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Revoir Nijinsky danser

Title: Revoir Nijinsky danser [videorecording] / co-produced by the Musée d'Orsay, Artline Films, MCM Classique Jazz-Muzzik, and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux ; written and directed by Hervé Nisic in collaboration with Claire Ananos.
Publication: France : Réunion des Musées Nationaux, c2000.

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Description

1 videocassette (26 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences PAL; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Vaslav Nijinsky's groundbreaking ballet L'après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a faun) (1912) serves as the departure point for a meditation on the ephemeral nature of dance and an exploration of the many methods that have been employed over the centuries to preserve it. The traditional method, direct transmission from dancer to dancer, is depicted in footage of a 1976 rehearsal in which Leonide Massine and Nijinsky's widow Romola work with Charles Jude of the Paris Opéra Ballet. Jude, in turn, passes along his knowledge to two dancers of the Opéra de Bordeaux, Omar Taiebi and Viviana Franciosi. Various systems of dance notation are surveyed, and Ann Hutchinson Guest discusses her reconstruction of Nijinsky's choreography from his own notation. Also examined are filmmaking, which was at a primitive stage of development in Nijinsky's heyday ; photography, particularly the photographs of Baron Adolf de Meyer ; and computer programs.

Uniform Title

Afternoon of a faun (Choreographic work : Nijinsky)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Documentaries and factual films and programs.
Video.

Note

Letterbox format.
Film produced in conjunction with the exhibition Nijinsky (1889-1950) at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Oct. 24, 2000-Feb. 18, 2001.

Credits (note)

Producers, Antoine Segovia (Artline Films), Catherine Derosier-Pouchous (Service Culturel du Musée d'Orsay.

Performer (note)

Voices: Alain Rigout, Anne-Claire Ledru.
Interviewees: Hubert Godard, Charles Jude, Ann Hutchinson Guest, Armando Menicacci, Simon Hecquet.

Language (note)

In French.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5144

OCLC

NYPY01-F826

Title

Revoir Nijinsky danser [videorecording] / co-produced by the Musée d'Orsay, Artline Films, MCM Classique Jazz-Muzzik, and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux ; written and directed by Hervé Nisic in collaboration with Claire Ananos.

Imprint

France : Réunion des Musées Nationaux, c2000.

Credits

Producers, Antoine Segovia (Artline Films), Catherine Derosier-Pouchous (Service Culturel du Musée d'Orsay.

Performer

Voices: Alain Rigout, Anne-Claire Ledru.

Interviewees: Hubert Godard, Charles Jude, Ann Hutchinson Guest, Armando Menicacci, Simon Hecquet.

Language

In French.

Local Subject

Choreography -- Reconstruction.

Computers -- Dance applications.

Added Author

Nijinsky, Vaslav, 1890-1950, choreographer.

Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979.

Nijinsky, Romola de Pulszky.

Jude, Charles, 1953- ive, dancer.

Godard, Hubert. Interviewee

Taiebi, Omar, dancer.

Franciosi, Viviana, dancer.

Guest, Ann Hutchinson, interviewee.

De Meyer, Adolf, Baron, 1868-1949. Photographer

Menicacci, Armando. Interviewee

Hecquet, Simon. Interviewee

Nisic, Hervé. Director. Author

Ananos, Claire. Director. Author

Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux. Ballet.

Musée d'Orsay.

Artline Films.

Réunion des musées nationaux (France)

Nijinsky (1889-1950) (Exhibition : (2000 : Paris, France)

Added Title

Afternoon of a faun (Choreographic work : Nijinsky)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5144

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