A South Bank special documenting the creation, background and first performance of the Royal Ballet's Mayerling.
Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from Les Sylphides and The Sleeping Beauty.
Patricia Foy’s absorbing documentary Rudolf Nureyev, a portrait of surely the most committed and versatile dancer in the history of ballet, was made in 1991, two years before his death. It is as much the study of a life apart as a profile of a tireless jet-setting artist. His career took him from a poverty-stricken provincial childhood to life as a student at the Kirov, through...