Natalia Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I didn't see this posted yet on Ballet Alert, although it's on other fora. This is a truly extraordinary DVD. Nadia Nerina's Giselle is a big surprise. Were she dancing in 2011, she could hold her own with her technique. The other gem on this DVD, imo, is Tamara Karsavina's long speaking and piano-playing introduction to Sylphides (Chopiniana). http://www.amazon.fr/Dance-Double-Bill-Chopin-Sylphides/dp/B004TWOWUE/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_3 Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 27, 2011 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 I didn't see this posted yet on Ballet Alert, although it's on other fora. This is a truly extraordinary DVD. Nadia Nerina's Giselle is a big surprise. Were she dancing in 2011, she could hold her own with her technique. The other gem on this DVD, imo, is Tamara Karsavina's long speaking and piano-playing introduction to Sylphides (Chopiniana). http://www.amazon.fr/Dance-Double-Bill-Chopin-Sylphides/dp/B004TWOWUE/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_3 p.s. I got mine from French Amazon although it might be available through other European sites. Link to comment
liebs Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 I saw Nerina's Giselle at the Royal when I was a young girl - a wonderful dancer. Link to comment
Cliff Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 It is almost available at Amazon.com, Sylphides / Giselle Link to comment
Marcmomus Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Thank you for alerting us to this DVD. I have watched it three times since it arrived the other day. The dancing is of a high order, and I am fascinated by Karsavina's introduction. Link to comment
Jack Reed Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Thanks, natalia! This looks like a real find. (Let's all remember to use the ad at the top of the page when we order, so BA! gets a couple cents from Amazon each time. That doesn't cost us anything more. For example, enter "Sylphides/Giselle" in the search box.) Link to comment
Jane Simpson Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 The same company now shows, under 'coming soon', a Cranko double bill on DVD: The Lady and the Fool with Svetlana Beriosova and Pineapple Poll with Merle Park, David Blair and Stanley Holden I really hope these sell well enough to encourage them to keep doing it... Link to comment
liebs Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 Takes me back. On the same trip to London where I saw Nerina's Giselle, we saw a program with those two ballets on it. There was probably a third piece - I think Rake's Progress. Years later, the Joffrey did Pinapple Poll but does any one dance Lady and the Fool? Link to comment
canbelto Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 I bought the DVD and watched it last night. I was surprised at some of the musical rearrangements in Les Sylphides. Always a pleasure to see Beriosova and Markova in anything. The Nerina/Fadeyechev Giselle was the real surprise. Myrtha's part is butchered, but most of Giselle's dances are intact, which is more than I can say of the famous 1956 Czinner film with Ulanova. Nerina is a very strong dancer with great technique -- secure balances, lightning fast turns, just lacking that last bit of ethereal mystery. Biggest surprise is Fadeyechev -- dumpy toupee and incomplete turnout aside, his technique would also hold up today. Before Mikhail Baryshnikov wowed people with the traveling diagonal brises Fadeyechev was adding a turn in the air in the middle of the brises. I was also surprised to see the Soviet-style overhead lifts. Link to comment
innopac Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 The same company now shows, under 'coming soon', a Cranko double bill on DVD: The Lady and the Fool with Svetlana Beriosova and Pineapple Poll with Merle Park, David Blair and Stanley Holden Thanks so much for the heads up. I have always wanted to see a ballet of Cranko's. Link to comment
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