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Article: Dance for the ages.(Ballets Russes)(Movie Review)

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November 8, 2005
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Ballets Russes

* Produced and directed by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine * Zeitgeist Films

The superb documentary Ballets Russes, produced and directed by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, provides an opera-glass view of the dueling Ballets Russes (the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and Colonel de Basil's Original Ballet Russe) that emerged from Serge Diaghilev's legendary troupe. Stocked with wise, eccentric divas like Alicia Markova, Maria Tallchief, and Alexandra Danilova, Ballets Russes proves that art trumps adversity. Dancer Frederic Franklin, peppy and ...

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