Help, Looking for PAS DE QUATRE video

[EvilNinjaX]

The Alicia Alonso, Carla Fracci, Ghislaine Thesmar, and one other. It was once available on vhs and not sure if it's made it to dvd on any region. VHS ok, DVD preferable, xvid/divx alright also. Does anyone know where i could find it?

note, the ALICIA ALONSO PRIMA BALLERINA ASSOLUTO by VAI has 2 PD4s, but neither have this cast. Thx.

tia

-goro-

[rg]

evdokimova is the fourth ballerina in the PdQ you note from THE ROMANTIC ERA. this program/film was available on kultur videocassette at one point, to the best of my knowledge is has not been reissued or re-marketed as dvd, but perhaps i'm mistaken. i sometimes see out-of-print vids on ebay but don't think i've seen this one, or at least not of late.

meanwhile here's the NYPL dance coll. entry on the film:

The romantic era/ directed by Merrill Brockway ; produced by Joseph Wishy ; originally conceived, produced and directed for the stage by Joseph Wishy. U.S. : ABC Video Enterprises, c1980. (90 min.) : sd., col.

Taped during the eighth annual International Cervantino Festival (Cervantes International Festival) at the Teatro Juarez, Guanajuato, Mexico, in spring 1980.

Musical direction, George Crum ; set design, Ed Wittstein ; lighting, Ralph Holmes ; written by Faubion Bowers.

Narrator: Erik Bruhn.

Danced by Eva Evdokimova with Peter Schaufuss, Ghislaine Thesmar with Michel Denard, Carla Fracci with James Urbain, and Alicia Alonso with Jorge Esquivel.

Music played by the Orchestra Sinfonic de Xalapa, conducted by George Crum.

Dance contents: Défilé / music, Chopin ; introducing the eight dancers: Eva Evdokimova with Peter Schaufuss, Ghislaine Thesmar with Michel Denard, Carla Fracci with James Urbain, and Alicia Alonso with Jorge Esquivel -- Pas de deux from Esmeralda / reconstruction and choreography, John Gilpin ; music, Cesare Pugni ; danced by Evdokimova and Schaufuss -- Pas de deux from Natalie (La laitière suisse) / reconstruction and choreography, Pierre Lacotte ; music, Adalbert Gyrowetz and Michele Enrico Carafa ; danced by Thesmar and Denard -- Pas de deux from La péri / reconstruction and choreography, Loris Gai ; music, Friedrich Burgmüller ; danced by Fracci and Urbain -- Pas de deux from the 3rd act of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable / reconstruction and choreography, Alberto Méndez ; danced by Alonso and Esquivel ; introduced by Joseph Wishy.

Adagio from Act II of Giselle / choreography, Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, arranged by Anton Dolin ; music, Adolphe Adam ; danced in sequence by Evdokimova and Schaufuss, Thesmar and Denard, Fracci and Urbain, and Alonso and Esquivel -- Pas de quatre / reconstruction and choreography, Anton Dolin ; music, Cesare Pugni ; danced by Alonso as Taglioni, Evdokimova as Grahn, Fracci as Cerrito, and Thesmar as Grisi ; introduced by Anton Dolin.

Alicia Alonso, Carla Fracci, Ghislaine Thesmar, and Eva Evdokimova are shown in various pas de deux from the Romantic era of 19th-century ballet, and in Anton Dolin's Pas de quatre. Interspersed is a discussion by the four ballerinas on the romantic style, and comments by Anton Dolin about his version of the Pas de quatre.

[sandik]

evdokimova is the fourth ballerina in the PdQ you note from THE ROMANTIC ERA. this program/film was available on kultur videocassette at one point, to the best of my knowledge is has not been reissued or re-marketed as dvd, but perhaps i'm mistaken. i sometimes see out-of-print vids on ebay but don't think i've seen this one, or at least not of late.

meanwhile here's the NYPL dance coll. entry on the film:

The romantic era/ directed by Merrill Brockway ; produced by Joseph Wishy ; originally conceived, produced and directed for the stage by Joseph Wishy. U.S. : ABC Video Enterprises, c1980. (90 min.) : sd., col.

Taped during the eighth annual International Cervantino Festival (Cervantes International Festival) at the Teatro Juarez, Guanajuato, Mexico, in spring 1980.

Musical direction, George Crum ; set design, Ed Wittstein ; lighting, Ralph Holmes ; written by Faubion Bowers.

Narrator: Erik Bruhn.

This is worth looking for -- the interviews with the four of them are quite lovely -- particularly Alonso and Fracci.