Choreographer and filmmaker Herbert Ross directs the romantic backstage drama The Dancers, which features a production of Giselle by the American Ballet Theatre. Mikhail Baryshnikov stars as macho lead dancer Tony Sergoyev, the director of a ballet company beginning a production of Giselle in southern Italy. Tony has been involved with several of ...
Nine years after his last compilation of musical-movie highlights (That's Entertainment, Part II), producer Jack Haley Jr. offers another enjoyable nostalgia-fest, That's Dancing. Unlike his earlier films, which were confined to the output of MGM, That's Dancing offers vignettes from the best of Warner Bros. (the Busby Berkeley extravaganzas, On ...
This performance video contains a 1984 production of the ballet Don Quixote at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Performed by the American Ballet Theatre, this story was adapted from the Cervantes novel with original music by Leon Minkus. Mikhail Baryshnikov choreographs and stars as Basilio. Also starring Brian Adams as Sancho Panza and ...
One of a cycle of '70s post-Women's Liberation "women's pictures," Herbert Ross's drama uses the ballet world to examine the conflict between family and career. Former dance colleagues Deedee (Shirley MacLaine) and Emma (Anne Bancroft) are reunited when Emma's New York ballet company stops in Oklahoma City for a performance. Having dropped her ...
The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry this otherwise thinly-stretched tale of intrigue. With a stellar supporting cast (Isabella Rossellini as Raymond's wife, Helen Mirren as Nikolai's ...
The demise of the Cold War rendered this flat and obsolete spy thriller, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer, mute upon its release in 1991. Gene Hackman plays Sam Boyd, a retired CIA agent, now making ends meet by engaging in industrial espionage. But Sam is recalled to duty and ordered to deliver a captured Russian spy, Pyiotr Grushenko ...
This is a dance performance video which was specially choreographed by Twyla Tharp for Mikhail Baryshnikov. Some of the songs to which Baryshnikov dances include: "Push comes to Shove," "Sinatra Suite," "The Little Ballet," and "The ABC's of Ballet." ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide
One of the greatest dancers of his generation dazzles the crowd in a special filmed concert. Baryshnikov at Wolf Trap features Mikhail Baryshnikov performing some of his favorite solo pieces (including his famous interpretation of Vestris), as well as a handful of duets with the gifted Gelsey Kirkland, including highlights from Don Quixote and a ...
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