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Article: Living history: recalling the Ballets Russes.(DANCE MATTERS)
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- Dance Magazine
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- November 1, 2005
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This fall's most gripping dance experience may be no away than your neighborhood movie theater-assuming yours is showing Russes, the extraordinary documentary about the dance company that wouldn't die. Five years in the making, spiced with rare encounters with ballet legends and even rarer footage of those legends in action, the film goes into national release this month, after a round of festival showings at Sundance and in Australia.
If the saga of the Ballets Russes is of epic proportions, so is the raw material that makes up the movie. San Francisco-based, Emmy-winning documentarians Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller collected 30 hours of film clips and 135 hours ...