Footnotes: Romeo and Juliet
About the title: This episode of Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet is about Romeo and Juliet. Using as an example Kenneth MacMillan's ballet adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, dancer Frank Augustyn and others discuss the stor...
Footnotes: The National Ballet of Canada
About the title: This episode of Footnotes is about the National Ballet of Canada.
About the series: Break a leg. Conceived and hosted by internationally renowned dancer, Frank Augustyn, Footnotes sheds new light on the classics of ballet. Featuring...
Footnotes: The Music of Ballet
About the title: Music of ballet highlights the great composers of ballet and looks at the relationship between the music and the dance.
About the series: Break a leg. Conceived and hosted by internationally renowned dancer, Frank Augustyn, Footnot...
Footnotes: The Ballerina
About the title: The ballerina examines the development and importance of the ballerina from the ground-breaking pioneers, to today's prima ballerinas.
About the series: Break a leg. Conceived and hosted by internationally renowned dancer, Frank Aug...
Footnotes: The Male Dancer
About the title: The Male Dancer examines the development, importance and changes in the role of the male dancer through the history of ballet with a special focus on Nijinsky and Nureyev.
About the series: Break a leg. Conceived and hosted by inte...
Footnotes: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
About the title: This episode of Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet is about Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Performance footage by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo are shown.
About the series: Break a leg. Conceived and hosted by internationally renowned danc...
Footnotes: The Sleeping Beauty
About the title: This episode of Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet is about the Sleeping Beauty. Dancer Frank Augustyn and others discuss how Marius Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty represents a throwback to the early court ballet in its appetite for sp...
Footnotes: Giselle
About the title: This episode of Footnotes: The Classics of Ballet is about Giselle. Dancer Frank Augustyn and others discuss the 19th-century Romantic ballet Giselle as an example of the importance of dramatic characterization in ballet. Drawing up...