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Dance Videos: A Filmography

The films listed below are documentary, instructional, biographical, feature, and other performance films related to dance, including ballet. Each entry below is available in the Video Viewing Area, in the basement of Hunt Library. The material can be viewed in the Viewing Area, for educational purposes, by any holder of a current CMU photo I.D. or can be scheduled for classroom use by a faculty member. Further information on each item is available through Cameo, the on-line library catalog.

(El) Amor Brujo
Saura
1987 100 min. Color
Film version of the ballet by Manuel de Falla. The film is directed by Carlos Saura and stars Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos and Laura del Sol. The National Orchestra of Spain is conducted by Jesus Lopez-Cobos, with songs interpreted by Racio Jurado. In Spanish with English subtitles.
791.45 A524 DISC

Baryshnikov By Tharp
1984 60 min. Color
Video of three ballet performances by Mikhail Baryshnikov, performing with Elaine Kudo and members of the American Ballet Theatre, written by Twyla Tharp and Peter Elbling, and choreographed by Twyla Tharp. The three include: The Little Ballet, with music by Alexander Glazounov, Sinatra Suite with music identified with Frank Sinatra, and Push Comes to Shove with music by Joseph Lamb and Franz Joseph Hayden.
793.3 B296 VHS

Bill Robinson
1932 3 min. B&W
Features his famous step dance performance of "Swanee River".
781.65 A861 VHS

Blood Wedding SEE: Bodas de Sangre

Bodas de Sangre
Saura
1981 71 min. Color
Spain. Ballet choreographed by Antonio Gades, based on the play by Garcia Lorca; with Antonio Gades, Christina Joyas, Juan Antonio Jiminez, Pilar Cardenzas and Carmen Vilena.
791.45 B666 VHS

(The) Catherine Wheel
Tharp
1982 88 min. Color
Film directed and choreographed by Twyla Tharp with music composed and performed by David Byrne; starring Sara Rudner, Jennifer Way, Tom Rowe, Katie Glasner and Raymond Kurshals.
793.3 C363 VHS

(The) Catherine Wheel
Tharp
1982 88 min. Color
Film directed and choreographed by Twyla Tharp with music composed and performed by David Byrne; starring Sara Rudner, Jennifer Way, Tom Rowe, Katie Glasner and Raymond Kurshals.
793.3 C363a DISC

Choreography by Balanchine
1977 150 min. Color
Video collection of performances of a number of dance works choreographed by George Balanchine. The pieces are introduced by Edward Villella, directed by Merrill Brockway and performed by members of the New York City Ballet. The pieces include Ravel's Tzigane, Mozart's Divertimento #15, Hindemith's The Four Temperaments and Stravinsky's Violin Concerto. The selections are directed and conducted by Robert Irving.
793.3 B17b (2v) VHS

Cunningham, Merce SEE: Points In Space...

Dance Contest
1929 3 min. B&W
Features Chick Webb's band performing "Sweet Sue" and "Tiger Rag". Dance contest starring James Barton, and the Harlem LindyHoppers.
781.65 A861 VHS

Duke Ellington with Fredi Washington
1929 7 min. B&W
Features the performances of "The Duke Steps Out", "Black Beauty", and "Cotton Club Stomp".
781.65 A861 VHS

(L') enfant et les Sortileges
1986 50 min. Color
Film of the ballet, choreographed and staged by Jiri Kylian, with music by Maurice Ravel. Lorin Maazel conducts the National Orchestra of Paris.
792.842 E56 VHS

(An) Evening with the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
1986 140 min. Color
Video of four dance pieces, performed by members the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater; produced and directed by Thomas Grimm. Works included are: Divining, with choreography by Judith Jamison and music by Kimati Dinizulu and Monti Ellison; Revelations, with choreography by Alvin Ailey, danced to traditional Afro-American music; The Stack-Up, with choreography by Talley Beatty and music by Maurice White, Verdine White, Larry Dunn, Philip Bailey, David Gates, Alphonze Mouzon, D. Boxdale, T. Dones, M. Clee, P. Graham and B. Robinson; and Cry, with choreography by Alvin Ailey and music by Alice Coltrane, Laura Nyro and Chuck Griffin.
793.3 A475 VHS

