Center stage /

The artistic director of the American Ballet Company is evaluating a tight-knit group of students as they face the growing pains of their world of dance. Managing their ambitions, romances, and heartbreaks proves to be both invigorating and painful.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Columbia Pictures
Other Authors:	Schull, Amanda, 1978-, Saldana, Zoë, 1978- (Actor), Pratt, Susan May (Actor), Gallagher, Peter, 1955- (Actor), Murphy, Donna (Actor), Stiefel, Ethan (Actor), Mark, Laurence (Production personnel), Hytner, Nicholas, 1957- (Director), Heikkinen, Carol (Screenwriter)
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	English French
Language Notes:	Closed-captioned. In English and French with optional subtitles in English and French.
Published:	Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [2000]
Subjects:	Ballet > Drama. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Table of Contents:

Making-of featurette (ca. 6 min.) / interviewees, Sascha Radetsky, Ethan Stiefel, Amanda Schull, Susan May Pratt, Peter Gallagher, Nicholas Hytner, Zoë Saldana. Discussion of the challenges and rewards of a dancer's life, interspersed with views of the filmmakers at work and clips from the finished film. Director Nicholas Hytner discusses what he was trying to achieve in the dance scenes.
Extended dance sequences. Includes: Swan lake. Little swans pas de quatre (ca. 1 1/2 min.) / choreography, Lev Ivanov ; music, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky ; danced by Sandra Brown, Elizabeth Gaither, Oksana Konobeyeva, Ekaterina Shelkanova
Romeo and Juliet. Balcony scene pas de deux [excerpts] (ca. 5 min.) / choreography, Kenneth MacMillan ; music, Sergey Prokofiev ; danced by Julie Kent, Ethan Stiefel
Stars and stripes. Pas de deux, coda (ca. 2 min.) / choreography, George Balanchine ; music, John Philip Sousa, arr. by Hershy Kay ; danced by Julie Kent, Ethan Stiefel.
Deleted scenes (ca. 2 1/2 min.) / two scenes: Cooper at rehearsal [Ethan Stiefel rehearses the coda from the Stars and stripes pas de deux] ; Charlie shows his stuff [in a scene of a pas de deux class, Sascha Radetsky dances a variation].
Talent files (14 frames) / brief biographies of Susan May Pratt, Peter Gallagher, Donna Murphy, Ethan Stiefel, Ilia Kulik, Debra Monk, and Nicholas Hytner.
Theatrical trailers (ca. 5 min.) / trailers for Center stage and for Dance with me, a film directed by Randa Haines, starring Vanessa L. Williams, Chayanne and Kris Kristofferson.
Mandy Moore music video "I wanna be with you" (ca. 4 min.) / includes ballet and jazz dancers.