Zizi, Je T'Aime.

From: Dance Magazine | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: Thom, Rose Anne | Copyright information

Love is also the theme of Zizi, Je T'Aime, which will be shown month on PBS's Great Performances. Produced and directed by Mischa Scorer for the BBC, this documentary on French choreographer-dancer Roland Petit and his wife, dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, allows the artists to tell their own story. (The only outside opinion comes from British critic Clement Crisp, who comments enthusiastically on their first British performances in 1949.) From their meeting as nine-year-olds at the school...

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