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Newly appointed inspector Shi Jiangchengzhou and head constable Meng Jiu'an are drawn into a series of perplexing cases, with the city’s information hub, Baihua Fang, and its enigmatic owner Baihua Wuming, playing a central role. As threats loom over the city, their investigation becomes increasingly unpredictable and dangerous.
Princess Tutu follows Duck, a duck who was transformed into a young girl and takes ballet at a private school. She becomes enamoured of her mysterious schoolmate Mytho, and transforms into Princess Tutu to restore his shattered heart. Mytho's girlfriend Rue transforms into Princess Kraehe to frustrate Tutu's efforts, and Mytho's protective friend Fakir discourages Mytho's burgeoning emotions. When it becomes apparent that Duck, Rue, Mytho, and Fakir are meant to play out the characters in a story by a long-dead writer named Drosselmeyer, they resist their assigned fates and fight to keep the story from becoming a tragedy.
An exploration of opera in unconventional ways attempting to attract not just existing opera fans, but also those less familiar with the art form. The host guides the viewer to the places of origin of each opera, and explores the culture, history—and modern and current trends and how they apply to opera.
The Australian Ballet has evolved to become our nation's most treasured performing arts company and an icon of dance. 'And We Danced' looks back to reveal what has shaped this world-class institution and made it uniquely ours.
This is the story of two very different women. One is a promising ballerina, rich and arrogant. The other is a well-mannered flight attendant, always ready with a smile. The two share nothing in common...except for a name. Rafah. Somehow, fate joins them together in a fall from heaven—a flight attendant with a fractured wing and a dancer with a broken leg.
Opera singer Carina Henriksson, who has lived and worked in several world metropolises, takes the lure of the fine arts and opera to one of Sweden's most sparsely populated areas.
Behind the curtain with English National Ballet and their world premier of a brand-new production of Nutcracker
Sarah is a young autistic woman with an extraordinary ability for lyrical singing. She begins taking lessons with renowned soprano Leonor Delise, but there is tension in the relationship. Sarah will learn to turn her silences into emotions; Leonor will have to restore her faith in humanity and reconcile with her daughter. Music will be the bond that transforms their lives.
Emma Conti is an internationally renowned étoile. She was only a girl when she left Vicenza for New York, to forget the death of Alice, the child she had from her great love of her youth. After sixteen years an anonymous letter insinuates in her the doubt: her daughter would be alive in Vicenza and would be a dancer, just like her. It's time for Emma to go home and seek out the truth among the pupils of her old dance school. Emma will find the girl she once was, and she will open up to the possibility of a new love.
More than 20 years since OG reality icons Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie first took the world by storm, the life-long friends reunite in a new special. Follow the dynamic duo as they try to produce a once-in-a-lifetime operatic performance based on their self-coined phrase, "Sanasa."
Claire, a talented but emotionally troubled dancer, joins a company in New York City, and soon finds herself immersed in the tough and often cutthroat world of professional ballet. The dark and gritty series will unflinchingly explore the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world.
At Sydney's National Dance Academy, a few talented youngsters are recruited for the excruciatingly tough course. It follows Tara Webster, a sheepfarmgirl who's ambition is to be the next best ballerina. Jewish long line of doctors' heir Samuel 'Sammy' and minor juvenile offender Christian are the outsiders but gradually fit in, making new kinds of friends. Star ballerina's daughter Kat also introduces them in the circle of last-year brother Ethan, who already aspires a career as choreographer. Also Abigail, a smart young girl who'll walk over dead bodies to reach the stars tries to sabotage everything and everyone.
This young student will do whatever it takes to become the world's best ballet dancer: the Danseur noble!
“Stage Fighter” is a survival program in which male dancers from ballet, contemporary dance, and Korean traditional dance genres will compete against each other in a ranked battle. The dancers will combine their unique dance styles with modern and popular dance elements to present spectacular group performances.
The Metropolitan Opera's series of live performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world.
Channel 4 is joining forces with Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB), and Youth at Risk for the first time to set Birmingham and Black Country youth a challenge of a lifetime. Do they have what it takes to perform the MacMillan production of Romeo and Juliet live on stage, to a packed audience, with a cast of professional dancers?
Kobayashi Hassei, 29, is a narcissistic ballet dancer who belongs to the Komorigawa Ballet Company. In order to make men's ballet more popular and to promote himself, he is actively engaged in activities such as video distribution. He is in a close trio with veteran dancer Moriyama Masanobu and his classmate Sasaki Mashiro, who are from different generations but somehow get along together. Hassei and his friends spend their days casually rehearsing with the ballet company during the day and teaching at a ballet class at night, but one day on the way home, a problem occurs. After that, Hassei makes a shocking confession: "I'm quitting ballet at the end of this year." Why did Hassei decide to "quit"? The curtain rises on Hassei's "last year facing ballet," who loves ballet more than anyone else.
Looks at Mozart's extraordinary short life and revolutionary music through a distinctive mix of costume drama and documentary.
