Dancer
This new Christmas ballet film was conceived by Matthew Bourne and directed by his long standing film collaborator Ross MacGibbon. The film celebrates Bourne's power to imaginatively transform ballet, taking dance and dancers off the stage into studio, bringing together projections, animation, and an intimate shooting style to produce a distinctive new way of presenting dance on screen. Those who know Bourne's stage work will spot extracts from many of his biggest hits (including Swan Lake, Edward Scissorhands, and Nutcracker!), but for audiences less familiar with his work this is simply a journey through a series of magical worlds where stories are told through dance.
Ballet Girl / Flamenco Dancer / Masquerade Dancer
La Carlotta (Minnie Driver) é a diva de uma conceituada companhia teatral, que é responsável pelas óperas realizadas em um imponente teatro. Temperamental, La Carlotta se irrita pela ausência de um solo na nova produção da companhia e decide abandonar os ensaios. Com a estréia marcada para o mesmo dia, os novos donos do teatro não têm outra alternativa senão aceitar a sugestão de Madame Giry (Miranda Richardson) e escalar em seu lugar a jovem Christine Daae (Emmy Rossum), que fazia parte do coral. Christine faz sucesso em sua estréia, chamando a atenção do Visconde de Chagny (Patrick Wilson), o novo patrocinador da companhia. O Visconde e Christine se conheceram ainda crianças, mas ele apenas a reconhece na encenação da ópera. Porém o que nem ele nem ninguém da companhia, com exceção de Madame Giry, sabem é que Christine tem um tutor misterioso, que acompanha nas sombras tudo o que acontece no teatro: o Fantasma da Ópera (Gérard Butler).
Dancer
During the first half of 2002, Kylie Minogue toured Europe and Australia. This DVD captures it. Live In Manchester is a good concert that explores Kylie's musical catalog rather well from her days as a manufactured pop tart princess to her current status as icon and electro-pop diva. The concert occurs in seven different acts meant to display Kylie in some of the different manifestaions she has adopted throughout her career. Cultural references are everywhere in this concert. There's a nod to Keith Haring, and many others from Staney Kubrick, burlesque, and sci-fi flicks. It's all hard to catch, but done very well.
