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Performing Arts

Performance Arts have been generally merged into the more classical forms of stagecraft, ie. Ballet, Dance, Opera, Theatre and Gilbert & Sullivan, and are listed by title below. Performing music, both studio and live performance are best found under "Music Capsule". Right: The spectacular troupe of "Cirque du Soleil".

From Mao to Mozart (1980)

7.7/10
Director: Murray Lerner
Starring: Isaac Stern, David Golub, Tan Shuzhen

An excellent documentary covering a tour to China by violinist Isaac Stern. The scenes showing his instructing young and talented musicians are superb... Read more

Cirque du Soleil: Midnight Sun (2004)

7.1/10
Starring: Paul Ahmarani, Laur Fugere, Isabelle Hontebeyrie

The world-wide phenomenon that is Cirque du Soleil has produced yet another exciting and lavish spectacle. With a troupe of more than 250 performers... Read more

The Salzburg Festival (2006)

8.2/10
Director: Tony Palmer

The Salzburg Festival has hosted every great star of the opera and concert hall, from Toscanini to Anne-Sophie Mutter, from Fischer-Dieskau to Barenbo... Read more

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)

6.8/10
Director: Andrew Adamson
Starring: Erica Linz, Igor Zaripov

The world-renowned acrobatic entertainers shine once more in this visually extravagant odyssey in which a young woman's enchantment with an aerial per... Read more

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013)

7/10
Director: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Starring: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Mariya Alyokhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich

Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that ha... Read more

Carmen Flamenco (1992)

Director: Rafael Aguilar

The Ballet Theatre Espanol presents a unique dance theatre production, based on the story and music of Bizet's masterpiece, 'Carmen'. Spanish choreog... Read more

Carmen (1983)

7.7/10
Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Antonio Gades, Laura Del Sol, Paco De Lucia

This flamenco adaptation of Bizet's classic opera "Carmen", based on the novel by Merimee, mixes a dramatic story of jealousy and treachery with actua... Read more

Polina ( Polina, danser sa vie ) (2016)

6.8/10
Director: Angelin Preljocaj, Valerie Muller
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Anastasia Shevtsova, Alexsey Guskov

A young girl studies classical ballet. As a young woman she turns to modern dance and choreography. A modern dance piece like Fred Astaire and Gene Ke... Read more

Stravinsky: Once at a Border... (1982)

8.4/10
Director: Tony Palmer
Starring: Stravinsky

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the San Francisco Film Festival, this autobiographical film about one of the most important and influential composer... Read more

The Turning Point (1977)

6.9/10
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerrit...

Shirley MacLaine and Anne Bancroft are estranged friends and dancers at the end of their careers, but they are brought back together by MacLaine's dau... Read more