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Program 3: Celebrating Russian Ballet Series: Dance on Camera Festival 2008 Director: Various Felia Doubrovska Remembered Virginia Brooks, US, 2008; 37m Born in 1896 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Felia Doubrovska spent 33 years first as a student at the Imperial Ballet School and then as a ballerina with some of the most famous ballet companies in history. After her retirement from the stage, she devoted nearly the same span of time to teaching at the School of American Ballet. This film provides an affectionate memorial and a tribute to an artist who made a great contribution to preserving the ballet tradition; she guided and trained most of the women at NYC Ballet who became the instruments of George Balanchine's choreographic genius. Introduced by the director, with Allegra Kent and Maria Calegari in a Q&A after the screening. Sleeping Ballerina Ludovic Kennedy, UK, 1959; 29m Made at Anton Dolin’s instigation by the BBC, Sleeping Ballerina looks at the career of Olga Spessivtzeva (1895-1991), the Aurora of Sergei Diaghilev’s 1921 production of The Sleeping Princess. The promising dancer joined Diaghilev’s company for its first American tour. She enjoyed great success as the partner of Vaslav Nijinsky, before her career was tragically cut short by mental illness; as legend has it, she lost her memory onstage performing the famous mad scene in Giselle. In 1940 she suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized for 22 years until she recovered, was released and moved to the Tolstoy Foundation, where she lived out her remaining years in relative seclusion. Thanks to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Happy to Be So Yelena Demikovsky, US, 2007; 47m The Belgian-born Russian dancer Oleg Briansky first met his wife, Mireille Briane, in Paris, and the two became inseparable. Premier danseur of many established companies in Europe, named “the most exciting male dancer in England” by Ballet Magazine in 1952, Oleg had to cut short his career due to the early onset of arthritis. In 1963, the couple moved to New York and founded the Briansky Saratoga Ballet School. In this film, they become performers in their own life story. Introduced by the director with special guests Oleg and Mireille Briansky and Sondra Lee*. *Ms. Lee, a friend of the Brianskys, is a dancer/actress/director best known for her role as Tiger Lily in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway production of Peter Pan She was a featured dancer in many celebrated dance companies including "Paris Ballets” with Zizi Jeanmaire and Roland Petit.

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