For Art's Sake: The Story of Ballets Russes (2009)

Director: Ross MacGibbon

In the centenary year since the founding of the Ballets Russe, this documentary looks back at Sergei Diaghilev and the company he created, what they did and the influence they had, even a 100 years later.

Cast

Lynn Seymour

Narrator

Alastair Macaulay

Self - Chief Dance Critic: The New York Times

Bob Gottlieb

Self - Writer and Editor

Judith Mackrell

Self - Writer and Dance Critic

Lynn Garafola

Self - Author: 'Diaghilev's Ballets Russes'

Richard Davenport-Hines

Self - Historian and Author

Anna Pavlova

Self - Dancer: Ballets Russes (archive footage)

Frederic Franklin

Self - Dancer: Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo

Elena Gludjidze

Self - Principal Dancer: English National Ballet

Karl Lagerfeld

Self