Igor Stravinsky

Celebrating the achievements of Ballets Russes under Diaghilev's guidance and their continuing influence on dance, art and music today.

A look at the life of Aldous Huxley, mainly through the eyes of his second wife Laura. (imdb)

This autobiographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen publicly before. (imdb)

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)