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Center stage

Title: Center stage [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company ; directed by Nicholas Hytner ; produced by Laurence Mark ; written by Carol Heikkinen.
Publication: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures, c2000.

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1 videodisc (145 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. (DVD)

Summary

Drama about aspiring young dancers at a fiercely competitive ballet school, the fictitious American Ballet Academy in New York City. In addition to scenes of ballet auditions, classes and rehearsals, the film depicts salsa dancing at a club and a jazz dance class. Performance excerpts include the Little swans' pas de quatre from Swan lake, choreographed by Lev Ivanov ; the balcony scene pas de deux from Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, danced by Julie Kent and Ethan Stiefel ; the coda of the pas de deux from George Balanchine's Stars and stripes, danced by Kent and Stiefel ; and two original ballets, the first a neoclassical work "choreographed" by the character Jonathan Reeves [actually created by Christopher Wheeldon], and the second a contemporary piece by the character Cooper [actually Susan Stroman].

Uniform Title

Center stage (Motion picture)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Motion pictures.
Features.
Dance.
Interviews.
Trailers and promo's.
Video.

Note

Special edition.
Widescreen. Aspect ratio is 2.35:1 FHA.
Audio options: English 5.1 (Dolby Digital), English 2-channel (Dolby Surround), French, isolated music score.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Credits (note)

Choreography, Susan Stroman ; choreography of Jonathan's ballet, Christopher Wheeldon ; excerpts from ballets choreographed by Lev Ivanov, Kenneth MacMillan, George Balanchine ; ballet class movement arranged by Kirk Peterson ; music, George Fenton ; production design, David Gropman ; costumes, Ruth Myers ; director of photography, Geoffrey Simpson ; ballet consultant, Kevin McKenzie.

Performer (note)

Amanda Schull (Jody) ; Zoë Saldana (Eva) ; Susan May Pratt (Maureen) ; Peter Gallagher (Jonathan) ; Donna Murphy (Juliette) ; Debra Monk (Nancy) ; Ethan Stiefel (Cooper) ; Sascha Radetsky (Charlie) ; Julie Kent (Kathleen) ; Ilia Kulik (Sergei) ; Eion Bailey (Jim) ; Shakiem Evans (Erik) ; Elizabeth Hubbard (Joan Miller) ; Victor Anthony (Thomas) ; Christine Dunham (audition teacher) ; Lisa Leguillo (ABA girls' class teacher) ; Robert Montano (ABA pas de deux class teacher) ; Megan Pepin (Anna) ; Victoria Born (Emily) ; Kirk Peterson (ABA boys' class teacher) ; Sandra Brown, Elizabeth Gaither, Oksana Konobeyeva, Ekaterina Shelkanova (Swan lake soloists [cygnets' quartet]) ; Elvis Crespo, Giselle Tcherniak (salsa singers) ; Nancy Hess (Sergei's salsa partner) ; Patricia Lopez (jazz class teacher) ; Aesha Ash, Sean Stewart (soloists in Jonathan's ballet) ; others.

Event (note)

Filmed on location at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y.

Language (note)

In English with optional French soundtrack and subtitles.

Contents

Feature presentation (ca. 115 min.).
Special features: Director's commentary.
Making-of featurette (ca. 6 min.) / interviewees, Sascha Radetsky, Ethan Stiefel, Amanda Schull, Susan May Pratt, Peter Gallagher, Nicholas Hytner, Zoë Saldana. Discussion of the challenges and rewards of a dancer's life, interspersed with views of the filmmakers at work and clips from the finished film. Director Nicholas Hytner discusses what he was trying to achieve in the dance scenes.
Extended dance sequences. Includes: Swan lake. Little swans pas de quatre (ca. 1 1/2 min.) / choreography, Lev Ivanov ; music, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky ; danced by Sandra Brown, Elizabeth Gaither, Oksana Konobeyeva, Ekaterina Shelkanova -- Romeo and Juliet. Balcony scene pas de deux [excerpts] (ca. 5 min.) / choreography, Kenneth MacMillan ; music, Sergey Prokofiev ; danced by Julie Kent, Ethan Stiefel -- Stars and stripes. Pas de deux, coda (ca. 2 min.) / choreography, George Balanchine ; music, John Philip Sousa, arr. by Hershy Kay ; danced by Julie Kent, Ethan Stiefel.
Deleted scenes (ca. 2 1/2 min.) / two scenes: Cooper at rehearsal [Ethan Stiefel rehearses the coda from the Stars and stripes pas de deux] ; Charlie shows his stuff [in a scene of a pas de deux class, Sascha Radetsky dances a variation].
Talent files (14 frames) / brief biographies of Susan May Pratt, Peter Gallagher, Donna Murphy, Ethan Stiefel, Ilia Kulik, Debra Monk, and Nicholas Hytner.
Theatrical trailers (ca. 5 min.) / trailers for Center stage and for Dance with me, a film directed by Randa Haines, starring Vanessa L. Williams, Chayanne and Kris Kristofferson.
Mandy Moore music video "I wanna be with you" (ca. 4 min.) / includes ballet and jazz dancers.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-8

