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- Gracile and light as a bird, an apparition, dressed in diaphanous white veils, appears on the rooftops of the Opéra Garnier, with a white dove as her companion. A voice calls her to the stage. Another voice, that of Violette Verdy, a dance teacher, addresses her with the admiration of the one whose expectations have been met. This is how we spectators learn that the floating creature is none other than Monique Loudières, one of the Etoile dancers of the Paris Opera, and Violette's former pupil. The ghost then takes flesh, but only to some extent such is the way Monique Loudières defies gravity. From then on she will be seen rehearsing great roles in scenes from famous ballets with partners of the stature of Patrick Dupond and Manuel Legris, either under the benevolent guidance of great elders who pass on their knowledge (Yvette Chauviré, Violette Verdy) or of international masters of contemporary choreography (Jerome Robbins, Jiri Kylian...) Attentive, concentrated, in love with perfection, we see her integrate the gestures, positions and movements they indicate only to replicate them in the moment in the inspired way that make her their ideal interpreter. In the end, the ballerina and the dove become unsubstantial again and vanish in the realm of the stars where they belong.
- Everything you wanted to know about Maya Plissetskaya, the Bolshoi prima ballerina, from her green years in Moscow, to her training years at the Bolshoi school of Dance, to her brilliant international career with emphasis on her personal creative style - often imitated but never equaled, to her active retirement. At 73, Maya Plissetskaya is still full of life and filled with passion, a joy to be in the company of.
- A chronological collection of rare or previously unreleased Josephine Baker short films, early movie excerpts, newsreels, and outtakes, including alternate performance recordings, from 1926 to 1939. This 15-minute feature shows rarely seen footage or outtakes from "The Fireman of the Folies Bergeres" (1928), "Gay Colored Star Steps Out in Paris, No. 18" (1931), and newsreels from the French Army (excerpts from "WWII Newsreel No. 7, November 11th, 1939") where Mrs. Baker is seen performing a song and distributing cigarettes to the troops.
- In 1988, Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev form the most prestigious couple in Soviet ballet, both at home and on stage. In this feature-length documentary they can be seen rehearsing, teaching, visit and heard sharing their memories and talking about the status of the artist under the Soviet regime.
- Once upon a time there was a little girl named Nina. Born in Crimea, she and her mother left the country for France. She was only three when they settled down in the town of Meudon. There, Nina's mum became a dance teacher and the little girl soon became a little figure - dancer. After taking classes with famous names of Russian dance mistresses (Trefilova, Preobrajenja, Egorova) she became a dancer in a troupe. In 1946 a good fairy named Roland Petit chose her to be the star of Henri Sauguet's ballet « Les Forains ». Three years later the miracle continued for the little refugee from Meudon, the immense choreographer Serge Lifar called upon her to replace the star dancer of the Paris Opera, Yvette Chauviré. She was now a prima ballerina. Combining her high technical level with a taste for lyricism, mysticism and expressiveness, she furthered her career in the troupe of the Marquis de Cuevas. Until in the mid-1960s, she considered time was ripe for retirement - and for transmission. Dominique Delouche's camera shows her in 1995, at the age of 74, at the Opéra de Paris transmitting to young dancers all the subtleties of her art, particularly the choreographies she inspired in Lifar and other great masters. We also follow her on a trip to her native Russia, to Saint Petersburg, where she is honored at the Russian Ballet Academy, and to Gurzuf, the Crimean town on the Black Sea where she was born. Throughout the film, photos, archive footage and film extracts (including two by Delouche) are interspersed between the sequences devoted to the present, movingly linking a particularly successful life story, a winning mixture of exceptional personal talent and favorable conditions.
- This feature, expanded from an earlier short subject, shows us the perennial tradition of classical dance and it's transmission through the stage performances and rehearsals of several famous practitioners.
- Documentary about the great star dancer Serge Peretti, later to become a famed dance teacher at the Opera de Paris.