Research Catalog

[Rudolf Nureyev]

Title
[Rudolf Nureyev] [videorecording]
Publication
1961-1992.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993.
  • Petit, Roland, 1924-2011.
  • MacMillan, Kenneth.
  • Grigorʹev, S. L. (Sergeĭ Leonidovich), 1883-1968.
  • Tchernicheva, Lubov.
  • Barnes, Clive, 1927-2008.
  • Wood, Edmée.
  • Foy, Patricia.
  • British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 videocassette (107 min.) : sd. and si., b&w and col. PAL; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Compilation of 21 items spanning Rudolf Nureyev's life and career in the West from 1961 to 1992.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation.
Series Statement
Rudolf Nureyev Collection.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Interviews.
  • News.
  • Video.
  • Dance rehearsals.
Note
  • Accompanied by data sheet.
Contents
  • Monitor (ca. 6 min., b&w) / BBC Dance Catalogue #53 ; February 25, 1962 ; interviewer, Clive Barnes. Rudolf Nureyev discusses the differences between ballet training in Russia and the West, and the types of roles he hopes to dance in the West. He is also seen rehearsing for a Music in camera telecast of the Act II grand pas de deux from The nutcracker. The completed telecast of the pas de deux appears at ca. 77 min. into this tape.
  • Music in camera. [Giselle, Act II (excerpts)] (ca. 18 min., b&w) / BBC Catalogue #57 ; June 11, 1962 ; introduced by Bernard Keefe ; choreography, Nikolai Sergeev after Coralli and Perrot ; music, Adolphe Adam ; danced by Margot Fonteyn (Giselle) and Rudolf Nureyev (Albrecht). Condensed version of Act II of the ballet.
  • [Newsreel] (ca. 30 sec., si., b&w) / BBC Spool #NP044700 ; recorded in Paris in 1961. Candid footage of Rudolf Nureyev, then appearing with the International Ballet of the Marquis de Cuevas.
  • Look of the week. [Paradise lost] (ca. 13 min., b&w) / BBC Dance Catalogue #97 ; February 26, 1967 ; recorded in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes ; choreography, Roland Petit ; music, Marius Constant. Roland Petit rehearses Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev in sections of his ballet Paradise lost. All three are interviewed about the ballet.
  • Gala performance. [Romeo and Juliet, Act I, balcony scene pas de deux] (ca. 11 min., b&w) / BBC Dance Catalogue #83 ; March 18, 1965 ; introduced by Yehudi Menuhin ; choreography, Kenneth MacMillan ; music, Sergey Prokofiev ; danced by Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.
  • Visnews (ca. 2 min., si., b&w) / recorded in San Francisco, Calif., in July 1967 ; news footage on the arrest of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn during a drug raid in Haight-Ashbury.
  • Tonight (ca. 9 min., col.) / BBC Dance Catalogue #238 ; telecast (?) on October 3, 1977 ; interviewer, Ludovic Kennedy. Recorded during preparations for a seven-week Nureyev Festival at the London Coliseum in June 1976, Rudolf Nureyev discusses maturity in dancers, the advantages of working in the West, his hopes of bringing his mother to the West, and his upcoming film, Valentino. He rehearses excerpts from his own staging of The sleeping beauty with ballerina Karen Kain.
  • Release. [The nutcracker (excerpts)] (ca. 12 min., col.) / BBC Dance Catalogue #114 ; March 2, 1968 ; choreography, Rudolf Nureyev after Vaĭnonen ; music, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky. News story on the Royal Ballet's recent premiere of Rudolf Nureyev's version of The nutcracker. Nureyev discusses his concept of the ballet. He and Merle Park, who danced Clara, rehearse excerpts from the Act I pas de deux and the Act II grand pas de deux (adagio and coda).
  • Paradise lost [excerpt] (ca. 3 min., b&w) / from the Royal Ballet Video Archive ; recorded in stage rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes, in 1967, by Edmée Wood ; with added piano soundtrack ; choreography, Roland Petit ; music, Marius Constant. Excerpt from the beginning of the ballet, danced by Rudolf Nureyev. For complete footage of this recording, see *MGZIA 4-4029 RNC.
  • Prince Igor [excerpt] (ca. 1 min., si., b&w) / from the Royal Ballet Video Archive ; recorded in dress rehearsal onstage in 1965, by Edmée Wood ; choreography, Michel Fokine, revived by Serge Grigoriev and Lubov Tchernicheva ; costumes, Nicholas Roerich ; danced by Rudolf Nureyev and members of the Royal Ballet. For complete footage of this recording, see *MGZIA 4-4028 RNC The Polovtsian dances from the opera Prince Igor.
