Plisetskaya Dances

UPC: 089948426493

Studio: Video Artists International

Summary: This biographical account of Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, provides a career spanning account of Plisetskaya's life from childhood, to her early career development, to highlights from her greatest roles. Some of the performance clips include her part in "Swan Lake," "Sleeping Beauty," "Spartacus," and "Romeo and Juliet." ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Category: Dance [nf]

Features: [None specified]

Plisetskaya Dances

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 02/24/2004

Audio: 1 USA & territories, Canada

Runtime: 70 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Region: Universal Compatability

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Opening Credits - Introduction [6:10]
2. Swan Lake - Black Swan Pas De Deux (Excerpt) [6:20]
3. Sleeping Beauty - Grand Pas De Deux - Adagio (Excerpt) [4:38]
4. Sleeping Beauty - Grand Pas De Dde Deux - Aurora's Variation (Excerpt) [2:03]
5. Laurencia - Solo (Excerpt) [1:14]
6. Spartacus - Pas De Deux (Excerpt) [3:58]
7. The Little Humpbacked Horse - Solo (Excerpt) [2:47]
8. Plisetskaya Discusses Her Arms - Khovanshcina - The Persian Girl's Dance (Excerpt) [5:51]
9. Swan Lake - White Swan Pas De Deux (Excerpt) [2:18]
10. The Dying Swan (Complete) [3:49]
11. Raymonda (Excerpt) [:57]
12. The Stone Flower (Excerpts) [2:30]
13. Romeo and Juliet (Excerpts) [15:18]
14. Walpurgisnacht - Bacchante (Excerpts) [3:42]
15. Don Quixote (Excerpts) [8:13]

Cast and Crew: Dmitri Begak  Actor 
Nikolai Fadeyechev  Actor 
Vladimir Tikhonov  Actor 
Vladimir Vasiliev  Actor 
Marius Liepa  Actor 
Yuri Zhdanov  Actor 
Pyotr Tchaikovsky  Composer (Music Score) 
Aram Khachaturian  Composer (Music Score) 
Alexander Glazunov  Composer (Music Score) 
Vassili Katanyan  Director 
Maya Plisetskaya  Actor 

Country: USA