A new season of the arts in action introduced by Humphrey Burton
Tonight: All the Superlatives
A film about the dancer Anthony Dowell
Taking part: Dame Margot Fonteyn, Sir Frederick Ashton, Hans van Manen, Rudolf Nureyev, Michael Somes, Antony Tudor, and Kenneth MacMillan, Director of the Royal Ballet, who says: 'All the superlatives can be used about him. He is the No 1 male ballet dancer in the world.'
In this film of a dancer's life, Anthony Dowell talks of his career and lives through a week of crisis: preparations for an opening in in New York and, suddenly, an unexpected setback...
With Lesley Collier, Jennifer Penny, Wayne Eagling, in rehearsal and first television performance of part of Fottr SchumaMM Pieces, created specially for Dowell
Excerpts from A Month in the Country, Sir Frederick Ashton's latest ballet, with Lynn Seymour; The Dream, Sleeping Beauty, ThotS With ANTOINETTE SIBLEY; MoMOtOMM With VYVYAN LORRAYNE and ROBERT MEAD; Cinderella and Enigma Variations.
The Alberni String Quartet leader Howard Davies
Solo pianist PHILIP GAMMON
Film cameraman JOHN HOOPER
Film editor David Martin
Executive producer BARRIE GAVIN
Director COLIN NEARS