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Strictly Come Dancing: The Live Tour

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starring: Lilia Kopylova, Darren Gough (II), Flavia Cacace, Matt Di Angelo, Matthew Cutler

Release Date November 10, 2008
if you are a fan of strictly or of dancing then this is the dvd for you! full of beautiful dances, even if you dont watch the show you will enjoy it!

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Viva La Diva - Darcey Bussell and Katherine Jenkins (NTSC)

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by: Various

Release Date November 10, 2008
Full marks to Bussell and Jenkins for putting together and performing this high-quality and fun show, but boo-hiss for the camera operator and the editor for a barely adequate final product.

The camera work is somewhat frenetic, resting on a shot for only a few seconds. While this doesn't really detract from Katherine Jenkins' performance, where we concentrate on her voice, it completely fails for Darcey Bussell's dance, as it would for any ballet or modern dance.

And it's in fuzzy NTSC format, making the show look rather like something by Turner. As for the Extras! What were they recorded on? The images are too often smudged, as though they are compiled by imperfect predictive software.

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Tales Of Beatrix Potter [1971]

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starring: The Royal Ballet

Release Date November 20, 2006
Absolute magic! I saw this as a child and it inspired me into career of dance. As a child, I adored to watch it and try to imitate the characters. Frederick Ashton's choreoegraphy brings the animals to life with imagination and fun. In the early 70's The Royal Ballet was in it's glory days with dancers like beautiful Leslie Collier, Wayne Sleep and Michael Coleman: who's Pas De Chat-ing Jeremy Fisher I'll never forget, dancers filled with style, creativeness and that tremendous RB technique. This is a joy, something to have on the shelf for any ballet fan or budding ballerina. Enjoy!

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Matthew Bourne Collection

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by: Matthew Bourne

Release Date September 22, 2008
Absolute magic! I saw this as a child and it inspired me into career of dance. As a child, I adored to watch it and try to imitate the characters. Frederick Ashton's choreoegraphy brings the animals to life with imagination and fun. In the early 70's The Royal Ballet was in it's glory days with dancers like beautiful Leslie Collier, Wayne Sleep and Michael Coleman: who's Pas De Chat-ing Jeremy Fisher I'll never forget, dancers filled with style, creativeness and that tremendous RB technique. This is a joy, something to have on the shelf for any ballet fan or budding ballerina. Enjoy!

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The Best Of Riverdance

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starring: Michael Flatley, Jean Butler
directed by: John McColgan

Release Date November 14, 2005
Unfortunateley this DVD ruined Riverdance for me. I eagerly bought it but, rather than showing the best performance of each itemn, I was presented with edits of three different performances, chopping and changing in mid item with no continuity. I'll just have to hope that the original, which I have on video, is released on DVD (seems a forlorn hope now), or buy the New York show.

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Lord of the Dance [1996]

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starring: Michael Flatley, Bernadette Flynn, Daire Nolan, Gillian Norris, Helen Egan
directed by: David Mallet

Release Date April 27, 1998
Wow this show is the best ever Micheal Flatley dances like i've never seen him dance before , the excitment of the show brings the magic of irish dance to life . Lord the Dance proves that Micheal Flatley is the worlds greatest irish dancer ever . Truely Magical :):):):):):):)

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La Fille Mal Gardée, [2005]

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starring: Carlos Acosta (Colas), Marianela Nuñez (Lise), William Tuckett (Simone), Jonathan Howells (Alain)
directed by: Frederick Ashton (Choreographer);Anthony Twiner (Conductor)

Release Date June 02, 2008
One of the all time great performances of 'La Fille' - thankfully captured on film for us all to savour forever.
A perfect partnership for this ballet where both dancers share perfect chemistry. Carlos Acosta already an international ballet star is in perfect form - his sense of timing and comedy blends well with the complex Aston style. The beautiful, cheeky and sunny Marinella Nunez shines gloriously as Lise - a role she was born to play. Make no mistake, Argentine born Nunez is one of the finest dancers of her generation. Covent Garden and the british ballet world has already fallen head over heals in love with this lovely lady - apart from her obvious elegance and talent she also possesses the likeability factor - her genuine warmth makes people ... Read More:

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The Kirov Ballet - Swan Lake - Kirov Ballet (NTSC)

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starring: The Kirov Ballet

Release Date June 26, 2006
A feast to delight the most critical amongst us,the sets, the corps,the costumes and the principle dancers,all beautiful,but maybe just missing that little sparkle which would have made this great.The orchestra though was superb under the baton of Viktor Fedetov.
Rothbart(Eldar Aliyev)was an inspired choice,who could give the evil stare as required,played his part admirably as did court jester (Yuri Fateyev),but the star of the show Yulia Makhalina only seemed to me to come alive as Odile,and never mastered the birdlike movements required as shall we say can Alla Mikhalchenco.I cant fault Igor Zelensky as I found him to be a very good Siegfried.
Sadly this production did not include the Russian dance,one of the undoubted highlights of Swan Lake.Would ... Read More:

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The Video Dictionary Of Classical Ballet [1988]

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starring: Georgina Parkinson, Merrill Ashley, Denise Jackson, Kevin McKenzie (II)

Release Date March 05, 2007
I have not watched all of this yet but have found it very well photographed and put together and the dancers are extremely able and the camera angles clarify things. I was sceptical about how useful this could be but it is better than I thought, and I can see it would be a great learning tool for any serious ballet student or anyone with an interest in ballet who did not already know(from taking class) the way in which ballet moves are constructed, pirouettes developed etc

Really good.

Highly recommended.

I wish the dancers smiled more throughout but I expect their faces would have got very strained so I can see why they decided not to.

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Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker

CD-Charts > DVD > Ballet and Dance
from: Warner Music Vision

Release Date December 22, 2003
Whilst I am a big ballet fan for some reason the 'traditional' nutcracker has always left me cold. I went to see this version on stage to fill a night when my mum was visiting-I have never been so pleasantly delighted in my life! We both loved it-there was so much more of a coherent engaging story with characters that you actually felt something for (something missing from the 'regular' version). Inventive, colourful, simply fantastic!