Ballet Evolved - Fanny Elssler 1810-1884

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  • Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
  • An introduction to ballerina Fanny Elssler, famed during her lifetime for dancing The Cachucca. With Royal Ballet dancer Romany Pajdak, former ballet mistress Ursula Hageli and pianist Paul Stobart.

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  • @wrouillie
    @wrouillie 11 лет назад +44

    I love the low sweeping movement with her hands, it is different.

  • @RoyalBalletAndOpera
    @RoyalBalletAndOpera  11 лет назад +66

    We aren't sure precisely what the story was. What we do know is that this dance was first performed within a ballet called The Lady of the Lake in 1812 and then Fanny Elssler danced it in Le Diable Bateaux (1836) with choreography by Jean Coralli.

  • @bubble8829
    @bubble8829 Год назад +11

    Romany Pajdak is so very good in all these Ballet Evolved clips. She nails every style, so far as I can see.

    • @elizzy8754
      @elizzy8754 Год назад +2

      True. She is a gorgeous classical dancer but she also has a special gift for the so-called character dances - Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, etc. Her épaulement and facial expression are exceptional.

  • @paulagebhardt6018
    @paulagebhardt6018 7 лет назад +141

    This dancer has a great facial performance as well!

  • @MariellaOakesBooktopia
    @MariellaOakesBooktopia 10 лет назад +78

    that was absolutely lovely, loved everything and I am really in love with this series

  • @myindigoblues5796
    @myindigoblues5796 2 года назад +7

    I love watching Romany dance. She’s so engaging. Bravo 👏

  • @radiantonion8615
    @radiantonion8615 4 года назад +5

    there are so many fabulous dancers at the Royal ballet. I haven't seen much of Romany but she's really lovely!

  • @juliette3597
    @juliette3597 10 лет назад +43

    Thank you so, so much for this entire series. I have been a fan of the Royal Ballet video series since the first videos emerged showing coaching of Odette and Carabosse. Thank you so, so much for documenting these histories for the dance world and presenting them publicly for free in such a professional and lovely way. I have shared them with many of my students and it's an enormous benefit to dancers for so many reasons. I love revisiting them, and each time I discover some new aspect.

  • @bigeyesxx
    @bigeyesxx 11 лет назад +20

    The dance is very flirtatious.

  • @richardcleveland8549
    @richardcleveland8549 2 года назад +3

    Elegant - very elegant, indeed. There's a reference in one of the G&S operettas - "Gondoliers," I think - to dancing the Cachucca, which certainly represents the popularity of the dance in that period.

  • @katiekawaii
    @katiekawaii Год назад +1

    Her expressions are captivating.

  • @user-on6db4rf4s
    @user-on6db4rf4s 7 лет назад +29

    This is beautiful! I loved the torso movements, it added life and flow to the dance, unlike in my place where ballet is taught as a lifeless blocky thing made up of strict movements

    • @juanjosefarina
      @juanjosefarina 6 лет назад +9

      One huge problem with many ballet teachers... They think ballet has no torso movement, and it's so wrong. It has, and should have even more.

    • @seasands9644
      @seasands9644 6 лет назад

      juan Farina
      TRUE...

    • @sarahkatecochran446
      @sarahkatecochran446 5 лет назад +2

      Perhaps you grew up with a very strict method? I teach Ceccetti and we use a great deal of torso movement, but there is always more that can be done.😊

    • @notyourtypicalwatchreview2563
      @notyourtypicalwatchreview2563 3 года назад

      You’re being taught wrong.

  • @lalrinnghetisonset9072
    @lalrinnghetisonset9072 2 года назад +2

    Still watching now ❤️ love every magical movement

  • @BytomGirl
    @BytomGirl 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful... and I LOVE this beautiful dress

  • @williamwoolhouse3702
    @williamwoolhouse3702 4 года назад +2

    I remember seeing Merle Park dance The Cachucca at a Gala at The Royal Opera House way back in the 70s.She bought the house down as you can well imagine.

  • @PieterHanja
    @PieterHanja 9 лет назад +8

    great series, with great dancers, thanks

  • @kirachandesuu
    @kirachandesuu 6 лет назад +41

    am i the only one who likes the long skirt(?)s more? like they look so swizhy and flowy >

  • @altongrimes
    @altongrimes 9 лет назад +31

    pretty Romany and beautifully done !

    • @Carambanoazul
      @Carambanoazul 3 года назад +3

      It is a Romani dance, first adopted by the Spanish and interpreted in their style, and eventually caming to be known as “bolero” dancing, probably a Romani word itself, having to do with the word “bol/bolo”, meaning rythmic syllable, used profusely in Gipsy dancing across the world.

    • @stefannydvorak7919
      @stefannydvorak7919 3 года назад

      @@Carambanoazul The name of the dancer is Romany...

  • @mml0082
    @mml0082 2 года назад +1

    She’s stunning 😍

  • @TheFossilSisters
    @TheFossilSisters 11 лет назад +5

    Oh! She is just lovely!

