vipa Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Mine is the pas de deux from 'The Leaves Are Fading'. I've said this before, but I have to mention it again because I just came back from seeing the NYCB Midsummer Night's Dream. The 2nd act pas de deux - Divertissement. I think it's one of the best ever created. In fact for me, it is like a great work of Bach in that it feels so inevitable that it seems to be revealed not created. Few pieces of dance move me like this pas de deux does. Link to comment
hydraulix Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 I forgot to mention: (in this video with an exquisite Ulyana Lopatkina) Link to comment
Rosa Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Alice and Jack's two pas de deux in Act II (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Wheeldon). Link to comment
GeorgeB fan Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 It seems I'll be doing nothing but repeating what has already been mentioned. But here goes... Balanchine: The Step PDD from Emeralds Diamond PDD Agon Divertissement PDD from A Midsummer Night Dream Tchaikovsky PPD Second PPD from Stravinsky Volin Concerto Duo Concertant Nutcracker PPD Robbins: Afternoon of a Faun Other Dances Tudor: Leaves are Fading MacMillian: Balcony PDD from Romeo and Juliet Bedroom PDD from Manon Ashton: Final PDD from A Month in the Country Oberon and Titania from The Dream Wheeldon: PDD from After the Rain. There's a video on YouTube with Damian Smith and Yuan Yuan Tan from San Francisco Ballet that is simply breathtaking!! Jiri Kylian: Nuages - I discovered this on YouTube. Beautifully profound. And of course the following... Black Swan PDD Giselle PDD - Second Act Sleeping Beauty Grand PDD The Shades PDD from La Bayadere Link to comment
Hamorah Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 There are many lovely pas de deux, but if I were stranded on a desert island (!) I would be happy to watch MacMillan's R & J balcony pdd over and over again! Many many years ago there was an exhibition of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, showing both the opera and ballet companies. It was in the days before video and so it was very thrilling to be able to watch ballet extracts on TV screens dotted round the exhibition. One of them was that balcony pdd with Fonteyn and Nureyev and I just stood there watching it multiple times, unable to drag myself away from it! Oh yes and the final pdd of Cranko's Onegin is DIVINE! The emotion in it when Onegin grovels at Tatiana's feet and then she sends him away. Just thinking about it makes me want to cry!!!! Link to comment
dirac Posted June 11, 2012 Author Share Posted June 11, 2012 Thanks, Hamorah (and to Rosa for reviving this thread). It's too bad we don't have a record of Gable and Seymour dancing MacMillan's pas de deux. Sigh. Link to comment
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