(An) Evening with the Royal Ballet
1963 87 min. Color
Performances by Margot Fonteyn, Rudolph Nureyev and David Blair at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, directed by Anthony Havelock-Allan and Anthony Asquith. Ballets include: Le Corsaire, with music by Ricardo Drigo and choreography by Rudolph Nureyev; La Valse, with music by Maurice Ravel and choreography by Frederick Ashton; Aurora's Wedding (Act III of The Sleeping Beauty), with music by Tchaikovsky and choreography by Marius Petipa; La Sylphide, with music by Frederick Chopin and choreography by Michel Fokine. Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by John Lanchbery.
793.3 E93 VHS

(The) Flood
1985 125 min. Color
A musical dance/drama by Igor Stravinsky, with choreography by George Balanchine. The original 1960 soundtrack, with the voices of Laurence Harvey, Sebastion Cabot and Elsa Lanchester, accompanies a 1985 performance. The Columbia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus is conducted by Robert Craft.
782.10267 S916o VHS

Footlight Parade
Bacon
1933 104 min. B&W
791.45 F689 DISC

Giselle
1983 115 min. Color
Ballet in two acts, with music by Adolphe Adam; choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, revised by Marius Petipa. Kirov Ballet performance at the Leningrad Theatre of Opera and Ballet, with Galina Mezentseva, Konstantin Zaklinsky, Gennady Selyutsky and Tatyana Terekhova, with the Orchestra of the Leningrad Theatre of Opera and Ballet, conducted by Viktor Fedotov.
793.3 G532 VHS

Graham, Martha SEE: Martha Graham

Macbeth (Vasiliev ballet)
1984 105 min. Color
Ballet choreographed, written and staged by Vladimir Vasiliev, based on the play by Shakespeare, with music by Kirill Molchanov. Bolshoi Ballet performance at the Bolshoi theater with Alexei Fadeyechev, Nina Timofeyeva and Valeri Anisimov. Conducted by Fuat Mansurov.
793.3 M118 VHS

Martha Graham
Glushanok/Hammid
1960 93 min. B&W
A collection of three short films featuring Martha Graham: the documentary film A Dancer's World, directed and photographed by Peter Glushanok in 1957; Night Journey, a retelling of the Oedipus legend from 1961 starring Martha Graham as Jocasta, Paul Taylor as Tiresais and Bertram Ross as Oedipus, with music composed by William Schuman, settings by Isamu Noguchi and direction by Alexander Hammid; and Appalachian Spring, a film version of the dance directed and photographed by Peter Glushanok in 1958 with music by Aaron Copland and sets by Isamu Noguchi.
791.45 N274 VHS

Martha Graham
Glushanok/Hammid
1960 93 min. B&W
A collection of three short films featuring Martha Graham: the documentary film A Dancer's World, directed and photographed by Peter Glushanok in 1957; Night Journey, a retelling of the Oedipus legend from 1961 starring Martha Graham as Jocasta, Paul Taylor as Tiresais and Bertram Ross as Oedipus, with music composed by William Schuman, settings by Isamu Noguchi and direction by Alexander Hammid; and Appalachian Spring, a film version of the dance directed and photographed by Peter Glushanok in 1958 with music by Aaron Copland and sets by Isamu Noguchi.
792.8 G74d DISC

Martha Graham: the Dancer Revealed
1994 60 min. Color
Excerpts of Graham performances, including "Acts of Light", "Errand into the Maze", "Frontier", "Appalachian Spring", "American Document", "Primitive Mysteries", and "Night Journey", as well as interviews with Agnes de Mille, Erick Hawkins, and others.
792.8 G74 VHS

