Acis and Galatea. The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet.

Author: Handel, Georg Frederic

Published: 2010

Christoper Hogwood conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a distinguished cast including Danielle de... [full description]

DVD [5815-DV] £ 22.99 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

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

Antony Tudor, a documentary.

Published:

Antony Tudor revolutionised ballet by replacing princes and princesses with ordinary people who display universal... [full description]

DVD [5023-DV] £ 19.99 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

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

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

Ballet Shoes. Emilia Fox, Victoria Wood, Richard Griffiths, Eileen Atkins, Emma Watson.

Author: Streatfield, Noel

Published: 2007

Based on Noel Streatfield's famous children's novel, this is the story of three orphaned children adopted by an... [full description]

DVD [5313-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Ballets Russes.

Published: 2006

A wonderful, funny, moving, life-enhancing documentary about the de Basil and Massine Ballets Russes companies, seen... [full description]

DVD [4707-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Baryshnikov Dances Sinatra and more...

Published:

The great Mikhail Baryshnikov, recorded in 1984 in three ballets by Twyla Tharp. The Little Ballet, to music by... [full description]

DVD [5427-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Baryshnikov Live at Wolf Trap. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, Marianna Tcherkassky.

Published:

Classic recordings of one of the twentieth century's greatest male dancers at the top of his form. Filmed live in 1976,... [full description]

DVD [5425-DV] £ 17.99 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

The Best of the Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle. Galina Ulanova, Nikolai Fadeyechev.

Published: 2008

Paul Czinner's famous 1956 film, recorded at the Royal Opera House in London, featuring a slightly abridged version of... [full description]

DVD [5477-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

Billy Elliot. Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Bell.

Published: 2001

The heartwarming tale of an 11 year old coal miner's son whose life is changed when he stumbles upon a ballet class... [full description]

DVD [1981-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 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

Caravaggio. Vladimir Malakhov, Staatsballett Berlin.

Published: 2009

A ballet in two acts choreographed by Mauro Bigonzetti, with music by Bruno Moretti after Monteverdi. The ballet has as... [full description]

DVD [5640-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Caravaggio. Vladimir Malakhov, Staatsballett Berlin. [Blu-Ray version.]

Published: 2009

IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD - IT WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS.

A ballet in two acts choreographed by... [full description]

DVD [5671-DV] £ 29.99 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

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

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. Agnes Letestu, Jose Martinez, the Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2008

A new recording of Rudolf Nureyev's choreography, filmed onstage at the Paris Opera in 2007. Cinderella's stepsisters... [full description]

DVD [5495-DV] £ 27.99 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

The full-length recording of this ballet, with Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell, has sadly been deleted. This... [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] £ 4.99 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. 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] £ 19.99 Add to order

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

Published: 2003

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

DVD [1389-DV] £ 19.99 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

Dancer's Dream: The Great Ballets of Rudolf Nureyev. Sleeping Beauty - 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 [4297-DV] £ 19.99 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

Dancing for Mr. B.

Published:

This documentary celebrates six of legendary choreographer George Balanchine's ballerinas, Mary Ellen Moylan, Maria... [full description]

DVD [5471-DV] £ 14.99 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

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] £ 25.53 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, 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. Olesya Novikova, Leonid Sarafanov, Vladimir Ponomarev, The Mariinsky Ballet.

Author: Petipa, Marius

Published: 2009

A brilliant performance, very well recorded, of Petipa's romantic-comic masterpiece, filmed live at the Mariinsky... [full description]

DVD [5681-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Don Quixote. Viengsay Valdes, Romel Frometa, Dayron Vera, Javier Sanchez, Ballet Nacional de Cuba.

Published: 2008

Staged by Alicia Alonso and recorded live in Paris in July 2007. The DVD includes and interviews and rehearsals... [full description]

DVD [5476-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

The Dream. Alessandra Ferri, Ethan Stiefel, Herman Cornejo, American Ballet Theatre.

