Ballet Movies

A pair of short ballets, written for the screen, filmed and performed by artists of the Georgian SSR. In color, with narration.

At the castle of Countess Sybil de Daurice, Raymonda is celebrating her birthday. She is also about to bid farewell to her fiancé, knight Jean...

The scene is set at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue, filmed at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta (1937), an enormous production created as part of the...

Odette dreams of becoming a ballerina, but the onset of scoliosis threatens that dream.

Short film based upon a ballet by Yves Bonnat & Françoise Adret

Gehtto Ballet follows the inter-linked stories of a number of students in a groundbreaking program called Dance For All. The raison d'etre of the...

Inspired by heroic stories of brave knights, Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful servant Sancho Panza set out on an adventure to meet his ideal...

A choreography to cracked linear textural sound. Elements of classical and neoclassical ballet used to choreograph a dancer's movements to jagged...

Don Quixote is a 19th century work, choreographed by Petipa in 1869. Rudolf Nureyev revived it in 1966 and it is his version in La Scala...

Prima ballerina Darcey Bussell talks about her life at the top. From tears at ballet school and forgetting the steps, to becoming the Royal Ballet's...

Don Quixote and his servant Sancho Panza set out to have a chivalrous adventure. They meet Kitri and Basilio, a young couple who cannot marry because...

In Jacob Sutton’s film “Ascension”, two young dancers soar up from the darkness beneath the stage at Bastille to the sumptuous...

An intense, intimate and beautiful journey into the mind of Alba, a 16 year old ballet dancer at the acclaimed Corella Dance Academy in Barcelona....

Classic production of the world’s most-famous ballet, the one that dance audiences long for – Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. First...

A group of women dressed up as Commedia dell'Arte characters dance together.

When a man's wife shows signs of anorexia as she pursues a career in dancing, he tries to force her to eat.