VAI’s fifth volume of historic New York City Ballet performances features two Balanchine works, created 35 years apart.

The beautiful and exotic Bugaku (1963) is seen here in a 1978 colour telecast starring Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux.

Apollo (1928) was a milestone in the early part of Balanchine’s career. Jacques d’Amboise dances the title role in a 1960 performance of the complete ballet (with Diana Adams as Terpsichore), as well as in excerpts of the work as presented in a 1963 colour telecast from the Bell Telephone Hour series.

Contents:
- BUGAKU
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music by Toshiro Mayuzumi
Dancers: Patricia McBride, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Bonita Borne, Elyse Borne, Elise Flagg, Delia Peters, John Bass, Richard Dryden, Laurence Matthews, Richard Tanner
1978

- APOLLO (complete)
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Dancers: Jacques d‘Amboise (Apollo), Diana Adams (Terpsichore), Jillana (Calliope), Francia Russell (Polyhymnia)
1960

- GEORGE BALANCHINE DISCUSSES APOLLO (1960)

- APOLLO (three movements): Variation d’Apollon / Pas de deux (Apollo and Terpsichore) / Coda (Apollo and the Muses)
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Dancers: Jacques d‘Amboise (Apollo), Melissa Hayden (Terpsichore), Jillana (Calliope), Patricia Neary (Polyhymnia)
Bell Telephone Hour, 1963

Colour & Black & white
71 minutes
4:3
NTSC (Playable all regions)