Excellet point, Hans. Thanks.
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Toughest Evening Length Ballet for Male Principal?
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BalletNut
, Dec 18 2005 10:53 AM
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Posted 20 December 2005 - 06:47 PM
I'm with Hans --
If you want to see something made to look impossibly easy, check out Vasiliev and Maximova in Giselle -- he lifts her overhead again and again as if she were weightless. The Soviet version of the Act 2 pas de deux is as heroic as Spartacus, but none of the effort can show, you can't even THINK of it, and all you see is her trajectory.....
If you want to see something made to look impossibly easy, check out Vasiliev and Maximova in Giselle -- he lifts her overhead again and again as if she were weightless. The Soviet version of the Act 2 pas de deux is as heroic as Spartacus, but none of the effort can show, you can't even THINK of it, and all you see is her trajectory.....
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Posted 27 December 2005 - 04:46 AM
I am with Paul and Hans.
I remember Alicia Alonso saying that Albrecht was a very difficult role for the male partner (I heard it from herself at a master class I attended back in 1991 in Buenos Aires). I think Also Anton Dolin suggests the same in his book "pas de deux", if memory serves me well.
I would add that the hands should not be seen as "gripping" Giselle, as she is a spirit.
Also I very much admire Vassiliev and Maximova in second act pdd - it is just incredible
I remember Alicia Alonso saying that Albrecht was a very difficult role for the male partner (I heard it from herself at a master class I attended back in 1991 in Buenos Aires). I think Also Anton Dolin suggests the same in his book "pas de deux", if memory serves me well.
I would add that the hands should not be seen as "gripping" Giselle, as she is a spirit.
Also I very much admire Vassiliev and Maximova in second act pdd - it is just incredible
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