In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.
Marco Spada was created at the Paris Opera in 1857 with choreography from Joseph Mazilier and music adapted from Daniel Auber’s comic opera of Marco Spada. Soon forgotten, the ballet was revived in 1981 with a brand new choreography by Pierre Lacotte for the Rome Opera, with Rudolf Nureyev as the 18th-century Italian bandit pretending to be an aristocrat, and Ghislaine Thesmar as his daughter Angela.
At the Bolshoi, Marco Spada was premiered on the historic stage on November 8, 2013. Leading roles were performed by David Hallberg (Marco Spada), Evgenia Obraztsova (Angela), Olga Smirnova (Marchesa Sampietri), Semyon Chudin (Prince Frederici), and Igor Tsvirko (Count Pepinelli). Pierre Lacotte designed sets and costumes.
The classic Mariinsky (Kirov) production of the greatest of all ballets. Filmed in the imperial splendor of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. Starring Ulyana Lopatkina, Danila Korsuntsev and the breathtaking Mariinsky corps de ballet. Conducted by the great Russian maestro Valery Gergiev.
Ballerina is a 2006 documentary film that follows the training sessions, rehearsals, and everyday lives of five Russian ballerinas at different stages in their career.
소설가가 되기 위해 번듯한 직장을 박차고 나온 자비에! 하지만, 그의 소설을 받아주는 출판사는 한군데도 없다. 집세를 위해 잠시라고 굳게 다짐한 에로영화 대본만 벌써 3년째다. 30대가 되면 뭔가 심오한 인생의 문제를 거창하게 고민하며 폼나게 살 줄 알았건만 고민 중 팔할은 여전히 여자문제다. 지겨운 일상의 반복이던 ‘자비에’ 인생에 봄이 온 걸까? 슈퍼모델 ‘셀리아’의 자서전 대필 청탁 이후 ‘셀리아’는 물론 백화점에서 만난 매력녀 ‘알리샤’ 그리고 예전의 룸메이트 ‘웬디’까지… 멋진 여자들과의 미끈한 연애가 술술 풀려나간다. 특히, ‘웬디’의 재발견은 놀랍기만 하다. 소심녀였던 ‘웬디’가 이렇게 멋지게 돌아오다니… 강같이 넘치는 연애를 위해 부지런히 런던과 파리 쌍트 페테르부르크를 오가는 ‘자비에’. 언제쯤 꼭 맞는 그녀를 찾을 수 있을까?
