About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Un danseur, Rudolf Nureyev

Un danseur, Rudolf Nureyev

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

  • Choregraphie
  • A long minuet as danced at Bath
  • Sketchbook
  • Sarah Bernhardt's farewell American tour
  • Scrapbook documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French
  • The dance score
  • Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse
  • Sketchbook
  • Coreografie per ballabili d'opera
  • Caricature of Sergeĭ Dyagilev
  • La sténochorégraphie
  • Ehon Tsūhōshi
  • Le maître a danser
  • America
  • Costume designs for the ballet La Pastorella Svizzera
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Rudolf Nureyev Video Archive

This Item

Un danseur, Rudolf Nureyev

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Un danseur, Rudolf Nureyev
Additional title: Rudolf Nureyev, un danseur
Additional title: Sylphide (Choreographic work : Rosen, E after Bournonville)
Additional title: Marguerite and Armand (Choreographic work : Ashton)
Additional title: Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work : Hightower after Nijinska and Petipa, M)
Names
Jourdan, Pierre (Conceptor)
Jourdan, Pierre (Director)
Jourdan, Pierre (Screenwriter)
Demetriou, Evdoros (Producer)
Cau, Jean, 1925- (Screenwriter)
Tual, Denise, 1906- (Producer)
Terzieff, Laurent (Narrator)
Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993 (Interviewee)
Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991 (Dancer)
Fracci, Carla (Dancer)
Ashton, Frederick, 1904-1988 (Interviewee)
Somes, Michael, 1917-1994 (Dancer)
Edwards, Leslie (Dancer)
Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886 (Composer)
Vásáry, Tamás, 1933- (Instrumentalist)
Beaton, Cecil, 1904-1980 (Costume designer)
Bournonville, August, 1805-1879 (Choreographer)
Rosen, Elsa Marianne von, 1924- (Restager)
Zaraspe, Hector (Restager)
Løvenskiold, Herman Severin, 1815-1870 (Composer)
Fresnay, Michel (Costume designer)
Fonteyn, Margot, 1919-1991 (Interviewee)
Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française (Producer)
Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France) (Contributor)
E.M.I. Films (Presenter)
Collection

Rudolf Nureyev Video Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1970-06 - 1970-09 (Approximate)
Table of Contents
Credits for dance performances: La sylphide (excerpts) / choreography, August Bournonville, restaged by Elsa Marianne von Rosen and Hector Zaraspe; music, Herman Løvenskjold/Evdoros Demetriou, recorded by the Orchestre Lyrique of the O.R.T.F.; décor after Pierre Ciceri; costumes, Michel Fresnay; danced by Rudolf Nureyev (James), Carla Fracci (the Sylphide), Sabine Sale and corps de ballet -- Marguerite and Armand (complete) / choreography, Sir Frederick Ashton; music, Franz Liszt, played by Tamás Vásáry; costumes, Cecil Beaton; danced by Rudolf Nureyev (Armand), Margot Fonteyn (Marguerite), Michael Somes (Armand's father), Leslie Edwards (the duke), and others -- The sleeping beauty (excerpts) / production by the Ballet de l'Opéra de Marseilles; choreography, Rosella Hightower; music, Peter Tchaikovsky; scenery and costumes, Jacques Dupont; danced by Rudolf Nureyev.
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 5368
Shelf locator: *MGZIA 4-4371 RNC (former)
Topics
Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993
Dancers -- 20th century
Genres
Television programs
Documentary films
Filmed dance
Filmed performances
Motion pictures
Notes
Creation/production credits: INA ; E.M.I. Films Productions Ltd. presents a Degamo-O.R.T.F. co-production ; conceived and directed by Pierre Jourdan ; produced by Evdoros Demetriou.
Content: Although the title of this film is also cited as Rudolf Nureyev, un danseur, it appears in the end credits as Un danseur, Rudolf Nureyev.
Creation/production credits: Scenario, Jean Cau and Pierre Jourdan ; written by Jean Cau ; associate producer, Denise Tual ; musical direction, Evdoros Demetriou ; cinematography, Michel Kelber ; sound, Max Olivier, Jean Bareil ; editing, Catherine Henry.
Performers: Narrator: Laurent Terzieff.
Performers: Danced by Rudolf Nureyev, with Margot Fonteyn, Carla Fracci, and others.
Performers: Interviewees: Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, Sir Frederick Ashton.
Venue: Filmed in summer 1970. Telecast by the O.R.T.F. on Dec. 21, 1970.
Language: In French; interviews with Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn, and Sir Frederick Ashton in English with French voiceover translation.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (VHS) (PAL) (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
Description
Documentary on the dancer Rudolf Nureyev, including an excerpt from the ballet La sylphide and a full performance of Sir Frederick Ashton's Marguerite and Armand. This version was created for French television and was not theatrically released. It was subsequently expanded to 90 minutes, with footage of additional ballets, and released in cinemas by E.M.I. Films in an English-language version in color, titled I am a dancer (see *MGZIA 4-2631 I am a dancer). This version contains more footage of Nureyev dancing in the studio, possibly in a private lesson, under the tutelage of Hector Zaraspe.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
French
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY04-F463
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15997193
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 03ed8bb0-84cc-0134-04b1-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1970: Created (Approximate)
  • 2016: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Un danseur, Rudolf Nureyev" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1970 - 1970. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78f8f0d0-aa22-0133-0a05-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Un danseur, Rudolf Nureyev" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78f8f0d0-aa22-0133-0a05-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1970 - 1970). Un danseur, Rudolf Nureyev Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78f8f0d0-aa22-0133-0a05-60f81dd2b63c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78f8f0d0-aa22-0133-0a05-60f81dd2b63c | title= (moving image) Un danseur, Rudolf Nureyev, (1970 - 1970)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 19, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Un danseur, Rudolf Nureyev