MASTERPIECES OF BRITISH BALLET: CHECKMATE (Bliss)/ THE RAKE’s PROGRESS (Gordon) Two masterpieces of twentieth-century British ballet danced by the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet. Created for the Vic-Wells Ballet in the 1930s by founder-choreographer Ninette de Valois, Checkmate and The Rake’s Progress remain cornerstones of the British ballet repertoire. Barry Wordsworth conducts Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet Orchestra. Filmed in 1982 at Sadler’s Wells Theater, London. Color, 87 min.