Martha Graham: Three Contemporary Classics
1984 85 min. Color
Video of three modern dance works, directed and produced by Thomas Grimm, choreographed and co-produced by Martha Graham. The works are: Errand into the Maze, with music by Gian Carlo Menotti, performed by the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan McPhee, with dancers Terese Capucilli and Larry White; Cave of the Heart, with music by Samuel Barber, performed by the Aarhus Symphony, conducted by McPhee, with dancers Takako Asakawa, Donlin Foreman, Jacqulyn Buglisi and Jeanne Ruddy; Acts of Light, with music by Carl Nielsen, performed by the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Blomstedt, with dancers Peggy Lyman, George White Jr., Christine Dakin, David Hochoy, et al. The video includes a conversation with Martha Graham.
793.3 G74e VHS

Martins, Peter SEE: Peter Martins

(The) Nutcracker
1977 78 min. Color
Film version of the ballet by Peter Illich Tchaikovsky. Produced and written for the American Ballet Theatre by Yanna Kroyt Brandt and directed by Tony Charmali. With Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland and Alexander Minz. The National Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Kenneth Schermerhorn.
793.3 N976 VHS

Peter Martins: A Dancer
1979 54 min. Color
Video of Martins performing a number of dance selections, including the pas de deux from Chaconne and from Balanchine's Agon. Also included are an interview with the dancer, and a number of sequences showing Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine working with Martins.
792.8 M386 VHS

Points in Space
1986 55 min. Color
Dance performance choreographed by Merce Cunningham, with music composed by John Cage, directed by Elliot Kaplan and Merce Cunningham, performed by Merce Cunningham and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The first half of the videotape contains documentary footage of rehearsals and interviews with the performers. The second half contains the performance itself.
792.8 P752 VHS

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suite and Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Classical"
1992 58 min. Color
Choreography by David Earle, Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Zingg. Performed by the Toronto Dance Theatre; orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit.
780.78 R763 VHS

Rambert Dance Company: Soldat / Pulcinella
Soldat / Pulcinella
1989 66 min. Color
The Stravinsky ballets Soldat and Pulcinella are performed by the Rambert Dance Company. The former features Gary Lambert, Glenn Wilkinson, and Amanda Britton, with choreography by Ashley Page. The latter features Christopher Carney and Amanda Britton, with choreography by Richard Alston. A BBC-TV production.
792.842 S684 VHS

(The) Red Shoes
Powell
1948 134 min. B&W
791.45 R31223 DISC

Royal Ballet SEE: An Evening with the...

Sanskrit Drama
Sarabhai
1980 15 min. Color
Discusses concepts of dance in classical Sanskrit theatre. Contains excerpts from the "Vision of Vasavadatta" by Bhasa. Narration written by John Mitchell.
792.0954 S229 VHS

Swan Lake (Bolshoi Ballet)
1984 126 min. Color
Ballet in four acts, with story and music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; choreography by Yuri Grigorovich. Bolshoi Ballet performance with Natalia Bessmertnova, Alexander Bogatyrev and Boris Akimov; Moscow Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Algis Zhuraitis. Program introduced by Gene Kelly.
793.3 S972 VHS

Swan Lake (with Makarova)
1980 128 min. Color
Ballet in four acts, with story and music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with variations by Frederick Ashton and Rudolph Nureyev. Royal Ballet performance at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, with Natalia Makarova, Anthony Dowell and Gerd Larsen; Sadler's Wells Orchestra, conducted by Ashley Lawrence.
793.3 S9722 VHS

Tap Duet
1931 2 min. B&W
Features performances of "Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away" and "Mandy".
781.65 A861 VHS

Three by Martha Graham
1969 87 min. Color
Video of three performances by Martha Graham: Cortege of Eagles, 1967; Seraphic Dialogue, 1965; Acrobats of God, 1969. Produced by the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
792.8 T531 VHS

La Valse (excerpt)
1951 6 min. B&W
Amateur film footage of excerpts from a 1951 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival production of the George Ballanchine ballet La Valse, choreographed to Maurice Ravel's "Valses, nobles et sentimentales" (1911). Featuring Tanaquil Le Clercq and Nicholas Magallanes. New sychronized piano accompaniment by Dianne Chilgren.
791.45 T7842 pt. 3 DVD