Published: 2004

Sir Frederick Ashton's classic treatment of Shakespeare's comedy, with Mendelssohn's music arranged by John Lanchbery.... [full description]

DVD [2923-DV] £ 24.99 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

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

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. Marianela Nunez, Carlos Acosta, William Tuckett, the Royal Ballet.

Author: Ashton, Sir Frederick

Published: 2008

A sparkling new recording of Ashton's comedy classic, recorded at the Royal Opera House in 2005. Jonathan Howells is... [full description]

DVD [5411-DV] £ 21.99 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

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. Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2008

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House in 2006, with Marianela Nuñez as Myrtha and Martin Harvey as Hilarion.... [full description]

DVD [5475-DV] £ 21.99 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. Laetitia Pujol, Nicolas Le Riche, Marie-Agnes Gillot, The Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2008

Patrice Bart and Eugène Polyakov's staging of the Coralli-Perrot-Petipa version, filmed live at the Paris Opera... [full description]

DVD [5418-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order

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

Published:

A somewhat abridged version of Giselle (the act one Peasant Pas de Deux is omitted, as are several Myrthe... [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

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 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

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

Jane Eyre. London Children's Ballet.

Published: 2008

Filmed live at the Peacock Theatre in London in 2008, this 97 minute children's ballet, based Charlotte Brontë's... [full description]

DVD [5534-DV] £ 17.99 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

The Kirov Celebrates Nijinsky - Sheherazade, Le Spectre de la Rose, Polovtsian Dances, The Firebird.

Published: 2004

Filmed at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris in 2002, the casts of these four Michel Fokine ballets include Svetlana... [full description]

DVD [0474-DV] £ 24.99 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

Macbeth [Vladimir Vasiliev]. Alexei Fadeyechev, Nina Timofeyeva, Valeri Anisimov, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

Vasiliev's 1980 ballet, with music by Kirill Molchanov. Alexei Fadeyechev takes the title role, aided by the formidable... [full description]

DVD [5409-DV] £ 22.99 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

Manon. Justine Summers, Steven Heathcote, Nigel Burley, Jonathan Kelly, The Australian Ballet.

Published: 2000

Kenneth MacMillan's choreography, produced by Patricia Ruanne and Monica Parker and filmed at the Adelaide Festival... [full description]

DVD [3741-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Manon. Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta, the Royal Ballet.

Author: MacMillan, Kenneth

Published: 2009

Filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2008.

The cast includes Tamara Rojo as Manon; Carlos Acosta as Des... [full description]

DVD [5817-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Margot.

Published: 2009

A fictional portrayal of the glamorous and turbulent life of Britain's first international ballet superstar.

Dame... [full description]

DVD [5767-DV] £ 19.99 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

Mariinsky Theatre.

Published: 2008

A documentary film celebrating the 225th anniversary of the Mariinsky Theatre, including excerpts from Swan Lake,... [full description]

DVD [5565-DV] £ 15.32 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. Edward Watson, Mara Galeazzi, Iohna Loots, William Tuckett, Cindy Jourdain, Sarah Lamb, Elizabeth McGorian, The Royal Ballet.

Author: MacMillan, Kenneth

Published: 2010

Edward Watson takes the role of Crown Prince Rudolf in Kenneth MacMillan's compelling ballet which lives out the final... [full description]

DVD [5814-DV] £ 22.99 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

Medea. Marina Goderdzishvili, Vladimir Julukhadze, Vika Laperashvili, the Tbilsi State Ballet.

Published:

An hour long ballet freely interpreting Euripides' classic drama of a powerful woman's revenge on her faithless... [full description]

DVD [5410-DV] £ 22.99 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

IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD - IT WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS.

The complete ballet, filmed at Sadler's... [full description]

DVD [5714-DV] £ 29.99 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

Mime matters. A demonstration by members of The Royal Ballet and The Royal Academy of Dance.

Published: 2002, 2009

Demonstrations of mime sequences from the classic ballets including Le Carnaval, Coppélia, Sleeping... [full description]

DVD [5586-DV] £ 19.99 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

My first ballet collection.

