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Maya Plisetskaya, assoluta

Title: Maya Plisetskaya, assoluta [videorecording] / presented by ARTE France and Kuiv Productions ; a film by Elisabeth Kapnist ; artistic direction by Christian Dumais-Lvowski ; produced by Michel Rotman and Marie Hélène Ranc.
Publication: France : ARTE France, Kuiv Productions, c2002.

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1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences PAL; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Profile of Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, drawn from her autobiography [English title: I, Maya Plisetskaya] and present-day interviews. Her discussion of significant people, events, and ballets in her life is illustrated by footage of performances, interviews, and special occasions spanning the course of her career. Among the topics she discusses are her childhood during the Stalinist period; the communal life she shared with other Bolshoi performers early in her career; the ballets Swan lake and The dying swan, mainstays of her repertoire; the suspicion of the KGB, which prevented her from touring abroad until the 1950s; the frustrated genius of choreographer Leonid Jacobson, who played an important role in her life; her marriage to composer Rodion Shchedrin; dancing the title role in Alberto Alonso's Carmen; her roles in films; ballets danced in her later career, notably Maurice Béjart's Bolero; her own choreography.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Elisabeth Kapnist, Kuiv Productions.

Uniform Title

Swan lake (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
Little humpbacked horse (Choreographic work : Radunskiĭ)
Laurencia (Choreographic work : Chabukiani)
Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
Walpurgis night (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ)
Raymonda (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ after Gorski and Petipa, M)
Dying swan (Choreographic work : Fokine)
Don Quixote (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)
Spartacus (Choreographic work : ︠I︡Akobson)
Carmen (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alberto)
Bolero (Choreographic work : Béjart)
Isadora (Choreographic work : Béjart)
Anna Karenina (Choreographic work : Plise︠t︡ska︠i︡a)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Autobiographical films and programs.
Video.

Credits (note)

Inspired by the autobiography Moi, Maïa Plissetskaïa, translated by Lily Denis; [film] editing, Vladimir Berkhman; original music, Anahit Simonian.

Contents

Dance excerpts: Swan lake / choreography, Marius Petipa; music, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- The little humpbacked horse / choreography, Aleksandr Radunski; music, Rodion Shchedrin -- Laurencia (b&w) / choreography, Vakhtang Chabukiani; music, Aleksandr Krein -- The sleeping beauty (rehearsal footage) (b&w) / choreography, Petipa; music, Tchaikovsky -- Walpurgis night (b&w) / choreography, Leonid Lavrovski; music, Charles Gounod -- Raymonda (b&w) / choreography, Lavrovski after Petipa; music, Aleksandr Glazunov -- Khovanchshina (b&w) / opera by Modest Mussorgsky -- Swan lake (b&w, col.) / recorded in 1947 and 1977 -- The dying swan (complete) (b&w) / choreography, Michel Fokine; music, Camille Saint-Saëns -- Don Quixote (b&w) / choreography, Petipa; music, L. Minkus -- Spartacus (b&w) / choreography, Lavrovski; music, Aram Khachaturian -- Carmen / choreography, Alberto Alonso; music, Georges Bizet, Shchedrin -- Bolero / choreography, Maurice Béjart; music, Maurice Ravel -- Isadora / choreography, Béjart; music, Ludwig van Beethoven -- Anna Karenina / choreography, Plisetskaya; music, Shchedrin -- The lady with a dog [i.e. The lady with a lap dog] / choreography, Plisetskaya; music, Shchedrin. Also included are film clips from Anna Karenina, directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi, and Fantaziya, directed by Anatoli Efros.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-6752

OCLC

NYPY02-F211

Title

Maya Plisetskaya, assoluta [videorecording] / presented by ARTE France and Kuiv Productions ; a film by Elisabeth Kapnist ; artistic direction by Christian Dumais-Lvowski ; produced by Michel Rotman and Marie Hélène Ranc.

Imprint

France : ARTE France, Kuiv Productions, c2002.

Edition

English version. Translation by Lenny Borger and Lev Skorokhodov.

Country of Producing Entity

France.

Credits

Inspired by the autobiography Moi, Maïa Plissetskaïa, translated by Lily Denis; [film] editing, Vladimir Berkhman; original music, Anahit Simonian.

Performer

Interviews with Maya Plisetskaya by Christian Dumais-Lvowski and Alexandre Vassiliev.

Voice: Bela Grushka.

Local Subject

Opera ballet. Khovanchshina.

Added Author

Shchedrin, Rodion Konstantinovich, 1932- composer (expression)

Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡, 1925-2015, interviewee, choreographer.

Kapnist, Elisabet, film director.

Dumais-Lvowski, Christian, film director, interviewer.

Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910, choreographer.

Radunskiĭ, Aleksandr Ivanovich, 1912-1982, choreographer.

Chabukiani, Vakhtang Mikhaĭlovich, 1910-1992, choreographer.

Lavrovskiĭ, Leonid Mikhaĭlovich, 1905-1967, choreographer.

Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942, choreographer.

︠I︡Akobson, Leonid, choreographer.

Alonso, Alberto, 1893-1974, choreographer.

Béjart, Maurice, choreographer.

Zarkhi, Aleksandr, film director.

Ėfros, Anatoliĭ, 1935-1987, film director.

Bolʹshoĭ teatr Rossii. Balet.

ARTE France.

Kuiv Productions.

Added Title

Swan lake (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)

Little humpbacked horse (Choreographic work : Radunskiĭ)

Laurencia (Choreographic work : Chabukiani)

Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)

Walpurgis night (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ)

Raymonda (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ after Gorski and Petipa, M)

Dying swan (Choreographic work : Fokine)

Don Quixote (Choreographic work : Petipa, M)

Spartacus (Choreographic work : ︠I︡Akobson)

Carmen (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alberto)

Bolero (Choreographic work : Béjart)

Isadora (Choreographic work : Béjart)

Anna Karenina (Choreographic work : Plise︠t︡ska︠i︡a)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-6752

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