Classical ballet

Series: Time to Dance Series

Duration: 29

Genre: Dance | Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1960

Creator: WNET/13.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Presents a brief history of classical ballet and demonstrates the essential positions and steps every student must learn. Maria Tallchief and Andre Eglevsky perform the pas de deux from Swan Lake and Sylvia. Illustrates with drawings, prints, and photographs., The strict rules of classical ballet have been developed over the past five hundred years, and in this program Miss Myers demonstrates some of the basic principles, and the final applications of the traditions of this type of dance. Prints, drawings and photographs display the development of the traditions, and the three young students of the ballet demonstrate the essential positions and steps which every student must know. Maria Tallchief and Andre Eglevsky perform the pas de deux from “Swan Lake” and “Sylvia.” In addition, the opening of the program is a film clip of the corps de ballet of the Bolshoi Company dancing a scene from “Swan Lake.”