Alice in Wonderland: a Dance Fantasy. The Prague Chamber Ballet.

Published:

A ballet for children, very loosely based on Lewis Carroll's books, with choreography by Pavel Smok and music by Viktor... [full description]

DVD [5089-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina Assoluta.

Published: 2005

A collection of recordings of the great Cuban ballerina, filmed between 1958 and 1985, mostly with the Ballet Nacional... [full description]

DVD [4578-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

American Ballet Theatre at the Met.

Published: 1984, 2003

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Marianna Tcherkassky, Cythia Harvey and Cheryl Yeager in Les Sylphides; Cynthia Gregory and... [full description]

DVD [3300-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

American Ballet Theatre in San Francisco.

Published: 2005

Filmed at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco in 1985, this mixed bill comprises Paul Taylor's Airs,... [full description]

DVD [3812-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

American Ballet Theatre Now.

Published: 2000

An 84-minute special featuring leading American Ballet Theatre dancers in highlights of the ABT repertoire, including... [full description]

DVD [2591-DV] £ 23.99 Add to order

Angelina Ballerina: Lights, Camera, Action!

Published: 2004

More adventures of the famous mouse ballerina. In Lights, Camera, Action! Angelina enters a movie-making... [full description]

DVD [3929-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

Angelina Ballerina: The Magic of Dance.

Published: 2004

Four more tales of Angelina, the world's most famous mouse ballerina. In William the Conjuror William's trick... [full description]

DVD [3996-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

Angelina Ballerina: The Show Must Go On.

Published: 2003

In Chipping Cheddar, Angelina, the noted, nay notorious, mouse ballet student, is auditioning for the lead role in this... [full description]

DVD [2357-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

Anna Karenina. Maya Plisetskaya, Alexander Godunov, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2004

Seeing Tolstoi's great novel set to dance was an unfulfilled dream of Maya Plisetskaya, until, despairing of finding a... [full description]

DVD [4386-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order

Anyuta. Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, etc.

Published:

Based in a short story by Chekhov, Anyuta tells the compelling story of a woman's journey from poverty to... [full description]

DVD [5096-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

The art of Maria Tallchief.

Published: 2003

A compilation of two videos, Maria Tallchief in Montreal and Maria Tallchief, her complete Bell Telephone... [full description]

DVD [0955-DV] £ 27.99 Add to order

The Art of Pas de Deux, vol. 2.

Published: 2006

A compilation of eight historical performances, some in colour, some in black-and-white, all taken from other currently... [full description]

DVD [4807-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

The Art of Pas de Deux.

Published:

A compilation of twelve historical performances, some in colour, some in black-and-white, all taken from other... [full description]

DVD [4733-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Aschenbrodel (Cinderella). Eva Petters, Gregor Hatala, Vienna State

Published: 2007

Johann Strauss II's only original ballet score, here choreographed by Renato Zanella in an updated version of the old... [full description]

DVD [4981-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Ashton to Stravinsky: A Study of Four Ballets with choreography by Frederick Ashton.

Author: Jordan, Stephanie & Geraldine Morris

Published: 2005

Frederick Ashton, one of the foremost British choreographers of the twentieth century, set four Stravinsky scores. The... [full description]

DVD [4458-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order

The Australian Ballet Favourites.

Published: 2003

Excerpts from the Australian Ballet's repertoire: Giselle (Christine Walsh and Kelvin Coe),... [full description]

DVD [1519-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Balanchine.

Published:

Regarded as the father of American ballet, and having created over 400 works, George Balanchine was one of the foremost... [full description]

DVD [4814-DV] £ 9.99 Add to order

The Ballet Box. Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty (The Kirov Ballet), The Nutcracker (The Royal Ballet). [3 DVD set.]

Published: 2008

A useful and bargain priced compilation containing the Kirov Ballet's 1982 recording of Sleeping Beauty with... [full description]

DVD [5349-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Ballet Favourites. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Darcey Bussell, Jonathan Cope, etc.

Published:

Excerpts from La Fille mal Gardée (Brian Shaw), The Nutcracker (Lesley Collier, Anthony Dowell),... [full description]

DVD [4336-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Ballet Miniatures: Carnival, Egyptian Night, Romeo and Juliet. The Kirov Ballet, etc.

Published:

PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION IN FULL BEFORE ORDERING THIS DVD.

