4th Mov and Finale of Symphony in C

Here was the very last thing filmed in Berlin (after 6 weeks on a cement TV studio floor, and 18 ballets). Balanchine told me himself he was furious when he saw how the directors were filming with camera angles that ruined some of his ballets, but luckily this last one, “Symphony in C,“ was not too bad. This 4th movement Finale starts of with Marnee Morris and Victor Castelli (and was the only time I ever saw Marnee miss that tricky pirouette but no one wanted to stop to redo it). Next comes Allegra Kent and Conrad Ludlow for 2nd movement entrance (and on the first take Allegra did 5 (!) pirouettes after the last ronde de jambe, so then we had to stop the taping because everyone was laughing so Balanchine) and then comes me and Sara Leland for 3rd movement entrance. Mr. B cut the 1st movement principal’s entrance for this taping. These were Karin von Aroldingen and Jean Pierre Bonnefoux. In any case, here is the company as I remember it.