Ballets Russes is a 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 feature

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 documentary

Documentary film

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 about the dancers of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was a ballet company created by members of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo in 1938 after Léonide Massine and René Blum had a falling-out with the co-founder Wassily de Basil...

. It was directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller, and featured Irina Baronova

Irina Baronova

Irina Mikhailovna Baronova , FRAD was a Russian ballerina who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s...

, Alicia Markova

Alicia Markova

Dame Alicia Markova, DBE, DMus, was an English ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely considered to be one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of the...

, George Zoritch

George Zoritch

George Zoritch was a dancer born in Moscow. He joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1935 and toured with them in the United States after WWII...

, and Tatiana Riabouchinska

Tatiana Riabouchinska

Tatiana Mikhaylovna Riabouchinska was a Russian-born prima ballerina.She was born in Moscow in 1917. She was trained by the great Mathilde Kschessinska, and was later a prima ballerina in France. Together with Irina Baronova and Tamara Toumanova she was the third of Colonel W. de Basil's "baby...

, among others. It was narrated by Marian Seldes

Marian Seldes

Marian Hall Seldes is an American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career has spanned six decades and who was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.-Life and career:...

. It is distributed by Zeitgeist Films

Zeitgeist Films

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Dancers

Dancers appearing in the film include:

• Alan Howard
• Alicia Markova
  Alicia Markova
  Dame Alicia Markova, DBE, DMus, was an English ballerina and a choreographer, director and teacher of classical ballet. Most noted for her career with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and touring internationally, she was widely considered to be one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of the...
  
  
• Frederic Franklin
• George Zoritch
  George Zoritch
  George Zoritch was a dancer born in Moscow. He joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1935 and toured with them in the United States after WWII...
  
  
• Irina Baronova
  Irina Baronova
  Irina Mikhailovna Baronova , FRAD was a Russian ballerina who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s...
  
  
• Marc Platt
  Marc Platt (dancer)
  Marc Platt is an American ballet dancer and musical theatre performer.Platt was trained by the influential teacher Mary Ann Wells...
  
  
• Maria Tallchief
  Maria Tallchief
  Maria Tallchief was the first native-American prima ballerina. From 1942 to 1947 she danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, but she is best known for her time with the New York City Ballet from 1947 to 1965.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mia Slavenska
• Miguel Terekhov
• Nathalie Krassovska
• Nina Novak
• Nini Theilade
• Raven Wilkinson
• Rochelle Zide
• Tamara Tchinarova Finch
• Tatiana Riabouchinska
  Tatiana Riabouchinska
  Tatiana Mikhaylovna Riabouchinska was a Russian-born prima ballerina.She was born in Moscow in 1917. She was trained by the great Mathilde Kschessinska, and was later a prima ballerina in France. Together with Irina Baronova and Tamara Toumanova she was the third of Colonel W. de Basil's "baby...
  
  
• Tatiana Stepanova
  Tatiana Stepanova
  Tatiana Victorovna Stepanova, also Tetyana Stepanova, is a Ballet master, choreographer, ballet dancer, critic, essayist and historian of the dance.-Biography:...
  
  
• Wakefield Poole
  Wakefield Poole
  Wakefield Poole is an American dancer, choreographer, theatrical director, and pioneering film director in the gay pornography industry from the 1970s and 1980s....
  
  
• Yvonne Chouteau
  Yvonne Chouteau
  Myra Yvonne Chouteau is one of the "Five Moons" or Native prima ballerinas of Oklahoma. In 1962 she and her husband founded the first fully accredited university dance program in the United States, at the University of Oklahoma. A member of the Shawnee Tribe, she is also of ethnic French...
  
  
• Yvonne Craig
  Yvonne Craig
  Yvonne Joyce Craig is an American actress best known for her role as Batgirl from the 1960s TV series Batman, and as the Orion Marta in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Whom Gods Destroy”.-Early life and career:...
  
  

Awards

Ballets Russes was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2005 Gotham Awards

Gotham Awards

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, and winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2005 Hamptons International Film Festival

Hamptons International Film Festival

Hamptons International Film Festival was founded to provide a forum for independent filmmakers from around the world to express their vision. The Festival is traditionally held for five days in mid-October in theatre venues from Montauk to Southampton and attracts roughly 15,000 visitors annually...

. The film came third in the Best Nonfiction Picture category at the National Society of Film Critics Awards 2005

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2005

The 40th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given by the National Society of Film Critics on 7 January 2006, honored the best in film for 2005.-Best Picture::1. Capote2. A History of Violence3. 2046-Best Director::...

, and second in the Top Five Documentaries category at the National Board of Review Awards 2005

National Board of Review Awards 2005

The 77th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were given on 12 December 2005.-Top 10 films:#Good Night, and Good Luck.#Brokeback Mountain#Capote#Crash...

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External links

• Official site
• Ballets Russes at the Internet Movie Database
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