Research Catalog

Les enfants de la danse

Title: Les enfants de la danse [electronic resource]
Publication: c1988.

Available Online

NYPL Digital Collections

Details

Additional Authors

Description

1 streaming video file (PAL) (59 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences.

Summary

Four-part series on the École du Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, hosted by its director, Claude Bessy. In addition to the school's teachers and students, the series depicts past and present principal dancers of the Paris Opéra Ballet, people in dance-related professions, and French dance luminaries. Interviews, performances, and demonstration classes provide a multifaceted view of the school's activities and achievements. The rest of the videos in this series can be found at *MGZIDF 2754, *MGZIDF 2755, and *MGZIDF 2757.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Telmondis.

Uniform Title

Don Quixote (Choreographic work : Nureyev after Petipa, M)
Luna (Choreographic work : Béjart)
Grand pas classique (Choreographic work : Gsovsky)
Sylphide (Choreographic work : Lacotte after Taglioni, F)
Ma Pavlova (Choreographic work : Petit)

Subjects

Note

Co-produced by La Sept, Antenne 2, and Telmondis, with the participation of NHK Enterprises. In French. Director: Dirk Sanders.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding (note)

Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.

Contents

CONTENTS: Teachers spotlighted in demonstration classes are Bessy (steps of elevation), Jean-Paul Sereni (physical education), Claire Baulieu (contemporary dance), and Gilbert Mayer (batterie). Paris Opéra Ballet dancers Elisabeth Platel and Manuel Legris perform variations, demonstrate steps, and converse with Bessy and students. Bessy discusses the dancer's physique and interviews administrator Jacqueline Bienvenue, dancer Cyril Atanassoff, and Dirk Sanders, a former dancer who is now a television director. Dance excerpts portray Platel in the Reine des dryades variation from Don Quixote (chor: Rudolf Nureyev after Petipa; mus: Minkus); Sylvie Guillem in La luna (chor: Maurice Béjart; mus: Bach); Atanassoff and Bessy in La fleur carnivore (b&w) (chor: Michel Rayne; mus: Brazilian batucada), Atanassoff in Grand pas classique (b&w) (chor: Victor Gzovsky; mus: Auber), Legris in a variation from La sylphide (chor: Pierre Lacotte after Filippo Taglioni; mus: Schneitzhoeffer), and Dominique Khalfouni in Ma Pavlova (chor: Roland Petit; mus: Mozart).

Call Number

*MGZIDF 2756

OCLC

NYPY926048782-F

Title

Les enfants de la danse [electronic resource]

Imprint

c1988.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding

Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-3377 cassette 3.

Additional Copy: None.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Ballet in television. Les enfants de la danse.

Added Author

Bessy, Claude. Host. tch, dancer.

Sereni, Jean-Paul. Teacher

Baulieu, Claire. Teacher

Mayer, Gilbert. Teacher

Platel, Elisabeth, dancer.

Guillem, Sylvie, 1965- dancer.

Bienvenue, Jacqueline. Interviewee

Atanassoff, Cyril. ive, dancer.

Legris, Manuel, dancer.

Khalfouni, Dominique, dancer.

Sanders, Dirk. Director. Interviewee

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, choreographer.

Béjart, Maurice, choreographer.

Rayne, Michel, choreographer.

Gsovsky, Victor, 1902-1974, choreographer.

Lacotte, Pierre, 1932- choreographer.

Petit, Roland, 1924-2011, choreographer.

Opéra de Paris. Ecole de danse.

Opéra de Paris. Ballet.

Added Title

Don Quixote (Choreographic work : Nureyev after Petipa, M)

Luna (Choreographic work : Béjart)

Grand pas classique (Choreographic work : Gsovsky)

Sylphide (Choreographic work : Lacotte after Taglioni, F)

Ma Pavlova (Choreographic work : Petit)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 2756

*MGZIC 9-3377 cassette 3 (former)

View in Legacy Catalog