Ballet Movies

  • 2017
    Giselle: Belle of the Ballet

    Giselle: Belle of the Ballet

    Giselle: Belle of the Ballet

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    Tamara Rojo, dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet, explores Giselle - the first great Romantic ballet, and a defining role for any...

    Giselle: Belle of the Ballet
  • 2000
    The Sleeping Beauty

    The Sleeping Beauty

    The Sleeping Beauty

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    The Sleeping Beauty remains, as Rudolf Nureyev often called it, the 'ballet of ballets'. It is the most accomplished and the most brilliant, as well...

    The Sleeping Beauty
  • 2017
    When the Fern Blooms

    When the Fern Blooms

    When the Fern Blooms

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    Part folklore, part opera-ballet, this féerie presents local pagan traditions on the day of the summer solstice and historical events from...

    When the Fern Blooms
  • 2019
    Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita

    Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita

    Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita

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    The film traces Sam McKinlay’s early days as a punk skateboarder through his academic development as a conceptual artist into a highly esteemed...

    Tights Worship: Inside the Practices of The Rita
  • 2002
    Romeo & Juliet - Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

    Romeo & Juliet - Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

    Romeo & Juliet - Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

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    Jean-Christophe Maillot's Romeo and Juliet transports us into the tormented soul of Brother Lawrence: the action is staged as a flashback to the...

    Romeo & Juliet - Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
  • 2017
    The Bolshoi Ballet: A Contemporary Evening

    The Bolshoi Ballet: A Contemporary Evening

    The Bolshoi Ballet: A Contemporary Evening

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    For one evening, the Bolshoi takes on a new challenge with audacity in The Cage by Jerome Robbins, Harald Lander’s Études and Alexei...

    The Bolshoi Ballet: A Contemporary Evening
  • 1960
    Nová odyssea

    Nová odyssea

    Nová odyssea

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    Nová odyssea
  • 2009
    Ghetto Ballet

    Ghetto Ballet

    Ghetto Ballet

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    Gehtto Ballet follows the inter-linked stories of a number of students in a groundbreaking program called Dance For All. The raison d'etre of the...

    Ghetto Ballet
  • 1984
    Peer Gynt

    Peer Gynt

    Peer Gynt

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    Peer Gynt
  • 1970
    Functional Block Diagrams

    Functional Block Diagrams

    Functional Block Diagrams

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    A synthesis of sound and movement; colourful characters dance and move in repetitive patterns to percussive and melodic elements. A combination of...

    Functional Block Diagrams
  • 2024
    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Macmillan Triple

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Macmillan Triple

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Macmillan Triple

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    The Royal Ballet celebrates the breadth of three of Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s one-act ballets: Danses Concertantes (a...

    Royal Opera House 2023/24: Macmillan Triple
  • 2012
    Bolshoi Ballet: La Sylphide

    Bolshoi Ballet: La Sylphide

    Bolshoi Ballet: La Sylphide

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    On his wedding day, the young Scotsman James is awakened with a kiss from an ethereal winged creature, a Sylph. Entranced by her beauty, James risks...

    Bolshoi Ballet: La Sylphide
  • 1989
    Noces

    Noces

    Noces

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    A filmed performance of Stravinsky's ballet Les Noces (The Wedding), depicting a bleakly cynical interpretation of the marriage ritual.

    Noces
  • 1970
    The Bolt

    The Bolt

    The Bolt

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    The Bolshoi with Alexei Ratmansky, revive Shostakovich’s ballet

    The Bolt
  • 2005
    La Scala Ballet: Giselle

    La Scala Ballet: Giselle

    La Scala Ballet: Giselle

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    Acclaimed Ukranian dancer Svetlana Zakharova, who later became one of the youngest ballerinas in Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, stars in the title role of...

    La Scala Ballet: Giselle
  • 2021
    The Cuban Method

    The Cuban Method

    The Cuban Method

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    A documentary on the legacy of ballet in Cuba that aired on PBS in Rochester, NY. Filmed on location in Havana, Cuba July – August, 2016....

    The Cuban Method
  • 2008
    A Beautiful Tragedy

    A Beautiful Tragedy

    A Beautiful Tragedy

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    A documentary about 15-year-old Oksana who follows her mother's dream to see her become a prima ballerina.

    A Beautiful Tragedy
  • 1959
    Lileya

    Lileya

    Lileya

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    The first ballet film made in Ukraine, based on Konstantin Dankevich's ballet from 1940.

    Lileya
  • 2023
    Échappé

    Échappé

    Échappé

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    In returning to their old ballet school burnt-out dancer – Sylvie - explores their past in order to decide what to do with their future.

    Échappé
  • 2014
    At The Ballet

    At The Ballet

    At The Ballet

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    At The Ballet is the rise and fall of a Prima ballerina.

    At The Ballet