Miscellaneous pas de deux

Item data

Title

Miscellaneous pas de deux

Collection

Victor Jessen Video Archive

Names

Petipa, Marius, 1818-1910 (Choreographer)
Oboukhoff, Anatole (Choreographer)
Ivanov, Lev, 1834-1901 (Choreographer)
Jessen, Victor (Cinematographer)
Kaye, Nora, 1920-1987 (Dancer)
Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004 (Dancer)
Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983 (Dancer)
Franklin, Frederic, 1914- (Dancer)
Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997 (Dancer)
Slavenska, Mia (Dancer)
Douglas, Scott, 1927-1996 (Dancer)
Danielian, Leon, 1920-1997 (Dancer)
Alonzo, Alicia (Dancer)
Gollner, Nana (Dancer)
Petroff, Paul (Dancer)
Kriza, John (Dancer)
Toumanova, Tamara, 1919-1996 (Dancer)
Magallanes, Nicholas (Dancer)
Marie-Jeanne, 1920-2007 (Dancer)
Ballet Theatre (New York, N.Y.) (Performer)
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (Performer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1948 - 1959

Table Of Contents

Nutcracker (ca. 9 min.) / choreography after Lev Ivanov ; dancers include Nora Kaye and John Kriza, Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, and possibly Scott Douglas and Mia Slavenska -- Pas de deux classiques (Grand adagio, excerpts) (ca. 2 min.) / dancers, Alexandra Danilova and Frederic Franklin -- Blue bird (ca. 4 min.) / dancers possibly include Tamara Toumanova and Leon Danielian -- Don Quixote (ca. 10 min.) / choreography by Anatole Oboukhoff after Marius Petipa ; dancers include Alicia Alonzo and John Kriza, Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin and possibly Nana Gollner and Paul Petroff -- [Coppelia?] / dancers include Nicholas Magallanes and possibly Marie Jeanne (ca. 4 min.).

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 1695

Subjects

Ballet
Jessen, Victor

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Performers: Some cast members change during different performances; for example, Nora Kaye and John Kriza's roles in the Nutcracker are also performed by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin.
Content: Credits partially from book entitled, Without permission by Victor Jessen; additional credits from the Dance Division's *MGZB Ballet Theatre programs (Dec. 1949) and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo programs (1949).
Creation/Production Credits: Filmmaker, Victor Jessen.
Performers: Performed by members of Ballet Theatre and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
Funding: Transferred from film and cataloged with funds provided by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
Content: Incomplete works; sometimes brief segments overlap with repeated sections from different camera location.
Biographical/Historical: This film was pieced together by the filmmaker Victor Jessen from multiple performances filmed from various camera angles throughout several theater.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 videocassette (Digital Betacam) (29 min.) : silent, black and white ; 1/2 in.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b18148216
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 717ee400-f879-0130-9534-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Moving Image

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