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The Ballet Life: new DVDs that go behind the scenes.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Ballet Life: new DVDs that go behind the scenes.(Violette and Mr. B., Ballet, and Do Not Go Gently )(Video recording review)

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Violette & Mr. B.

75 minutes. Video Artists International.

$24.95. www.vaimusic.com

Ballet.

170 minutes. Zipporah Films. $29.95.

www.zipporah.com

Do Not Go Gently.

57 minutes. American Public Media. $19.95.

www.aptonline.org

Dance may seem the most present of the performing arts until you are confronted with its past. In ballet, tradition is both inescapable and necessary. What has been often shapes what will be. Such is the theme underlying these three documentaries, recently released on DVD.

Violette Verdy's glorious tenure at New York City Ballet between 1958 and 1976 spanned what many historians have deemed the company's golden age, and the French ballerina was a leading player in that chronicle. Of the six ballets made on her by Balanchine, at least three-Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, "Emeralds" (from Jewels), and Liebeslieder Walzer--remain in the repertories of companies worldwide. But Verdy also danced potently for Mr. R. Among the Jerome Robbins premieres she...

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