A DVD, alas, to be treated with extreme caution. It... [full description]

DVD [5300-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

Les Ballets Trockadero, programme 1: Swan Lake, Go for Barocco, Raymonda's Wedding, etc.

Published: 2001

The all male drag ballet company in a selection of riotous parodies. Choreographic victims on this DVD include... [full description]

DVD [2312-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Les Ballets Trockadero, programme 2: Les Sylphides, Le Grand Pas de Quatre, Yes Virginia Another Piano Ballet, The Dying Swan, Paquita.

Published: 2002

The all male drag ballet company in a second selection of riotous parodies. Choreographic victims on this DVD include... [full description]

DVD [3831-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

La Bayadere. (DVD) Isabelle Guerin, Laurent Hilaire, Elisabeth Platel, Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 1999

Rudolf Nureyev's final production for the Paris Opera Ballet, beautifully filmed. Coded for regions 2 - 6: worldwide... [full description]

DVD [2753-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

La Bayadere. Altynai Asylmuratova, Darcey Bussell, Irek Mukhamedov, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2004

Natalia Makarova's spectacular production of Marius Petpa's classic ballet, designed by Pier Luigi Samaritani and... [full description]

DVD [3456-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

La Bayadere. Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle, Isabelle Brusson, Ballet of La Scala Milan.

Published: 2007

Natalia Makarova's production, with designs by Yolanda Sonnabend. Recorded live at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, in May... [full description]

DVD [4949-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Behind the Curtain, Being a Professional Dancer.

Published:

A series of interviews with dancers, both classical and modern, who have come to New York to fulfil their dreams of... [full description]

DVD [5260-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

La Belle. Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo.

Published: 2007

A heavily revised (and shortened) re-interpretation of Sleeping Beauty by choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot,... [full description]

DVD [5179-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Beyond 40. The Australian Ballet.

Published: 2003

A documentary built around a gala performance given to celebrate the Australian Ballet's 40th Anniversary. The DVD... [full description]

DVD [0408-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

The Bolshoi Ballet - Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The

Published:

A bargain for admirers of Yuri Grigorovich's stagings: a boxed set of four DVDs of his ballets, selling at well under... [full description]

DVD [5066-DV] £ 31.99 Add to order

The Bolshoi Ballet II - Ivan the Terrible, The Stone Flower, Spartacus, Raymonda.

Published:

A bargain box re-packaging of four Bolshoi recordings from 1989 and 1990, all choreographed or staged by Yuri... [full description]

DVD [5353-DV] £ 25.99 Add to order

The Bolshoi Ballet in the Park: Divertissements.

Published: 2005

Filmed in The Marquee, Battersea Park, London, in 1986, this DVD includes Les Sylphides (Natalia Bessmertnova,... [full description]

DVD [4589-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

The Bolshoi Ballet. Galina Ulanova, Raisa Struchkova, Nikolai Fadeyechev.

Published:

Paul Czinner's famous 1956 film, filmed during the Bolshoi Ballet's first visit to the UK. It includes a slightly... [full description]

DVD [5074-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

The Bolt. Anastasia Yatsenko, Andrei Merkuriev, Denis Savin, Morikhiro

Published: 2007

Alexei Ratmansky's tongue-in-cheek staging of Shostakovich's banned 1931 ballet is set in a fantasy Soviet factory... [full description]

DVD [5085-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order

The Canterville Ghost. London Children's Ballet.

Published: 2005

Filmed live at the Peacock Theatre in London in 2005, this 80 minute long children's ballet, based on Oscar Wilde's... [full description]

DVD [4596-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Carmen Suite. Maya Plisetskaya, Nikolai Fadeyechev, Sergei Radchenko, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2004

Albert Alonso's choreography, to Rodion Shchedrin's derangement of Bizet, filmed in Russia, in colour, in 1969. The DVD... [full description]

DVD [4408-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order

Carmen suite. Nadezdha Pavlova, Sergei Gorbachov, Moscow City Ballet.

Published:

Alberto Alonso's choreography, to Rodion Schedrin's arrangement of Bizet.

The DVD also contains a performance of... [full description]

DVD [3224-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Casse Noisette Circus. Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo.

Published: 2007

A re-interpretation of The Nutcracker by choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot, transposing the action to the... [full description]

DVD [5178-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Center Stage.

