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CLEAN : Italian prima ballerina Eleonora Abbagnato bids farewell to Paris's Garnier Opera
Italian prima ballerina Eleonora Abbagnato will finally bid farewell to the Opéra Garnier on 11 June, at the end of an evening paying tribute to Roland Petit (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Kyiv City Ballet welcomed in residence at Paris theatre
The Kyiv City Ballet performs to much applause at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, which has offered its dancers a temporary residency following Russia's invasion of Ukraine (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Performance mixing song, dance, Mozart and 14 dogs
1. Ext Saddlers Wells Theatre
2. Dogs arriving
3. Performance - 'Wolf'
4. SOUNDBITE (English ) Alain Platel, Director:
"The way it worked is, as I did before, I looked for a group of dancers that had to be very different. They had to...
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Dance version of 'Edward Scissorhands' opens
1. Performance clip - 'Edward Scissorhands' ballet
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Bourne, Director and Choreographer::
"It's the kind of story I am always drawn to, the story of an outsider really, someone who has a lot of obstacles to...
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RUSSIA: FINANCIAL CRISIS MEANS MORE CLOSURES OF CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS
Russian/Eng/German/Nat
Russia's most coveted cultural attractions have shut their doors in yet another casualty of the country's massive financial crisis.
From Moscow's famous Lenin Library to the world-renowned Hermitage museum in St....
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Chinese director turns his hit film into a ballet
1. Wide shot pan red lanterns on the stage before the dressing rehearsal
2. Medium wide orchestra in the orchestra pit
3. Medium wide shot orchestra conductor and other members in the pit
4. Tracking shot from close up dancer's foot to...
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Royal ballet's principal ballerina performs in Kenya
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Mombasa - August 4, 2007
1. Various of Mara Galeazzi performing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mara Galeazzi, Principal Dancer for the Royal ballet.
"It is a charity where we are going to try to do a...
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Donkey theatre star celebrates her birthday
1. Wide shot exterior Mariinsky Theater
2. Close up notice board with announcements, including Don Quixote ballet
3. Mid Monika the donkey jumping out from a van
4. Wide shot Don Quixote ballet scene (from backstage)
5. Mid actors...
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Suspects in acid attack on Bolshoi Ballet chief in court
1. Yuri Zarutsky, accused of throwing the jar of acid in the ballet chief's face,surrounded by police being put into cell inside the court room
2. Cutaway Russia's national seal on the court room wall
3. Zarutsky inside the cell
4. Wide...
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USA - Nureyev's Wares Fetch Big Bucks At Auction
New York, USA Natsot Duration: 1.24"
The Rudolf Nureyev "collection" has gone under the hammer at Christie's auction house... a collection of the ballet star's costumes, ballet slippers and memorabilia. The...
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BRAZIL: RIO: BALLET PERFORMANCE AT CENTRAL STATION (V)
Voice and effects
Central station in Rio de Janeiro, made famous around the world by the success of the film of the same name, is once more attracting audiences.
Passengers thronging the busy station were treated to a special...
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Ballet lessons bring grace and hope to the lives of girls in Brazil's gritty favelas
Girls from a rough neighbourhood known as "cracolandia", or "crackland", in Sao Paulo are learning the graceful art of ballet courtesy of a local church group.
Twice a week, more than 20 girls, aged five to 12, put on pink or black...
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Dance Company fuses Spanish Flamenco with Cuban dance
Havana, 25 January 2008
1. Exterior of "Mella" theatre
2. Medium of people walking in theatre
3. Close-up of promotional banner for "Vida"
4. People looking at photographs featuring scenes of the show
5. Wide of people in theatre
6....
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Art review of 2011
AP Television
Hong Kong - May 25, 2011
1. Mid of artwork of heads nodding, "Fermentation of Nose", 2011, by Heri Dono
2. Various of 2 paintings of Chairman Mao by Andy Warhol, Mao, 1973
3. Various of visitors to the Hong Kong Art...
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USA: NEW YORK: RUDOLF NUREYEV COLLECTION AUCTION
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A jacket Rudolf Nureyev wore in a 1979 production of "Don Quixote" was sold for $32,000 Thursday at a sale at Christie's in New York.
The first day of a two-day auction of the late ballet dancer's costumes, shoes and other...
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Iconic crooner defies entry ban to perform before pro-Russian audience at concert
In defiance of Ukraine, a revered Soviet-era crooner performed to an ecstatic audience of elderly people and gun-wielding men in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Monday.
Ukraine had warned 77-year-old Iosif Kobzon, a Russian singer and...
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Degas at the Ballet blockbuster opens in London
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London, UK - September 13, 2011
1. Various of pastels and paintings of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jill DeVonyar, co-curator, Degas and the Ballet:
"Actually there is a very tough side to Degas,...
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Dress rehearsal of "Sleeping Beauty" at Bolshoi
1. Various of rehearsal of the first act of the ballet 'Sleeping Beauty'
2. Wide of Yuri Grigorovich, choreographer of the Bolshoi
3. Wide of US dancer David Hallberg about to address the media
4. Cutaway of media
5. SOUNDBITE...
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Young people feel the beat at arts festival
In Bahrain, this is a rare treat.
Ballet is not something that's really taken hold in the island kingdom yet - or in the Gulf as a whole.
But these dancers from Jordan are hoping to get young people hooked and change all that.
They're...
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Miss World competitors on being in London and meeting each other
Miss World is getting ready to kick up some glamour and talent.
The oldest surviving beauty pageant will showcase its bevy of talented beauties in London this year - its place of birth - where 120 contestants will be going through...
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Acclaimed Russian ballet company visits Morocco for the fifth time
The Moscow Classical Ballet company has performed the iconic Don Quixote in Rabat.
The dancers were on stage for a three-night run at Mohammed V National Theatre.
Ballerinas demonstrate their grace, poise and skill.
They're dancing the...
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CLEAN : Cubas overweight ballet troupe feels like dancing
CLEAN : Cubas overweight ballet troupe feels like dancing
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Vermont Ballet Group Dances Down on the Farm
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLYPoultney, Vermont - August 7, 20161. Medium shot of cow2. Pan from pig to farm meadow with dancers3. Medium shot of ballet dancers4. SOUNDBITE: Lindsey Halman,...
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CLEAN : Bolshoi announces La Scalas Vaziev as new ballet chief
CLEAN : Bolshoi announces La Scalas Vaziev as new ballet chief