Starstruck: Gene Kelly's Love Letter to Ballet

Nov 26, 2021

0h 59m

★ 8.0

Overview

In 1960, American dancer and actor Gene Kelly created for the Paris Opera Ballet an original choreography that was highly acclaimed at the time, yet rarely performed thereafter; a genius work that the Scottish Ballet, accompanied by the stirring and evocative score by composer and pianist George Gershwin, epitome of orchestral jazz, brings back to life sixty years later.

Genres

Music

Drama

Fantasy

Production Companies

Forest of Black

Scottish Ballet

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Cast

Sweetheart Man / Lifeguard

Javier Andreu

Sweetheart Woman / Girl with Ponytail

Roseanna Leney

Pianist / Eros

Bruno Micchiardi

Choreographer / Zeus

Christopher Harrison

The Star Ballerina / Aphrodite

Sophie Martin

Stagehand

Nicholas Shoesmith

Bathing Beauty #1

Aislin Brangan

Bathing Beauty #2

Grace Horler

Bathing Beauty #3

Grace Paulley

Second Stagehand

Stevie Winning

Stage Manager

Helen Katamba

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