Bolshoi character dancing

[Lidewij]

I just came across this on Youtube, you can find the rest of the performance on the user's channel:

The channel is dedicated to Yuliana Malkhasyants (a character dancer of the Bolshoi ballet), and it has a special performance of many different character dances. And I see now, some ice skating as well.

I don't know much about character dance, I just know I enjoy the Russians most in it, and I certainly enjoyed watching these videos.

[Helene]

Wow, these are fantastic -- thank you Lidewij

I love the upper body of the male soloist in Songs of the Andes (3/4):

http://www.youtube.com/user/EmpireOfArt#p/u/7/4yyfvOZOd5I

(He comes in at the 40 second mark.)

There are a few old clips and stills in the "Yuliana Malkhasyants guiding Diadhilev's Heritage - Vision of the Dance Exhibition" segment:

http://www.youtube.com/user/EmpireOfArt#p/u/2/BZ5fok5zzIY

The excerpts of her own dancing show all of what I love about her and why I was entranced by her Mercedes: the weight of character vs. the fleetness of foot, the quick direction changes, and her supple back:

http://www.youtube.com/user/EmpireOfArt#p/u/0/4_2XI5AQoCk

[leonid17]

I just came across this on Youtube, you can find the rest of the performance on the user's channel:

The channel is dedicated to Yuliana Malkhasyants (a character dancer of the Bolshoi ballet), and it has a special performance of many different character dances. And I see now, some ice skating as well.

I don't know much about character dance, I just know I enjoy the Russians most in it, and I certainly enjoyed watching these videos.

Yulia Malkhasyants has for me been the superior artist of the Bolshoi Ballet for a long time. Yes, superior to all the recent principals of the Bolshoi Ballet.

She is in nature and artistry a direct descendant to those great character dancers seen on early films and whom I first saw in the early 1960's.

This familiar music on this clip is reputedly by Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky born Tambov, 27 January 1913 – died Leningrad, 13 August 1946) who was a Russian composer and pianist who Shostakovich thought should be considered to be among the leading 100 composers as his early death not see the fruition of his highly successful compositions.