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…