Everything Is Fine/Good Mood / Faroukh Ruzimatov / Svetlana Ivanova / Dancers by the Kirov Ballet / Lentelefilm 1991 / IMC Music LTD / Artwork: Elian, Emst-Holland / 2007 DVD

Total Playtime: 66 Minutes

Region 0 NTSC

Made in Netherlands

UPC 8712177051106

Faroukh Ruzimatov is featured in a rich program of fascinating dancing, music and discussion. In films Everything is Fine and Good Mood, the dancer delves into his love of classical repertoire as well as classic swing and pop, featuring music by Louis Arm.

Faroukh Ruzimatov - star dancer of the fabled Kirov ballet - in a rich program of fascinating dancing, music, and discussion. In two compelling films, this great Russian dancer delves into his love of both classical repertoire and classic swing and pop, bringing to full, balletic life music by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald and modern versions of a number of classical pieces. Ruzimatov is joined by his wife, the ballerina Olga Obukhovskaya, as well as by ensemble dancers of the Kirov.
The program contains two complete films: Everything Is Fine intersperses revealing interviews with Ruzimatov - discussing the creative nourishment he takes in jazz and in the choreography of his teacher Nikolai Tagunov - scenes of the dancer in a club listening to the highly accomplished Leningrad Jazz Ensemble, and some brilliant improvising to the music of the ensemble's leader David Goloshchekin. And Ruzimatov and the others fly through songs by Ella and Louis.
Good Mood is more of a full-scale concert film, again showing the amazingly athletic and versatile Ruzimatov in jazz settings and to the sounds of some adventurous updates of classical music. Together, these two beautifully shot films offer a complete portrait of a daring, highly creative approach to the art of ballet.