Galina Ulanova and Konstantin Sergeyev - Pas de Deux from Act 2 of 'Swan Lake’ (1953)
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- This is colour film of Galina Ulanova and Konstantin Sergeyev dancing a pas de deux from Act 2 of 'Swan Lake'.
The performance was given at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1953.
Unfortunately in the video credits themselves Ulanova's partner is incorrectly identified as Nikolai Fadeyechev.
As I’ve just uploaded Galina Ulanova and Konstantin Sergeyev performing this pas de deux in 1940 and the ballerina and Vladimir Preobrazhensky danving it in 1946, it might be interesting to compare to compare Ulanova’s approach to the role of Odette over the passage of thirteen years.
Slightly disconcerting (and tricksy?) at the beginning and the end of this footage are plastic tiara-wearing swans - one has a sense of Disney rather than Bolshoi!
Enjoy!
I don't know how she did it, but she danced like she weighed nothing. She glided across the stage like a ghost. An ethereal quality she was gifted with, no doubt about it. Just like Siberian Huskies. I've always had them and in spite of their little oval feet, they can fly. They're like flying squirrels. They are so light on their feet they can jump over a fence and run way. Ulanova was that way. She could fly! The best ballerina ever!
Indeed she was a worthy successor to the incomparable Pavlova.
Her fine foot work technique is out of this world. She does glide, for real!
Soft , dreamy and heart breaking in beauty ...
hi Masha
yes, beauty without artifice - the essence of the thing.
Thank you. It's mesmerizing.
pleasure. isn't it! i like the B and W PDD footage too
Here I am 5 years later in constant amazement at Ulanova. Her mixture of gesture type, by which I mean fluidity with what could be called the "purposefully awkward" (this being personal terminology), is so poetic and psychologically charged that when I watch her I can heardly breathe.
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Loved your link John. I love reading old reviews. Critics and commentators were so much more knowledgable back then. And yes that curved back, the pulled back shoulders, the chin sticking out and up, darting about in a manic and predictable way... I'm so glad it's not the fashion any more! Pliesetskaya did it too.
Thank you.
One more great sharing.
But the Prince with the GUN! LOL.
And no lifts in the PDD (compare later version with Osipenko-Markovskiy)
what's couple john and alla l was so lucky having seen them live in SPB in my prime and also knew them personally .great times she was one of the greatest iconic kirov dancers ever ,and john tall strong dark macho and handsome a dancer like him would be precious in todays mariinsky at the place of some boring washed principals.
pediatrapaola Alla Osipenko is a genius and an extremely noble person.
And the principals of the Mariinsky are better than those of the Bolshoi. But as far as the appearance is concerned they really have only Andrey Ermakov and Xander Parish who (Parish) can't still meet the Mariinsky standards. (and are not principals yet)
passionballet.topf.ru unfortunatly l know that john is no longer the man l knew ....very sad matter .yes alla was a genius dancer.yes xander is an handsome guy but a dancer as many others.
passionballet.topf.ru imo ivanchenko and danila k are a true kick into balls.
hi passionballet.topf.ru
yes, the gun had me intrigued too!
Swan Lake was reputedly Stalin's favourite ballet. Hard to imagine that monster being touched by such poignant beauty!
so paradoxical - i didn't know that. did he have a favourite ballerina?
John Hall I presume it was Ulanova, since he ordered for her to transfer from Kirov to the Bolshoi so he could see her perform more regularly. Can’t blame him for that!
@@zeynepkymet4673 sadly she missed Leningrad (St Petersburg) all her life. She asked to be buried there with her parents, but even that wasn’t honored. Sad.
@@JohnRaymondHall yes he had...Agrippina Vaganova was Stalin favorit ballerina..
@@violetta47I heard Lepeshinskaya
he is konstantin sergeyev
Yes, thanks for letting us know, also the guy below writing in Cyrillic has pointed this out.
thanks - a copy and paste issue from the notes of another upload! i'll change the title and 'Notes' to Konstantin Sergeyev.
Much too fussy, and the tutu overwhelms a wonderful dancer.
I'm sorry .. I am tired and this is frivolous .. But I need time to grt over the pouf- tu 's and the er looooong tunics for Siegfried .. I am going to bed now ..
Ps and wasn't there a version with two ballerinas Ulanova for odette and ... It's gone who danced Odile??
hi Judith
rest well and rise like a phoenix, refreshed!
passionballet.topf.ru thanks for that - i'd seen this footage of Dudinskaya as Odile but did not know it was in film with Ulanova as Odette.
It is a great film .. Once you get your head around two diff female dancers .. Btw I like the plastic swan .. They do nice fades with it ..
judith booth
yes, some of the production values get in the way of the dancing but not too much, and only in spots.
it gets weird when there is a flashback in Act 3 from Odile back to Odette in the Prince's mind - and Odette is now confusingly Dudinskaya. or someone else? can you tell?
А мне не нравится, как танцевала Уланова! Техника слабая, сложных движений она делать не могла, поэтому никогда не танцевала, например, Одиллию. Балет это, конечно, не спорт, но в балете чувства , переживания передаются при помощи движения рук и ног, иногда эти движения очень сложны, при этом, конечно, важно внутреннее состояние артиста, его энергетика, всё это и отражается в его танце, придавая ему красоту. А Уланова могла только лицом изображать чувства, хотя была балериной, но лица артиста балета, тем более во время танца не особо разглядеть. А её часто и показывали при съёмках крупным планом, вот уж там она показывала весь спектр чувств, но это хорошо доя актрисы кино или драм иеатра, а не для балерины. Балерина в полном смысле слова Уланова никакая