CENTERSTAGE
The American Ballet Company is for the most gifted and beautiful ballet dancers alive, but you’ll need more than mere physical prowess and determination to succeed. You’ll need to deliver the goods at CENTER STAGE. Jonathan Reeves, the ballet company’s owner is evaluating this young tight-knit group of students as they face the growing pains of their ambitions, romances and heartbreaks which prove to be both invigorating and difficult. The results are a celebration of beauty, bodies, and ballet.
FIRST POSITION
Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the world’s most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. Bess Kargman’s award-winning documentary, FIRST POSITION, follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet, struggling through bloodied feet, near exhaustion and debilitating injuries, all while navigating the drama of adolescence. A showcase of awe-inspiring talent, tenacity and passion, FIRST POSITION paints a thrilling and moving portrait of the most gifted young ballet stars of tomorrow.
Restless Creature
RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELANÂoffers an intimate portrait of prima ballerina Wendy Whelan as she prepares to leave New York City Ballet after a record-setting three decades with the company.
THE WHITE CROW
BASED ON THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF RUDOLF NUREYEV
Rudolf Nureyev, a remarkable young dancer of 22, is a member of the world-renowned Kirov Ballet Company, travelling to Paris in 1961 for his first trip outside the Soviet Union. But KGB officers watch his every move, becoming increasingly suspicious of his behaviour and his friendship with the young Parisienne Clara Saint. When they finally confront Nureyev with a shocking demand, he is forced to make a heart-breaking decision, one that may change the course of his life forever and put his family and friends in terrible danger.
DARCEY BUSSELL: A BALLERINA’S LIFE
British Prima Ballerina lifts the curtain on the ballet world
Prima ballerina Darcey Bussell has been Britain’s hottest dance star ever since she was plucked from corps de ballet obscurity at the age of nineteen. Now at the peak of her career, she is feted for her breath-taking arabesques and bold, physical attack. Her passion is ballet, not the fame it brings.
BALLET RUSSES
Unearthing a treasure trove of archival footage, filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have fashioned a dazzlingly entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupe known as the Ballets Russes. What began as a group of Russian refugees who never danced in Russia became not one but two rival dance troupes who fought the infamous “ballet battles†that consumed London society before World War II.
BALLERINA: A JOHN WICK STORY
Release Date: June 7, 2024
There are a lot of exciting things to expect from the highly-anticipated John Wick spinoff Ballerina, which is set to come out in the summer of 2024 and add to the burgeoning John Wick universe. Now, the franchise known for its stylish action scenes and fight choreography adds another installment set in the same criminal underworld.
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