Checkmate (vaimusic.com) 

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Excerpt from Chapter 10 - The Duel
From: VAI DVD 4379 Checkmate / The Rake's Progress
Two masterpieces of twentieth-century British ballet danced by the Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet. Created for the Vic-Wells Ballet in the 1930s by founder-choreographer Ninette de Valois, Checkmate and The Rakes Progress remain cornerstones of the British ballet repertoire. The scores, by Sir Arthur Bliss and Gavin Gordon, respectively, are here performed by the Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet Orchestra under the direction of Barry Wordsworth. Filmed in 1982 at Sadlers Wells Theater, London.
Color, 87 min., 1982, Color.
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