Published:

Featuring some of the world's most exciting and talented dancers, this sparkling collection brings together some of the... [full description]

DVD [5757-DV] £ 14.99 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

Natasha. Natalia Makarova.

Published:

Filmed in the early 1980s, this hour long TV special features the great Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova in a variety... [full description]

DVD [5036-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

New Year's Eve in Saint Petersburg. Ekaterina Osmolkina, Daria Pavlenko, Andrian Fadeyev, Anton Korsakov, the Mariinsky Ballet.

Published: 2007

A gala performance filmed on December 31 2006, conducted by Valery Gergiev. An hour of ballet (excerpts from... [full description]

DVD [5273-DV] £ 17.99 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 - 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 Story.

Published: 2008

A documentary about The Nutcracker ballet, with excerpts from productions by The Royal Ballet and the Mariinsky... [full description]

DVD [5566-DV] £ 15.32 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. Alina Cojocaru, Miyako Yoshida, Jonathan Cope, Ivan Putrov, Anthony Dowell, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2001

Sir Peter Wright's production, filmed live at the Royal Opera House in December 2000. The Royal Opera House Orchestra... [full description]

DVD [1740-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

The Nutcracker. Irina Golub, Leonid Sarafanov, Anton Adasinsky, the Mariinsky Ballet.

Published: 2007

Kirill Simonov's 2001 production of The Nutcracker, with spectacular designs by Mihail Chemiakin, emphasises the... [full description]

DVD [5287-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

The Nutcracker. Ludmilla Vasilieva, Alexander Gorbatsevich, Tatiana Yarsenko, Giancarlo Tosi, Moscow Classical Ballet.

Published: 2003

A more or less traditional production (though incorporating a dancing Drosselmeyer and a female mouse king)... [full description]

DVD [0321-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

The Nutcracker. Nadja Saidakova, Vladimir Malakhov, Oliver Matz, Berlin State Opera Ballet.

Published: 2000

Choreography by Patrice Bart. [Uncoded, will play world wide.]

DVD [2612-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Nutcracker. San Francisco Ballet.

Published: 2008

New Nutcrackers need a gimmick, and this one's is that it is set in 1915 San Francisco. Beyond this, it's a... [full description]

DVD [5535-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Nutcracker. San Francisco Ballet.

Published: 2009

IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD AND WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS.

New Nutcrackers need a gimmick,... [full description]

DVD [5727-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order

The Paris Opera Ballet: Seven Ballets. Sylvie Guillem, Patrick Dupond, Noëlla Pontois.

Published:

A programme of seven short ballets, filmed in the 1980s, five with choreography by Norbert Schmucki, two by Maris... [full description]

DVD [5510-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

The Paris Opera Ballet: Six Ballets. Patrick Dupond, Noella Pontois, Claude de Vulpian.

Published:

Six short ballets all choreographed by Norbert Schmucki, the Swiss dancer and choreographer.

Tchaikovsky... [full description]

DVD [5669-DV] £ 18.99 Add to order

Le Pas d'Acier 1925: Serge Prokofiev.

Published: 2006

A source based recreation of Serge Prokofiev and Georgi Yakoulov's 1925 machine age ballet. Originally choreographed by... [full description]

DVD [4710-DV] £ 49.99 Add to order

Pas de Deux.

Published:

Excerpts from a gala evening filmed at an outdoor auditorium in Los Angeles in 1984, with members of the Los Angeles... [full description]

DVD [2109-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Peer Gynt (Heinz Spoerli). Marlijn Rademaker, Philipp Schepmann, Yen Han, the Zurich Ballet.

