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Nini

Title
Nini [videorecording] / director, Lone Falster ; producer, Karen Wolf.
Publication
2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Theilade, Nini.
  • Theilade, Nini
  • Flindt, Vivi
  • Falster, Lone.
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (51 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Reminiscences by Danish dancer and choreographer Nini Theilade, intercut with rehearsal and performance footage of her dance work The storm. She discusses growing up in Java, Copenhagen, and Paris; her debut as dancer and choreographer; touring Europe and the United States as a solo recitalist; her difficult relationship with her mother; working for theater director Max Reinhardt in Berlin; staging her ballet Psyche for the Royal Danish Ballet; filming Reinhardt's A midsummer night's dream in Hollywood; dancing in Leonide Massine's choreography for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; marriage and retirement from performing; staging Psyche and The blade of grass for Danish television; teaching in her ballet academies. Among the dance excerpts are her solo The lotus, filmed in 1936; her scene as the lead fairy in Reinhardt's A midsummer night's dream; scenes from Massine's ballet inspired by St. Francis of Assisi [Nobilissima visione]; excerpts from the television productions of Psyche and The blade of grass.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Video.
Credits (note)
  • Choreography for The storm, Nini Theilade ; lighting designer, Jens Klastrup ; editors, Aase Holm, Edda Urup.
  • Produced by Q-media.
System Details (note)
  • DVD.
Source (note)
  • Lone Falster
Language (note)
  • Contains Danish and English versions; credits in Danish.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-5960
OCLC
701366743
Title
Nini [videorecording] / director, Lone Falster ; producer, Karen Wolf.
Imprint
2009.
Country of Producing Entity
Denmark.
System Details
DVD.
Credits
Choreography for The storm, Nini Theilade ; lighting designer, Jens Klastrup ; editors, Aase Holm, Edda Urup.
Produced by Q-media.
Performer
Danced by Nini Theilade ; dancers in The storm, Vivi Flindt (the Widow), Marlene Smith, Lotte Sigh, Johanne H. Dam, Ann Brochner, Susanne Rasmussen ; Javanese dancers, Sri Setyoasih, Hari Mulyatno.
Language
Contains Danish and English versions; credits in Danish.
Source
Gift; Lone Falster, June 2010. NN-PD
Added Author
Theilade, Nini. Speaker
Theilade, Nini, dancer.
Theilade, Nini, choreographer.
Flindt, Vivi, dancer.
Falster, Lone. Director
Falster, Lone. Donor
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-5960
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