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American Ballet Theatre, Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title: American Ballet Theatre, Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Panel 1: John Meehan discusses meeting Alexei Ratmansky in Kiev and asking him to dance with Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Ratmansky talks about why he started dancing and joining the Bolshoi School at the age of 10, steps taken to get into Peter Pestov's class at the Bolshoi School, some video excerpts of Ratmansky dancing, starting to choreography after leaving Copenhagen and returning to Kiev for a commission, only hearing about Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov after the Iron Curtain came down in the Soviet Union in 1986-87 and then watching videos of them dancing, how it felt first dancing in a George Balanchine work, receiving a big commision, learning to choreograph on other dancers, being commissioned to create Nutcracker in Russia but then fired and selected to created Nutcracker in Copenhagen, the idea of Bright stream and its original production in the 1930's, being asked to direct the Bolshoi Ballet at the age of 34. Panel 2: Ratmansky talks about his premiere of Bright stream for the Bolshoi, being the director of the Bolshoi Ballet with 220 dancers and 20 coaches, How he got along with the coaches, the overwhelming amount of work as director, what it was like directing his peers, the repertory he brought to the company, performing 250 shows a year, hiring dancers and training them in his new repertoire, leaving the Bolshoi after five years because he needed more time to choreography, becoming a freelance choreography and joining ABT as their resident choreographer, seeing ABT for the first time in Russia, and feeling the support of the ABT dancers and Kevin McKenzie. Panel 3: David Hallberg's experience with Bolshoi Ballet, how Ratmansky's presence is still visible there, Hallberg's foot injury, Nancy Raffa discusses Ratmansky's approach to choreographing, how Ratmansky choreographs and changes pieces until performance time, Hallberg describes working with Ratmansky, how Ratmansky gets dancers to push themselves, Raffa talks about what Ratmansky demands from his dancers, and Hallberg remembers being teriffied at the premiere of the Ratmanksky's Nutcracker with Gillian Murphy. Panel 4: Ratmansky discusses working with dancers in general and how sometimes he is not able to get what he wants, signing a ten year contract with ABT, what his yearly schedule is like, fear of not being able to choreography, working with and being inspired by composer Leonid Desyatnikov (Russian seasons and Lost illusions), difficulty with creating an evening length narrative ballet and his ballet Anna Karenina, using Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for one of his works, and Ratmansky talks about his new work using Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony no. 9 which will be part of a triple bill.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Uniform Title

Nutcracker (Choreographic work : Ratmansky)
Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Alternative Title

Seven sonatas (Choreographic work : Ratmansky)
Bright stream (Choreographic work : Ratmansky)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Filmed dance.
Filmed performances.
Video.
Dance.

Note

Title and credits from the house program.

Event (note)

Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Sept. 30, 2012 (7:30 pm).

System Details (note)

DVD.

Source (note)

Mary Sharp Cronson.

Contents

Introduction (2 min.) / by Mary Sharp Cronson and John Meehan.
Seven sonatas (excerpts) (ca. 4 min.) / choreography by Alexei Ratmansky ; music by Domenico Scarlatti ; costumes by Holly Hynes ; dancers, Joseph Phillips, Sarah Lane, Jared Matthews, Christine Shevchenko.
Panel discussion 1 (ca. 22 min.) / panel, Alexei Ratmansky ; moderator, John Meehan.
The bright stream (excerpts) (3 min.) / choreography by Alexei Ratmansky ; libretto by Adrian Piotrovsky and Fyodor Lopukhov ; music by Dmitri Shostakovich (The bright stream, Op. 39) ; costumes by Elena Markovskaya ; dancers, Veronika Part (Zina) and Stella Abrera (ballerina).
Panel discussion 2 (ca. 12 min.) / panel, Alexei Ratmansky ; moderator, John Meehan.
The nutcracker (Snow pas de deux) (6 min.) / choreography by Alexei Ratmansky ; music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky ; costumes by Richard Hudson ; dancers, Athena Petrizzo (Clara), Kai Monroe (the Nutcaracker boy), Yuriko Kajiya (Clara, the princess), Alexandre Hammoudi (Nutcracker, the prince).
Panel discussion 3 (12 min.) / panel, David Hallberg and Nancy Raffa ; moderator, John Meehan.
Untitled (excerpts) & Coaching demonstration (9 min.) / choreography and coach, Alexei Ratmansky ; music by Dmitri Shostakovich (Symphony no. 9 in E-flat major, op. 70) ; dancers, Polina Semionova and Marcelo Gomez.
Panel discussion 4 (9 min.) / panel, Alexei Ratmansky ; moderator, John Meehan.
The bright stream (tango excerpt) (5 min.) / dancers, Sarah Lane (Galya) and Craig Salstein (accordian player).

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-7812

OCLC

828145748

Title

American Ballet Theatre, Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

System Details

DVD.

Original Version

Original format: 1 DV cassette.

Performer

Panel (in alphabetical order): David Halberg (ABT principal), John Meehan (moderator and professor of dance, Vassar College), Nancy Raffa (ABT ballet mistress), Alexei Ratmansky (ABT artist in residence).

ABT performers (in alphabetical order): Stella Abrera (soloist), Marcelo Gomes (principal), Alexandre Hammoudi (soloist), Yuriko Kajiya (soloist), Sarah Lane (soloist), Jared Matthews (soloist), Veronika Part (principal), Joseph Phillips (corps de ballet), Craig Salstein (soloist), Polina Semionova (principal), Christine Shevchenko (corps de ballet) ; Kai Monroe and Athena Petrizzo (ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School).

Event

Videotaped at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Sept. 30, 2012 (7:30 pm).

Local Note

For program notes see *MGZB Works and process at the Guggenheim [programs].

Source

Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson. NN-PD

Added Author

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Speaker

Meehan, John, 1950- Speaker

Meehan, John, 1950- Moderator

Ratmanskiĭ, Alekseĭ, 1968- choreographer.

Ratmanskiĭ, Alekseĭ, 1968- Speaker

Hallberg, David. Speaker

Raffa, Nancy. Speaker

Abrera, Stella, dancer.

Gomes, Marcelo, dancer.

Hammoudi, Alexandre, dancer.

Kajiya, Yuriko, dancer.

Lane, Sarah (Dancer), dancer.

Matthews, Jared, dancer.

Part, Veronica, dancer.

Phillips, Joseph (Dancer), dancer.

Salstein, Craig, dancer.

Semionova, Polina, dancer.

Shevchenko, Christine, dancer.

Monroe, Kai, dancer.

Petrizzo, Athena, dancer.

Scarlatti, Domenico, 1685-1757. Composer

Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975. Composer

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Composer

Hynes, Holly. Costume designer

Markovskaya, Elena, 1954- Costume designer

Hudson, Richard, 1954- costume designer.

American Ballet Theatre.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Donor

Added Title

Nutcracker (Choreographic work : Ratmansky)

Seven sonatas (Choreographic work : Ratmansky)

Bright stream (Choreographic work : Ratmansky)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-7812

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