Music, Romance, Comedy
Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter) is one of the choreographer's most joyous and colourful creations. Inspired by his love for the Suffolk countryside, the ballet is set on a farm and tells a story of love between Lise, the daughter of Widow Simone, and Colas, a young farmer. It contains some of Ashton's most stunning choreography, most strikingly in the series of energetic pas de deux that express the youthful passion of the young lovers, performed here by Natalia Osipova and Steven McRae. The ballet is laced with exuberant good humour, and elements of national folk dance, from dancing chickens and a maypole dance to a Lancashire clog dance for Widow Simone, performed by Philip Mosley.
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Bolshoi Ballet: Raymonda
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Step Up 2: The Streets
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Anna Karenina
Three Ballets by Kenneth MacMillan: Elite Syncopations/The Judas Tree/Concerto
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Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs
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London Symphony Orchestra: The Young Debussy
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The Life and Loves of Beethoven
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IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2000
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.Bolshoi Ballet: Raymonda
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2019
Raymonda is betrothed to Jean de Brienne, a gallant knight who pledged to go on a crusade led by the King of Hungary. When her beloved leaves, Abderakhman, a foreign knight, makes a bid for the hand of Raymonda and threatens her fate when she rejects him…Bolshoi Ballet: Le Corsaire
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2012
Inspired by Lord Byron’s epic poem, this jewel of the repertoire boasts a lavish production complete with a shipwreck, pirates, and some of ballet’s most renowned scenes.Step Up 2: The Streets
IMDB 6.7 | Feb , 2008
When rebellious street dancer Andie West lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the school's hottest dancer, Chase Collins, to form a crew of fellow outcasts to compete in Baltimore's underground dance battle The Streets.Top Secret!
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 1984
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.Pyotr Tchaikovsky Ballet 'Swan Lake' 2007 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg
IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 2007
The classic Mariinsky (Kirov) production of the greatest of all ballets. Filmed in the imperial splendor of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. Starring Ulyana Lopatkina, Danila Korsuntsev and the breathtaking Mariinsky corps de ballet. Conducted by the great Russian maestro Valery Gergiev.Anna Karenina
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2010
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IMDB 1 | Feb , 1945
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IMDB 10 | Jul , 2024
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IMDB 7 | Jan , 1991
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 2014
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IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 2023
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IMDB 0 | May , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Apr , 2026
The second part of Sound! Euphonium: The Final Movie.The Life and Loves of Beethoven
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1937
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.Cinderella
IMDB 7 | Dec , 2018
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IMDB 9.5 | May , 2019
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IMDB 8.6 | Dec , 1977
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IMDB 10 | May , 2016
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