The Glory of the Bolshoi
Dance
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1h 30m
Exceptional film compilation of archival performance footage featuring legendary dancers from the acclaimed Bolshoi Ballet. Ballet highlights include excerpts from Les Sylphides (1952) with Galina Ulanova, Spartacus (1968) with Vladimir Vasiliev and Natalia Bessmertnova, Don Quixote (1960) with Ekaterina Maximova, Maya Plisetskaya as the Tsar Maiden in The Little Humpbacked Horse (1964), and more classic favorites—plus a few lesser known gems, some of which are over a century old—that preserve the history of the artform of dance.
Choreography: Various
Company: Bolshoi Ballet
Cast/Soloist: Galina Ulanova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Natalia Bessmertnova, Maya Plisetskaya, Ekaterina Maximova, Bolshoi Ballet
Genre: Dance
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