Author: Spoerli, Heinz

Published: 2009

Heinz Spoerli's take on the Ibsen classic includes both a dancing and speaking Peer, and a great deal of sand for the... [full description]

DVD [5715-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Pharaoh's Daughter. Svetlana Zakharova, Sergei Filin, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2004

Pierre Lacotte's reconstruction of one of Marius Petipa's most famous ballets, a massive spectacular filmed at the... [full description]

DVD [4377-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Picasso and Dance: Le Tricorne, Le Train Bleu. Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2006

Lénide Massine's Le Tricorne is performed by Kader Belarbi, Françoise Legrée, and Fabrice... [full description]

DVD [4657-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades). Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Ilse Liepa, Svetlana Lunkina, Georgi Geraskin, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2006

Roland Petit's version of Pushkin's famous story was originally choreographed for Mikhail Baryshnikov, but Petit was... [full description]

DVD [4750-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Plisetskaya Dances.

Published: 2004

A fascinating 1964 black and white documentary, showing the great Russian dancer Maya Plisetskaya at her peak. Included... [full description]

DVD [3895-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

The Prince of the Pagodas. Darcey Bussell, Jonathan Cope, Anthony Dowell, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2005

Kenneth MacMillan's 1989 version of the ballet with music by Benjamin Britten, first choreographed by John Cranko in... [full description]

DVD [2215-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Proust, ou Les intermittences du coeur. Paris Opera Ballet.

Author: Petit, Roland

Published: 2008

To a wonderful gallimaufry of classical music (Beethoven, Debussy, Fauré, Franck, Hahn, Saint-Saëns, and... [full description]

DVD [5329-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Pulcinella, The Firebird. Scapino Ballet, The Royal Danish Ballet.

Published: 2000

Pulcinella has choreography by Nils Christe, The Firebird by Glen Tetley. [Coded for regions 2 and 5 only: the UK and... [full description]

DVD [2590-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Pulcinella. Sheldon Schwartz, Amanda Bennett, Basler Ballett.

Published: 2006

Heinz Spoerli's ingenious 1980 version of Stravinsky's ballet, featuring the comic figures of the commedia dell'arte.... [full description]

DVD [4748-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - two films.

Published: 2009

Part one - Tchaikovsky's women; Part two - Fate: with Vladimir Ashkenazy and Cynthia Harvey as Katerina, Juliet,... [full description]

DVD [5764-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Raymonda. Irina Kolpakova, Sergei Berezhnoi, Gennady Selutsky, the Kirov Ballet.

Published:

A famous performance, recorded live at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1980. The picture quality is good for the period, but... [full description]

DVD [5274-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Raymonda. Ludmilla Semenyaka, Irek Mukhamedov, Gedeminas Taranda, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

Yuri Grigorovich's production of the Petipa classic, filmed live at the Bolshoi Theatre in the 1980s. The picture... [full description]

DVD [5562-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Return of the Firebird - The Firebird, Petrushka and Scheherazade. Andris Liepa, Tatiana Beletskaya, Nina Ananiashvili, etc.

Published: 2002

Three Fokine ballets recreated in the famous Mosifilm studios in Russia. The casts also include Ilze Liepa, Victor... [full description]

DVD [3135-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Romeo & Juliet. Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2009

Kenneth MacMillan's famous version of Prokofiev's score, filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 16 November,... [full description]

DVD [5758-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Romeo & Juliet. Monique Loudieres, Manuel Legris, Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2000

Choreography by Rudolf Nureyev. [Coded for regions 2 - 6: worldwide PAL except Canada and USA].

DVD [3708-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Romeo and Juliet (Kenneth MacMillan). Alessandra Ferri, Angel Corella, La Scala Ballet Milan.

Published: 2002

Filmed live at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, in January 2000. The cast also includes Michele Villanova as Mercutio,... [full description]

DVD [1647-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Romeo and Juliet. Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

Leonid Lavrovsky's production, filmed live at the Bolshoi Theatre by Soviet Television in 1974. Picture quality is good... [full description]

DVD [5398-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Romeo and Juliet. Galina Ulanova, Yuri Zhdanov, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2004

An historic performance by the legendary Galina Ulanova of Lavrovsky's famous staging of the Prokofiev score. Filmed,... [full description]

DVD [3933-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Romeo and Juliet. Natalia Bessmertnova, Irek Mukhamedov, the Bolshoi Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2004

Yuri Grigorovich's production, filmed at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1989. [Uncoded, for use world wide.]

