Les Films du Prieuré

In 1988, Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev form the most prestigious couple in Soviet ballet, both at home and on stage. In this feature-length documentary they can be seen rehearsing, teaching, visit and heard sharing their memories and talking about the status of the artist under the Soviet regime.

Documentary about the great star dancer Serge Peretti, later to become a famed dance teacher at the Opera de Paris.

Documentary portrait of ballerina Nina Vyroubova.

At the Paris Opera, a ballet dancer Monique Loudières performs "Giselle," "In the Night," and "Don Quixote" alongside some of today's greatest artists.

Rosella Hightower teaches the role Aurora in Tchaikovsky's' Sleeping Beauty' to Elisabeth Platel.

John Neumeier, of the Hamburg Opera, and Patrick Dupond, principal dancer at the Paris Opera, rehearse of Stravinsky's ballet 'Petrushka'.

Choreographer John Neumeier and dancer Patrick Dupond rehearse for a new version of Stravinsky's "Petrushka"

Film based on the meditations of Christian philosophers Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

An elegant young woman in her messy room answers the phone call from her lover. This one, who intends to leave her, tries to make her understand what he is up to without hurting her too much, hypersensitive as she is. All means are good: big words, cajolery, denial, lies. As for the woman, who senses that this is the end, she desperately tries to win him back, passing from tenderness to passion, from the threat of attempted suicide to calm, from regret to outbursts of violence.

Nina Vyrobouva and Attilio Labis, star dancers of the Paris Opera, are filmed in rehearsal and on stage.

The great Alicia Markova talks with Dominique Delouche about her life and her roles with the Ballets Russes under Serge Diaghilev.