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Pas de deux (released as Duo in the United States) is a 1968 short dance film by Norman McLaren, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Pas de deux
Directed by	Norman McLaren
Starring	Margaret Mercier Vincent Warren
Cinematography	Jacques Fogel
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Release date	1968
Running time	13 minutes
Country	Canada
Budget	$15,000[1]

The film was photographed on high contrast stock, with optical, step-and-repeat printing, for a sensuous and almost stroboscopic appearance. It shows a ballerina (Margaret Mercier) dancing by herself (or rather, with images of herself), before being joined by a male dancer (Vincent Warren), to perform the pas de deux of the title,[2] as choreographed by Ludmilla Chiriaeff.

The film is choreographed to Romanian pan pipe music.[3]

Awards

Pas de deux received 17 awards, including the 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, an Academy Award nomination, as Duo[2][4][5] and the Golden Sheaf Award for Best of Festival at the 1969 Yorkton Film Festival.[6]

References

• Collins, Maynard (1976). Norman McLaren (Canadian film series): Canadian Film Institute. ASIN B0006CVBIW

Works cited

• Evans, Gary (1991). In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802027849.

External links

• IMDb entry
• Watch online at NFB Web site

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