Art of the Pas de Deux, Vol.2 (DVD)

This second volume in The Art of the Pas de Deux series features some of the ballet world’s greatest dancers in the works of equally celebrated choreographers. The performances cover a range of forty years and a century of choreographic styles, ranging from the traditional dance vocabulary of Petipa to the emotion-laden world of Todd Bolender’s The Still Point. In all of these excerpts, the dancers featured share a close association with their roles, providing unsurpassed authenticity in style.
Color/B&W, Stereo/Mono, 73 minutes, 4:3, All regions

GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE
Elisabeth Platel and Nicolas Le Riche
Music by Daniel François Auber • Choreography by Victor Gsovsky (1993)

TCHAIKOVSKY: SWAN LAKE • WHITE SWAN PAS DE DEUX
Galina Ulanova and Konstantin Sergeyev
Choreography by Petipa-Ivanov-K. Sergeyev (1953)

TCHAIKOVSKY: SWAN LAKE • BLACK SWAN PAS DE DEUX
Maya Plisetskaya and Nicolai Fadeyechev
Choreography after Petipa-Ivanov (1957)

TCHAIKOVSKY: SLEEPING BEAUTY • GRAND PAS DE DEUX
Dame Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes
Choreography after Sir Frederick Ashton after Petipa (1955)

DELIBES: COPPÉLIA • PAS DE DEUX
Sonia Arova and Erik Bruhn • Choreography by Erik Bruhn (1963)

LA ESMERALDA • DIANA AND ACTAEON PAS DE DEUX
Svetlana Beriosova and Rudolf Nureyev
Music by Riccardo Drigo • Choreography by Nureyev after Petipa (1964)

THE STILL POINT • LOVE DUET
Melissa Hayden and Jacques d’Amboise
Music by Claude Debussy • Choreography by Todd Bolender (1962)

MINKUS: DON QUIXOTE • GRAND PAS
Nina Ananiashvili, Aleksei Fadeyechev & Ensemble
Choreography by Petipa, rev. Gorsky (1993)