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- Everything you wanted to know about Maya Plissetskaya, the Bolshoi prima ballerina, from her green years in Moscow, to her training years at the Bolshoi school of Dance, to her brilliant international career with emphasis on her personal creative style - often imitated but never equaled, to her active retirement. At 73, Maya Plissetskaya is still full of life and filled with passion, a joy to be in the company of.
- April 1999, D-Day minus 275 in the Kalahari Desert, like everywhere on earth. In 8 months, the year 2000. In the village of Auru, Emmanuelle, an ethnomusicologist, has five Bushmen musicians rehearse. In 2 weeks, they are giving a series of concerts in Paris. In Paris, hunters and women with ocher painted faces and scarified legs are transformed for a few days into consumer tourists, fascinated by roller skates, the Eiffel Tower and the slaloms on motorbikes of pizza delivery men. The music of hunting or healing rituals becomes for a time a staged show, through which the bushmen question their own culture. At what price do these music and money transactions take place? What will be the impact when returning to the village? Contrary to popular belief - the gods fell on their heads? - it may well be that the bushmen have their own idea about it.
- Irène Aïtoff, 94 years old, the piano accompanist of many a glory of the second half of the 20th century music, resuscitates the musicians and singers she helped to flourish, from Yvette Guilbert to Gabriel Bacquier to Manuel Rosenthal and many others.
- Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
- This film about Karin Waehner, dancer, choreographer and remarkable pedagogue, is filled with many moving testimonies.
- In Santiago de Cuba, Cyrius is a young French musician, often referring to his southern Spanish roots, who works hard on crossbreed music and associates it with local dance styles, performance and concert, cooperating with Cuban musicians.
- A sound and mechanical object triggering music, gestures and words, imposing rituals and encouraging encounters, the piano resonates throughout the film, echoing the singular stories of the participants: artists, tuners, repairers, movers.
- An amazing musical duel between two guitar heroes, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter Keiji Haino and French free improvisation guitarist Jean-François Pauvros, playing live on stage at Musique Action Festival in Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy.
- A musical boat-trip with guitar performers Keiji Haino and Jean-François Pauvros playing live at the Batofar, in Paris, or how a couple of youngsters take advantage of an eclipse to virtually sail from Paris to Yokohama on a red lightship.
- The great Alicia Markova talks with Dominique Delouche about her life and her roles with the Ballets Russes under Serge Diaghilev. Between 1925 and 1928, Karsavina, Pavlova, Sergueev, Egorova, Fokine and Spessivtseva, all brilliant dancers with the Ballets Russes, left a lasting mark on the young British ballerina's artistic career. After the death of the famous Russian impresario in 1929, Alicia Markova returned to England, where she worked alongside the famous choreographer Frederick Ashton, and in 1950 founded what was to become the English National Ballet. In the company of the Stars and Dancers of the Paris Opera, Alicia Markova delivers her memoirs, those of an exceptional dancer who worked with the greatest names in dance throughout the 20th century.
- Denise Duval, the great soprano, friend and muse of the composer Francis Poulenc, who in 1959 created the role of the woman whom her lover left by telephone in "La Voix humaine", who replayed the role a decade later in front of the cameras of the film-maker Dominique Delouche, accepted that the same Delouche filmed her giving a masterclass to Sophie Favier, a soprano of the rising generation, passionate about Poulenc's music.