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Erik Bruhn--I'm the same, only more

Title: Erik Bruhn--I'm the same, only more [videorecording] / produced by Steen Herdel & Co. in co-production with DR TV, TV-Fakta and Sveriges Television AB, Kultur & Musik ; directed by Lennart Pasborg ; produced by Michael Brask.
Publication: Denmark : Steen Herdel & Co., c2000 ; West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur [distributor]

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (43 min.) : sd., b&w and col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Profile of Danish danseur noble Erik Bruhn, presented through film clips and still photographs of the dancer in class, rehearsal, performance and private life, accompanied by his own reflections on dancing, performing, love and life. The program also includes brief excerpts from interviews with Rudolf Nureyev, footage of Nureyev dancing in the studio and outdoors, and a non-dancing appearance by Margot Fonteyn.

Uniform Title

Jeune homme et la mort (Choreographic work : Petit, R)
Etudes (Choreographic work : Lander, H)
Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bournonville)
Carmen (Choreographic work : Petit)
Giselle (Choreographic work : Blair after Coralli and Perrot)
Miss Julie (Choreographic work : Cullberg)
Epilogue (Choreographic work : Neumeier)
Petrouchka (Choreographic work : Lazowsky and Romanoff after Fokin)
Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bruhn after Bournonville)
Coppélia (Choreographic work : Bruhn)
Swan lake (Choreographic work : Bruhn)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Biographies.
Video.

Note

Commercially released version, with end credits in English instead of Danish, of *MGZIA 4-4166 RNC Erik Bruhn--I'm the same, only more.

Credits (note)

Editing, Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir; sound, Jan Juhler; original music, Palle Mikkelborg; production, Vibeke Vogel.

Contents

Dance excerpts: The nutcracker / chor., Erik Bruhn after Ivanov; mus., Tchaikovsky; danced by Bruhn and Anna Laerkesen -- Le jeune homme et la mort / chor., Roland Petit; mus., Bach; danced by Jean Babilée -- Don Quixote / 1961; chor., Bruhn after Petipa and Gorski; mus., Minkus; danced by Bruhn -- Don Quixote, rehearsal / danced by Bruhn and Berit Sköld -- The sleeping beauty / 1962; chor., Bruhn after Petipa; mus., Tchaikovsky; danced by Bruhn -- La sylphide, pas de deux / Bell Telephone Hour, 1962; chor., August Bournonville, James Starbuck; mus., Løvenskjold; danced by Bruhn and Carla Fracci; introduced by Robert Goulet -- La sylphide, rehearsal / danced by Bruhn and Kirsten Simone -- Etudes, rehearsal / danced by Erik Bruhn, Toni Lander, with Harald Lander, Willy Grevelund -- Etudes / 1969; chor., Harald Lander; mus., Knudåge Riisager after Carl Czerny; danced by Bruhn, Toni Lander and the Royal Danish Ballet -- Carmen / 1968; chor., Petit; mus.: after Bizet; danced by Bruhn and Kirsten Simone -- Giselle / 1968; chor., David Blair after Coralli and Perrot; mus., Adolphe Adam; danced by Bruhn, Fracci and American Ballet Theatre -- Dygnets timmar / 1967; chor., Birgit Åkesson and Kare Gundersen; mus., Bengt Halberg; danced by Bruhn -- Miss Julie / 1975; chor., Birgit Cullberg; danced by Bruhn and Cynthia Gregory -- Epilogue / 1975; chor., John Neumeier; mus., Mahler; danced by Bruhn and Natalia Makarova.
Performance excerpts, continued: Petrouchka, rehearsal / danced by Erik Bruhn and Eleanor D'Antuono, with Dimitri Romanoff -- Petrouchka / 1976; chor., Michel Fokine; mus., Stravinsky; danced by Bruhn, Eleanor d'Antuono, Ted Kivitt, Dennis Nahat, and American Ballet Theatre -- La sylphide, rehearsal / danced by Bruhn and Flemming Ryberg -- La sylphide / 1974; chor., Bruhn after Bournonville; danced by Bruhn (Madge), Rudolf Nureyev (James), Veronica Tennant (the sylphide), Andrew Oxenham (Gurn), Linda Maybarduk (Effie), and the National Ballet of Canada -- Coppélia / 1975; chor., Bruhn after Saint-Léon; mus., Delibes; danced by Bruhn (Coppélius), Mary Jago/Veronica Tennant (Swanilda), Rudolf Nureyev (Franz), with the National Ballet of Canada -- Swan lake / 1976; chor., Bruhn after Ivanov and Petipa; mus.: Tchaikovsky; decor, Desmond Heeley; danced by Bruhn (Siegfried) with Yves Cousineau (the tutor) and the National Ballet of Canada.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7319

