Classical Ballet

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Martha Myers Jac Venza Greg Harney Maria Tallchief Andre Eglevsky Linda Yourth George Li Marina Eglevsky Simon Sadoff WGBH-TV The Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council

Format: 16mm

Description: The strict rules of classical ballet have been developed over the past five hundred years, and in this program Miss Myers demonstrates some of the basic principles, and the final applications of the traditions of this type of dance. Prints, drawings and photographs display the development of the traditions, and the three young students of the ballet demonstrate the essential positions and steps which every student must know. Maria Tallchief and Andre Eglevsky perform the pas de deux from “Swan Lake” and “Sylvia.” In addition, the opening of the program is a film clip of the corps de ballet of the Bolshoi Company dancing a scene from “Swan Lake.”

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