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Violette et Mister B
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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.
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