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Les Ballets suédois svenska baletten

Title: Les Ballets suédois [videorecording] : svenska baletten / [presented by the] Kungliga Baletten/Royal Swedish Ballet.
Publication: 1998.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS, PAL) (88 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Reconstruction of four ballets originally presented in the 1920s by the Ballets suédois, an innovative ballet company whose experimentation in choreography, theme, music, and design rivalled that of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets russe. All four works were originally created by the company's sole choreographer, Jean Börlin.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer.

Uniform Title

Within the quota (Choreographic work : Börlin)
Greco (Choreographic work : Börlin)
Derviches (Choreographic work : Börlin)
Skating-rink (Choreographic work : Börlin)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Note

Accompanied by house program.

Credits (note)

Lighting, Martin Säfström.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at the Operan, Stockholm, Sweden, on June 5, 1998.

Contents

Within the quota (ca. 19 min.) / choreography and scenery by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer after Jean Börlin and Gerald Murphy; music, Cole Porter, arr. by Charles Koechlin; staged by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer; danced by Carl Inger (the immigrant), Weit Carlsson (the cameraman), Anna Valev (the heiress), Ivaylo Valev (the puritan (the social reformer, the prohibition agent, the spiritual uplifter, the sheriff)), Brendan Collins (the colored gentleman), Madeleine Onne (the jazz baby), Johannes Öhman (the cowboy), Liz Thomas (the sweetheart of the world).
El Greco (ca. 21 min.) / mimodrama freely staged by Ivo Cramér after the original by Jean Börlin; choreography, Ivo Cramér; music, Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht; scenery after Georges Mouveau, Bo-Ruben Hedwall; costumes after Nils Dardel, Kirsten Lund-Nielsen; danced by Per Sackén (an irresolute youth); Christian Rambe (his brother); Katja Björner (a pious maiden); Nathalie Perriraz, Tiiu Kokkonen (her companions); Kristin Kåge, Ursula Jekell, Marketta Kaila (ladies); Suzanna Carlsson, Louise Peterhoff, Ylva Helander (poor women); Olof Westring, Mats Lindström, Erik Gribbe, Anders Groth, Aleksander Maksic, Hugo Therkelson, Nicolaus Fotiadis (noblemen); Joakim Stephenson, Ingemar Gustafsson, Göran Blomqvist, Leszek Kostrzewski, Pontus Lidberg (monks).
Dervischer [Derviches; Dervishes] (ca. 17 min.) / choreography and scenery, Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer after Jean Börlin and Georges Mouveau; music, Aleksandr Glazunov; staged by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer; five dervishes [role names indicate the Ballets suédois dancers who created the roles] danced by Hans Nilsson (Jean Börlin), Göran Svalberg (Paul Eltorp), Brendan Collins (Kaj Smith), Olof Westring (Holger Mehnen), Joakim Stephenson (Nils Östman); five soldiers danced by Erik Gribbe, Per Sacklén, Aleksander Maksic, Andy Rietschel, Oscar Salomonsson.
Skating rink (ca. 22 min.) / choreography and scenery, Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer after Jean Börlin and Fernand Leger; music, Arthur Honegger; staged by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer; choreographic assistant, Joseph Fowler; danced by Jan-Erik Wikström (the poet and the madman); Marie Lindqvist (the woman); Anders Nordström (the man); Göran Blomqvist, Leszek Kostrzewski (the apache dancers); Per-Birger Stenudd (the clerk); Hugo Therkelson (the man about town); Jens Rosén (the workman); Pontus Lidberg (the immigrant); David Hedrick (the gambler); Christian Rambe (the gentleman); Anders Groth (the sailor); Ivaylo Valev (the artist); Nelli Korpela (street girl in red); Jenny Westring (factory girl in green); Karin Forslind (factory girl in orange); Nathalie Perriraz (tram girl); Cecilia Canemyr (office girl in mauve); Jane Salier (office girl in pink); Ylva Sjöberg (street girl in blue); Marketta Kaila (market girl in trilby hat); Ursula Jekell (market girl in brim hat); Bétina Marcolin (the maid); Katarina Kucharska (the gambling hall girl); Ann Svalberg (the artist's model); Susanna Englund (the shop girl in crimson); Isabella Sandström (the shop girl in magenta).

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7475

OCLC

NYPY04-F157

Title

Les Ballets suédois [videorecording] : svenska baletten / [presented by the] Kungliga Baletten/Royal Swedish Ballet.

Imprint

1998.

Country of Producing Entity

Sweden.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Operan, Stockholm, Sweden, on June 5, 1998.

Credits

Lighting, Martin Säfström.

Performer

Danced by the Kungliga Baletten/Royal Swedish Ballet.

Music performed by the Kungliga Hovkapellet/Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra, conducted by Markus Lehtinen.

Local Subject

Choreography -- Reconstruction.

Added Author

Börlin, Jean, 1893-1930, choreographer.

Hodson, Millicent, choreographer. Designer. Director

Archer, Kenneth, choreographer. Designer. Director

Lehtinen, Markus. Conductor

Murphy, Gerald, 1888-1964. Designer

Porter, Cole, 1891-1964. Composer

Kœchlin, Charles, 1867-1950. Arranger

Säfström, Martin. Designer

Cramér, Ivo, choreographer.

Inghelbrecht, D. E. (Désiré Emile), 1880-1965. Composer

Hedwall, Bo-Ruben. Designer

Mouveau, Georges. Designer

Lund, Kirsten. Costume designer

Darden, Nils, 1888-1943. Costume designer

Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich, 1865-1936. Composer

Léger, Fernand, 1881-1955. Designer

Honegger, Arthur, 1892-1955. Composer

Inger, Carl, dancer.

Carlsson, Weit, dancer.

Valev, Anna, dancer.

Valev, Ivaylo, dancer.

Collins, Brendan, dancer.

Onne, Madeleine, dancer.

Ohman, Johannes, dancer.

Thomas, Liz, dancer.

Sacklén, Per, dancer.

Rambe, Christian, dancer.

Bjorner, Katya, dancer.

Perriraz, Nathalie, dancer.

Kokkonen, Tiiu, dancer.

Nilsson, Hans, dancer.

Svalberg, Göran, dancer.

Westring, Olof, dancer.

Stephenson, Joakim, dancer.

Wikström, Jan-Erik, dancer.

Lindqvist, Marie, dancer.

Nordström, Anders, dancer.

Ballet suédois.

Kungliga Baletten (Stockholm, Sweden)

Kungliga Hovkapellet.

Added Title

Within the quota (Choreographic work : Börlin)

Greco (Choreographic work : Börlin)

Derviches (Choreographic work : Börlin)

Skating-rink (Choreographic work : Börlin)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-7475

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