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Erik Bruhn documentary [and] Royal Danish Ballet's La Sylphide.

Title: Erik Bruhn documentary [and] Royal Danish Ballet's La Sylphide.
Publication: 1966, 1977.

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Description

1 streaming video file (134 min.) : sound, color and black and white.

Summary

In the Erik Bruhn documentary, he discusses (in Danish) his background, dance career with the Royal Danish Ballet, and his life in New York City with American Ballet Theatre.

Uniform Title

Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bournonville)

Alternative Title

Sylphide
Robert Greskovic video archive

Subjects

Genre/Form

Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.
Video.
Dance.
Documentary films.

Note

Title from original videocassette label ; additional credit information from Sylphide's spoken opening credits and Dance Division's *MGZB Schanne, Margrethe.
Dance footage in Erik Bruhn documentary includes: Don Quixote (Petipa), Swan Lake (Petipa), Petrushka (American Ballet Theatre rehearsal), Giselle (Coralli) with Carla Fracci, Sleeping Beauty (Petipa), Sylphide rehearsal with Flemming Ryberg, Sylphide (Bournonville) with Kirsten Simone, Carmen (Roland Petit) with Kirsten Simone, teaching Swedish Opera Ballet class, Etudes (Lander) with Toni Lander, Flemming Flindt and Royal Danish Ballet.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Source (note)

Robert Greskovic;

Language (note)

In Danish and English ; with some Danish subtitles.

Contents

Erik Bruhn documentary (1977) (73 min.) / cinematographer, Henrik Herbert and Tom Spain ; sound, Peter Chr. Hansen and Ed Gleason ; producer, Thomas Grimm ; speakers, Erik Bruhn, Ebbe Mørk (critic), Svend Kragh-Jacobsen (critic), Mikhail Baryshnikov (dancer), Rudolf Nureyev (dancer), Elvi Henriksen (pianist), Susse Wold (dancer), Bent Mejding (actor) and Ballet students from the Royal Danish Theatre.
Sylphide (Sylfiden) (1966) (62 min.) / choreography, August Bournonville ; music, Herman Løvensjold ; dancers, Margrethe Schanne (The Sylphide), Vivi Gelker (Anna, a widow), Flemming Flindt (James, her son), Viveka Segerskog (Effy, her niece, James' bride), Elisabeth Enevoldsen (Nancy, Effy's friend), Niels Bjørn Larsen and Kjeld Noack.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 3773

OCLC

904051677

Title

Erik Bruhn documentary [and] Royal Danish Ballet's La Sylphide.

Production

1966, 1977.

Country of Producing Entity

Denmark.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Access

Patrons can access streaming video online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Event

Videotaped in performance at the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1966.

Original Version

Original format: 1 videocassette (VHS) ; 3/4 in.

Language

In Danish and English ; with some Danish subtitles.

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Added Author

Bruhn, Erik, 1928-1986, speaker.

Bruhn, Erik, 1928-1986, dancer.

Fracci, Carla, dancer.

Simone, Kirsten, dancer.

Ryberg, Flemming, dancer.

Lander, Toni, dancer.

Flindt, Flemming, dancer.

Herbert, Henrik, cinematographer.

Spain, Tom, cinematographer.

Hansen, Peter, sound designer.

Gleason, Ed, sound designer.

Grimm, Thomas, 1942- producer.

Bournonville, August, 1805-1879, choreographer.

Løvenskiold, Herman Severin, 1815-1870. Sylphiden.

Schanne, Margrethe, 1921- dancer.

Gelker, Vivi, dancer.

Segerskog, Viveka, dancer.

Enevoldsen, Elisabeth, dancer.

Larsen, Niels Bjørn, 1913-2003, dancer.

Noack, Kjeld, dancer.

Kongelige Danske ballet, dancer.

Kongelige Teater (Denmark), presenter.

Kongelige Danske ballet, performer.

Greskovic, Robert, donor.

Added Title

Container of (work): Sylphide (Choreographic work : Bournonville)

Robert Greskovic video archive

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 3773

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