Check out video clips from A Midsummer Night’s Dream ballets based on the Shakespeare play:

 

Video Clip Details

Title of Clip: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Trailer
Title of Work: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (Overture), others
Act and Scene: Montage
Date of Performance: April 2011
Location of Performance: Boston Opera House, Boston, MA
Dancers: Boston Ballet Dance Company; John Lam, Misa Kuranaga, Jared Redick, Lia Cirio, Lorna Feijoo, Gabor Kapin, et. al.
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Conductor: Nir Kabaretti
Date published or posted online: Aug 31, 2010
Publisher: BostonBallet1963
Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5FCtVBxRvQ
More Info: Mikko Nissinen as Artistic Director. Overture composed by Felix Mendelssohn, with additional scores pulled by Balanchine. Filmed by ArtHaus Musik DVD.

 

 

 

Video Clip Details

Title of Clip: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Gwinnett Ballet Theatre
Title of Work: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Act and Scene: Montage
Date of Performance: March 2011
Location of Performance: Gwinnett Performing Arts Center, Duluth, GA
Dancers: Maggie Ellington, Paul Appleman, David Blumenthal, Jody Blevins, et. al.
Choreographer: Thom Clower
Conductor: Predrag Gosta
Date published or posted online:  Mar 5, 2011
Publisher: pointedvd
Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpCU-PRlnAI
More Info: film from Pointe DVD
 

 

 

Video Clip Details

Title of Clip: Minnesota Ballet – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Title of Work: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Act and Scene: Montage
Date of Performance: March 2011
Location of Performance: University of Minnesota-Duluth’s Marshall Performing Arts Center, Duluth, MN
Dancers: Minnesota Ballet Company, local children performed as sprites and pixies
Choreographer: Robert Gardner
Conductor: Jack Bowman
Date published or posted online:  Mar 30, 2011
Publisher: Minnesota Ballet
Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67DJjlaKfJQ
More Info: Performance sponsored by North Shore Bank of Commerce; grants from the John T. and Elizabeth C. Adams Arts Fund of the Duluth superior Area Community Foundation, and Minnesota Power Foundation.

 

 

 

Video Clip Details

Title of Clip: Dancer’s Commentary-A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Title of Work: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Act and Scene: Montage
Date of Performance: April 2014
Location of Performance: Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, WA
Dancers: Carla Körbes, Ezra Thomson; PNB Company
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Conductor: Emil de Cou, Allan Dameron
Date published or posted online:  Apr 7, 2011
Publisher: Pacific Northwest Ballet
Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7SmMDIjddE
More Info: A performance by the Pacific Northwest Ballet; video clip of dance rehearsal featuring Carla Körbes as Tatiana and Ezra Thomson in a donkey head as Bottom

 

 

 

Video Clip Details

Title of Clip: PNB’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream-Hippolyta
Title of Work: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Act and Scene: Montage
Date of Performance: April 2014
Location of Performance: Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, WA
Dancers: Ariana Lallone, Brittany Reid, PNB Company
Choreographer: George Balanchine
Conductor: Emil de Cou, Allan Dameron
Date published or posted online:  Apr 1, 2011
Publisher: Pacific Northwest Ballet
Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5LCyNS2KaY
More Info: A performance by the Pacific Northwest Ballet; video clip of Hippolyta dancers practicing in rehearsal

 

 

 

Video Clip Details

Title of Clip: Developing Character Through Dance in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Title of Work: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Date of Interview: March, 2013
Location of Interview: Todd Bolender Center for Dance & Creativity, Kansas City, MO
Dancers: Kansas City Ballet Company; Tempe Ostergen, Anthony Krutzkamp. Artistic Director William Whitener
Choreographer: William Whitener
Date published or posted online: March 11, 2013
Publisher: KCUR 89.3
Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IauWRpXGdnY
More info:  Principle dancers and Artistic Director from Kansas City Ballet discussing the development of characters in the ballet

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