Published: 2001

'The American Ballet Company is not for the faint-hearted: it's for the most gifted and beautiful dancers alive.... [full description]

DVD [1115-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

La Chauve-souris. Alessandra Ferri, Massimo Murru, Luigi Bonino, La Scala Ballet.

Published: 2005

Roland Petit's version of Johann Strauss's immortal Die Fledermaus, with the action transferred from Vienna to... [full description]

DVD [0705-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Checkmate; The Rake's Progress. Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet.

Published: 2006

Two classic performances of Ninette de Valois ballets, recorded in the early 1980s, and at long last made available... [full description]

DVD [4813-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Choreography by Balanchine: Chaconne, Prodigal Son, Ballo della Regina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Elegie, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux. New York City Ballet.

Published: 2004

Recorded in 1977, the casts include Mikhail Baryshnikov (Prodigal Son, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Tchaikovsky Pas de... [full description]

DVD [4387-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Choreography by Balanchine: Tzigane, The Four Temperaments, Emeralds and Diamonds (Jewels), Stravinsky Violin Concerto, etc,. New York City Ballet.

Published: 2004

Recorded in 1977, the performers are Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins (Tzigane), Bart Cook, Adam Luders,... [full description]

DVD [4388-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

A Christmas Carol. Northern Ballet Theatre.

Published: 2005

Charles Dickens' famous Christmas story, brought to the ballet stage by Carl Davis (music) and Christopher Gable... [full description]

DVD [4903-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Cinderella (Tom Schilling). Hannelore Bey, Roland Gawlick, Berlin Comic Opera Ballet.

Published:

Filmed in East Berlin in the 1980s, the choreography, by Tom Schilling, is heavily Soviet influenced. [Zero coded, for... [full description]

DVD [3986-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Cinderella. Gabriella Komleva, Marat Daunaev, Lyudmila Galinskaya, Margarita Kullik, the Kirov Ballet.

Published:

The Kirov Ballet, in a 1985 television film, with garish sets and special effects. The choreography is by Konstantin... [full description]

DVD [2108-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Cinderella. Karine Seneca, Stanislav Jermakov, Zurich Ballet.

Published: 2004

'Once upon a time there was a former prima ballerina called Cinderella. After her mother's death she became a servant... [full description]

DVD [0689-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Cinderella. Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, Sadler's Wells Ballet.

Published: 2004

This abridged (78 minutes), black and white, version of Cinderella was filmed in New York, for NBC Television,... [full description]

DVD [4385-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Classical Music in the Forties: Steps of the Ballet.

Published: 2005

This compilation of mostly classical music films includes a fascinating ballet curiosity, the 1948 film Steps of the... [full description]

DVD [4570-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

Clavigo. [Roland Petit]. Nicolas le Riche, Clairemarie Osta, Marie-Agnes Gillot, Paris Opera Ballet.

Author: Petit, Roland

Published: 2004

Inspired by Goethe's early romantic play, Roland Petit's 1999 ballet recounts the agonies of a weak-willed lover torn... [full description]

DVD [4374-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

The Company. Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco.

Published: 2004

A semi-fictitious film following the complex lives, loves, dramas, and triumphs of a company of aggressively talented... [full description]

DVD [4410-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Coppelia (re-choreographed Vinogradov). Irina Shapchits, Mikhail Zavialov, Petr Rusanov, The Kirov Ballet.

Published: 2000

New choreography by Oleg Vinogradov. Coded for all world regions except Canada and the USA.

DVD [3743-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Coppelia. Charline Giezendanner, Mathieu Ganio, Pierre Lacotte, Paris Opera Ballet School.

Published: 2003

An interesting curiosity: this is not the usual version of Coppelia, but a reconstruction, by Pierre Lacotte and Claude... [full description]

DVD [0985-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Coppelia. Katalin Csarnoy, Imre Dozsa, Levente Sipeki, Budapest State

Published:

A very Hungarian version of the old classic, recorded (for television?) in 1976, with choreography kindly enhanced by... [full description]

DVD [5248-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Coppelia. Leanne Benjamin, Carlos Acosta, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2000

Filmed live at the Royal Opera House in 2000. [Uncoded, for world-wide use on NTSC compatible equipment.]

DVD [2952-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Coppelia. Lisa Pavane, Greg Horsman, Colin Peasley, The Australian Ballet.

