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For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes

2009

1h 0m

TV MovieDocumentary

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.

Top Cast

Lynn Seymour

Lynn Seymour

Narrator

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Alastair Macaulay

Self - Chief Dance Critic: The New York Times

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Bob Gottlieb

Self - Writer and Editor

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Judith Mackrell

Self - Writer and Dance Critic

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Lynn Garafola

Self - Author: 'Diaghilev's Ballets Russes'

R

Richard Davenport-Hines

Self - Historian and Author

Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova

Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

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Frederic Franklin

Self - Dancer: Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo

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Elena Gludjidze

Self - Principal Dancer: English National Ballet

Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld

Self