La Danse

Internationally acclaimed photographer David Hamilton invites the viewer to share delicate moments in ballet. His images of young dancers capture the essence of grace at rest and poetry in motion. These tender photographic impressions are accompanied by musical masterpieces created especially for the art form. La Danse includes unpublished pictures of Rudolf Nureyev, the twentieth century's greatest male dancer. Music CDs: The best of romantic ballet classics, for example: Tchaikovskys Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and other invitations to dance, performed under the direction of Gunther Herbig, Herbert Kegel, and Willi Boskovsky.