Dr. Coppelius

New DVD with Northern ballet theater: A christmas carol

With singing ballet dancers!

Has anybody seen this performance?

I read somewhere about a women who claimed that she in a past life had been a russian ballerina.

She also had experienced , under the hypnotic regression, how she during a performance broke a leg in front of the audience, and that this injury was so serious that she never was able to dance again.

Could this be true? Are there in ballet history any ballerina that has broken a leg during a performance?

The download page lists Yuri Grigorovich and Nataliya Bessmertnova as the choreographers.  Could it have been Bessmertnova who coached Allash?

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Yes, and I think she did the same with Eleonora Abbagnato in the POB perfomance of Ivan the terrible, where she is listed as "assistant choreographer"

Bravo!

Bravo! (Clapping for Mariya Allash )

Use Real Player to open.

Quiet!

They are about to begin, and I was lucky to get a very comfy seat.

My favourite fashion designer is "Spacetribe", and if they had a ballet company they would let Yuri Grigorovich and Flemming Flindt together create a ballet of "Startrek".

It will be a very dramatic ballet with lots of battles and laser guns, all to loud rave music.

I believe that Captain Picard and his crew already are used to wear tights .

In a interview Patrick Stewart said that his doctor forbid him to wear tights, it was a hazard to his health, in what way i can't remember.

Maybe the men of San Francisco Ballet could start a "Chippendale" dance group, that would maybe satisfy some girls here .

A member has decided to leave the Swedish academy because Elfride Jelinek received the Nobel price LAST year

Thank you Natalia!

I also found some info from Herman Stevens here, which saved me from waste my money.

Does anybody know something about this produktion of Pugni's

Esmeralda

"Scheherazade" especially when performed by Ilze Liepa and Victor Veremenko.

Thank you!

I am now watching "Coppelia" (of course ).

Well I found Heaven & Earth

It has been performed in the US, with stage design by Tim Yip, who was the 2000 Academy Award winner for Art Direction for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

It will be very exciting to see this ballet, which seems to be much more than a ordinary ballet.

An exception might be if the dance or scene is in some sense "about" the state of being unclothed:  as possibly in Salome's dance.

I have seen Vivi Flindt dance naked in Salome, and I think that it was quite unnecessary and distracting and it took the focus from the dancing.

And nowadays most ballerinas really don´t have beautiful bodies (with the exception of Marguerite Empey ).

There is a POB DVD with Isabelle Guérin and Laurent Hilaire performing "Le Parc".

Angelin Preljocaj has done the choreography to some Mozart music.

Has anybody seen this ballet?

Is this a contemporary or a classical ballet, and what music of Mozart is used?

"5,99", that's a bargain. I made a order of the DVD today.

Zhang Yimou is one of my favorite directors. Thank you LadyRosa!

And welcome to Ballet talk!

The Royal Danish Ballet takes the celebration of Bournonville to Sweden and make a special perfomance in Malmö, 22 Oct 2005.

The perfomance includes parts from: Napoli, La Sylphide, The Flower Festival in Genzano, Le Conservatorie, and also from Balanchine´s Apollo.

I think she was to old (48) to do Raymonda, she is stiff and slow and have only one expression on her face. Yuri Grigorovich should have given a younger ballerina with more vigour the chance to do Raymonda.

I hope for a Kirov or a Paris opera ballet version of Raymonda.

I don't suppose it counts to include beautiful "after-deaths"

It does, Anastacia does, just like Lucy in "Dracula, pages from a virgin´s diary", some of her most beautiful dancing after she have died.

Why cannot people like Nikiya, Lucy and Anastacia just stay dead?

It takes Natalya Bessmertnova as Anastacia, almost 5 minutes to die in "Ivan the terrible"

"The dying swan" is also a long and beautiful death scene.

Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet" also take some time to die (not so beautiful).

Are there any more long or beautiful or otherwise remarkable death scenes in other ballets?

How could there be only 1 vote for Nut?  It's full of the most glorious melodies in the history of Western Music

I agree, the Pas de deux: Intrada, makes me cry everytime I hear it, so for me it's an emotional favorite, the vote for Nutcracker is mine .

Great! Is it region ok to play in USA?

Yes if you have a multiregion player, otherwise no.

But with a price of ~75$ and maybe some import duties, it's not a bargain.

So how do we get it?

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Here is a place to get it.

Another one is up here