ISBN

0769721966

OCLC

NYPY03-F646

Title

Erik Bruhn--I'm the same, only more [videorecording] / produced by Steen Herdel & Co. in co-production with DR TV, TV-Fakta and Sveriges Television AB, Kultur & Musik ; directed by Lennart Pasborg ; produced by Michael Brask.

Imprint

Denmark : Steen Herdel & Co., c2000 ; West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur [distributor]

Credits

Editing, Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir; sound, Jan Juhler; original music, Palle Mikkelborg; production, Vibeke Vogel.

Performer

Performance excerpts danced by Erik Bruhn, and Anna Laerkesen, Jean Babilée, Carla Fracci, Toni Lander, Kirsten Simone, Rudolf Nureyev, Cynthia Gregory, Natalia Makarova, Eleanor D'Antuono, Ted Kivitt, Dennis Nahat, Veronica Tennant, Andrew Oxenham, Linda Maybarduk, Mary Jago, Yves Cousineau, others. Also appearing in rehearsal sequences: Berit Skiold [Sköld], Toni Lander, Willy Grevelund, Kirsten Simone, Eleanor D'Antuono, Flemming Ryberg, others.

Also appearing: Robert Goulet, Harald Lander, Margot Fonteyn, Dmitri Romanoff.

Interviewees: Erik Bruhn; with Rudolf Nureyev.

Added Author

Bruhn, Erik, 1928-1986, dancer.

Bruhn, Erik, 1928-1986, choreographer.

Bruhn, Erik, 1928-1986, interviewee (expression)

Laerkesen, Anna, dancer.

Babilée, Jean, 1923-2014, dancer.

Sköld, Berit, dancer.

Fracci, Carla, dancer.

Goulet, Robert, 1933-2007, speaker.

Lander, Toni, dancer.

Lander, Harald, 1905-1971, choreographer.

Simone, Kirsten, dancer.

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer.

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, interviewee (expression)

Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991.

Gregory, Cynthia, dancer.

Makarova, Natalia, 1940- dancer.

D'Antuono, Eleanor, dancer.

Kivitt, Ted, dancer.

Nahat, Dennis, dancer.

Romanoff, Dmitri, 1907-1994, choreographer.

Ryberg, Flemming, dancer.

Tennant, Veronica, dancer.

Oxenham, Andrew, 1945- dancer.

Maybarduk, Linda, dancer.

Jago, Mary, dancer.

Cousineau, Yves, dancer.

Petit, Roland, 1924-2011, choreographer.

Bournonville, August, 1805-1879, choreographer.

Starbuck, James, choreographer.

Blair, David, 1932-1976, choreographer.

Åkesson, Birgit, 1908-2001, choreographer.

Cullberg, Birgit, choreographer.

Neumeier, John, 1939- choreographer.

Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942, choreographer.

Lazowsky, Yurek, choreographer.

Pasborg, Lennart, director.

Brask, Michael, producer.

Mikkelborg, Palle, composer (expression)

Kongelige Danske ballet, performer.

American Ballet Theatre, performer.

National Ballet of Canada, performer.

Steen Herdel filmproduktion.

Danmarks radio.

Sveriges television.

Kultur International Films.

Added Title

Jeune homme et la mort (Choreographic work : Petit, R)

Etudes (Choreographic work : Lander, H)

Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bournonville)

Carmen (Choreographic work : Petit)

Giselle (Choreographic work : Blair after Coralli and Perrot)

Miss Julie (Choreographic work : Cullberg)

Epilogue (Choreographic work : Neumeier)

Petrouchka (Choreographic work : Lazowsky and Romanoff after Fokin)

Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bruhn after Bournonville)

Coppélia (Choreographic work : Bruhn)

Swan lake (Choreographic work : Bruhn)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7319

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