Dancing for Mr. B: Six Balanchine Ballerinas (1989)
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1h 30min
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- Synopsis:
This documentary celebrates six of legendary choreographer George Balanchine's ballerinas, Mary Ellen Moylan, Maria Tallchief, Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent, Merrill Ashley and Darci Kistler, and shows them keeping alive the ballets and the inspiration they learned from him. For all of them, Balanchine was the single most powerful influence in their lives. This film creates a composite portrait of being a dancer, of being a Balanchine dancer, and shows how the lives of Balanchine and these six ballerinas touched each other in indelible ways during a unique period. He nurtured and made each of them, and many others, more beautiful as dancers than they would have imagined possible, and they in turn inspired him in many different ways to create his remarkable range of superb ballets. - Actors:
- George Balanchine, Diana Adams, Merrill Ashley, Suzanne Farrell, Melissa Hayden, Allegra Kent, Darci Kistler, Tanaquil Le Clerq, Mary Ellen Moylan, Maria Tallchief
- Directors:
- Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson
- Producers:
- Anne Belle
- Narrated By:
- Marian Seldes
- Studio:
- Digital Classics DVD
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest
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