  • Images of love [excerpt] (ca. 1 min., b&w) / from the Royal Ballet Video Archive ; recorded in dress rehearsal onstage in 1964, by Edmée Wood ; with added piano soundtrack ; choreography, Kenneth MacMillan ; music, Peter Tranchell ; scenery and costumes, Barry Kay ; danced by Rudolf Nureyev, Lynn Seymour, and Christopher Gable. For complete footage of this recording, see *MGZIA 4-4042 RNC.
  • Panorama (ca. 1 min., b&w) / BBC? ; July 12, 1967. After a brief clip of the balcony scene pas de deux from Romeo and Juliet, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn are seen in news footage recorded in San Francisco at the time of their arrest during a drug raid. Some of this footage also appears, without audio, on the Visnews recording above.
  • Music in camera. [The nutcracker, Act II grand pas de deux] (ca. 12 min., b&w) / BBC Dance Catalogue #52 ; January 10, 1962 ; produced by Patricia Foy ; choreography, Rudolf Nureyev ; music, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky ; danced by Rosella Hightower and Rudolf Nureyev ; music played by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marcus Dods.
  • [Newsreel] (ca. 1 min., si., b&w) / recorded in 1961. Views of Rudolf Nureyev in a performance of The sleeping beauty with the International Ballet of the Marquis de Cuevas, and in his dressing room.
  • Nine o'clock news item (ca. 1 min., col.) / BBC ; November 13, 1987 ; announcement of Rudolf Nureyev's return to Russia for the first time since his defection, to visit his ailing mother.
  • One o'clock news item (ca. 2 min., col. and b&w) / BBC Spool #MS261960 ; May 30, 1990 ; announcement of Margot Fonteyn's return, at age 71, to the Royal Opera House, to view her former partner Rudolf Nureyev in a special benefit performance of Romeo and Juliet. The two are seen in excerpts from the balcony scene pas de deux, filmed in b&w in 1965 (see above), and in color in Paul Czinner's 1966 film. Nureyev, who learned the role of Mercutio especially for the benefit, is seen rehearsing with Gerd Larsen, Anthony Dowell, and other members of the Royal Ballet. He briefly discusses the gala and Fonteyn's current activities.
  • News item (ca. 2 min., col.) / November 10, 1977 ; report of a demonstration held by Royal Ballet dancers outside the Soviet Embassy in London, petitioning for permission for Rudolf Nureyev's mother to come to the West. Includes brief interviews with Margot Fonteyn and Antoinette Sibley.
  • News item (ca. 1 min., col.) / recorded by French television ; October 8, 1992 ; in French. Recorded on the opening night of Rudolf Nureyev's staging of La bayadère for the Paris Opéra Ballet. Nureyev, seen behind the curtain with dancers costumed for the ballet, is appointed a Commander of Arts and Letters by Jack Lang, the French minister of culture. Includes brief performance footage of La bayadère, danced by Isabelle Guérin, Laurent Hilaire, and members of the Paris Opéra Ballet.
  • Look north (ca. 3 min., col. and b&w) / BBC Leeds ; June 17, 1986. After brief b&w footage filmed soon after his defection in 1961, Rudolf Nureyev is seen in a later rehearsal of The sleeping beauty with Karen Kain. In an interview taped in Bradford, England, he comments on the benefits he has gained in the 25 years since his defection.
  • Pathé news item (ca. 1 min., b&w) / 1961 ; in French. Rudolf Nureyev, in rehearsal clothes, dances excerpts from The sleeping beauty with members of the International Ballet of the Marquis de Cuevas. He is also glimpsed being interviewed by the French press.
  • News item (ca. 7 min., b&w) / poor audio quality ; probably recorded in Washington, D.C., in 1962 or 1963. Recorded in studio rehearsal, in rehearsal clothes. Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn are seen rehearsing and being jointly interviewed by a reporter.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-4050 RNC
OCLC
NYPY00-F675
Title
[Rudolf Nureyev] [videorecording]
Imprint
1961-1992.
Series
Rudolf Nureyev Collection.
Local Subject
Motion pictures. Valentino.
Added Author
Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993.
Petit, Roland, 1924-2011.
MacMillan, Kenneth.
Grigorʹev, S. L. (Sergeĭ Leonidovich), 1883-1968.
Tchernicheva, Lubov.
Barnes, Clive, 1927-2008. Interviewer
Wood, Edmée.
Foy, Patricia.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
DHCA.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-4050 RNC
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