Bodies in motion tend to remain in motion, but almost never with the heart-stirring beauty and grace on view in Frederick Wiseman’s exceptional portrait of the Paris Opera Ballet, “La Danse.” Wiseman ...

In "La Danse, " the latest film from documentary master Frederick Wiseman -- this time focusing his famous fly-on-the-wall lens on the Paris Opera Ballet -- two fundraisers negotiate with the ballet's ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In one of the striking opening scenes of La Dance, Frederick Wiseman's study of the Paris Opera Ballet, ...

Frederick Wiseman has been making documentaries for the last 40 years, turning a sharp eye on a huge number of social and cultural institutions. His new film, "La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet," ...

Like all of his documentaries, La Danse, Wiseman’s 38th film and his second on ballet (1995’s Ballet captured the American Ballet Theater), forgoes voiceover and identifying intertitles, allowing for ...

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Master documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman used to sneak in to see the ballet when he was a young law student in New York City. Wiseman quickly became fascinated with "this beautiful form, which ...

The last great dance film (vastly more fun than anything from modern Hollywood) was Ballets Russes five years ago, a celebration of old dancers’ nostalgia for golden days in the Thirties and Forties, ...

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ON POINT Wiseman’s documentary shows how hard elite dancers have to work to show off moves like this. If the idea of sitting through a ballet documentary that’s as long as Avatar horrifies you, then ...

Frederick Wiseman is an American institution, albeit an invisible one. Every few years, he adds to his formidable body of documentary work, slipping, apparently unnoticed, into environments ranging ...