Research Catalog

Title

[Tribute. Unedited interview footage] [videorecording] / BBC.

Publication

1993.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Mukhamedov, Irek, 1960-
• Park, Merle.
• Parry, Jann.
• British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
• DHCA.

Description

1 videocassette (97 min.) : sd., col. (PAL); 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Unedited footage of interviews recorded for Tribute, a television obituary of Rudolf Nureyev. The interviewees discuss their perceptions of Nureyev as a dancer, choreographer, and private person. Each interviewee also contributes the special insights of his or her own standpoint.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation.

Series Statement

Rudolf Nureyev Collection.

Subject

• Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993
• Mukhamedov, Irek, 1960- > Interviews
• Park, Merle > Interviews
• Parry, Jann > Interviews
• Royal Ballet
• Nureyev and Friends
• Don Quixote (Choreographic work : Nureyev after Petipa, M)
• Nutcracker (Choreographic work : Nureyev after Vaĭnonen)
• Dancers > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Interviews.
• Unedited footage.
• Video.

Note

• Accompanied by data sheet.
• For the telecast of Tribute, see: *MGZIA 4-4002 RNC Omnibus 25. [Rudolf Nureyev].

Performer (note)

• Interviewees: Irek Mukhamedov, Merle Park, Jann Parry.

Event (note)

• Recorded for Tribute, a television obituary of Rudolf Nureyev. The completed program was telecast by the BBC on Omnibus 25, on January 14, 1993.

Contents

• Irek Mukhamedov (ca. 27 min.) / Mukhamedov recalls the disfavor shown towards Nureyev and other defecting dancers during his youth in the Soviet Union ; his first view, on video, of Nureyev as a dancer ; his first meeting with Nureyev and discovery of their shared Tatar backgrounds ; working with Nureyev on The sleeping beauty at the Paris Opéra Ballet. He compares Nureyev's Don Quixote with the version he danced with the Bolshoi Ballet, and describes Nureyev as his model of a male dancer.
• Merle Park (ca. 41 min.) / Park, who frequently danced as Nureyev's partner with the Royal Ballet and Nureyev and Friends, portrays him in warm and affectionate terms, describing him as a brother. She recalls working with him on his version of The nutcracker, praises the programs of one-act ballets he compiled for Nureyev and Friends, describes his qualities as a partner, and discusses the reciprocal rewards of his association with the Royal Ballet.
• Jann Parry (ca. 29 min.) / Parry, a dance critic, explores both the light and dark sides of Nureyev's career: his perfectionism as a classical dancer ; his strengths as an actor ; his efforts to expand his range ; the equivocal results of his experiments with modern dance ; the collusion between him and his audience in attempting to retain his youthful image after youth was past ; the disappearance of his magic in his final years.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4023 RNC

OCLC

NYPY00-F647

Title

[Tribute. Unedited interview footage] [videorecording] / BBC.

Imprint

1993.

Country of Producing Entity

U.K.

Series

Rudolf Nureyev Collection.

Event

Recorded for Tribute, a television obituary of Rudolf Nureyev. The completed program was telecast by the BBC on Omnibus 25, on January 14, 1993.

Performer

Interviewees: Irek Mukhamedov, Merle Park, Jann Parry.

Added Author

Mukhamedov, Irek, 1960- interviewee.

Park, Merle. Interviewee

Parry, Jann. Interviewee

British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4023 RNC