DVD [4407-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Romeo and Juliet. Wayne Eagling, Alessandra Ferri, The Royal Ballet.

Published:

Kenneth MacMillan's famous version of the Prokofiev score, filmed at the Royal Opera House in 1984. The cast also... [full description]

DVD [0395-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

The Royal Ballet - Ondine, Firebird, etc. Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes.

Published: 2004

Filmed live on stage at the Royal Opera House in 1960, this DVD includes abridged performances of The Firebird... [full description]

DVD [0308-DV] £ 9.99 Add to order

Rudolf Nureyev alla Scala.

Published: 2005

A fascinating documentary about Nureyev's years at La Scala, although possibily more for Nureyev completists than the... [full description]

DVD [5064-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Rudolf Nureyev, Erik Bruhn, the complete Bell Telephone Hour performances.

Published: 2002

Performances from 1961 - 1967: The Nureyev items are Flower Festival pas de deux with Maria Tallchief; Le Corsaire pas... [full description]

DVD [3319-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Russian Ballet Highlights.

Published: 2006

A collection of excerpts from previously issued performances by the Kirov and Bolshoi companies. The first three are... [full description]

DVD [4872-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

The Scarlet Pimpernel. London Children's Ballet.

Published: 2006

Filmed live at the Peacock Theatre in London in 2006, this 80 minute long children's ballet, based on Baroness Orczy's... [full description]

DVD [4803-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

The Seagull. Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

Plisetskaya dances her own choreography, to a score by her former husband Rodion Shchedrin. The ballet was recorded... [full description]

DVD [5750-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

A Simple Man. Christopher Gable, Moira Shearer, Northern Ballet Theatre.

Published: 2005

Gillian Lynne's much loved ballet, commissioned to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the painter L. S. Lowry,... [full description]

DVD [4455-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Sleeping Beauty. Alla Sizova, Yuri Solovyov, Natalia Makarova and the Kirov Ballet.

Published: 1965

The Kirov Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty in this classic colour motion picture from 1965.

The... [full description]

DVD [5768-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

The Sleeping Beauty. Aurelie Dupont, Manuel Legris, The Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2001

Rudolf Nureyev's production, filmed at the Paris Opera in 1999. [Coded for world wide use except the USA and Canada.]

DVD [1246-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

The Sleeping Beauty. Irina Kolpakova, Sergei Berezhnoi, Lubov Kunakova, The Kirov Ballet.

Published:

A classic recording of Konstantin Sergeyev's staging, conducted by Viktor Fedotov, and filmed in 1982. [Coded for... [full description]

DVD [2282-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

The Sleeping Beauty. Larissa Lezhnina, Farukh Ruzimatov, Yulia Makhalina, Vadim Guliayev, The Kirov Ballet.

Published: 2003

The standard Kirov version, rather than the more recent historical reconstruction. It was filmed on tour in Canada in... [full description]

DVD [1920-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Sleeping Beauty. Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Beryl Grey, Frederick Ashton, Sadler's Wells Ballet.

Published: 2004

This 1956 American television production is in black and white and heavily cut (66 minutes) but of enormous historical... [full description]

DVD [4406-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Sleeping Beauty. Nina Semizorova, Alexei Fadeyechev, Nina Speranskaya, Yuri Vetrov, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

Yuri Grigorovich's production, with choreography after Marius Petipa, filmed at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1989.

DVD [2801-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

The Sleeping Beauty. Veronica Tennant, Rudolf Nureyev, The National Ballet of Canada.

Published: 2004

Filmed in 1972, produced, staged, and with additional choreography by Rudolf Nureyev. The cast also includes Celia... [full description]

DVD [3998-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

The Sleeping Beauty. Viviana Durante, Zoltan Solymosi, The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2009

Anthony Dowell's 1994 production, designed by Maria 'Phantom of the Opera' Bjornsson. The cast includes Benazir Hussein... [full description]

DVD [3828-DV] £ 15.99 Add to order

The Soldier's Tale. Svetlana Beriosova, Robert Helpmann, Brian Phelan, Derek Godfrey.

