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.
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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...