Research Catalog

Title

[Sunday morning. Dancing home. Unedited footage] [videorecording] / CBS-TV.

Publication

1989.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993.
• Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993
• Ayupova, Zhanna
• Kurgapkina, Ninella.
• Gumba, Tatʹ︠i︡ana
• Udel'︠t︡sova, Anna.
• Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova.
• Leningrad. Kirov Theater. Ballet School.
• CBS Television Network.
• DHCA.

Description

3 videocassettes (156 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Unedited footage for a news report on Rudolf Nureyev's return to Russia, 28 years after his defection. The completed program was telecast on CBS News Sunday morning on November 19, 1989.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation.

Series Statement

Rudolf Nureyev Collection.

Uniform Title

• Sylphide (Choreographic work)
• Sunday morning (Television program)

Subjects

• Unedited footage
• Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993 > Interviews
• Dance
• Video

Genre/Form

• Dance.
• Unedited footage.
• Video.

Note

• Accompanied by data sheet.
• For the completed telecast, see: *MGZIA 4-4064 RNC [Four American TV interviews with Rudolf Nureyev].

Event (note)

• Recorded in Leningrad in November 1989.

Language (note)

• Most of the audible dialogue is in Russian ; Rudolf Nureyev and his interviewers occasionally speak English.

Contents

• Cassette 1. Rudolf Nureyev's arrival at Leningrad Airport (ca. 3 min.).
• La sylphide [excerpts] (ca. 40 min.) / recorded in rehearsal in the Kirov Ballet's studio, in practice clothes, with piano accompaniment. Nureyev warms up and chats with Ninel Kurgapkina (?), who supervised the rehearsals ; he then rehearses with Zhanna Ayupova (the sylphide), Tatiana Gumba (Effie), and other cast members.
• Visit to Leningrad Choreographic Institute (ca. 10 min.) / accompanied by the press, Nureyev greets old acquaintances and views the school's exhibition of pictures and memorabilia of its distinguished graduates, himself among them.
• Cassette 2. La sylphide [excerpts] (ca. 26 min.) / recorded in performance at the Kirov Theater ; includes part of Act I, beginning with the reel, and much of Act II ; danced by Nureyev (James), Zhanna Ayupova (the sylphide), Tatiana Gumba (Effie), and members of the Kirov Ballet.
• Visit to Leningrad Choreographic Institute (26 min.) / continuation of the footage on cassette 1. Nureyev visits various classes, and is photographed at the barre of the classroom where he used to study. He briefly reminisces, in English, about his student days. He also visits a small theater where, he says, he prepared all his roles.
• Reunion with Anna Ivanovna Udeltsova (ca. 7 min.) / Nureyev visits his first ballet teacher.
• Cassette 3. Visit to the Hermitage art museum (ca. 18 min.).
• La sylphide. Act I [excerpts] (ca. 28 min.) / recorded in stage rehearsal, without scenery, with the orchestra ; danced by Nureyev (James), Zhanna Ayupova (the sylphide), Tatiana Gumba (Effie), and members of the Kirov Ballet. Most of the dancers are in practice clothes ; Ayupova and Nureyev are in costume, Nureyev with red tights under his kilt.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4057 RNC

OCLC

NYPY00-F772

Title

[Sunday morning. Dancing home. Unedited footage] [videorecording] / CBS-TV.

Imprint

1989.

Series

Rudolf Nureyev Collection.

Event

Recorded in Leningrad in November 1989.

Language

Most of the audible dialogue is in Russian ; Rudolf Nureyev and his interviewers occasionally speak English.

Added Author

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993. Interviewee

Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, dancer.

Ayupova, Zhanna, dancer.

Kurgapkina, Ninella.

Gumba, Tatʹ︠i︡ana, dancer.

Udel'︠t︡sova, Anna.

Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova.

Leningrad. Kirov Theater. Ballet School.

CBS Television Network.

DHCA.

Added Title

Sylphide (Choreographic work)

Sunday morning (Television program)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-4057 RNC