Published:

Stravinsky's cautionary tale of love and greed, choreographed by and starring Robert Helpmann (playing the eight... [full description]

DVD [4457-DV] £ 16.99 Add to order

Spartacus. Carlos Acosta, Alexander Volchikov, Nina Kaptsova, Maria Allash, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Author: Grigorovich, Yuri

Published: 2008

Filmed at the Paris Opera in January 2008. A bonus DVD is included containing a documentary about the making of the... [full description]

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Spartacus. Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Maris Liepa, Nina Timofeyeva, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Author: Grigorovich, Yuri

Published:

One of the Holy Grails of Russian ballet recordings has finally been discovered. At time of the making of the famous... [full description]

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Spartacus. Irek Mukhamedov, Aleksandr Vetrov, Ludmilla Semenyaka, Maria Bylova, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

A 1990 recording of Yuri Grigorovich's masterpiece, filmed on stage at the Bolshoi Theatre.

DVD [1701-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Spartacus. Irek Mukhamedov, Mikhail Gabovich, Natalya Bessmertnova, Maria Bylova, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

Yuri Grigorovich's blockbuster, filmed in 1984. [Coded for world-wide use on NTSC compatible equipment, except the USA... [full description]

DVD [4727-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Spartacus. Lisa Pavane, Steven Heathcote, Greg Horsman, The Australian Ballet.

Published: 2000

Khachaturian's score, choreographed by Laszlo Seregi. [Uncoded, for worldwide use on NTSC compatible equipment.]

DVD [2798-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Spartacus. Vladimir Vasiliev, Natalia Bessmertnova, Maris Liepa, Nina Timofeyeva, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 1977, 2003

1977 film version of Yuri Grigorovich's masterpiece, with three-quarters of the original cast (Natalia Bessmertnova... [full description]

DVD [0370-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Spartacus. Yuri Klevtsof, Ekaterina Berezina, Vladimir Muravliov, Moscow Classical Ballet.

Published: 2003

A new production, using Aram Khachaturian's score, choreographed by Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliov. [Uncoded,... [full description]

DVD [4310-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Stars of the Russian Ballet: Swan Lake, The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, The Flames of Paris. Galina Ulanova, Natalia Dudinskaya, Maya Plisetskaya, etc.

Published: 2003

A 1953 Russian colour film showing great dancers in excerpts from three major ballets: Galina Ulanova, Natalia... [full description]

DVD [3902-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

The Stone Flower. Aleksandr Gulyaev, Anna Polikarpova, Tatiana Terekhova, The Kirov Ballet.

Published:

A 1991 recording of Grigorovich's full length ballet to Prokofiev's last ballet score. The tale centres round Danila, a... [full description]

DVD [2315-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

The Stone Flower. Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Svetlana Adirkhaeva, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

In 1959, Yuri Grigorovich recreated his successful 1957 Kirov staging of this, Prokofiev's last ballet, for the Bolshoi... [full description]

DVD [5073-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

The Stone Flower. Nikolai Dorokhov, Ludmilla Semenyaka, Nina Semizorova, Yuri Vetrov, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2005

Grigorovich's full length ballet to Prokofiev's last ballet score, recorded at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1990. The story... [full description]

DVD [4540-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes: Le Sacre du printemps, The Firebird. Mariinsky Ballet.

Published: 2009

Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer's reconstruction of Nijinsky's original version of Le Sacre du printemps (The... [full description]

DVD [5667-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order

Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes: Le Sacre du printemps, The Firebird. Mariinsky Ballet. [Blu-Ray version.]

Published: 2009

IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD - IT WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS

Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer's... [full description]

DVD [5670-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Agnes Letestu, Jose Martinez, Karl Paquette, Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2007

Rudolf Nureyev's 'dream' version, in which the dancer (here Karl Paquette) playing the Prince's tutor doubles as the... [full description]

DVD [4919-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Alla Mikhalchenko, Yuri Vasyuchenko, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 2004

Yuri Grigorovich's production, 'based on the choreography of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov', recorded at the Bolshoi... [full description]

DVD [0478-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Ekaterina Beresina, Natalia Burak, Ivan Korneev, Moscow Classical Ballet.