ISBN

0767853652

OCLC

45228114
NYPY01-F871

Title

Center stage [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures, a Sony Pictures Entertainment Company ; directed by Nicholas Hytner ; produced by Laurence Mark ; written by Carol Heikkinen.

Imprint

Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures, c2000.

Event

Filmed on location at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y.

Credits

Choreography, Susan Stroman ; choreography of Jonathan's ballet, Christopher Wheeldon ; excerpts from ballets choreographed by Lev Ivanov, Kenneth MacMillan, George Balanchine ; ballet class movement arranged by Kirk Peterson ; music, George Fenton ; production design, David Gropman ; costumes, Ruth Myers ; director of photography, Geoffrey Simpson ; ballet consultant, Kevin McKenzie.

Cast

Amanda Schull (Jody) ; Zoë Saldana (Eva) ; Susan May Pratt (Maureen) ; Peter Gallagher (Jonathan) ; Donna Murphy (Juliette) ; Debra Monk (Nancy) ; Ethan Stiefel (Cooper) ; Sascha Radetsky (Charlie) ; Julie Kent (Kathleen) ; Ilia Kulik (Sergei) ; Eion Bailey (Jim) ; Shakiem Evans (Erik) ; Elizabeth Hubbard (Joan Miller) ; Victor Anthony (Thomas) ; Christine Dunham (audition teacher) ; Lisa Leguillo (ABA girls' class teacher) ; Robert Montano (ABA pas de deux class teacher) ; Megan Pepin (Anna) ; Victoria Born (Emily) ; Kirk Peterson (ABA boys' class teacher) ; Sandra Brown, Elizabeth Gaither, Oksana Konobeyeva, Ekaterina Shelkanova (Swan lake soloists [cygnets' quartet]) ; Elvis Crespo, Giselle Tcherniak (salsa singers) ; Nancy Hess (Sergei's salsa partner) ; Patricia Lopez (jazz class teacher) ; Aesha Ash, Sean Stewart (soloists in Jonathan's ballet) ; others.

Performer

Conductor: George Fenton.

Language

In English with optional French soundtrack and subtitles.

Added Author

Schull, Amanda, performer.

Schull, Amanda, interviewee.

Saldana, Zoë, performer.

Saldana, Zoë, interviewee.

Pratt, Susan May, performer.

Pratt, Susan May, interviewee.

Gallagher, Peter, 1955- performer.

Gallagher, Peter, 1955- interviewee.

Murphy, Donna, performer.

Monk, Debra, 1949- performer.

Stiefel, Ethan, dancer. Interviewee

Radetsky, Sascha. Performer. Interviewee

Kent, Julie, dancer.

Kulik, Ilia. Performer

Dunham, Christine. Performer

Montano, Robert. Performer

Pepin, Megan. Performer

Peterson, Kirk. Performer

Brown, Sandra, dancer.

Konobeyeva, Oksana, dancer.

Crespo, Elvis. Performer

Lopez, Patricia. Performer

Ash, Aesha. Performer

Stewart, Sean. Performer

Moore, Mandy, 1984-

Hytner, Nicholas, film director.

Hytner, Nicholas, interviewee.

Mark, Laurence. Producer

Heikkinen, Carol. Author

Stroman, Susan, choreographer.

Wheeldon, Christopher, choreographer.

Ivanov, Lev, 1834-1901, choreographer.

MacMillan, Kenneth, choreographer.

Balanchine, George, choreographer.

Peterson, Kirk. Teacher

Fenton, George. Composer

Gropman, David. Set designer

Myers, Ruth, 1940- Costume designer

Columbia Pictures.

Added Title

Center stage (Motion picture)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-8

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