Published: 2000

The traditional version, by Petipa and Cecchetti after Saint-Leon, here reproduced by Peggy van Praagh. [Coded for... [full description]

DVD [3739-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Le Corsaire. Asylmuratova, Pankova, Neff, Ruzimatov, The Kirov Ballet.

Published: 2000

Coded for regions 2 - 6, worldwide PAL except Canada and the USA.

DVD [3721-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Le Corsaire. Stiefel, Kent, Corella, Herrera, Malakhov, American Ballet Theatre.

Published: 2000

Coded for regions 2, 5, 6: PAL UK and Europe, Japan, Middle East, South Africa, Russia, and China.

DVD [3709-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Daisy and Her Garden.

Published:

Combining dance, mime, music and poetry, Daisy and Her Harden tells the story of a young girl who lives happily... [full description]

DVD [5175-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Dancer's Dream: The Great Ballets of Rudolf Nureyev. La Bayadere - Documentary. The Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2004

A documentary in which past and present members of the Paris Opera Ballet rehearse, dance excerpts from, and discuss... [full description]

DVD [3914-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Dancer's Dream: The Great Ballets of Rudolf Nureyev. Romeo and Juliet - Documentary. The Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2003

A documentary in which the Paris Opera Ballet rehearse, dance excerpts from, and discuss Rudolf Nureyev's version of... [full description]

DVD [0776-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Dancing for Dollars: The Bolshoi in Vegas, The Kirov in Petersburg.

Published:

In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet's first visit to the USA was a political and artistic triumph. Thirty years later, an... [full description]

DVD [5037-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

Darcey Bussell, a documentary.

Published:

The Royal Ballet's principal dancer in rehearsal and back stage preparation, including a brief excerpt from William... [full description]

DVD [4449-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

Die Kameliendame (Lady of the Camellias). Marcia Haydee, Ivan Liska, Hamburg Ballet.

Published:

Based on Alexandre Dumas's autobiographical novel, this ballet was created by John Neumeier for the legendary ballerina... [full description]

DVD [5152-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Divine Dancers - Live from Prague.

Published: 2006

A gala performance recorded in Prague in January 2006. Those taking part are Polina Semionova and Igor Zelensky (pas de... [full description]

DVD [4759-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Don Quichotte (Don Quixote). Aurelie Dupont, Manuel Legris, Jean-Guillaume Bart, Marie-Agnes Gillot, Delphine Moussin, Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2003

Rudolf Nureyev's production, filmed at the Paris Opera in April 2002.

[Coded for world-wide use on PAL compatible... [full description]

DVD [2098-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Don Quixote. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Cynthia Harvey, American Ballet Theatre.

Published: 2001

Baryshnikov's own staging, first issued in 1983, and now available in DVD for the first time. [Coded for all regions... [full description]

DVD [1264-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Don Quixote. Nadezhda Pavlova, Sergei Gorbachev, The Moscow City Ballet.

Published:

A staging by Victor Smirnov-Golovanov, with choreography by a cast of thousands, including Petipa, Gorsky, Zacharov,... [full description]

DVD [3461-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Don Quixote. Nadezhda Pavlova, Vyacheslav Gordeyev, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

A 1978 colour recording. The DVD also includes 30 minutes of excerpts from Don Quixote with Maya Plisetskaya and... [full description]

DVD [5054-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Don Quixote. Nina Ananiashvili, Alexei Fadeyechev, Aleksandr Astafiev, Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet.

Published:

The Petipa/Gorsky version, revised by various hands, filmed live in Tokyo in 1992.

[Uncoded, for world-wide use on... [full description]

DVD [5400-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Don Quixote. Rudolf Nureyev, Lucette Aldous, Robert Helpmann, The Australian Ballet.

Published: 2003

Hailed by Dance Magazine as 'the finest full-length dance film ever', Nureyev's full blooded production now... [full description]

DVD [2260-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary. Winnipeg National Ballet.

Published:

Choreographer Mark Godden's production for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet is here filmed by the Canadian film director Guy... [full description]

DVD [4802-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Esmeralda. Elvira Khabilbiilina, Kirill Myasnikov, Angella Kondrashova, Andrei Kuligin, Mussorgsky State Academic Ballet Theatre of St. Petersburg.

