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Title

Alicia Alonzo [videorecording] : Orbit of a legend / un filme de José Ramón Neyra ; narración, Maura Morales Agüero.

Publication

2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019
• Neyra, José Ramón
• Agüero, Maura Morales
• Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994
• Plise︠t︡skiĭ, Azariĭ
• American Ballet Caravan (New York, N.Y.)
• American Ballet Theatre.
• Ballet Nacional de Cuba.

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (69 min.) : sd., col. and b&w; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Film about the life and career of Alicia Alonso from childhood to her 90th birthday celebration in 2010, interspersed with performance footage and photographs. This DVD includes footage of Balanchine's choreography for Theme and variations danced by Alicia Alonso, for and on whom the ballerina role was created. This footage is also contained on *MGZIC 9-3594, [Dance films by Ann Barzel].

Uniform Title

• Swan lake (Choreographic work). Black swan pas de deux.
• Petrouchka (Choreographic work : Fokine)
• Theme and variations (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
• Sylphides (Choreographic work : Fokin)
• Giselle (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia and F after Coralli and Perrot)
• Swan lake (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia)
• Fille mal gardée (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia)
• Coppélia (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia and Fokine, L)
• Pas de quatre (Choreographic work : Dolin)

Alternative Title

• Alicia Alonzo, Órbita de una leyenda
• Shakespeare and his masks (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia)
• Abandoned Dido (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia)

Subjects

• Dance
• American Ballet Theatre
• Biographies
• American Ballet Caravan (New York, N.Y.)
• Dance museums > Cuba > Havana
• Ballet Nacional de Cuba
• Video
• Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Video.
• Dance.

Note

• Presented by El Museo Nacional de la Danza de Cuba, Ballet Nacional de Cuba.
• Film clips include: Three-cornered hat (1963); Swan lake with Jorge Esquivel (Los Angeles, 1982); rehearsal footage; Nutcracker with Igor Youskevitch; Ethel Merman singing Stars in your eyes; Giselle; Swan lake, Act II with Jorge Esquival; Coppelia with Jose Parés; Swan lake, Act III with Azari Plisetski and Hugo Guffanti; dance class; American Ballet Caravan's Charade (choreographed by Lew Christensen); George Balanchine in class at the School of American Ballet; Leonide Massine dancing clips; rehearsal of Dioné (choreographed by George Milenoff); Alonso with Ballet Nacional de Cuba; La fille mal gardée; Black swan pas de deux; Petrouchka with Dimitri Romanov; Theme and variations with Igor Youskevitch; This is your live (NBC-TV in 1954); Giselle with Igor Youskevitch (Ballet Theatre); La fille mal gard́é with John Kriza; Les sylphides (choreographed by Michel Fokine); Giselle in London 2005 (Ballet Nacional de Cuba); Alonso's make-up and warm-up routine for a performance with Barbara Fallis; Grand pas de quatre with Melissa Hayden, Cynthia Riseley and Paula Lloyd; La valse with Igor Youskevitch; meeting of the Defense Commission of the Ballet de Cuba; Les sylphides with Carlota Pereyra and Fernando Alonso; Alicia Alonso's bows; Alicia Alonso's speech on TV program (1956); Giselle with Vladilen Semenov and conductor Yuri Fayer (choreographed by Alicia Alonso); Cuba 1959 with Fidel Castro; Fernando Alonso in 1961 class (Ballet Nacional de Cuba); Swan lake with Azari Plisetski and Carlos Gacio (choreographed by Alicia Alonso); Giselle with Igor Youskevitch; Arnold L. Haskell (experience of seeing Alicia Alonso in Giselle); American Ballet Theatre celebrates Alicia Alonso in honor of her 90th birthday at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York on June 3, 2010; La fille mal gardée (Ballet Nacional de Cuba, choreographed by Alicia Alonso); Coppelia (Scottish dance, choreographed by Alicia Alonso); Grand pas de quatre's Mme. Taglioni variation; Grand pas de quatre with Nora Kaye, Mia Slavenska and Melissa Hayden (choreographed by Anton Dolin); dance class at the National School of Ballet in Cuba; rehearsal of Grand pas de quatre (Ballet Nacional de Cuba); 30th anniversary of the Ballet Nacional de Cuby/35th anniversary of Alicia Alonso's debut in Giselle; Swan lake with Azari Plisetski; Carmen with Azari Plisetski; Giselle at the Metropolitan Opera House, 1984 (Ballet Nacional de Cuba, choreographed and performed by Alicia Alonso); International Ballet Festival (Havana Cuba, 2010); Shakespeare and his masks (Ballet Nacional de Cuba, choreographed by Alicia Alonso); Abandoned Dido with Lázaro Carreño (choreographed by Alicia Alonso); brief clips of Alicia Alonso's Giselle, The nutcracker, Sleeping beauty, and Giselle with Vladimir Vasilier; In the night with Jorge Esquivel (choreographed by Jerome Robbins); Robert le Diable with Lázaro Carreño (choreographed by Alberto Mendez); Carmen (choreographed by Alberto Alonso); Poeme de l'amour et de la mer with Rudolf Nureyev; Swan lake; Alberto Alonso's Lost diary, Tribute to José White with Fernando Jhones, A table for Romeo y Julieta with Azari Plisetski; Don Quixote with Azari Plisetski (choreographed by Alicia Alonso), The merry widow with Olando Salgado; La diva. Maria Callas in Memorian (choreographed by Alberto Mendez); and Abandoned Dido with Olando Salgado).
• Photographs include: Program from Dec. 29, 1931 of Sociedad "Pro-Arte Musical"; Enrico Zanfretta, Enrico Cecchetti, Ann Barzel, Lincoln Kirstein (Ballet Caravan), Leonide Massine, Anton Dolin, Gala performance, Sylphides (Fokin), Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin, Agnes de Mille,Nora Kaye, Jardin aux lilas, Fall river legend (De Mille), Giselle, Caprichos, Swan lake, Alicia Alonso with Igor Youskevitch and Betty Ferrell, Gisell with Erik Bruhn (Jacob's Pillow Festival, 1955), Alicia Alonso with Royes Fernandez and Mary Skeaping, Coppélia with André Eglevsky and Niels Björn Larsen (Greek Theatre, Los Angeles), Giselle with Vladilen Semenov, Giselle at the Riga Opera with Haralds Ritenbergs, Dance Magazine Prize in 1958 with Gene Kelly and Igor Youskevitch; Bell Telephone Hour on Apr. 1, 1960 with Nora Kaye and Donald Sadler, Alicia Alonso with Pablo Picasso and Harold Granatges, Alicia Alonso with Maurice Bejart, Alicia Alonso with Cyril Atanassoff, program from Teatre di San Carlos in 1981 with Giselle (choreographed by Alicia Alonso), and Farfalla (1995) with Lienz Chang and Orlando Salgado.

