Thank you for this really interesting compilation. It is hard to imagine though that 53year old Pavel Gerdt was capable to do all those tricky brisé volées and those tour en l'airs ended in attitude. Has this version really be used in 1890?
great montage! thanks a lot! I've doubts about BT: Grigorovich would claim the version to him, not to Sergeyev. Then, I think the first BT variation is danced not by Alexey Fadeyechev but by Vyacheslav Gordeev and the second quite sure by Nikolay Tsiskaridze. and I have a question about NBC - isn't it a version by Balanchine? If it's so I can't understand why versions by Sergeyev and Balanchine have something in common with each other and nothing in common with "notation"?
Navarre Brixen Thank you, of course, it's National Ballet of Cuba! No Balanchine! I mixed the abbreviations.Stupid of me. And then I wondered .... Just read that 1922-23 Lopukhov made an attempt to stage SB as near to Petipa as possible. I suppose he made the variation Sergeyev and Grigorovich used later.
It's interesting to see the original variation but it doesn't quite convince me. A bit too Bluebirdy for my taste. The manege of the last one is strange. Who's the dancer?
Navarre Brixen no never saw him live .but a friend of mine here on yt (blooandwinearered ) saw him live doing giselle guesting in usa (blood did classical pddin the same perf ) and told me that he was really strong
+Navarre Brixen I don't think he guested with ABT, but the Cubans visited NYC and Washington DC during the 70s. I remember seeing Alicia Alonso on a US talk show during that time and it was a big deal she was back dancing in the US. Esquivel used to be a character dancer with SF Ballet for quite a while and teach at their ballet academy but now he has a ballet school with his daughter a little south of San Francisco.
And who is that dancing the 1960s Kirov one? Vikulov maybe? I might have shown the Soloviev one from the 1964 SB... no one does that version cleaner. And is the NBC 1970s one John Meehan? Kind of looks like him.
yes is vikulov is from a documentary obout him with 3 different partners he performs this more others pdd ,and is very good ,l was amazed by his technicall level .the whole doc is on YT
I loved all the beats and footwork in the first versions. After that, all the arabesques and cabrioles felt just so stiff to watch... Princes, boring, womp. :-(
Baryshnikov just FLOATED rings around all the others. It is scary. One watches him and then all the others just look clumsy.
This is just fantastic, Navarre Brixen. Thank you for this pedagogic breakdown.
Misha is apart. We can discuss about the others
Maravilloso, mil gracias por compartir.
Very fun to compare these artists. Thank you.
The problem with Baryschnikov is that laws of gravitation don't apply to him...
Agreed. I've never seen any dancer whip gravity's ass like that. He can stay in the air for like 3.5 counts. Sorcery.
The first version shown here ages the most sense musically, and strikes me as the most perfectly aligned with musical nuances that the piano offered.
The second one makes wonderous sense musically, too ! Love it! So tasteful and modest, with a POW in just the right places...
That is Petipa’s annotations.
Except sadly no passion inn the dancer...lovely but without soul
Нуреев лучший!!!На его фоне все меркнут.Браво Рудольф!!!
Mother Russia has so many gifts ! ☆☆☆
Нуреев недосигаем, лучший!
Thank you for this really interesting compilation. It is hard to imagine though that 53year old Pavel Gerdt was capable to do all those tricky brisé volées and those tour en l'airs ended in attitude. Has this version really be used in 1890?
Navarre Brixen Sorry, but that must be a mistake: Benno and Odette in Sleeping beauty?
My favorit in this solo is still the one and only Simeon Chudin!
great montage! thanks a lot! I've doubts about BT: Grigorovich would claim the version to him, not to Sergeyev. Then, I think the first BT variation is danced not by Alexey Fadeyechev but by Vyacheslav Gordeev and the second quite sure by Nikolay Tsiskaridze.
and I have a question about NBC - isn't it a version by Balanchine? If it's so I can't understand why versions by Sergeyev and Balanchine have something in common with each other and nothing in common with "notation"?
Navarre Brixen In the first video is no prince and the second is ananiashvili with fadeyechev but he has nothing in common with our heroes :)
Navarre Brixen Thank you, of course, it's National Ballet of Cuba! No Balanchine! I mixed the abbreviations.Stupid of me. And then I wondered ....
Just read that 1922-23 Lopukhov made an attempt to stage SB as near to Petipa as possible. I suppose he made the variation Sergeyev and Grigorovich used later.
+Navarre Brixen It looks like A. Fadeyechev.
Wasn´t the soviet Prologue Lilac variation also created by Lopukhov?
It's interesting to see the original variation but it doesn't quite convince me. A bit too Bluebirdy for my taste.
The manege of the last one is strange. Who's the dancer?
+Navarre Brixen l always liked esquivel ,unfortunatly defected too late
Navarre Brixen he was an outstanding dancer with an amazing phisique but spent the most of his carrer like a blind dog ( l know it was bad lol)
Navarre Brixen no never saw him live .but a friend of mine here on yt (blooandwinearered ) saw him live doing giselle guesting in usa (blood did classical pddin the same perf ) and told me that he was really strong
Navarre Brixen don't know in which occasion
+Navarre Brixen I don't think he guested with ABT, but the Cubans visited NYC and Washington DC during the 70s. I remember seeing Alicia Alonso on a US talk show during that time and it was a big deal she was back dancing in the US. Esquivel used to be a character dancer with SF Ballet for quite a while and teach at their ballet academy but now he has a ballet school with his daughter a little south of San Francisco.
And who is that dancing the 1960s Kirov one? Vikulov maybe? I might have shown the Soloviev one from the 1964 SB... no one does that version cleaner. And is the NBC 1970s one John Meehan? Kind of looks like him.
yes is vikulov is from a documentary obout him with 3 different partners he performs this more others pdd ,and is very good ,l was amazed by his technicall level .the whole doc is on YT
God, when will Ratmansky's version finally be on video?!
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I loved all the beats and footwork in the first versions. After that, all the arabesques and cabrioles felt just so stiff to watch... Princes, boring, womp. :-(