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- Foyer de la danse de l'Opéra de Paris, 1981. Rosella Hightower, who sparkled in the role of Aurora in Tchaikovsky's' Sleeping Beauty', teaches the role to Elisabeth Platel, the Opera's young principal dancer. The dance director transmits joy and love with scrupulous precision, all the better expressed as the ancestral codes are transcended.
- An interview of Violette Verdy and several masterclasses given by the retired prima ballerina, who was once revealed to the world by the great choreographer Roland Petit, she was to become the star dancer of the American City Ballet., under the direction of George Balanchine or Jerome Robbins to whom she inspired major ballets.. In "Violet and Mr. B"., the voluble and ebullient sixty-eight year old dancer is seen (and heard) coaching new stars such as Elisabeth Platel, Isabelle Guérin, Elisabeth Maurin or Lucia Lacarra.
- An elegant young woman in her messy room answers the phone call from her lover. This one, who intends to leave her, tries to make her understand what he is up to without hurting her too much, hypersensitive as she is . All means are good: big words, cajolery, denial, lies. As for the woman, who senses that this is the end, she desperately tries to win him back, passing from tenderness to passion, from the threat of attempted suicide to calm, from regret to outbursts of violence.
- Gracile and light as a bird, an apparition, dressed in diaphanous white veils, appears on the rooftops of the Opéra Garnier, with a white dove as her companion. A voice calls her to the stage. Another voice, that of Violette Verdy, a dance teacher, addresses her with the admiration of the one whose expectations have been met. This is how we spectators learn that the floating creature is none other than Monique Loudières, one of the Etoile dancers of the Paris Opera, and Violette's former pupil. The ghost then takes flesh, but only to some extent such is the way Monique Loudières defies gravity. From then on she will be seen rehearsing great roles in scenes from famous ballets with partners of the stature of Patrick Dupond and Manuel Legris, either under the benevolent guidance of great elders who pass on their knowledge (Yvette Chauviré, Violette Verdy) or of international masters of contemporary choreography (Jerome Robbins, Jiri Kylian...) Attentive, concentrated, in love with perfection, we see her integrate the gestures, positions and movements they indicate only to replicate them in the moment in the inspired way that make her their ideal interpreter. In the end, the ballerina and the dove become unsubstantial again and vanish in the realm of the stars where they belong.
- Denise Duval, the great soprano, friend and muse of the composer Francis Poulenc, who in 1959 created the role of the woman whom her lover left by telephone in "La Voix humaine", who replayed the role a decade later in front of the cameras of the film-maker Dominique Delouche, accepted that the same Delouche filmed her giving a masterclass to Sophie Favier, a soprano of the rising generation, passionate about Poulenc's music.
- Everything you wanted to know about Maya Plissetskaya, the Bolshoi prima ballerina, from her green years in Moscow, to her training years at the Bolshoi school of Dance, to her brilliant international career with emphasis on her personal creative style - often imitated but never equaled, to her active retirement. At 73, Maya Plissetskaya is still full of life and filled with passion, a joy to be in the company of.
- Edith Stein (1891-1942) had been born Jewish in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland). She studied philosophy in her native town before joining Göttingen University. In Freiburg, she worked with Professor Edmund Husserl, the philosopher who established the school of phenomenology. At the age of thirty, she converted to Catholicism and later entered the Carmel of Echt, in the Netherlands. In 1942, she was arrested there and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where she was gassed. Edith Stein, who had become Sister Theresa of the Cross, was canonized in 1998.
- Irène Aïtoff, 94 years old, the piano accompanist of many a glory of the second half of the 20th century music, resuscitates the musicians and singers she helped to flourish, from Yvette Guilbert to Gabriel Bacquier to Manuel Rosenthal and many others.
- Filmed is in four times at the Paris Opera while Nina Vyroubova and Attilio Labis were rehearsing "Giselle", Adolphe Adam's ballet.
- Rome, November 1941. In a pneumology clinic, Ion Bucur, a young Romanian poet, is dying. His friend and compatriot, artist Eugen Dragutesco, faithfully sits at his bedside, drawing pictures of him, thirty pictures in total, which will finally constitute the poignant diary of a pathetic agony.
- In 1988, Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev form the most prestigious couple in Soviet ballet, both at home and on stage. In this feature-length documentary they can be seen rehearsing, teaching, visit and heard sharing their memories and talking about the status of the artist under the Soviet regime.
- A young nun, tempted by Satan, succumbs to the sin of the flesh. At a loss, she wanders about, on the verge of succumbing to another mortal sin, despair. At a time though she decides to pull herself together. By praying and praying, she manages to drive the Evil One away and to be lost in God again.
- Documentary about a particular instrument, the cello and about a great cellist named Maurice Gendron. Gendron plays four pieces of classical music by Haydn, Boccherini, Chopin and Bach.
