Dancer's Dream: The Great Ballets of Rudolf Nureyev - Raymonda

Rating:
Summary: Good Documentary
Review: I enjoyed learning more about Nureyev as a director and choreographer because much has been written about his life and talent as one of the greatest dancers in history. If you are interested in understanding more about Nureyev, this documentary is for you.

My only disappointment is that after watching bits and peices of the ballet I wanted to see the production of Nureyev's Raymonda in its entirety, but it is nowhere to be found! To be honest, I would much rather see the magic of the dancing than listen to others talk about how amazing it is. Because this documentary leaves you yearning to see the full length ballet that apparently does not exist is the reason it receives four stars.

Rating:
Summary: very dissapointed
Review: I thought I was going to see the ballet Raymonda, but all there was, were small snippets of different dancers along with their talking heads (lots of that). This is a documentary, nothing else!

Rating:
Summary: Great ballet documentary
Review: This is a great documentary. After I watched the "Etoile" a sort of documentary about Paris Opera Ballet dancers, I was more interested in dancers in addition to the ballet performance. Having said that, Paris Opera Ballet really needs to release the Raymonda ballet performance DVD to show the great work by those dancers. There are some clips here and there but not enough. It is said "Raymonda" is one of the most difficult ballet to dance, and it looks like Nureyev made it more difficult but I would like to watch his entire version by the Paris Opera Ballet. They are the only who is keeping Nureyev versions of ballets as repertory.