Ballets Russes

The documentary takes up a ballet company. The company is the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Its founders were dancers who left the country after the Russian Revolution. To many people modern ballet began with them. The film tells the company’s story from the start. Its stars and the works it staged are inside the account. But the account is not limited to the stage. There are the power games inside the company as well. Rivalries and troubles are told too. These shaped the company’s turbulent history. Former dancers speak in the film in their own words. Irina Baronova and Frederic Franklin appear in Dayna Goldfine and Daniel Geller’s American documentary of 2005.