Published: 2005

This abridged version of Jules Perrot's famous ballet, danced by one of St Petersburg's smaller ballet companies, is... [full description]

DVD [4551-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Essential Ballet - Stars of Russian Ballet. The Kirov Ballet at Covent Garden, and dancers from the Kirov and Bolshoi in Red Square. With Asylmuratova, Lezhnina, Ruzimatov, Ananiashvili, Maximova, Vasiliev, etc.

Published: 1993 2001

Makhalina and Liepa in Swan Lake, Asylmuratova and Zaklinsky in The Leaves are Fading, Chenchikova in Russian Dance,... [full description]

DVD [3771-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

An Evening with the Royal Ballet. Fonteyn and Nureyev in Les Sylphides and the pas de deux from Le Corsaire; Fonteyn and Blair in Aurora's Wedding; and Ashton's La Valse.

Published: 2002

A classic recording from the early 1960s, capturing Nureyev at his youthful best, Fonteyn at her peak, and featuring... [full description]

DVD [3882-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order

Everything Turns into Dancing; Don Juan. Choreographic Miniatures; St. Petersburg Ballet.

Published:

Two different programmes are featured on this DVD. The first is an hour-long collection of short pieces,... [full description]

DVD [5038-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Excelsior (Manzotti). Marta Romagna, Riccardo Massimi, Isabel Seabra, Robert Bolle, Raffaella Benaglia, Elisabetta Armiato, Ballet of La Scala Milan.

Published: 2003

Excelsior was one of the great Italian spectacle ballets of the late 19th century, a genre now almost entirely... [full description]

DVD [2113-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

La Fille mal Gardee. Fiona Tonkin, David McAllister, The Australian Ballet.

Published: 2000

A well filmed Australian version of Sir Frederick Ashton's much-loved classic, which boasts, in Stephen Morgante, a... [full description]

DVD [2910-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

La Fille mal gardee. Lesley Collier, Michael Coleman, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2001

A famous performance, recorded in 1981, and now available for the first time on DVD, with much improved sound and... [full description]

DVD [1270-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

La Fille mal Gardee. Valentina Kozlova, Chris Jensen, Basle Ballet.

Published: 2006

With choreography by Heinz Spoerli, and the Hérold/Hertel score arranged by Jean-Michel Damase, this performance... [full description]

DVD [4701-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

The Firebird; Petrushka. Gabriella Komleva, Vadim Budarin; Andris Liepa, The Kirov Ballet.

Published: 2006

Re-workings of two classic ballets by modern choreographers: The Firebird choreographed by Boris Eifman in 1975,... [full description]

DVD [4771-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Fonteyn & Nureyev, the perfect partnership.

Published: 2001

A 1985 documentary, telling the story of a remarkable partnership. Includes excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, Corsaire,... [full description]

DVD [3826-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

The Four Seasons. Ballet National de Marseille.

Published: 2003

Roland Petit's version of Vivaldi's most famous work, filmed live in St. Mark's Square, Venice, in 1984. A star-studded... [full description]

DVD [3952-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Gaite Parisienne. Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin, Leon Danielian, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Published:

A compilation of various performances, filmed in the 1940s, by Danish-American ballet fanatic Victor Jessen, in... [full description]

DVD [4789-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Gala Tribute to Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky pas de deux, excerpts from Anastasia, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, plus opera excerpts. Bussel, Collier, Durante, Mukhamedov, Sansom, The Royal Ballet and Opera companies.

Published: 2001

A gala performance at the Royal Opera House, given in 1993 to celebrate the centenary of Tchaikovsky's death. A mixture... [full description]

DVD [3251-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Gayne. Larisa Tuisova, Alexander Rumyantsev, Gennady Gorbanev, Maris Korystin, Latvian Opera and Ballet Company.

Published:

Despite a fine score from Aram Khachaturian, the original version of Gayne, telling of life and love on a... [full description]

DVD [5225-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Giselle. Alicia Alonso, Vladimir Vasiliev, Ballet Nacional de Cuba.

Published:

A complete performance, recorded live on October 31 1980. However, nearly half of the performance, as videotaped by... [full description]

DVD [5252-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Giselle. Carla Fracci, Erik Bruhn, Toni Lander, Bruce Marks, American

Published:

David Blair's production, filmed in 1968, celebrates one of the twentieth century's great dance partnerships, that of... [full description]

DVD [0668-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Giselle. Carla Fracci, Rudolph Nureyev, Rome Opera Ballet.

