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How Ballet Was Saved (1970)

1970 · Short film · 29 min

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Brenda Last, Nicholas Johnson, Janet Francis, Margaret Barbieri, Oliver Symons, and other dancers of the Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, England Points out that ballet was nearly destroyed when male dancers scorned the art after women began to dance key roles. Shows that in Russia the quality of ballet music improved, in part through the inclusion of national folk dances, and men found rewarding careers as dancers

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29 minutes

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