Nina é uma bailarina cuja obsessão pela dança supera todas as facetas de sua vida. Quando o diretor artístico da companhia decide substituir sua prima ballerina para a produção de estreia de "O Lago dos Cisnes", Nina é sua primeira escolha. Sua concorrente é a novata Lily. Embora Nina seja perfeita para o papel do Cisne Branco, Lily personifica o Cisne Negro. A rivalidade entre as duas bailarinas se transforma em uma amizade distorcida e o lado obscuro de Nina começa a vir à tona.
Baseado na música de Tchaikovsky e no adorado conto de fadas, o filme traz Barbie como Odette, a jovem filha do padeiro que segue um unicórnio até a Floresta Encantada. O malvado feiticeiro Rodrigo – que pretende derrotar sua prima a Fada e tomar a Floresta, transforma Odette em cisne. A Fada Rainha consegue amenizar o feitiço fazendo com que Odette seja humana à noite e cisne de dia. Odette percebe que, mesmo que sinta ser a pessoa errada para a tarefa, é seu destino salvar a Floresta Encantada. Mas como pode uma garota armada apenas de sua coragem, honestidade e inteligência conseguir isso, tudo enquanto o belo Príncipe Daniel se apaixona por ela?
Barbie é Kristyn, uma bailarina que tem grandes sonhos de mostrar sua dança, mas todos acham que ela dança mal. Quando ela calça um par de sapatilhas rosas brilhantes, ela e sua melhor amiga Hailey vão de uma maneira mágica ao fantástico mundo do balé. Lá, ela descobre que precisa dançar seguindo seu coração para derrotar a malvada Rainha das Neves.
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today's Moscow.
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.
Ballerina Polina Semionova performs the mythic parts of Odette and Odile (white swan and black swan) with her great partner Stanislav Jermakov. The Zurich Opera House Orchestra is conducted by Russian musical director Vladimir Fedoseyev acclaimed in this repertoire.
Swan Lake, a screen adaptation of the ballet of the same name by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Performed by Kirov Ballet, starring Yelena Yevteyeva as Odette and directed for film by Appolinariy Dudko and Konstantin Sergeyev. Produced by Lenfilm studios in 1968. Orchestra of the S.M. Kirov Leningrad Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, conductor Victor Fedotov. Ballet dancers of the Leningrad State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet named after S.M. Kirov and students of the Leningrad Choreographic School M. Agrippina Vaganova took part in the film. Golden Orchid Prize - Grand Prix at the VIFF of ballet films in Genoa, Italy (1969).
An aspiring classical pianist loses his hearing and, with the help of those closest to him, must find the strength to play again. . .
In EDO, the fabulous wonderland where only men exist, the most beautiful courtesan is Shiratori Dayū. His apprentice's suicide made him desolate, and he finds love when he meets the most popular and sexy candy boy, Furimatsu, at the "Candy Shop." However, the town of EDO bans romantic relationships, and a rare disease starts to spread.
Contemporary dance company Adventures In Motion Pictures' triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake, with its cast of male swans, has turned tradition upside down and has taken the ballet fraternity by storm. Never has such a contemporary re-working of a traditional ballet thrilled both ardent critics and modern dance enthusiasts in such equal measure. Originally broadcast on the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 26, episode 15).