George Balanchine

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 and rehearsing their ballet Apollo with Suzanne Farrell. (imdb)

The four Emperors: the composer Igor Stravinsky, the choreographer George Balanchine, the painter Henri Matisse and the entrepreneur Serge de Diaghilev. The Nightingale: the English ballerina Dame Alicia Markova who danced the role of the nightingale in 1925 in Monte-Carlo and Paris, when she was 14 years old. The lost ballet: Le Chant du Rossignol, based on a fairytale of Andersen, created in 1925, and reconstructed in 1999 by two English dancers Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer. (Fipa)

A late 1970s look at Danish ballet star Peter Martins's art and an assessment of what makes him unique and highly lauded on the international stage of ballet. Shot inside the New York City Ballet, the film features Suzanne Farrell, Heather Watts, George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins among other performers and colleagues. (imdb)

A documentary that follows the New York City Ballet, led by Peter Martins, on a tour to Russia, focusing on the works of George Balanchine.