Published: 2004

Produced by Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliov after Petipa, Ivanov, Gorsky, and Messerer, this production uses... [full description]

DVD [4309-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Irina Kolesnikova, Dmitry Akulinin, St Petersburg Ballet Theatre.

Published: 2006

A live performance of the Konstantin Sergeyev version, filmed in Johannesburg in 2006. [Uncoded, for world-wide use on... [full description]

DVD [4788-DV] £ 23.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Ludmilla Kunakova, Nadezhda Pavlova, Alexander Bogatyrev, the National Ballet of St. Petersburg.

Published: 2007

Filmed in Iceland in 1992, with Nadezhda Pavlova as Odette, Ludmilla Kunakova as Odile, and Alexander Bogatyrev as... [full description]

DVD [5087-DV] £ 10.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Vienna State Opera Ballet.

Published: 2000

A famous recording made in the late 1960s, when the Fonteyn Nureyev partnership was still at its best. [Universal... [full description]

DVD [2736-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Patrick Dupond, Paris Opera Balle

Published:

Vladimir Bourmeister's staging, produced by Patrice Bart, and filmed live on stage at the Opera Bastille in 1992.... [full description]

DVD [4774-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Marina Rzhannikova, Nikolay Chevychelov, Moscow Classical Ballet.

Published: 2006

Filmed in 2005, with choreography by Petipa, Ivanov, Gorsky, Messerer, Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilyov.... [full description]

DVD [4820-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Maya Plisetskaya, Alexander Bogatirev, the Bolshoi Ballet.

Published:

Yuri Grigorovich's production, filmed live at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow in 1976. Picture quality is good... [full description]

DVD [5397-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Maya Plisetskaya, Nicolai Fadeyechev, The Bolshoi Ballet.

Published: 1957, 2003

A fascinating historical document, filmed in colour live on stage (complete with audience reaction shots) at the... [full description]

DVD [0369-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Natalia Makarova, Anthony Dowell, the Royal Ballet.

Published:

Recorded in 1982, but never previously issued in the UK on DVD. A sterling supporting cast includes such near-mythical... [full description]

DVD [5420-DV] £ 14.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Nathalie Nordquist, Anders Nordstrom, The Royal Swedish Ballet.

Published: 2002

A fine production by Sir Peter Wright, similar to his Birmingham Royal Ballet production, but with the designs and... [full description]

DVD [0399-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Nina Ananiashvili, Alexei Fadeyechev, Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet.

Published:

Nikolai Boyarchivov's staging, after Petipa, Ivanov, and Gorsky, filmed live in Tokyo in 1992.

[Uncoded, for... [full description]

DVD [5399-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle, Ballet of La Scala Milan

Published: 2005

Choreography by Vlamimir Bourmeister and Lev Ivanov, staged by Florence Clerc and Frederic Olivieri, and recorded live... [full description]

DVD [4527-DV] £ 24.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Ulyana Lopatkina, Danila Korsuntsev, The Mariinsky Ballet.

Published: 2007

Konstantin Sergeyev's production of the Petipa/Ivanov choreography, filmed live at the Mariinsky Theatre in 2006. An... [full description]

DVD [5275-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Swan Lake. Yelena Yevteyeva, John Matkovsky, The Kirov Ballet.

Published: 2005

A famous historical recording, dating from 1968, of the Kirov Ballet in Konstantin Sergeyev's production, with a cast... [full description]

DVD [4742-DV] £ 10.99 Add to order

La Sylphide (Lacotte, after Taglioni). Aurelie Dupont, Mathieu Ganio, Paris Opera Ballet.

Published: 2005

Pierre Lacotte's reconstruction of Filippo Taglioni's version of La Sylphide. Taglioni's version pre-dates the... [full description]

DVD [3752-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Sylvia. Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, The Royal Ballet.