Credits (note)

• Recording director, Jorge Perez Jaime.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Source (note)

• José Ramón Neyra and J. Norbert Sanchez.

Language (note)

• In Spanish; credits in Spanish; text in English.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6058

OCLC

701365608

Title

Alicia Alonzo [videorecording] : Orbit of a legend / un filme de José Ramón Neyra ; narración, Maura Morales Agüero.

Imprint

2010.

Country of Producing Entity

Cuba.

System Details

DVD.

Credits

Recording director, Jorge Perez Jaime.

Language

In Spanish; credits in Spanish; text in English.

Source

Gift; José Ramón Neyra and J. Norbert Sanchez. NN-PD

Added Author

Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019, dancer.

Alonso, Alicia, 1920-2019, choreographer.

Neyra, José Ramón, director.

Agüero, Maura Morales, narrator.

Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994, dancer.

Plise︠t︡skiĭ, Azariĭ, dancer.

American Ballet Caravan (New York, N.Y.)

American Ballet Theatre.

Ballet Nacional de Cuba.

Neyra, José Ramón. Donor

Sanchez, J. Norbert. Donor

Added Title

Swan lake (Choreographic work). Black swan pas de deux.

Petrouchka (Choreographic work : Fokine)

Theme and variations (Choreographic work : Balanchine)

Sylphides (Choreographic work : Fokin)

Giselle (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia and F after Coralli and Perrot)

Swan lake (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia)

Fille mal gardée (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia)

Coppélia (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia and Fokine, L)

Pas de quatre (Choreographic work : Dolin)

Shakespeare and his masks (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia)

Abandoned Dido (Choreographic work : Alonso, Alicia)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-6058