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For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes

0.0 60 mins TV Movie   Documentary   2009
BBC Cymru Wales  
Director(s): Ross MacGibbon

Release Date: 12 Sat, Dec 2009

In the centenary year since the founding of the Ballets Russe, this documentary looks back at Sergei Diaghilev and the company he created, what they did and the influence they had, even a 100 years later.

Casts of For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes

Lynn Seymour

as Narrator

Alastair Macaulay

as Self - Chief Dance Critic: The New York Times

Bob Gottlieb

as Self - Writer and Editor

Judith Mackrell

as Self - Writer and Dance Critic

Lynn Garafola

as Self - Author: 'Diaghilev's Ballets Russes'

Richard Davenport-Hines

as Self - Historian and Author

Anna Pavlova

as Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

Frederic Franklin

as Self - Dancer: Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo

Elena Gludjidze

as Self - Principal Dancer: English National Ballet

Karl Lagerfeld

as Self

Wayne Eagling

as Self - Artistic Director: English National Ballet

Marie Rambert

as Self - Founder: Ballet Rambert (archive footage)

Joan Acocella

as Self - Dance Critic

Julian Barran

as Self - Art Dealer

Mary Fellows

as Self - Fashion Director and Consultant

Howard Goodall

as Self - Composer and Broadcaster

Pierre Boulez

as Self - Composer and Conductor

Tamara Karsavina

as Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

David Dawson

as Self - Choreographer

Igor Stravinsky

as Self - Composer (archive footage)

Millicent Hodson

as Self - Choreographer and Dance Historian

Lydia Sokolova

as Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

Léonide Massine

as Self - Choreographer and Dancer (archive footage)

Pepe Serra

as Self - Director: Museu Picasso, Barcelona

Edmonde Charles-Roux

as Self - Chanel Biographer

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