On Apr 28, 2:17 am, "Gerard van der Laan" <gjvanderl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Years ago I saw on dutch television a do***entary about Le sacre du
> Printemps from Igor Stravinsky. It was about a reconstruction that was
ma=
de
> from the first premi=E8re of this ballet in 1913. It was about the
> reconstruction of the costumes, of the choreography (Nijjinsky), there
was
> even an interview with a very old lady who was a dancer in that
perticular
> performance. Is there VHS or DVD of this beautifull do***entary. I was
> surprised to find NOTHING of the sort on internet.
>
> Please HELP.
>
> Gerard van der Laan
> Germany
THE SEARCH FOR NIJINSKY'S RITE OF SPRING was shown on American PBS
programs in 1989-1990 as an item on the Great Performances series.
The film dealt with the reconstruction of the ballet by Millicent
Hodson and Kenneth Archer. The elderly woman you noted was Marie
Rambert, who had been called in by Diaghilev to assist Nijinsky in
constructing the choreogarphy. The ballet itself is shown as danced
by the Joffrey Ballet, for whom it had been restored in 1988.
To my knowledge the program has never been released commercially on
VHS or DVD, and this is the case for most of the PBS programs of that
era. Copies may be available from TV viewers who taped the program
off the air. Let's hope that some enterprising soul can influence the
powers that own the Great Performance programs to start releasing them
on DVD. There are hundreds of them.
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