Director: Dominique Delouche
Actors: Violette Verdy, Roland Petit, Isabelle Guerin, Margaret Illmann, Vladimir Malakhov
Studio: Video Artists Int'l
Category: DVD

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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 41319

Format: Classical, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 75
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: 4444
UPC: 089948444497
EAN: 0089948444497
ASIN: B00143XE32

Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: March 11, 2008
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Passing it along to the next generation--- May 6, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

This documentary shows Violette Verdy, one of Balanchine's most talented dancers, teaching and talking about Balanchine & Jerome Robbins and their choreography with dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. Besides Isabelle Guerin in Dances at a Gathering, and Elizabeth Maurin in Emeralds, Ms. Verdy instructs other dancers in the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes of Balanchine, and In the Night by Robbins. There are also short clips of Verdy dancing. When she was with NY City Ballet, the line-up at one point in the mid-60s must have included Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent, Diana Adams, Patricia Neary, Jacques d'Amboise, Sukie Shorer, Patricia McBride and a young Suzanne Farrell. I'm not old enough to have been able to see these great dancers while their careers were going on, but I have seen as much video as is available of them, and Verdy undoubtedly has many more anecdotes than time allowed. (Has she written her memoirs ?) The introduction by Roland Petit is interesting, but too short, and I wish the producers/director would have included even more old clips of Verdy from her NY City Ballet days.

Verdy's exuberance and love for the pieces and steps that she instructs the Paris dancers in is readily apparent, and her reminisces and humor make this DVD a winner. I found out it was originally released in 2001, and I wish I had known about it then, as I can never get enough of these documentaries that have anything to do with ballet history in general, and Balanchine in particular. Belongs on every ballet fan's shelf with the Ballet Russe documentary from 2005/2006.

5 out of 5 stars

Violette Verdy, dancer and teacher April 6, 2008
12 out of 14 found this review helpful

This dvd is in French with English subtitles and is special to me as Violette Verdy was a teacher and artistic director of Boston Ballet when I was teaching there. Most of the footage shows her teaching Balanchine choreography, roles she had performed, to dancers at the Paris Opera Ballet, and her expression, musicality, and artistry are of a high calibre. There is footage of her dancing as well as teaching, and the dvd will be of interest to dancers as well as anyone who loves ballet and wants to see how choreography is passed on from one generation to the next.