An International Feast of Film.(dance films)(Brief Article)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: Thom, Rose Anne | Copyright information

Occasionally a dance film takes a brief entry from an encyclopedia or a name in a yellowed performance review and magnifies that minimal, impersonal information on a personage or event. Serge Peretti, for example. How many American dancers, choreographers, and teachers even know his name, much less his role in twentieth-century French ballet? Serge Peretti: The Last Italian, a 1997 feature-length film directed by Dominique Delouche made shortly before Peretti's death, ensures the p...

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