pherank Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 Now THIS is something: Mozartiana (Theme, Variations, and Pas) with Suzanne Farrell and Ib Anderson Link to comment
pherank Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 La Scala at Bolshoi - A Midsummer Night's Dream Walpurgisnacht Ballet Union Jack George Balanchine - Stars and Stripes Link to comment
pherank Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 Theme and Variations Pas De Deux with Darci Kistler Mariinsky performing La Valse (How great is that?!!)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm_xxKPliwM Link to comment
pherank Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 Edward Villella talks about Bugaku Edward Villella and Allegra Kent discuss Bugaku Link to comment
pherank Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 Igor Stravinsky: "Scherzo à la Russe" Liebeslieder Waltzer (Jillana and Conrad Ludlow - 2 mins 21 sec shown) Sylvia Pas de Deux Link to comment
pherank Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 Davidsbündlertänze (Watts and Martins - 1 min 39 sec shown) Donizetti Variations Pas de Deux Donizetti Variations Pas de Deux with Guillermo Gonzales y Giovanna Martinatt Donizetti Variations - Giovanna Martinatt variation Link to comment
pherank Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 I know I've dumped a great deal of video on everyone. And I've been recovering from the shock of being able to watch La Valse and Palais (albeit in fuzzy, low resolution). I'm wondering what people feel about the approach to the La Valse death scene - Lopatkina begins by showing her shock/revulsion to her image in the death mirror, but quickly acquiesces and puts on the remaining black items in what seemed to me a perfunctory manner - very little ceremony or drama to the act. I always thought there was more ceremony, and nuance, to the original 1950s version. Though I did like her final collapse, and the (always) shocking 'dead weight' aspect of her limp body contrasting dramatically with the whirling corps dancers. "Dancing on the edge of a volcano..." Link to comment
Amy Reusch Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Thank you so much for that Liebeslieder! Link to comment
pherank Posted April 8, 2013 Author Share Posted April 8, 2013 Thank you so much for that Liebeslieder! You're welcome - I only wish we could find the entire performance somewhere! That is a segment from the Balanchine "American Masters" documentary. Link to comment
Jayne Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Now THIS is something: Mozartiana (Theme, Variations, and Pas) with Suzanne Farrell and Ib Anderson spectacular, indeed! Link to comment
Quiggin Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Now THIS is something: Mozartiana (Theme, Variations, and Pas) with Suzanne Farrell and Ib Anderson And here's another piece, from Jesus Pastor – in which the gigue is turned inside out – a kind of executive summary of Mozartiana, and of late Balanchine. It begins at 2:14, but worth wading through R&J before that. Link to comment
Jack Reed Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Now THIS is something: Mozartiana (Theme, Variations, and Pas) with Suzanne Farrell and Ib Anderson Oh my, oh my, oh my! The real thing! A drop-everything-and-look-what's-on-the-Internet moment! Oh, yes, pherank thank you, thank you! Good thread, lots of fun here, but, yes, THIS is something! Link to comment
pherank Posted April 23, 2013 Author Share Posted April 23, 2013 I feel somewhat defeated in finding anything much for The Four Temperaments (though it is available on the Choreography by Balanchine DVD)... Maria Tallchief and Mary Ellen Moylan talking about, among other things, The 4 T's: SF Ballet teaser for The 4 T's Marjorie Spohn and Stephen Caras in the first theme of George Balanchine's "The Four Temperaments" (1946) MaggioDanza in The Four Temperaments (about 3 and half minutes worth) Link to comment
pherank Posted April 27, 2013 Author Share Posted April 27, 2013 I rather enjoyed this glimpse of Nutcracker without all the stage trappings:BAE Students dancing Waltz of the Flowers and Pas de Deux BAE students dancing Serenade And a segment from the Stravinsky Violin Concerto Pas De Deux with Karen Von Aroldingen and Bart Cook Janie Taylor and her amazing hair talking about Violin Concerto (hair doesn't talk though)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZOyIXgVX3E[You also get to see her preparing pointe shoes in her own special way] Link to comment
pherank Posted April 28, 2013 Author Share Posted April 28, 2013 NYCB, Western Symphony (complete) filmed in France in the last week of Tanaquil Le Clercq's career:http://www.ina.fr/vi...hony-video.htmlAnd the color film of Jacques and Tanny that appears in the Balanchine documentary: Link to comment
pherank Posted April 29, 2013 Author Share Posted April 29, 2013 This is a really wonderful slideshow of images concerning George Balanchine's "Cotillon":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWNrQdrUMc Cotillon footage from the Balanchine documentary: I suspect that the Cotillon black and white footage from the Ballet Russes documentary contains footage of Balanchine as one of the principles, but I haven't found a video of that online yet... Link to comment
pherank Posted May 27, 2013 Author Share Posted May 27, 2013 PNB's Concerto Barocco excerpt (that's all we ever get for this ballet) Link to comment
Jayne Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Here is a contemplative piece about PNB's Diamonds from 2013 (Carla Korbes & Karel Cruz): And for comparison, here is a snippet from NYCB (Sara Mearns), the music is played very fast, but not particularly well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k95msD_Mz1k Link to comment
sandik Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 Jayne, thanks so much for the pair of links -- since we've just seen a lot of Diamonds here in Seattle, the work has been on my mind. I love the performances I saw over the last couple of weeks, but Mearns performance is lovely indeed, and I think that tempo really suits what she's doing with the part (or she's found something in that tempo?) Link to comment
GeorgeB fan Posted June 13, 2013 Share Posted June 13, 2013 For my money this is the definitive - at least on video - performance of Balanchine's Sylvia Pas de Deux. Martine Van Hamel and Patrick Bissell is simply marvelous. They perform it with such confident authority and easy grace you would have thought Balanchine himself had created the pas de deux especially for them. Pure brilliance. Link to comment
pherank Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 For my money this is the definitive - at least on video - performance of Balanchine's Sylvia Pas de Deux. Martine Van Hamel and Patrick Bissell is simply marvelous. They perform it with such confident authority and easy grace you would have thought Balanchine himself had created the pas de deux especially for them. Pure brilliance. Excellent find, thanks. Link to comment
GeorgeB fan Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 O-M-G!!!!! Just when I thought I couldn't love YouTube anymore then I do now...I discovered this!!! La Valse with Tanaquil LeClercq and Nicholas Magallanes Link to comment
pherank Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 O-M-G!!!!! Just when I thought I couldn't love YouTube anymore then I do now...I discovered this!!! La Valse with Tanaquil LeClercq and Nicholas Magallanes Yes this is the Jacob's Pillow performance that everyone wonders - Where is the rest of it?!!! I don't know if you noticed but hidden within this thread is a link to the Mariinsky/Lopatkina performing La Valse. It's not Tanny, but it's still so great to see, and they do a very good job, if not truly great. Link to comment
GeorgeB fan Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Yet another unexpected treasure I just discovered Western Symphony with Diana Adams and Herbert Bliss; Melissa Hayden and Nicholas Magallanes; Allegra Kent and Robert Barnett; Tanaquil LeClercq and Jacques d'Ambroise. It's the entire ballet - ALL FOUR ORIGINAL MOVEMENTS. Better rush to see it before it disappears!! http://youtu.be/_Pm_1ER1azs Link to comment
GeorgeB fan Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 I don't know if you noticed but hidden within this thread is a link to the Mariinsky/Lopatkina performing La Valse. It's not Tanny, but it's still so great to see, and they do a very good job, if not truly great. Sadly that was it. I'm going to see Lopatkina clip right now. thanks for the heads up! Link to comment
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