It's wonderful to see those legendary faces again. I love hearing Sokolova refer to Rambert as "Mme Ramberg".

Thanks to the most generous human being on the planet, John Hall, who has given us invaluable gems like this documentary. John Hall is single-handedly exposing great art from a previous era to all of us in unlimited fashion. He is carrying on in the spirit of Diaghilev exposing ballet and the arts in all its historical splendour. Thank you deeply Mr. Hall. Listen to the inimitably elegant way of all the speakers in this film. A bygone impeccable refinement, and rich beauty of expression. Wow. I bow my head to each one of these greats and to you for giving it to us.

Thank you for this film! Also, great to see and hear Leonide Massine in this post.

Another wonderful clip John and what a marvellous group of contributors and so ably introduced By Peter Ustinov as a descendant of Alexandre Benois Gives a marvellous insight of the man and his company due to the contributions of such wide actual knowledge from previous dancers of the company Critics and people who witnessed the season - many sadly no longer with us - Its wonderful that we have these interviews and especially for students and historians of ballet

What a great programme again. I have subscribed. To see all those faces - Sacheverell Sitwell looking a lot like his sister.And all the others. I have only met one dancer personally and that was Moira Shearer. I had to see her about an article I was editing. She came twice and when she saw I was mesmerised by ballet talk she gave me as much of it as she could.

Fantastic, thank you. Blows your mind that such explosion of talent was ignited by one man.

Extraordinario documental . Muchas gracias por publicarlo . Es histórico !

Thank you is an inadequate response to this. Marie Rambert is divine, amazing to see Madame Sokolova. I was amused by Cecil Beaton being in it since he was 5 the year they debuted in Paris!

A very good doku. Some days ago I saw the Neumeier Ballett "Nijinsky" and with luck I find this video again. Perfect! Thank you!

Wonderful documentary! Thanks so much for uploading!

John Hall Hello, Thank you very much, this was amazing very very intresting.

Fantastic -- thank you !

That's Wonderful Ballet History....Thanks VERY much !

Excellent! Merci!

Brilliant programme John again and so many no longer with us who relate their own experiences and their recollections of names we only know from manuals and histories of ballet Karsavina Sokolova Beaumont etc So interesting

Thank you John. I have never seen this before

Tamara Karsavina is gorgeous. Happy to see her !!! it's fantastic

Thank you so so much! 😍❤️❤️❤️ This is glorious! So many terrific insights! Love it! Wished these people could still be alive, to ask many other questions! Is there a second part about the years after the war to 1929?

terrific! thanks John. I just went to a great Ballet Russes gala at the Coliseum last Sunday. AAAAAAH!

Simply Divine. Catherine Deneuve looks radiant.

Merci Monsieur John Hall ! ❤

This is marvellous! Thank you so much for the upload! Is there a part 2?

Thanks John for this extraordinary documentary. It is possible to add youtube's automatic subtitle? I need it for show this document to my italian eleves. Thanks so much!

BEllISSIMO !!!!! Grazie

Gosh, that magazine looks amazing!

The composer Alexi Machavariani (from the old noble Georgian family) was the Georgian composer, who was born and died in Georgia (Republic of). He was often invited to the Russian Opera, the Russian Soviet Music events and on. One of his famous ballet compositions was Otello and it was perfomanced in in Bolshoi Theater in times of USSR. It was a masterpiece and also the ballet dancer who performed Otello, was a legendary Georgian ballet dancer Vakhtang Chabukiani (you can click in You-tube his name and will enjoy of his incomparable Otello in the ballet world). The dancer created such a great speed of otello that neither Russian Soviet nor European dancers could run over this master class performance. So after his death none could take the step in such dance speed, and because of it Otello, composed by the great Georgian composer Alexi MACHAVARIANI is not is on ballet list anymore. Anotheryoung great Georgian ballet dancer Nika(Nikolai) Tsiskaridze which also was invited to dance in Moscow Bolshoi Theater, approached to this Otello, but in some circumstances it didn’t work… Also George Balanchine, the well-known Master and Choreographer of AMERICAN BALLET was the Georgian origin too, from the old Georgian noble family) who immigrated to US after Russian revolution. He had very warm relations with Stravinsky, composer of Fire Bird and Petrushka, which Balanchine created for the American ballet. He was the son of famous Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze and brother of famous composer Andrea Balanchivadze, who was on very friendly terms with Shostakovich.. There is another Georgian great ballet dancer who performed in Bolshoi Theater, Nika (Nikolai) Tsiskaridze too.

Mussorgsky was an army officer,before turning to music, hence his appearance in Diaghilev’s childhood home .

i would love to see marc chagall's set for the fiebird,

I came here while reading The Successes and Failures of Picasso by John Berger. I kept wondering who is this Diaghilev the writer referred to and what was this ballet Parade all about. In Additions, I wondered who was Apollinaire. In essence, I wanted to distinguish the ballet painting Edvard Degas from Picasso but did not have the background. Well, I feel more armed with knowledge now.

It’s a pity when they mention the original soloist but n Les Sylphides that they leave out Baldina.

Great documentary. Thanks. You don't mind I will post in a group. Are we going to see you there soon ? Missing you there..

Hello John, I wonder if you might be able to help me. Someone suggested your name on Facebook so I thought I'd get in touch. I know this is a long shot - but would you happen to have the BBC 'Omnibus' documentary on Dirk Bogarde first broadcast in 1983? I'm sure I watched it at the time and would love to see it again. It doesn't appear to be on KZfaq but an excerpt from it was included in the more recent 'Talking Pictures' documentary. I have that one but would be very interested in seeing the complete original 1983 documentary. I'm hoping you might have it in your collection. Best wishes, Kieran

Interesting .

Very enjoyable, but even with the volume on full, I found it difficult to follow some of the speakers.

The Firebird, was it ever filmed. Chagall fan. Love how thet shared at a comune.

6:12 Tamara Karsavina !!!

Loved the dancing - hate the story- so sinister! Give me a real ol' fairy-tale with a happy ending any time!

WHERES THE VOLUME.???????????????

Would anyone happen to know when this was filmed/released? l tried to look it up, but couldn't find it. Thank you. :)

Has the second part of this documentary been found?

Lots of people of all sizes can perform ballet!

Peter Ustinov 👏👏👏👏👏

Where is Ana Pavlova?

Nijinsky as Petrouchka looks so tragic...like a poor, abused animal 😔

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