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While most of Ken Russell's documentaries for the BBC's Monitor arts strand focused on a single creative figure, he would also occasionally make more wide-ranging surveys of the state of a particular art. The Light Fantastic (BBC, tx. 18/12/1960) was written and presented by Ron Hitchins, a Cockney barrow boy who has long been interested in a great many dance forms, and who has recently taken up Spanish dancing. Hitchins participates in some of the dance sequences, but his main contribution is an enthusiastic commentary that helps personalise what could have been simply a disparate collection of dance footage. He's not shy about expressing likes and dislikes, being none too keen on ballroom dancing (too choreographed), rock'n'roll (too monotonous) and Morris dancing (just doesn't like it), though anything genuinely spontaneous gets a thumbs up, even if it's a room full of people dressed in black swaying to the sound of a gong.
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Madonna: Truth or Dare
1991
6
Hirde Dyama
1971
0
Влашко оро
1905
5
Kreativ: A Study in Creativity by Alexander Ekman
2017
0
Воспоминания о Нижинском
1980
0
How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?
2010
0
Not Bad at All
0
Ella
2016
0
Movement in Structure
2019
0
Toorumi Pojad
1989
0
Bratski ples
2004
0
A Alma do Gesto
2020
0
Back To Africa
2008
0
Appalachian Spring
1958
4
N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
1969
0
Flamenco at 5:15
1983
6
Rize
2005
6
Dancer
2016
7
Otherland
2018
5