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me too! such wonderful music!

 you're very welcome , cant believe  i was right! sorry this one i d on' t  recognize is very pretty though 

fairy doll?

   glad you agreed too. is a loss for us all.hope will meet her someday in person then

thank you  i s aw that but such a shame all her wonderful comments have  been deleted . i enjoyed reading them and agreed  with so much.

i also would like to see a real   reconstruction of Petipa’s King’s Command (aka Les Eleves de Dupre), where is gnossie!

 and  all her wonderful comments have disappeared ,, why?

where can you get those bootleg dvs  please![ if there were  officical dvds out would be happy to buy them  !]

10 hours ago, CharlieH said:

You’ll have to google “Bogdan Korolek Vimeo” to see the full set of vids that he’s uploaded, as I mentioned in the last post. It’s worth the bit of detective work!

10 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Sorry. Just google “Bogdan Korolek Vimeo” to get his full channel, including the two Fille excerpts. Whenever I try to copy the link to any of his vids, only Naiad appears. Vimeo doesn’t seem to work like YouTube. Oh well, I tried.

 

thank you  i loved the naiad anyway even if  i can' t fine the other one.

 thank you for  this.love it!.though the clip i can see  says the naiad and the fisherman on the upper left of the clip is it that ballet? ,have  seen   one varaition on youtube of vaganova school performance ,[no set design].  it's wonderful music . is it by pugni?

would love to see the la fille mal garde  clip too.wish we could get to see these .

thank you gnosssie, if it werent for you   no one would know that it is  NOT the real reconstruction .so disappointing ! i was lucky enough to have seen  the original . magnificent !

  well i say a petipa gala should have petipa and petipa only ! and i say the reconstructions only, ugh that the awakening of  flora replaced by balanchine what is wrong with them! i think i know  by now -gergiev and fateyev !

thank you gnossie so much so glad to find someone who agrees with me !and that i agree with. i thought that  might be  the reason. money. glad  that sergei  vikharev would have wanted the sets and costumes also reconstructed . i hope someday

 mr pavel  Gershenzon  ,so glad to know he is there ,could redo the orignal sets and  costumes  and  that  for all future ones money will be found  to pay for reconstructed sets and  costumes it makes all the difference . there must be some big companies that would fund it or more money from the govermnent  

 like before  would be great.as pretty as the costumes  are its just not the same to me  as the ones before , i know they  did the best they  could   but how i wish they will someday reconstruct the original sets and costumes 

 thank you so much for kind offer of p m. i might bug you more! i love ballet and none more than sergei vikharevs reconstructions a total  revelation of beauty and magic and  another world and time .i loved so many details. 

 thank you for the 9 day information too .

10 hours ago, Gnossie said:

Today is the Ninth Day, those who understand about the Orthodox Church know what it means...

Ismene Brown has translated Kuznetsova's beutiful euology so those who don't understand Russian can enjoy it here : "Ballet's magician is gone"

http://www.ismeneb.com/blogs-list/170608-magician-vikharev-is-gone.html

 

thank you gnossie very much for the translation.is wonderful.i love sergei vikahrevs sleeping beauty so much .is so wonderful to see how it was  as petipa and  Vsevolozhsky originally  wanted it .there's no comparison to me bewteen that and  the  later ones its so far above them .

 same for la bayadere and the wonderful 4th act especially .

 

im wondering why the original la fille mal gardee sets and costumes were not   recreated , was it the managements idea rather than  sergei vikharevs  or maybe  there were no photos of the originals  because what i loved about the sleeping beauty and la bayadere were the reconstructed sets and costumes  besides the reconstructed steps acting and story.is there anyone  at all who can continue   what segei vikahrev has done including the original sets and  costumes? i know no one can take  his place ever but just hoping  there is someone with his knowledge and appreciation of the old ballets  ,maybe even earlier  ones than petipa  too even though he is my favorite  but maybe  saint leon  and others although maybe they arent as notated but maybe someday more information will turn up .am still stunned and sad .and also reminded  again  how disgracefully  he was treated by the  kirov . is so unfair 

 

 what does the 9th day mean?

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5 hours ago, cubanmiamiboy said:

 

This is very sad. Looking at that beautiful tutu...and knowing the noble cause that prompted its creation...to now see it in yet another of those ever present, awful "comic" ballet routine is quite disgraceful. When I went to Russia I spoke to several people, and I coult sense a longing for the Soviet past in some of them-(the older ones). The Mariinsky might have changed its name for the sake of going with the "new-old" times, but its core is still probably 80% Kirov/K. Sergueev. Same with the Bolshoi and its even worse Geigorovich versions.

5 hours ago, cubanmiamiboy said:

 

This is very sad. Looking at that beautiful tutu...and knowing the noble cause that prompted its creation...to now see it in yet another of those ever present, awful "comic" ballet routine is quite disgraceful. When I went to Russia I spoke to several people, and I coult sense a longing for the Soviet past in some of them-(the older ones). The Mariinsky might have changed its name for the sake of going with the "new-old" times, but its core is still probably 80% Kirov/K. Sergueev. Same with the Bolshoi and its even worse Geigorovich versions.

5 hours ago, cubanmiamiboy said:

 

This is very sad. Looking at that beautiful tutu...and knowing the noble cause that prompted its creation...to now see it in yet another of those ever present, awful "comic" ballet routine is quite disgraceful. When I went to Russia I spoke to several people, and I coult sense a longing for the Soviet past in some of them-(the older ones). The Mariinsky might have changed its name for the sake of going with the "new-old" times, but its core is still probably 80% Kirov/K. Sergueev. Same with the Bolshoi and its even worse Geigorovich versions.

oops sorry am very bad at computer  sorry have quoted 3 x... so far ...i agree  cubanmiamiboy- is like a slap in the face .

 am beginning to hate lopatkina... comic routine?!  how could she .those sets and cosutmes are the best i have ever seen !

  am so devastated!what a terrible loss.and so young. his ballets  of sleeping beauty and la bayadere  were by far  my favorite  i have ever ever  seen .

the sets and costumes were magnificent , why mess  with  the original i say! the acting and  story  put back to the original 

 made all the difference the  variety of  the orignal steps brought back so wonderful.

i hope there will be dvds of all his ballets is a disgrace there never were .all i can say is the kirov have no taste  to have stopped performing these magnificent ballets  and  to not have put out dvds of them .

 and  to not have brought the awakening of flora to the u.s.what a loss was looking forward to all the  future magnificent reconstructions by the one and only  sergei vikharev  in years to come. am devastated beyond words.

 this is a comment[ below ] from that video  of her . sounds familiar to me too 

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" It's Gulnara solo of Le Corsaire!”

what wonderful dancer ! maybe could email that school too the kuramashin