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The ReelDance Archive

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Gillian Lacey

Composer (contributor)

Alexander Balanescu

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Play: on the beach with the Ballets Russes

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TitlePlay: on the beach with the Ballets RussesDate2009SubjectDance FilmDescription

Play choreographs manipulated footage of Ballets Russes soloists playing on Bungen Beach Sydney, late 1930’s. The dancers, leading soloists, are young and carefree. Their body shapes are quite different from today. An amateur cameraman, Ewan Murray-Will, filmed them on the beach and around his beach house where he entertained the dancers in their spare time. Some sequences are as ‘found’. Other sequences have been edited and manipulated to create a new film choreography from the existing fragments.

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The ReelDance Archive was developed by ReelDance Inc. with support from Arts NSW, Australia Council for the Arts and Performance Space.

Production companyMembers of the Ballets RussesExtent00:23:00RegionUnited KingdomCollectionThe ReelDance Archive

Creators

CreatorGillian Lacey

Contributors

Composer (contributor)Alexander Balanescu

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Play: on the beach with the Ballets Russes

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