For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes

12/12/2009

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1hr 0min

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TV Movie

,Documentary

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Lynn Seymour
  • Alastair Macaulay
  • Bob Gottlieb
  • Judith Mackrell
  • Lynn Garafola

    Director

  • Ross MacGibbon

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC Cymru Wales

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    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

    Wayne Eagling

    Self - Artistic Director: English National Ballet