Published: 2005

Filmed in 1980, this traditional production (choreography by Mikhail Lavrovsky, after Coralli and Perrot) has Carla... [full description]

DVD [4560-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Giselle. Christine Walsh, Kelvin Coe, The Australian Ballet.

Published: 2000

Maina Gielgud's production, filmed live at the Adelaide Festival Centre. [Coded for worldwide use on NTSC compatible... [full description]

DVD [3745-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Giselle. Galina Mezentseva, Konstantin Zaklinsky, Kirov Ballet.

Published: 2001

Oleg Vinogradov's production, filmed in 1983: this is the most authentic version of Giselle currently available. [Coded... [full description]

DVD [3788-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Giselle. Irina Kolesnikova, Dmitry Akulinin, St Petersburg Ballet Theatre.

Published: 2007

A live performance, filmed in Johannesburg in 2007. [Uncoded, for world-wide use on PAL compatible equipment.]

DVD [5278-DV] £ 23.99 Add to order

Giselle. Karen Kain, Frank Augustyn, Nadia Potts, The National Ballet of Canada.

Published: 2004

Filmed in 1976, this DVD shows three of Canada's finest dancers in peak form. [Uncoded, playable world wide.]

DVD [3997-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Giselle. Ludmilla Semenyaka, Valery Anisimov, Nadezhda Grachyova, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

A more-or-less complete version of Giselle (the act one Peasant Pas de Deux is omitted), filmed as a... [full description]

DVD [3346-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Giselle. Natalia Bessmertnova, Mikhail Lavrovsky, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2003

A studio recording of Yuri Grigorovich's production, filmed in 1975. [Coded for use in England, Europe, and world wide... [full description]

DVD [1098-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order

Giselle. Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle, Ballet of La Scala Milan.

Published: 2006

An original staging by Yvette Chauviré, with designs by Alexandre Benois; this production re-staged by Florence... [full description]

DVD [4744-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

The Glory of the Bolshoi. Archive clips of Geltzer, Plisetskaya, Maximova, Vasiliev, Ulanove, etc.

Published: 2001

A collection of historical recordings, including excerpts from Les Sylphides, Swan Lake, Le Corsaire, Laurencia, Don... [full description]

DVD [3757-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

The Glory of the Kirov. Archive clips of Baryshnikov, Dudinskaya, Karsavina, Makarova, Nureyev, Osipenko, etc.

Published: 2001

A treasure trove of material from the Russian archives, mostly in black and white, of course. Highlights include the 19... [full description]

DVD [3758-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Grand Pas in the White Night. The Kirov Ballet, Ballet of the XXth Century.

Published: 2005

A Franco-Soviet production documenting the 1987 meeting of the Kirov Ballet and the Ballet of the XXth Century. On open... [full description]

DVD [4552-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Great Dancers of Our Time: Vladimir Malakhov, Lucia Lacarra, Kiyoko Kimura.

Published: 2005

The title is perhaps pushing it a bit, but there are certainly some fine things in these performance documentaries of... [full description]

DVD [3482-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Great pas de deux. Fontyen, Nureyev, Bussell, Baryshnikov, etc.

Published: 2004

Pas de deux from Le Corsaire (Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, and Altynai Asylmuratova, Yevgeny Neff),... [full description]

DVD [3945-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Highlights from The Royal Ballet - The Nutcracker, Romeo & Juliet, La Fille mal gardee, Manon.

Published:

Excerpts from the Royal Ballet complete recordings. The casts include Michael Coleman, Jonathan Cope, Julie Rose, Guy... [full description]

DVD [4334-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Hobson's Choice. Karen Donovan, Michael O'Hare, Desmond Kelly, Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Published: 2006

David Bintley's affectionate rags-to-riches comedy ballet, an enchanting portrayal of life in a northern English town... [full description]

DVD [4704-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

I am a Dancer. Rudolf Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn.

Published:

The famous 1972 documentary about Rudolf Nureyev, including a complete performance of Marguerite and Armand and... [full description]

DVD [5057-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

I vespri Siciliani. Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

Author: Verdi, Giuseppe

Published:

First things first: this is an opera, not a ballet. However, it does the contain complete act III ballet... [full description]

DVD [4639-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Ivan the Terrible. Irek Mukhamedov, Natalia Bessmertnova, Gediminas Taranda, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2005

Yuri Grigorovich's 1975 ballet, with music adapted from Prokofiev, recorded at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1990.

