Jacques d'Amboise

Two of Balanchine’s most beloved ballets, Serenade and Orpheus, in this first release in VAI’s historic series featuring the New York City Ballet in Montreal. Beginning in 1954, NYCB’s Artistic Director and co-founder George Balanchine presented the company in performances produced for Radio-Canada, the Montreal division of Canadian Television. These live telecasts capture legendary dancers in core works of NYCB’s repertoire. Serenade stars Jacques d’Amboise, Diana Adams, and Patricia Wilde. Balanchine himself appears on screen to discuss Orpheus, which stars Nicholas Magallanes and Francisco Moncion dancing the roles they created in the 1948 premiere, and Violette Verdy as Eurydice.

When Jacques d'Amboise took a group of dancers and members of his teaching staff to China, they worked with acclaimed dancer Dou Dou Huang and more than a hundred Chinese children. Their goal: to create a special performance using a variety of dance styles - including hip-hop, freestyle jazz and traditional Chinese folk dance - that would premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre in honor of the 2007 Shanghai Special Olympics World Games. Part of a month-long cultural exchange between d'Amboise's National Dance Institute and several Chinese troupes, featuring some of that country's most talented young dancers, the collaboration underscored the power of dance to transcend obstacles of culture and language.

Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of the country's most gifted 17-year-old performing and visual artists - singled out among thousands of their peers - share a week of dreams as they learn from mentors like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vanessa Williams, Jacques d'Amboise, Michael Tilson Thomas... and from each other. For seven transformative days, the passionate young artists revel in the support, encouragement and attention they have earned.

A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist Joe Raposo after he passed away.

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

Why do over 1,000 New York City schoolchildren audition for a modern dance program that requires them to sacrifice free time and involvement in sports and music? For a chance to study with the charismatic Jacques d'Amboise at the National Dance Institute. His philosophy--that creativity exists within everyone and that trying one's best ensures success--forms the foundation of a unique dance program. This documentary chronicles one school-year-long program including initial auditions, rehearsals, and the creation of an exclusive "SWAT" team, and culminates in an amazing, year-end performance at New York's Felt Forum. D'Amboise's enthusiasm is infectious--children, parents, teachers, professional dancers and musicians, and even local law enforcement officers find themselves involved in his productions. This Academy Award-winning documentary details the inspiring story of how one talented dancer's vision flourished into a coveted New York City dance program.

This documentary follows composer and conductor Igor Stavinsky at his home in California, in London, and in Hamburg where he conducts an orchestra rehearsal. Includes conversations with a variety of friends and musical collaborators. Includes footage of Stravinsky and Balanchine discussing the Variations (in memoriam Aldous Huxley) and rehearsing their ballet Apollo with Suzanne Farrell.

Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have several hits on Broadway but De Sylva's personal ambition leads to friction as the other two increasingly feel left out of things.

Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met. He would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying the problem; but before he may go, he has to get permission from the gatekeeper by telling him his story. Adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical.

남자 형제만 일곱인 폰티피 집안의 장남 아담은 시내에 생활용품을 구입하러 갔다가 엉망인 집안 살림을 해줄 아내감을 찾기로 결심한다. 한편 여관에서 일하는 밀리는 하는 일에 지쳐 있을 무렵 아담의 청혼을 받게 되고 서로에게 첫눈에 끌린 둘은 그 자리에서 결혼식을 올린다. 달콤한 결혼 생활을 꿈꾸던 밀리는 아담의 집에 도착한 후 아담이 남자 일곱을 위해 일해줄 가정부 같은 여자가 필요했음을 알고는 서글픔을 느끼게 된다. 하지만 그녀는 절망하지 않고 교양이라곤 조금도 없는 제멋대로의 시동생들을 멋쟁이로 만들어 모두 결혼을 시켜야겠다고 결심한다. 야생마 같은 여섯 동생들의 일은 잘 풀리는 것 같았지만 여섯다 마을 소풍때 만났던 아가씨들이 그리워 병이 날 지경이다. 동생들을 위해 아담은 로마인들처럼 여자들을 납치해서 결혼식부터 올리고 보자는 계획을 내고 실행에 옮기는데. 밀리는 아담의 행동을 크게 나무라며 아가씨들을 돌려보내라고 하지만 마음과 통하는 길이 눈사태로 막혀 어쩔 수 없이 눈이 녹을 때까지 함께 있을 수 밖에 없는 상황이 된다. 겨울이 킨 탓에 그동안 아가씨들은 형제들을 좋아하게 되고 눈이 녹아 길이 뚫리자 돌려보내려 하지만 돌아가길 거부하고 결국 여섯 형제와 아가씨들은 행복한 합동 결혼식을 올리게 된다.

A ballet version of Shakespeare's play, featuring the New York City Ballet.