Description
Rudolf Nureyev & Erik Bruhn: Their Complete Bell Telephone Hour Performances / The Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra conducted by Donald Voorhees / Packaging & Design ©2002 Video Artists International, Inc. / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 90 Minutes
UPC:
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 Ounces
- Item model number : Relay Time: 90 min
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Black & White, Classical
- Run time : 1 hour and 23 minutes
- Release date : October 22, 2002
- Actors : Rudolf Nureyev, Erik Bruhn
- Studio : Video Artists Int'L
- Number of discs : 1
These televised records from 1962 and 1963 which show the beginnings of Nureyev on American television, are of great interest. These four Pas de Deux demonstrate the brilliant technique of the Russian school, and the dancer’s first foray into Bournonville’s style. The juxtaposition with the recordings from 1961 to 1967 of Erik Bruhn allows the appreciation of the difference of style and school of two, great dancers from the twentieth century.
ERIK BRUHN PERFORMANCES DON QUIXOTE Grand Pas
RUDOLF NUREYEV PERFORMANCES
telecast of January 6, 1961
(music: Minkus; choreography: Petipa) with Maria Tallchief
telecast of January 19, 1962
FLOWER FESTIVAL IN GENZANO
(music: Helsted & Paulli; choreography: no two Bruhn, after Bournonville) with Maria Tallchief telecast of February 4, 1963
SWAN LAKE "Black Swan" Pas de Deux (Music: Tchaikovsky; Choreography: Petipa) with Sonia Arova telecast of September 24, 1962
LE CORSAIRE - Pas de Deux (Official Music Video) Lupe Serrano - Pas de Deux (Official Music Video) telecast of November 19, 1963
COPPELIA Pas de Deux (music: Delibes; choreography: Bruhn) with Sonia Arova telecast of September 22, 1967
ROMEO AND JULIET Balcony Scene
(music: Drigo; choreography: Nureyev, after Petipa) with Svetlana Beriosova telecast of October 22, 1962
*LA SYLPHIDE Grand Pas
(music: Løvenskjold; choreography: Bournon-ville) with Maria Tallchief telecast of October 8, 1963
*SWAN LAKE "Black Swan" Pass of Two
(music: Tchaikovsky; choreography: Nureyev, after Bethiah) with Svetlana Beriosova
The Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra conducted by Donald Voorhees
*All selections are in color except the Nureyev performance of the "Black Swan" Pas de Deux and a very brief section of the La Sylphide Pas de Deux with Bruhn and Fracci.
A Production of Henry Jaffe Enterprises, Inc.
2000 Jaffe Partners Limited Partnership (All Rights Reserved)
80 minutes, USA, 1961/1962/1963/19641967, Color/Black & White
Packaging & Design ©2002 Video Artists International, Inc.
cover photos: Nureyev dancing the "Diana and Acteon" Pas de Deux on The Bell Telephone
Hour (3/24/64), photo by Martha Swope; Bruhn as Prince Siegfried in a 1967 CBC filming of Swan Lake, photo courtesy of the National Ballet of Canada Archives.
Erik Bruhn's performances are presented by permission of the Erik Bruhn Trust.
Special thanks to the Dance Division of the Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center.
