For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes

For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes
2009TV MovieDocumentary60 mins
★★★★★

Plot

In the centenary year since the founding of the Ballets Russe, this documentary looks back at Sergei Diaghilev and the company he created, what they did and the influence they had, even a 100 years later.

  • Ross MacGibbon

    Director

  • Lynn Seymour

    Narrator

  • Alastair Macaulay

    Self - Chief Dance Critic: The New York Times

  • Bob Gottlieb

    Self - Writer and Editor

  • Judith Mackrell

    Self - Writer and Dance Critic

  • Lynn Garafola

    Self - Author: 'Diaghilev's Ballets Russes'

  • Richard Davenport-Hines

    Self - Historian and Author

  • Anna Pavlova

    Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

  • Frederic Franklin

    Self - Dancer: Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo

  • Elena Gludjidze

    Self - Principal Dancer: English National Ballet

  • Karl Lagerfeld

    Self

  • Wayne Eagling

    Self - Artistic Director: English National Ballet

  • Marie Rambert

    Self - Founder: Ballet Rambert (archive footage)

  • Joan Acocella

    Self - Dance Critic

  • Julian Barran

    Self - Art Dealer

  • Mary Fellows

    Self - Fashion Director and Consultant

  • Howard Goodall

    Self - Composer and Broadcaster

  • Pierre Boulez

    Self - Composer and Conductor

  • Tamara Karsavina

    Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

  • David Dawson

    Self - Choreographer

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Self - Composer (archive footage)

  • Millicent Hodson

    Self - Choreographer and Dance Historian

  • Lydia Sokolova

    Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

  • Léonide Massine

    Self - Choreographer and Dancer (archive footage)

  • Pepe Serra

    Self - Director: Museu Picasso, Barcelona

  • Edmonde Charles-Roux

    Self - Chanel Biographer

    • Runtime

    60 minutes

    Released

    2009-12-12

    Studios

    BBC Wales

    Updated

    497 days ago

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