Author: Ashton, Sir Frederick

Published: 2007

Sir Frederick Ashton's 1952 three act ballet to Delibes' wonderful score was revived in 2005 as part of the Royal... [full description]

DVD [5240-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

Sylvia. Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, The Royal Ballet.

Author: Ashton, Sir Frederick

Published: 2009

IMPORTANT - THIS IS A BLU-RAY DVD - IT WILL NOT PLAY ON STANDARD DVD PLAYERS.

Sir Frederick Ashton's 1952 three act... [full description]

DVD [5712-DV] £ 29.99 Add to order

Sylvie Guillem, on the edge/sur le fil.

Published: 2009

This full-length documentary traces acclaimed ballerina/modern dancer Sylvie Guillem's collaboration with... [full description]

DVD [5787-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Symphonie Fantastique. Niels Bjorn Larsen, Mona Vangsaae, The Royal Danish Ballet.

Author: Massine, Leonide

Published:

In 1948 Massine mounted for the Royal Danish Ballet a version of his celebrated Symphonie Fantastique, based on... [full description]

DVD [5732-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

The Tales of Beatrix Potter (Ashton). The Royal Ballet.

Published: 2004

Ashton's classic and much loved film ballet, for children of all ages. Dancers hidden beneath the masks include Wayne... [full description]

DVD [4318-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

Tango. Geneva Grand Theatre Ballet.

Published:

For the people of Argentina, the tango is an exhilarating means of overcoming sadness, pain, and loss of love. Instead... [full description]

DVD [3974-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Tchaikovsky Gala. Roberto Bolle, Polina Semionova, Nadja Saidakova, Ronald Savkovic, Ballet of La Scala, Milan.

Published: 2008

This gala performance, filmed live at La Scala on December 31 2007, consists of excerpts from Swan Lake, acts II... [full description]

DVD [5550-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order

Three Ballerinas - Lucette Aldous, Marilyn Rowe, and Marilyn Jones.

Published: 2002

A celebration of the lives of three of Australia's greatest ballerinas. All three were prima ballerinas in the 1970s,... [full description]

DVD [2081-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

Trapeze; Fragments of a Biography. Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, etc.

Published:

Trapeze is a ballet created for film in 1970, with choreography by Natalia Ryzkenko to an early score of... [full description]

DVD [5097-DV] £ 22.99 Add to order

La Traviata. Vera Timashova, Alexander Gorbatsevich, Moscow Classical Ballet.

Published: 2004

A two act ballet based on Dumas'La Dame aux Camélias, choreographed by Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir... [full description]

DVD [4306-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

True Prince, Vladimir Malakhov.

Published: 2003

A documentary about the expatriate Russian dancer. Highlights include Malakhov discussing his first public performance,... [full description]

DVD [0388-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order

The Turning Point. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft.

Published: 2006

Emma, portrayed by Anne Bancroft, is an aging ballet star whose career has reached its peak; her friend Deedee (Shirley... [full description]

DVD [4669-DV] £ 12.99 Add to order

Violette et Mr B and Comme les Oiseaux...

Published: 2005

Two documentaries by Dominique Delouche, in French with English subtitles. In the first, Violette Verdy discusses her... [full description]

DVD [4581-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Violette Verdy, the Artist Teacher at Chautauqua Institiution.

Published: 2009

The legendary Violette Verdy, who excelled as a Balanchine ballerina, has distinguished herself as a coach to leading... [full description]

DVD [5676-DV] £ 21.99 Add to order

World's Young Ballet - the 1969 Moscow Ballet Competition.

Published:

A black and white film of the 1969 Moscow Ballet Competition, won by Mikhail Baryshnikov, and featuring him in short... [full description]

DVD [5404-DV] £ 17.99 Add to order

Zizi Jeanmaire Dances Roland Petit: Carmen, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, La Croqueuse de Diamants.

Published:

Three dance films. Carmenin Le Jeune Homme... [full description]

DVD [5405-DV] £ 19.99 Add to order