DVD [1177-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Ivan the Terrible. Nicolas Le Riche, Eleonora Abbagnato, Karl Paquette, Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2005

Yuri Grigorovich's ballet filmed live on stage at the Paris Opera in 2003. [Uncoded, for use world-wide on NTSC... [full description]

DVD [4539-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Jacques d'Amboise: Portrait of a Great American Dancer.

Published: 2006

A fascinating and valuable set of performances rescued from the archives of Radio Canada and the Bell Telephone Hour,... [full description]

DVD [4944-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Le Jeune homme et la mort; Carmen. Nicolas Le Riche, The Paris Opera Ballet.

Author: Petit, Roland

Published: 2006

Two of Roland Petit's early masterpieces: in Le Jeune homme a young man dices dangerously and ultimately fatally... [full description]

DVD [4864-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Jewels. Paris Opera Ballet.

Author: Balanchine, George

Published: 2006

George Balanchine's 1967 masterpiece, a triptych of three abstract ballets to music by Fauré, Stravinsky, and... [full description]

DVD [4699-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Josephs Legende. Judith Jamison, Kevin Haigen, Karl Musil, the Vienna State Opera Ballet.

Published:

John Neumeier's spectacular ballet to the music of Richard Strauss, retelling the story of Joseph and his brothers.... [full description]

DVD [5072-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Kirov Classics. Chopiniana, Petrushka (Vinogradov), Markitenka, Paquita, etc.

Published: 2000

Altynai Asylmuratova and Konstantin Zaklinsky in Les Sylphides, Sergei Vikharev in Vinogradov's version of... [full description]

DVD [3731-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

The Kirov, A Night of Classical Ballet.

Published:

A rather murky picture (though a considerable improvement on the video version) cannot disguise the fact that this 1982... [full description]

DVD [3994-DV] £ 18.99 Add to order

Lieutenant Kije; Le baiser de la fee. Vladimir Vasiliev, Raisa Struchkova; Vladimir Malakhov, Tatiana Yatsenko.

Published:

Lieutenant Kijé, filmed in 1969 with Vladimir Vasiliev, Raisa Struchkova, Tatiana Popko and the... [full description]

DVD [5286-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

The Little Humpbacked Horse. Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2003

A famous 1961 Soviet colour film, enshrining an enchanting performance by the very young Vladimir Vasiliev, with Maya... [full description]

DVD [3851-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

A Little Princess. London Children's Ballet.

Published:

The story of Sara, a sensible, kind, and very wealthy little girl who is left in boarding school by her widowed father.... [full description]

DVD [4597-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Making Ballet: Karen Kain and the National Ballet of Canada.

Published:

With an eye for the unexpected and a taste for the theatrical, film-maker Anthony Azzopardi goes behind the scenes at... [full description]

DVD [4761-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

The Maltese Falcon; The Gay Parisian. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor; The Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo.

Published:

Ho! We hear you cry. What can this be? Humphrey Bogart in tights? Well, actually, no. What this 2 DVD set contains,... [full description]

DVD [5035-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Manon. Jennifer Penney, Anthony Dowell, David Wall, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2000

The 1982 recording of Kenneth MacMillan's three-act ballet. The cast also includes Derek Rencher, Monica Mason, David... [full description]

DVD [3946-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Margot Fonteyn, a portrait.

Published: 2001

Patricia Foy's famous documentary , narrated by Fonteyn, about her life and work, with archive film of many of her... [full description]

DVD [3792-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Margot.

Published: 2005

Tony Palmer's 2005 documentary about the life and loves of Margot Fonteyn. [Uncoded, for use world-wide on NTSC... [full description]

DVD [4569-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Marguerite et Armand. Sylvie Guillem, Nicolas le Riche, Anthony Dowell.

Published: 2004

Filmed in Japan in 2003, the DVD also includes a behind the scenes documentary of the tour: the cameras follow Sylvie... [full description]

DVD [3950-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Markova La Legende and Serge Peretti, Le Dernier Italien.

