This week, PBS featured the San Francisco Ballet's version of "The Nutcracker." It made me hark back to the first version of the classic ballet I ever saw on television: The 1976 version, also by PBS, with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland. To me, it's still the best version. Here's a clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z3vvmuCuDg&feature=PlayList&p=BAF605CD0A898EE1&playnext=1&index=31
Baryshnikov has become a ballet legend. Kirkland, whose dancing career started when she was a teenager and ended in 1986, rebuilt her life after drug problems in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and now directs ballets and ballet companies. Both of them were exquisite in this American Ballet Theater version of Tchaikovsky's Christmas ballet.
Happy Holidays to all, and Happy Viewing!
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