BALLET ADAGIO

Directed by Norman McLaren · Starring David Holmes, Anna Marie Holmes · 1972

Two dancers perform a classical pas de deux adagio, filmed in slow motion to reveal every detail of the movement.

Norman McLaren's slow-motion ballet turns every lift into pure visual poetry.

This short film by Norman McLaren is a slow-motion study of the pas de deux adagio, one of the most exacting dances of classical ballet. A ballet originally choreographed by the Russian ballet master Asaf Messerer is per

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