Leonide Massine pt1

This is a rough cut of an unfinished doc I produced in 1971 featuring the famous Ballets Russes choreographer. I met Massine in 1970 when I asked him to be a patron of my attempt to mount a production of Erik Satie s surrealist ballet Relache (whose Entr acte, a film by Rene Clair, I had accompanied at the NFT as a silent film pianist). He invited me to his island in the Gulf of Salerno that summer. There we hatched the idea of a series of videocassettes (at that stage a vapourware medium ) which would c br, br,