How Ballet Was Saved

Introducer and narrator, David Blair

Brenda Last, Nicholas Johnson, Janet Francis, Margaret Barbieri, Oliver Symons, and other dancers of the Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, England

Producer, Marjory Ruse ; director, Nicholas Ferguson ; writer, Peter Brinson ; historical reconstruction, Paulette Dynalix ; designer, Norman Garwood ; musical associate and principal pianist, Philip Gammon

Points out that ballet was nearly destroyed when male dancers scorned the art after women began to dance key roles. Shows that in Russia the quality of ballet music improved, in part through the inclusion of national folk dances, and men found rewarding careers as dancers

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