Mariangela

Hello! I'm desperately searching for this music, I read somewhere that is a waltz of Riccardo Drigo from Les Millions d'Arlequin, but I watched the video of the ballet and there is no trace of this music! Can someone help me? This is the video, at 2:04   Thanks a million!!

Hi!

Taking advantage of this period of quarantine in which the Paris Opera Ballet site made it available, I watched the Swan Lake by Nureyev, I found it fascinating from many points of view, especially for the role of Siegfried which has been deepened, and the way in which Wolfgang/Rothbart treats him. I loved the interpretation of Germain Louvet, I think the role of Siegfried suits him very much, and also of Léonore Baulac, but I preferred her Odette instead of her Odile. Have you seen this version of Swan Lake? What do you think about it? 

Don't worry, thanks anyway 😘You literally took away from me a doubt that i had for months 😂❤ Yes isn't it? I'm like obsessed by these videos of Vba, also for the wonderful music the pianist plays for the students 😍

Thank you so much Tabitha! Yes, it's from Fairy Doll 🙂 If you know it, could you tell me the one at 47:13? 😊❤

12 hours ago, tabitha said:

fairy doll?

Hi everybody! 

I'd like so much if you could tell me the name of this music from this ballet exam. I'm trying to find it from months, but without success. It's from a ballet? The minute is 45:14. Thanks again! 

Thank so much you for your exhaustive explanation sandik, you have been really helpful to me! And nanushka, thanks for sending me these videos, I was looking for videos of this kind but without finding them! :)❤

Hi everybody! I know I'm getting annoying, but now that I started ballet, every time I see a variation I want to know every step of it! But I have difficult on recognizing them, especially the jumps! I know that here you are all competent and experienced (as well as very kind in answering my questions:) ), so I'd like so much if you could tell me the names of these jumps (3:11, 3:52 and 6:37... maybe the 6:37 one is a sissonne...?) from the pas de trois of the act 1 of Swan Lake: 

Thank you!!

Thank you so much! I think I've understand more now 😘😘 

Hi! 

When I do assemblé and brisé, they seem the same jumps to me, I think they're really similar, and I can't recognize the differences. Can someone please explain me the differences between the two? Thanks as always

Thank you very much! I didn't know this jump at all, I'm very glad you made me discover it

Hi everyone 

I fell in love with a jump that Kitri does in the first act of Don Quixote, but I don't know how it's called... can someone tell me the name please? The jump to which I refer is at the minute 2:39 of the video that I link you. I hope in a your answer, thank you as always!

18 hours ago, Helene said:

I agree that this dancer is taking the variation out of context, and, perhaps as a result, I'm not learning much from her.

I have different views about the Vision Scene.  I understand that having one is a ballet convention but she's not just an ideal in it: in the scene she has all of those beseeching gestures to the Prince, and there's only so much of an unattainable pedestal she can be on if she's in a classical pas de deux.  I don't find her a cipher or any less involved in the emotion of the act: he's not the only one who has a transformation while she's sleeping.

In the context of the story, in Act II Aurora is making her debut into society, and starts when she's told it's time for her to marry, which, at that point, would have been an act of obedience.  This Prince or that Prince: any of them would be fine and please her parents.  In Act IV, she's ready to join into a full-blooded union with maturity and majesty and to inherit the crown by the end of the ballet.  She's not just the same young woman in a wedding dress, like Raymonda.  I think the Vision Scene is the bridge where she, in her deep sleep, works it out and transforms into the women she becomes after she's awakened, and it's just as much her vision as his.

But, then, I also think the Lilac Fairy represents Petipa, doing all of the heavy lifting for aristocrats who mostly don't deserve it.

I completely agree with you, Helene. Your point of view is really deep I also think that Aurora "matures" when she's sleeping, as the Prince.

On 7/29/2019 at 6:41 PM, sandik said:

I think this young woman is dancing a Petipa variation in a competition, out of context of the work itself.  True, if this were one of Odette's or Odile's variations, we would expect a performance that included the emotional content of the work, but those works are wedded much more closely to their dramatic context.  (and even so, people used to dance the Black Swan pas de deux as a stand-alone work titled The Magic Swan -- it still had the fascination of the work in its context, but didn't have the evil intent) 

While there are sections of the Vision scene where Aurora is actively involved in summoning the prince, for the most part it is the Lilac Fairy and the prince that handle the emotional development of that act -- Aurora is indeed a vision, separate from the other two.  While I wouldn't think this dancer would want to take that particular performance and insert it unchanged in a full production, I think, for a competition, this is a good compromise.  But your mileage may vary.