- Documentary about the seventeen-year-old competition swimmer Christine Caron.
- Once upon a time there was a little girl named Nina. Born in Crimea, she and her mother left the country for France. She was only three when they settled down in the town of Meudon. There, Nina's mum became a dance teacher and the little girl soon became a little figure - dancer. After taking classes with famous names of Russian dance mistresses (Trefilova, Preobrajenja, Egorova) she became a dancer in a troupe. In 1946 a good fairy named Roland Petit chose her to be the star of Henri Sauguet's ballet « Les Forains ». Three years later the miracle continued for the little refugee from Meudon, the immense choreographer Serge Lifar called upon her to replace the star dancer of the Paris Opera, Yvette Chauviré. She was now a prima ballerina. Combining her high technical level with a taste for lyricism, mysticism and expressiveness, she furthered her career in the troupe of the Marquis de Cuevas. Until in the mid-1960s, she considered time was ripe for retirement - and for transmission. Dominique Delouche's camera shows her in 1995, at the age of 74, at the Opéra de Paris transmitting to young dancers all the subtleties of her art, particularly the choreographies she inspired in Lifar and other great masters. We also follow her on a trip to her native Russia, to Saint Petersburg, where she is honored at the Russian Ballet Academy, and to Gurzuf, the Crimean town on the Black Sea where she was born. Throughout the film, photos, archive footage and film extracts (including two by Delouche) are interspersed between the sequences devoted to the present, movingly linking a particularly successful life story, a winning mixture of exceptional personal talent and favorable conditions.
- A basket ball team belonging to the Bataillon de Joinville, a unit of the French Army for sports conscripts is filmed during training.
- Presented without comment, the film consists of images from a rehearsal of Stravinsky's ballet 'Petrushka', in which John Neumeier, Director of Dance at the Hamburg Opera in the role of the Master, works with Patrick Dupond, principal dancer at the Paris Opera, in the role of the Slave.
- Drawing on highlights from his previous films on Alicia Markova, Nina Vyroubova and Violette Verdy, France's leading chronicler of the process of ballet coaching adds new footage of Balanchine muse Ghislaine Thesmar.
- This feature, expanded from an earlier short subject, shows us the perennial tradition of classical dance and it's transmission through the stage performances and rehearsals of several famous practitioners.
- The great Alicia Markova talks with Dominique Delouche about her life and her roles with the Ballets Russes under Serge Diaghilev. Between 1925 and 1928, Karsavina, Pavlova, Sergueev, Egorova, Fokine and Spessivtseva, all brilliant dancers with the Ballets Russes, left a lasting mark on the young British ballerina's artistic career. After the death of the famous Russian impresario in 1929, Alicia Markova returned to England, where she worked alongside the famous choreographer Frederick Ashton, and in 1950 founded what was to become the English National Ballet. In the company of the Stars and Dancers of the Paris Opera, Alicia Markova delivers her memoirs, those of an exceptional dancer who worked with the greatest names in dance throughout the 20th century.
- Film based on the meditations of Christian philosophers Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
- At the Berthier Studio of the Odeon Theater, in front of Dominique Delouche's camera, the famed choreographer Pierre Lacotte makes three principal dancers of the Paris Opera, Ghislaine Thesmar, Michael Denard and Yannick Stéphant rehearse their roles in the ballet "La Sylphide".
- The great Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya is filmed by Dominique Delouche performing a solo dance within the Saint-Roch church in Paris, to the sacred music of François Couperin and to the voice the countertenor Alfred Deller. Earthly grace meets divine grace.
- A portrait of the famous dancer-choreographer Serge Lifar.
- A documentary about prima ballerina Nina Vyroubova. She is seen rehearsing at the Paris Opera under the direction of choreographer Serge Lifar and dancing master Yves Brieux with dancers such as Attilio Labis, Youli Algaroff and Serge Golovine.
- Documentary about the great star dancer Serge Peretti, later to become a famed dance teacher at the Opera de Paris.
- The great dancer Yvette Chauviré is famous, among other things, for her creation of the role of the Swan in "La Mort du Cygne", a ballet by Michel Fokine designed in 1907 for Anna Pavlova, inspired by "Le Cygne", the thirteenth movement of Camille Saint-Saëns' "Carnaval des animaux". In front of Dominique Delouche's camera, she passes on her knowledge to a young star of the Paris Opera, Dominique Khalfouni.
- Nineteen sculptures by Aristide Maillol have recently replaced the Nineteenth Century ones which preceded them. Dominique Delouche decides to pay them a call. With his admiring camera, accompanied by Richard Strauss's music and the voice of Arletty reading a lyrical poem about Dina Verny, Maillol's model, the aesthete director celebrates their pure, antique beauty.
- Choreographer John Neumeier and dancer Patrick Dupond rehearse for a new version of Stravinski's "Petrushka"