A Ballets Russes Documentary

In this one of a pair of important Ballets Russes documentaries from the BBC, the other being ‘Diaghilev: The Years in Exile’ (1968).

There are interviews to camera in both with such people as Tamara Karsavina, Lydia Sokolova, Marie Rambert, Alexandre Benois (radio), Cyril Beaumont, Sacheverall Sitwell, Léonide Massine, Ninette de Valois and Nicolas Nabokov.

The YouTube upload is of slightly better quality but there is one tiny glitz in the recording, where the film momentarily stops in one of the interviews with Marie Rambert.

The Vimeo upload is unproblematic.

I am trying - not very successfully - to have a copy of the pair to this documentary - ’Diaghilev: The Years in Exile’ (1968). If anyone knows where we can find it that would be great!

Enjoy!