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Bolshoi Ballet: Trapeze - Fragments of a Biography (Maximova) [1985] / Danced by Ekaterina Maximova / Choreography by Vladimir Vasiliev / DVD BONUS: Scene from the ballet ANYUTA / CURATOR PROJECT COORDINATOR GYORGY VLASENKO / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 82 Minutes
UPC: 89948442493
- Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Is discontinued by manufacturer : NoYesLanguage : English
- Product Dimensions : 1.78 x 19.05 x 13.72 cm; 86 Grams
- Media Format : Colour, Classical, PAL, DVD-Video
- Release date : 2 Aug. 2007
- Actors : Nina Timofeyeva, Vladimir Vasiliev, Ekaterina Maximova, Andris Liepa
- Studio : Video Artists Int'l
- Country of origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Andris Liepa, Aleksia Fadeechev, Nina Timofeeva & soloists of the Bolshoi Ballet star in these 2 works by various tango composers (Fragments- 1985) and Prokofiev (Trapeze - 1970).
Beginning in the 1950s, with the emergence of such choreographers as Chigrovich and Bels, baller in Russia underwent something of a metamorphosis with a greater focus on abstract works as well as
those with narratives frequently based on major literary sources, Among those dancer choreographers who embraced this new direction is Vladimir Vasiliev, certainly one of Russia's greatest dancers as well as a choreographer of real distinction. His first thumph, Anyuta,based upon a Chekhov short story, is a marvelously theatrical work replete with Chekhovian flourishes Fragments of a Biography, on the other hand, has no such literary moorings. It is a largely abstract work, a memory ballet set to the smoldering strains of the Argentinian tango. One may glimpse a narrative strand in the woman in white who appears as the distant beloved, the ideal distillation of all of the protagonist's former lost loves.
For this work, Vasiliev selected some of the Bolshots greatest dancers, among them his long time partner in life as well as on stage, Ekaterina Maximova, as the Woman in White. She is joined by such
stars as Andris Liepa, Nina Timofeyeva, Nina Semizorova, Aleksei Fadeyechev, and Vasilier himself in a seductive, emotionally charged performance. Vasiliev and Maximova also star in Trapeze, a ballet created for film in 1970 with choreography by Natalia Ryzhenko and an early score by Prokofiev. The colorful circus setting has been described by some as Fellini esque, though the narrative lacks the Italian film maker's sardonic bent. Trapeze is basically the story of the triumph of innocence. Maximova is wonderful as the young girl drawn to the world of the circus who eventually becomes part of it, while Vasiliev scores once again as the down who tries to win her.
Prokofiev wrote the score for Trapeze in 1924 while in Paris. It was commissioned for a small ballet troupe that did not have the funds for a full orchestra, so the work was instead scored for a quinter
and exists in that form. Prokofiev was eager to make an impression in a city that had succumbed to the music of Stravinsky and, indeed, there are sections in Trapeze clearly reminiscent of Stravinsky's
neo-classical style.
DVD BONUS: Scene from the ballet ANYUTA (4:58)
Danced by Ekaterina Maximova
Choreography by Vladimir Vasiliev
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