This wonderful dance short mixes high quality live action dancing with excellently conceived and executed animation backgrounds. The basic story is that a ballerina collapses from fatigue/exhaustion and we follow her dream that follows. There are about four acts/sections which have their own flavor of dancing and music. I don't remember who the ballerina is anymore, she was well known and respected in her day. The score is lush and romantic, and fully supports and leads the motion on screen. I have never seen a better dance film, and will always treasure my memory of this one. I hope it shows up somewhere online or on DVD someday, I can't find it anywhere.
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"To Dream of Roses"
wardlisa-321069 February 2022
Produced by Infinity Filmworks in partnership with Douglas Trumbull, "To Dream of Roses" was created for Dentsu Advertising for the Sumitomo Pavilion at the Osaka World Expo in 1989. This was the first project shot in HDTV with dual camera motion controlled special effects and transferred to film for projection. The four seasons provide the backdrop for the fever dream of the prima ballerina, played by Marianna Tcherkassky, of the American Ballet Theater. Directed by Keith Melton and Douglas Trumbull, cinematography by Steve Schklar, choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett ("Footloose"), produced by Melton, Trumbull, Schklar, and Elizabeth Ward.
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