Balanchine Foundation video archives. Dame Alicia Markova recreating excerpts from Le chant du rossignol / the George Balanchine Foundation ; project director, Nancy Reynolds ; director, Ross MacGibbon ; choreography by George Balanchine ; music by Igor Stravinsky.

Dame Alicia Markova reconstructs George Balanchine's choreography for the role of the Nightingale, which she created in his ballet Le chant du rossignol (The song of the nightingale) for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1925. She begins by describing the action (based on the fairy tale...

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Corporate Author: George Balanchine Foundation
Other Authors: Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Archer, Kenneth, Balanchine, George (Choreographer), Hodson, Millicent, Loots, Iohna, MacGibbon, Ross (Director), Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004, Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- (Project director), Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : George Balanchine Foundation, 1996, ℗1995.
Series:Dance in video.
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