Yes, I agree with the fact that is a competition, and so the characher of Aurora isn't the same that would be in the ballet, and I think that the dancer would change it if it was in a full production too  Now I think this variation in a different way. Thank you for your answer

Hi! In this period, I'm often watching the Aurora Vision variation, and I wonder if there is a specific way to portrait the characher of Aurora in this variation or it's a choice of the version of the ballet, it varies by the different companies etc... For example, in this video of the variation Laura Fernandez smiles and I don't find it appropriate in this part of the ballet, that is quite "sad". What do you think about this?  

Hi everyone,

Can you help me please? I'd like so much to know from which ballet is the music of this exercise of the Vba. Here is the video: https://youtu.be/wAKfr15ceU0. The minute is 11:35. Thanks so much! 😊😊❤

1 hour ago, doug said:

Marian Smith writes about this moment in a recent online essay, New Life for Character and Story in Sleeping Beauty, describing the Ratmansky production:

"Finally, toward the end of the 'Rose Adagio' and after Aurora has received a new set of roses from the admiring suitors, at the moment of a climactic fortissimo in the side drum and cymbals and a diminished chord—and immediately before she undertakes her last and most difficult set of balances—Aurora joyfully inhales the perfume of the roses and then humbly places them on the floor before her parents. (By contrast, in some productions, without stopping to smell the roses, she flings them toward her parents; the emphasis is on the Princess and her spectacular choreography, excluding the filial respect and tenderness that Ratmansky has chosen to include.)"

Thank you!

58 minutes ago, cargill said:

In some productions she presents them to her mother, which is a much nicer touch!

Yes, I also think that! I've seen it in some productions that I don't remember... Which are? 

Can you explain me why in the Sleeping Beauty, in the first act, when Aurora pretenders offer to her their roses for the second time she throws them away? I always asked myself 😅 Thank you in advance and I hope you will have a beautiful 2019 😊❤

Hi cubanmiamiboy, I understand your opinion NYCB version is the most beloved and I myself love it. I've made this survey for hear other people' s opinion, so thank you all!

Thank you all! :)) I also like NYCB version, but I've discovered the Mariinsky version and I love it! What do you think about this? 

Hi!

Now it's The Nutcracker season, and I wanted to do a survey. Which is the best version of The Nutcracker in your opinion and why?

Ah okay, now I've understand  Thanks for the advices on the DVDs 😊

6 hours ago, Laurent said:

Dupont's odd and unhappy relation with ballet classics makes her singularly unsuitable to introduce you to the treasures of classical dance. Unfortunately, her recordings are, literally, everywhere, as she was throughout her career a darling of Brigitte Lefèvre. For example, the only currently commercially available recording of the original Parisian La Sylphide features Dupont, in spite of the fact that it is the least desirable of all that you are likely to see in the internet. I strongly recommend the recording with Ghislaine Thesmar, it was issued on the VHS tape. Similarly, I strongly recommend the recording of the original Parisian Coppélia danced by Charline Giezendanner and other students of École de danse. I also recommend any recordings with Carla Fracci (especially her Giselle with Erik Bruhn). Be aware that only a small portion of commercially issued ballet DVDs are well filmed and have high artistic value. For recordings that do possess very high artistic value, one must turn to the internet. The difficult part for you will be how to identify them in the ocean of information noise.

Thanks a lot 😊❤ So, can you advise me a good DVD of The Sleeping Beauty?

8 hours ago, cubanmiamiboy said:

Some performances, either live it on DVD are worth to go see not specifically for their dancers but for the production itself. Pharaoh's daughter is one of those. This is a recreation of one of Petipa's most successful ballets, and also a lavish production, so yes. As per Zakharova, I think you will find, at least on this forum, a general distaste for her technique. I myself don't care about her dancing, but who knows....maybe you will enjoy her.

Okay thanks 😊 Can I ask you why many on this forum have a distaste for her technique? I often read that her dancing is fantastic on technique but lacks on the interpretation... I personnally like her, she was the first Odette that I saw and there was something in her that I liked immediately... same for her Giselle. I'm the only there? 

6 hours ago, tabitha said:

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

I buy them on Amazon or Ebay