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Balanchine Foundation video archives. Dame Alicia Markova recreating excerpts from Le chant du rossignol / The George Balanchine Foundation ; project director, Nancy Reynolds ; director, Ross MacGibbon ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music by Igor Stravinsky.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- George Balanchine Foundation archive of lost choreography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Balanchine, George.
- Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004.
- Markova, Alicia.
- Song of the nightingale (Choreographic work : Balanchine).
- Ballet--Study and teaching.
- Ballet.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (114 min.).
- Other Title:
- Title on original label: Dame Alicia Markova recreating excerpts from Le chant du rossignol
- Chant du rossignol
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : George Balanchine Foundation, 1996, p1995.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Dame Alicia Markova reconstructs George Balanchine's choreography for the role of the Nightingale, which she created in his ballet Le chant du rossignol (The song of the nightingale) for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1925. She begins by describing the action (based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen) as the music is played, then works intensively with dancer Iohna Loots on the nightingale's variation and pas de deux with Death, a role intended to be performed by a female dancer. Historians Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, who assisted in the reconstruction, appear briefly on camera.
- Contents:
- The nightingale's entrance
- The nightingale's variation (complete) / danced by Iohna Loots
- Recreating the variation, Part I
- The variation, Part II
- The variation, Part III
- Pas de deux: Nightingale and Death (excerpts).
- Notes:
- Previously released on DVD.
- Performed Markova House, London
- Recorded London, England 1995.
- Contains:
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Chant du rossignol (Symphonic poem)
- OCLC:
- 780480305
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