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2) Tutu Much
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TuTuMUCH is a documentary film that follows nine young ballet dancers as they plié, pirouette and compete at highly-coveted spots in an intensive four-week professional ballet summer program at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. Leaving behind their families and friends, often for the first time, each girl confronts the painstaking and sometimes rewarding realities of actually living her dream. From the Emmy award-winning producers of Dracula and...
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Arthur Mitchell created the first African-American classical ballet company in the US, called Dance Theatre of Harlem. An award-winning ballet dancer and choreographer, Mitchell was the second African-American to dance with the New York City ballet—choreographer and director of the NYCB, George Balanchine created the pas de deux in Agon especially for Mitchell. In this documentary, Mitchell talks about the origins of ballet in United States during...
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This video presents excerpts from Late Night Sugar Flight by choreographer Ben Munisteri and his company of 6 dancers. Includes a humorous monologue by the choreographer that introduces a section of deliciously sensuous dancing accompanied by the improvised sounds of DJ Michael Hornburg and the improvised lighting designs by Kathy Kaufman. Recorded in 1998 at Performance Space 122 in New York City. Plus excerpts from a revealing interview with the...
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On what he calls "the adventure of his life," Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle the wild life of the bush, the wild men of the outback, or the even wilder women of the seaboard cities. In pursuit of the best of Australian good times, he joins revelers at Uluru, argues with racists in the Kimberleys, parties with winegrowers in the Barossa, and falls for ballet...
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Scope and content: Programs of dance performances between 1954 and 1983, primarily in Nashville, Tenn., many occuring at the Ryman Auditorium. Many programs are from nationally or internationally acclaimed dance companies such as The Ballet Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the National Ballet of Canada, or are from performances by widely known individual dancers and professionals, such as Nureyev, Dame Margot Fontaine,...