Marius Petipa : the French master of Russian ballet / ARTE France, Les Poissons Volants present ; a film by Denis Sneguirev ; produced by Sophie Goupil.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Sneguirev, Denis, 1976- filmmaker.

Goupil, Sophie, film producer.

Legrand, Xavier, 1979- narrator.

ARTE France, production company.

Poissons Volants (Firm), production company.

Icarus Films, distributor.

Language:

English

French

Italian

Russian

Subjects (All):

Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910.

Petipa, Marius.

Choreographers--France--Biography.

Choreographers.

Ballet.

France.

Russia.

Ballet--Russia--Biography.

Ballet--History.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biographical films.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (52 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences

Other Title:

Portrait of the artist as a portraitist

Place of Publication:

[Brookyln, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2019]

Language Note:

In French, Russian, English and Italian with English subtitles and intertitles in French ; closed captioning available.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

This film traces Petipa's career from his early, crowd-pleasing choreography to the works that would become his masterpieces: Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. Their stunning choreography and Tchaikovsky's music elevated ballet for the first time to one of the world's great art forms.

Participant:

Commentaire dit par Xavier Legrand.

Credits:

Image, Mathias Rozpendowski [and 3 others] ; montage, Marie Marchand.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 19, 2019).

Publisher Number:

if-petipa Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.