For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes

2009, documentary

60 minutes

In the centenary year since the founding of the Ballets Russe, this documentary looks back at Sergei Diaghilev and the company he created, what they did and the influence they had, even a 100 years later.

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Cast

Lynn Seymour

Narrator

Alastair Macaulay

Self - Chief Dance Critic: The New York Times

Bob Gottlieb

Self - Writer and Editor

Judith Mackrell

Self - Writer and Dance Critic

Lynn Garafola

Self - Author: 'Diaghilev's Ballets Russes'

Richard Davenport-Hines

Self - Historian and Author

Anna Pavlova

Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

Frederic Franklin

Self - Dancer: Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo

Elena Gludjidze

Self - Principal Dancer: English National Ballet

Wayne Eagling

Self - Artistic Director: English National Ballet

Marie Rambert

Self - Founder: Ballet Rambert (archive footage)

Joan Acocella

Self - Dance Critic

Julian Barran

Self - Art Dealer

Mary Fellows

Self - Fashion Director and Consultant

Howard Goodall

Self - Composer and Broadcaster

Pierre Boulez

Pierre Boulez

Self - Composer and Conductor

Tamara Karsavina

Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

David Dawson

Self - Choreographer

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Self - Composer (archive footage)

Millicent Hodson

Self - Choreographer and Dance Historian

Lydia Sokolova

Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

Léonide Massine

Léonide Massine

Self - Choreographer and Dancer (archive footage)

Pepe Serra

Self - Director: Museu Picasso, Barcelona

Edmonde Charles-Roux

Self - Chanel Biographer

Crew

Directing

Ross MacGibbon

Director

Production

Paul Bullock

Executive producer

Ross MacGibbon

Producer

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