TIFF: Day 1 - Rush Line for "The Sun"of Sacura-va-sun

Yesterday was the Day Zero. Tonight is the opening night with the film Water, the final part of the Elements trilogy of a Canadian director Deepa Mentha.
Don't forget that 19 more Canadian movies is receiving world premieres at the festival.
Let's stay united for 10 days with celebrities, makers, watchers, sellers, critiques, buyers, journalists, bloggers, 'tiff-team-membrz', and 'voooolunteers'.

Вчера был День Ноль. Сегодня вечером - премьера фильма Вода, заключительной части трилогии Элементы канадского директора Дипы Менты.
Не забудьте, что еще 19 канадских фильмов заслужили на фестивале мировые премьеры. Давайте объединимся в течение 10 дней со знаменитостями, изготовителями, зрителями, продавцами, критиками, покупателями, журналистами, блоггерами, 'рганизатрами', и 'доообровольцами'.

What do we have for tonight as a left-over in the box-office:

7:45:00 PM Ballets Russes VARSITY 2
8:15:00 PM Douches Froides VARSITY 4
9:45:00 PM Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang RYERSON
11:59:00 PM Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic RYERSON

A bit about Ballets Russes:

Ballets Russes legend Frederic Franklin and filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller will be in Toronto for Q&As after all public screenings and are available for interviews

Ballets Russes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article

Authors about the documentary

Watch the trailer

An "enormously absorbing pic", (Variety, Feb. 15, 2005), Ballets Russes is being distributed in the US and is coming soon the Australia and Canada.

Ballets Russes inspired generations of dancers. A San Francisco couple is keeping their spirit alive on film. by Allan Ulrich, Special to The Chronicle / Tuesday, August 24, 2004

"Alicia Markova (now 93), Maria Tallchief, Irina Baronova and Tatiana Riabouchinska (two of the three celebrated "baby ballerinas"), Nathalie Krassovska, Yvonne Chouteau, Frederic Franklin, Mia Slavenska, Marc Platt and George Zoritch, to cite the most prominent -- add up to a chronicle of ballet in the 20th century."
This generation, Geller notes, was true pioneers. "In the 1930s, for a young person to go into ballet was like running away to join the circus."
What astonished Goldfine and Geller was the dedication of this generation of artists; dance simply coursed through their veins. After retiring, many, like Zoritch and Riabouchinska, continued to teach. Some, like the luminous, 85-year-old Baronova, are writing their memoirs. Others, like Platt, traded ballet for Broadway and the movies. A former member of the corps, Yvonne Craig, ended up as Batgirl on TV.

Ballets Russes Documentary Release
Vancouver, B.C.-based Critic/Historian Leland Windreich just forwarded the following information from Dayna Goldfine of Geller/Goldfine Productions regarding the release of the documentary on which they started production in early 2000:
"...it has just been picked up by a few distributors who plan to release it theatrically before ultimately distributing on DVD/VHS. In the U.S., Zeitgeist Films will distribute and has arranged for its theatrical premiere to take place in October at NY's Film Forum. In Canada, Capri Films will distribute and will likely do a theatrical release just after Zeitgeist's, in Australia Hopscotch Films will do the same."

Erte/Opera & Ballets Russes

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents 'Erte/Opera & Ballets Russes/Dance: Theater Costume in LACMA's Collection,' on view through April 4, 2004. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is one of the few institutions in the world with a sizable group of costumes from the historically and aesthetically important Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet). Featured in this exhibition are thirty spectacular couture costumes created for opera singer Ganna Walska by the renowned fashion and graphic designer Erte. Twenty-two ballet costumes designed by such artists as Henri Matisse, Natalia Goncharova, Sonia Delaunay, and Leon Bakst will also be presented. When the Ballets Russes troupe was introduced in Paris in 1909, it was the major force of an artistic revolution in dance and music that ran parallel to the radical changes in the plastic arts that Europe experienced in the first part of the 20th century. All the costumes and graphics, done during the late teens and 20s, are reflective of the period's fascination with things 'Oriental'-the fantasy, luxury, opulence, and exoticism Europeans found in the culture and arts from such distant lands as Persia, Russia, and China.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It was made possible in part by LACMA's Costume Council and Museum Service Council. Curator: Kaye D. Spilker, associate curator of Costumes and Textiles, LACMA.

The Moscow Times on-line Saturday, March 16, 1996

Erotic Ballets Russes Revisited
By Rosalind Gray

In 1895 Sergei Diaghilev, the founder and genius behind the Ballet Russes, was only 23, yet he already had a clearly defined sense of himself. With irony and panache he exclaimed: "I am, first, a great charlatan, though with dash, second a great charmer, third cheeky, fourth, a person with a lot of logic and few principles and, fifth, someone afflicted, it seems, with a complete absence of talent."

A century later, the legacy of Diaghilev and the circle of designers and dancers who worked with him continues to delight and intrigue, as is demonstrated by a major new exhibition at London's Barbican gallery and its accompanying catalogue and a substantially revised history of "Leon Bakst and the Ballets Russes" by Charles Spencer.

Январь балетомана
Timeout Петербург
24/01/2004

Мариинский балет наконец вернулся с продолжительных зарубежных гастролей. Январь обещает массу важных событий. После двухлетнего перерыва на сцену возвращается Ульяна Лопаткина. Собственно, она уже танцевала в Мариинском театре на знаменитом майском гала-концерте в присутствии звезд мирового политического бомонда (говорят, президент Путин заметил, что наконец-то все встало на свои места и нет никакого сомнения, кто есть "гордость русского балета"). Но тогда это был эскиз, генеральная репетиция возвращения (она танцевала короткую миниатюру Фокина "Лебедь"). В январе Лопаткина появится сначала в фокинской "Шехеразаде", а затем – в "Бриллиантах" из "Драгоценностей" Джорджа Баланчина. Это, что называется, возвращение по полной программе. Лопаткина долго готовилась к бою. ...
С выцветшей фотографии на Миллисент Ходсон смотрели артисты легендарных дягилевских Ballets Russes. Они были сняты в костюмах, гриме и позах балета Стравинского – Нижинского "Весна священная", с которым связан не только самый громкий скандал в искусстве XX века(побоище на премьере в Театре Елисейских полей и последующее безумие Нижинского), но и практически вся эволюция искусства ХХ века. ...
Но и это не всё. В январе в Мариинском театре начинается двухмесячный марафон, о котором все русские балетные артисты мечтают вот уже 15 лет – с тех пор как увидели уникальную видеозапись из Парижской оперы, на которой странный 38-летний человек в очках, непрерывно жующий огромный сэндвич, разучивает с восходящей суперзвездой Сильви Гиллем балет со странным названием In the Middle, Somewhat elevated. В искусстве (в балете, в частности) начиналась эпоха "неомодернизма". Странным человеком в очках был американский хореограф Уильям Форсайт, сегодня признанный единственным наследником Джорджа Баланчина, а через Баланчина – и наследником Мариуса Петипа, а значит – великой хореографической традиции Мариинского театра.

Мариинский театр
Павел Гершензон

Russian Ballet
* Ballet in Russia
* Marinsky Theatre
* Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow)
* Ballets Russes
* Alexander Benois
* George Balanchine (Balanchivadze) (1904-1983)
* Vaslaw Nijinsky (1890-1950)
*Nureyev
* Baryshnikov