go see it*
Ballet Russes (And click, 2, 3, 4)
Saw it. Thought it was great.
A line from the film:
Australia?! We didn't want to go there. We thought it was just all convicts!
(The audience liked that one.)
Granted, Australia is only touched on briefly. Apparently I've been here long enough to have picked up the Aussie habit of focusing in solely on the Australian aspect of any project.
The dancers they interview are a trip. It's fantastic.
Oh, and Mom, one of the big dancers later went on to play Dan in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Two points if you can pick him out.
*I should mention it's a two hour doco on these two companies. If you have no interest in artsy stuff or in Russian-Euro-NY 1930s-50s stuff it might be about a half hour too long for you. Maybe not. Who could pass up the famous London Ballet Wars? Seriously.
posted by Halley @ 5:44 AM
2 Comments:
jacqes damboise?.....or was dan the blondish guy with the moustache......can't think of his name......i don't see either one in the photo.....
you're right- he's not in the photo. but I think this guy's name is Marc Platt, or something like that. The first American to be let in to the Ballet Russes. They changed it to Platov to sound Russian.
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