Ballerina and Soldier Teach basic ballet steps.

Margot Fonteyn said that the future of ballet lies in the hands of the people of Asia. We will focus on the development of ballet in Asia. What have Hong Kong and China done with the Russian "Vaganova" technique and why are they winning all of the ballet competitions around the world?

Mozart was without doubt the most prodigiously gifted of all Western composers. More than any other composer, it is his mythological biography - from the archetypal 'Wunderkind' childhood to his early obscure death - that defines our popular conception of a great composer. This film unravels two hundred years of fiction and myth. The deteriorating relationship Mozart had with his father, and his choice of Constanze for his wife are re-assessed in...

Tibetan people are known to be candid, compassionate, and devout. Years of oppression, geographical conditions, and weather conditions significantly impact Tibetan dance movement. This film examines their dance style that reflects daily life and maintains a strong religious quality.

The Ballerina had planned a “Pas de Trois” dance with the Strongman and the Clown but accidentally left out the Goblin. To get attention, the Goblin plays tricks on the other boys and the Ballerina ends up blaming the wrong person. But all is cleared up in the end and they include their friend Goblin in a “Pas de Quatre” dance instead.

Experience Alexander Ekman´s exceptional ballet, A Midsummer Night´s Dream, created for the Royal Swedish Ballet with a score by award-winning Mikael Karlsson. This contemporary ballet explores the energy and the mysteries of the summer solstice night in the Scandinavian tradition. The program also features experimental pop singer Anna von Hausswolff, acclaimed percussionist Niklas Brommare, and the classical string quartet Dahlkvistkvartetten.

Volume VI of the How to Dance Through Time series reveals social interactions in the 19th century ballroom and demonstrates group dance formations and figures. Dancers parade around the room to view prospective dance partners-and to be viewed by others-in the Grand March. Next, the Lancers' Quadrille, a forerunner to the American square dance, exhibits a variety of the period's fluid, geometric patterns in five sections. Lastly, the coquettish Cotillon...

An orally transmitted musical heritage of a culture, in the 1930s, enjoyed a resurgence during the Great Depression following stock market crash, droughts and dust storms encouraged farmers out of the dust bowl to California and New York State. The American folk music revival began with performers like Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Paul Robeson. Breakthrough act The Weavers sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, labour songs,...

Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, is considered the most powerful woman in American politics. Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the House and the first woman to be third in line for the presidency. Among her greatest accomplishments in government was the passage of the Affordable Care Act/Obama Care, providing millions of Americans access to medical insurance. She shares what it was like wielding such political...

All choreographed genres, from scenic dance to folkloric and tribal dance, feature group dance, whether the group is made up of three or thirty dancers. From the Farandole to the chorus line, from dancing in a ring to mass-anarchy, from the rigours of the ballets corps to the flamboyance of Bollywood, all group dance enjoys a highly communicative, communal energy. Dancing together, sharing music and space, as one or disjointedly, in unison or out...