  • @ramaajagadeesan2400
    @ramaajagadeesan2400 4 года назад

    Wow how beautiful 👌🏻 she has such calm yet vibrant expression in her face that just blends so seamlessly with her swishing movements. 😊😊😊😊

  • @kierralea6721
    @kierralea6721 5 лет назад +4

    I don't know anything about Ballet but I love the torso thing . It's very feminine

  • @carolinagonzalez4057
    @carolinagonzalez4057 5 лет назад +2

    I couldn’t stop starring at her facial expression and feet omg perfect dancer so magical

  • @aspid21
    @aspid21 11 лет назад +2

    This is fascinating, really love the series

  • @mary.bx19
    @mary.bx19 5 лет назад +7

    My name is Fanny for this reason

  • @herrbrucvald6376
    @herrbrucvald6376 7 лет назад +6

    I'd like to see Pajdak in an evening-length role. Beautiful.
    I've just read the choreography for the first 'white', Romantic ballet, the 'Ballet of the Nuns' in
    Act 3 of the opera 'Robert le Diable', was written down by Bournonville, the choreographer, in 1841.
    ...So when is the RB going to recreate this ballet??...

    • @bogwitch268
      @bogwitch268 5 лет назад

      Hi, apologies for coming in a year late to your comment, but I'm doing my masters thesis on ballet from this period! Where did you find the ballet of the nuns choreography, I can't seem to get hold of it?

  • @adriannespring8598
    @adriannespring8598 4 года назад +2

    Wow that's an odd drippy move. 🤔 Nice for a back stretch but almost vertigo in body shift. Interesting!!

  • @persuasionausten
    @persuasionausten 11 лет назад

    I agree! This series is great. :)

  • @jamjalll
    @jamjalll 5 лет назад +1

    Great ! I 've thought that this choreography has desappeared

  • @Schokokuchnx33
    @Schokokuchnx33 11 лет назад

    I love this Series :)

  • @unaanguila
    @unaanguila 5 лет назад

    Thanks for sharing!

  • @melikatalks7676
    @melikatalks7676 2 года назад +1

    Why is nobody asking about the shoes? What are those called? Why did they wear them? What are they made of? I have so many questions

  • @metacarpitan
    @metacarpitan 5 лет назад

    so good!!

  • @henkknaap3940
    @henkknaap3940 11 лет назад

    Lovely danced !!
    The Royal Ballet does wonderful dance-education work !, with top quality !!
    Thank you for this.

  • @hurluby
    @hurluby 11 лет назад +3

    She supposedly had classes with the bolero dancer Dolores Serral, I think in Paris.

  • @SilverInsanity
    @SilverInsanity 11 лет назад +2

    I've seen a couple pictures of this piece, I think done by the Mariinsky Ballet (assuming it's the same thing?), and they always seem to be wearing character shoes. I guess it's just how it is.

  • @26LGL26
    @26LGL26 11 лет назад

    I think that it's Le Diable Boiteux instead of Le Diable Bateaux (wich means absolutely nothing). Romany is really beautiful in this. Thank you for uploding!

  • @sweetaliena
    @sweetaliena 11 лет назад

    Me too. There's a clip of Komleva doing La Cachucha with castanets.

  • @mgabrielaestrada
    @mgabrielaestrada Год назад

    Wonderful work! Just a note. There is a typo on the dance variation's title of "La Cachucha" in the reference by Fanny Elsslers lithograph at the 0:16 mark (the "h" is missing after the "c," showing the title as Cachuca instead of Cachucha.

  • @sunnyballet
    @sunnyballet 10 лет назад

    brilliant

  • @Dutchfruitjar
    @Dutchfruitjar 7 лет назад +8

    I could have done ballet back then. Now days, "Ok, now down and touch your toes." Me, "Well, this was fun while it lasted." lol

  • @yutubero
    @yutubero 11 лет назад

    BRAVO

  • @nevroth
    @nevroth 11 лет назад +2

    Much like Escuela Bolera. Did Elssler study in Spain at all?

  • @KaiGraceSings
    @KaiGraceSings 7 лет назад +2

    What are those shoes? This question sounds rude but I swear I am curious as I've never seen dancing shoes like those

    • @ainsliemarg7071
      @ainsliemarg7071 6 лет назад +2

      kai varnals they are called character shoes!

  • @juanjosefarina
    @juanjosefarina 6 лет назад

    It maybe out of this little fragment of the seminar, but why you don't mention Friedrich Albert Zorn, his work in notation, and his book where you actually extracted the notated choreography for La Cachucha and showed it on screen ? I find it very insulting to his lifework, I really hope you do mentioned him but it got out of this fragment.

  • @tammystiletto
    @tammystiletto 4 года назад

    Would she have worn a corset back then??

  • @ducadimantua1
    @ducadimantua1 11 лет назад +3

    Steps alone won't do. I wonder why she is wearing character shoes and I wonder why she has no castanets.

  • @Kolly_er
    @Kolly_er 8 лет назад

    clean pair of sneaks

  • @notyourtypicalwatchreview2563
    @notyourtypicalwatchreview2563 3 года назад

    Considering the whale bone corsets of the time, I doubt Ellsler touched the floor.

  • @lefauteuilparesseux7971
    @lefauteuilparesseux7971 2 года назад

    感觉最后那一下好像样板戏的亮相…李奶奶

  • @LindaCasey
    @LindaCasey 5 лет назад +1

    I was Fanny Elssler ...

  • @maryann83ify
    @maryann83ify 7 лет назад

    "..сначала он сыграл ей Качучу.."

  • @stebembiandthetrees4523
    @stebembiandthetrees4523 7 лет назад

    I fell asleep watching youtube. how tf did I get here...?

  • @yvonnenc3009
    @yvonnenc3009 6 лет назад +1

    UGH idk, this reminds me more of a Russian style🤔

  • @MAGICDANCEPOPOVA
    @MAGICDANCEPOPOVA 3 года назад

    Спасибо, очень интересно. Но у танцоров конечно уровень ниже русских и французов