Balanchine Foundation video archives. / The George Balanchine Foundation ; project director, Nancy Reynolds ; director, Ross MacGibbon ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music by Igor Stravinsky.

Format Video (Streaming)
Publication InfoNew York, NY : George Balanchine Foundation, 1996, ℗1995.
Description1 online resource (114 min.).
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?DAIV;1665741
Subjects

Other author/creatorAndersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875.
Other author/creatorArcher, Kenneth.
Other author/creatorBalanchine, George.
Other author/creatorHodson, Millicent.
Other author/creatorLoots, Iohna.
Other author/creatorMacGibbon, Ross.
Other author/creatorMarkova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004.
Other author/creatorReynolds, Nancy, 1938-
Included WorkStravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Chant du rossignol (Symphonic poem)
Other author/creatorGeorge Balanchine Foundation.
Variant title Title on original label: Dame Alicia Markova recreating excerpts from Le chant du rossignol
Portion of title Chant du rossignol
SeriesGeorge Balanchine Foundation archive of lost choreography
Contents The nightingale's entrance -- The nightingale's variation (complete) / danced by Iohna Loots -- Recreating the variation, Part I -- The variation, Part II -- The variation, Part III -- Pas de deux: Nightingale and Death (excerpts).
Abstract Dame Alicia Markova reconstructs George Balanchine's choreography for the role of the Nightingale, which she created in his ballet Le chant du rossignol (The song of the nightingale) for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1925. She begins by describing the action (based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen) as the music is played, then works intensively with dancer Iohna Loots on the nightingale's variation and pas de deux with Death, a role intended to be performed by a female dancer. Historians Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, who assisted in the reconstruction, appear briefly on camera.
General notePreviously released on DVD.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (VAST-Academic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

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