Published: 2005

Two French documentaries by Dominique Delouche, with English sub-titles, the first on our own Dame Alicia Markova, the... [full description]

DVD [4519-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! New Adventures Dance Company.

Published: 2003

Matthew Bourne's clever, funny, and touching modern take on The Nutcracker begins in the bleak setting of Dr.... [full description]

DVD [2221-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Mayerling. Irek Mukhamedov, Viviana Durante, Lesley Collier, Darcey Bussell, The Royal Ballet.

Author: MacMillan, Kenneth

Published: 2008

Kenneth MacMillan's 1978 blockbuster, a penetrating interpretation of the events surrounding the double suicide of... [full description]

DVD [1469-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

The Merry Widow. Lisa Pavane, Steven Heathcote, The Australian Ballet.

Published: 2003

Recently widowed and seeking a new husband, Hanna Glawari is one of Pontevedro's wealthiest women. If she marries a... [full description]

DVD [1774-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Balanchine). Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Published: 2001

The complete ballet, filmed at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London in 1999. The cast includes Patricia Barker, Paul... [full description]

DVD [3791-DV] £ 23.99 Add to order

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Alessandra Ferri, Roberto Bolle, Massimo Murru, Ballet of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

Author: Balanchine, George

Published: 2007

George Balanchine's version of Shakespeare's comedy, staged by Patricia Neary and Sara Leland, and recorded live at the... [full description]

DVD [5247-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Mlada. The Bolshoi Opera & the Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

Rimsky-Korsakov's 'fantasy opera-ballet', a story of early Slavs prior to Christian conversion, has been described as a... [full description]

DVD [4591-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Napoli. Linda Hindberg, Arne Villumsen, The Royal Danish Ballet.

Published: 2006

While staying in Naples the Danish choreographer August Bournonville was inspired to create his happiest masterpiece.... [full description]

DVD [4738-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Narcissus, a film by Norman Mclaren.

Published: 2006

Three short films by a master Canadian film maker, using speed frame adjustment and multi-exposure to create specific... [full description]

DVD [4694-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Nina Ananiashvili & International Stars, volume 1.

Published: 2003

This DVD generously combines the contents of two videos, at less than the price of a single video, giving a playing... [full description]

DVD [1506-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Nina Ananiashvili & International Stars, volume 2.

Published: 2003

Two previously issued videos generously combined on to one DVD, with a playing time of over two hours. The contents are... [full description]

DVD [1543-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Les Noces; The Firebird. The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2002

Filmed live at the Royal Opera House in 2001. The principals in The Firebird are Leanne Benjamin and Jonathan... [full description]

DVD [2401-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Nureyev, Dancing Through Darkness.

Published: 2004

Through the testimony of those closest to him, this programme tells the compelling story of Nureyev's last years and... [full description]

DVD [2802-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

The Nutcracker (Nureyev). Merle Park, Rudolf Nureyev, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2002

Nureyev's own version for The Royal Ballet, filmed live in March 1968, shortly after the first performance. A valuable... [full description]

DVD [2090-DV] £ 27.99 Add to order

The Nutcracker - Lesley Collier, Anthony Dowell, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 1985, 2002

Peter Wright's production with designs by Julia Trevelyan Oman, filmed in 1985. The cast also includes Michael Coleman,... [full description]

DVD [3874-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Nutcracker Sweeties; The Judas Tree. Birmingham Royal Ballet; Irek Mukhamedov, Leanne Benjamin, The Royal Ballet; Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Published: 2006

A curious mixture: David Bintley's jazzy portrayal of 1940 Broadway and America in the 1940s (to Billy Strayhorn and... [full description]

DVD [4894-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

The Nutcracker, or Petter and Lotta's Christmas. Marie Lindqvist, Anders Nordstrom, The Royal Swedish Ballet.

Published: 2004

A fresh, clever, and often funny re-working of the traditional Nutcracker story by Swedish choreographer... [full description]

DVD [2371-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

The Nutcracker. Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2003

Yuri Grigorovich's production, filmed live on stage at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1978. Picture quality is only fair, with... [full description]

DVD [1230-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order

The Nutcracker. Gelsey Kirkland, Mikhail Baryshnikov, American Ballet Theatre.

Published: 2006

Recorded in 1977, this production (Mikhail Baryshnikov's own) captures two of the twentieth century's greatest dancers,... [full description]

DVD [4815-DV] £ 9.99 Add to order