Giselle: Ballet in Cinema

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

The scene is set at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue, filmed at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta (1937),...

Don Quixote is a 19th century work, choreographed by Petipa in 1869. Rudolf Nureyev revived it in 19...

Part folklore, part opera-ballet, this féerie presents local pagan traditions on the day of the summ...

Characters from Haitian folklore come to life telling their story of ritual, ceremony and celebratio...

Two young lovers, offspring of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, value feelings above the p...

In 1984, a fashionable young woman spontaneously lectures her friend about good oral hygiene. Produ...

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and g...

Sara joins Julliard in New York to fulfill her and her mother's dream of becoming the Prima ballerin...

A group of ballet boys are being bullied by a group of boxing boys in their local sports gym. The ba...

The Bolshoi’s grandiose epic Spartacus recounts the story of a Roman slave’s fight for freedom. With...

Ballerina Polina Semionova performs the mythic parts of Odette and Odile (white swan and black swan)...

Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is one of the best loved of classical ballets, combining in a sing...

Jean-Christophe Maillot's Romeo and Juliet transports us into the tormented soul of Brother Lawrence...

The childless royal couple expected a child for many years. They have got a real monster after the b...

In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls i...

Carmen: Impetuous Carmen seduces Don José in order to convince him to let her out of jail. Once outs...

The temple dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor fall deeply in love, igniting heated passions and mur...

On his wedding day, the young Scotsman James is awakened with a kiss from an ethereal winged creatur...

On Christmas Eve, Marie’s Nutcracker doll magically transforms into a prince and their wonderful adv...