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The Bigger Picture: The White Crow and ballet's Soviet dissidents in film

British Film Institute by British Film Institute

Mar 14, 201930:01TV & Film

Strap on your pointe shoes and join Anna, Henry and Pete as they hit the floor with an episode about the Soviet ballet dancers who defected to the west. Inspired by Ralph Fienne's The White Crow, a biopic of the ballet s...

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The Bigger Picture: The White Crow and ballet's Soviet dissidents in film is an episode from British Film Institute by British Film Institute. Strap on your pointe shoes and join Anna, Henry and Pete as they hit the floor with an episode ab...

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Strap on your pointe shoes and join Anna, Henry and Pete as they hit the floor with an episode about the Soviet ballet dancers who defected to the west. Inspired by Ralph Fienne's The White Crow, a biopic of the ballet supremo and defector Rudolf Nureyev, the gang track the careers of Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov and the contemporary Ukrainian dancer Sergei Polunin, asking what it takes for these dancefloor geniuses to make it in western pop culture. The Bigger Picture, presented by the BFI, is... BFI Southbank Programmer Anna Bogah...Anna Bogurts... Anna Bogutskaya. BFI Digital editor Henry Barnes Producer Peter Sale Next steps: • The Guardian's Simon Hattenstone interviews Sergei Polunin: • Four great Soviet ballet dancers (via Russia Beyond): • Gregory Hines and Mikhail Baryshnikov strut their stuff: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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