I saw her a number of times when she danced with the Royal Ballet in London. Her technique was rock solid, she always delivered. Her musicality and shear artistic beauty was breathtaking. When she stepped on stage, you could feel the audience hold its breath. You couldn’t take your eyes off her for a moment.
I have been watching ballet since I was thirteen years old. I am now seventy-five. No one in that time is as exquisite as this dancer. She will go down in ballet history as one of the greatest dancers of all time.
mi permetto di dire, pur non essendo una esperta, che tra tutte, la Guillem è quella che più in assoluto mi fa venire la pelle d’oca, per la sua leggerezza, agilità, ed espressione artistica. Nel cigno nero anche è sublime. Nessuna come lei. Peccato davvero non averla mai vista dal vivo.
I take the liberty of saying, although I am not an expert, that of all of them, Guillem is the one that gives me goosebumps the most, due to its lightness, agility, and artistic expression. In the black swan also is sublime. none is like her. Too bad I never saw her live.
This is from the June-July 1999 run of Nureyev's Swan Lake in Paris. Sylvie danced 4 performances with Nicolas: 18, 24, 29 June and 2 July. The performance on 2 July was the last time I saw Sylvie in this role. Needless to say, it was unforgettable! Nicolas was a fantastic, sensual dancer: perfect partner for Sylvie. Once you have seen Sylvie in a given role, this sets the standart and all the other ballerinas seem ordinary in comparison. As I said to Sylvie once: 'You are divine. All the other ballerinas are mortals.'
I couldn’t agree with you more. She is just on another planet another galaxy another stratosphere she is just perfection beyond no other dancer I have seen no other dancer except Natalia, but Sylvia just her lines are impeccable like she is so incredibly strong and disciplined. She is the best ballerina I’ve ever seen especially performed Swan Lake
exactly, it is such a shame that a lot of videos (including others on YT of swan lake) are so poorly filmed or edited, maybe at the time people didn't paid much attention to it .... this one is very beautiful, the corps de ballet is also well filmed, even if it is difficult to look to another one than Sylvie Guillem
Perfection she dances like no other ballerina she is on a another planet galaxies she like Natalie are different but both dancers take you seem where far away perfection . Like Sylvia is the most beautiful dancer in the world so unique in every single way not only is she beautiful but so strong her lines are Perfect utterly perfect
INCOMPARABLE!!!🙏 Every nuance, owning movement control, musicality, extension, SPIRIT etc etc etc. She's the ONLY ballerina EVER to command joyful tears to flow while watching this pas de deux!!!😂SHEER BEAUTY in motion! Imo the "Angel Jophiel" MUST be assisting her! BRAVISIMA QUEEN 👑 GUILLEM!
your comment tells everything about you. You just label someone with OCD whom you dont know personally but can't wrap aroung your head that someone is living a very different life with different mindset from yours. you project OCD on someone who has more achievemnets than you, because you are envious. you dont understand the public pressure a principal dancer gets do you?
@@jolicskawow, you got all that from one comment? Perhaps there is a cultural difference in how we’re using the word. In South Africa we use it very loosely to describe anything from being mildly perfectionist to extreme OCD. I only have the greatest admiration and respect for her and in no way intended to insult her or anyone else. I should’ve used the word perfectionism rather.
thank you!! it's a great quality video so difficult to find around. thank you for your work! I saw her Odette at La Scala in 93 and it was a revelation. Swan Lake would not be the same for me after this.
Un andamento di fibrillazione sulle punte che sfocia nella Lene e defibrata caduta in una morte del cigno MIRABILE. Ottimo altresì quello che con un mio neologismo mi piace chiamare convolo aereo ed elanista della ballerina ottimamente indotto e tenuto dal partner. OTTIME Le pose figurali assunte anche in fase esecutiva. OTTIMO IL senso del continuum dato alla pièce danzante.Molto bravi. BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO
I've been searching for more Goddess Sylvie and today Nureyev's ascension day so many videos appeared. Sorry not sorry I turned you down. Thanks for remembering me.
the photographer is sooo annoying...but he knows PERFECTLY when to shoot. I was used to "underestimate" Sylvie in the early 90s when doing the white acts....I was so mesmerized by her more temperamented stuff (both classical and modern). I was very shallow and wrong. I think there's a lot to "discuss" here....deep within the soul
I shot with just one camera, it's like travelling for me when I follow the dancers. Believe me I was not annoyed:) Thanks for your comment. Hope you subscribed anyway. It will encourage me in sharing my other treasures.
I shot with just one camera, it's like travelling for me when I follow the dancers. Believe me I was not annoyed:) Thanks for your comment. Hope you subscribed anyway. It will encourage me in sharing my other treasures.
@@janel342 No. It’s cameras. You can hear them at the 1 minute mark and every time she holds a position especially, the camera shutters start going off.
I think it is the dress rehearsal, so there are usually press photographers clicking away, it is distracting, but is permitted for the sake of publicity/archives.
Has anyone notice that her pointe shoes are hold in place with transparent elastics and not with ribbons? Keep in mind that this is not the most safe way to keep pointe shoes in their place.
@@theGoodchoice4U Elastics tend to become loose after a while. Other ballerinas would have made sure that the shoes were tied tightly on their feet but Sylvie never had such kind of insecurities and she went on to perform on stage with elastics on her shoes. That's how strong her feet were (and probably still are because in her newest interview admitted that she keeps on training ).
Tout est parfaitement bien présenté, danseuses, Sylvie, Nicolas, la musique est superbement restituée, bravo les costumes, l’éclairage. Etc, rien à redire. Seulement, si je résume la gestuelle du passage…on passe à l’équilibre sur la pointe gauche ou droite. On se baisse et / ou on lève la jambe puis vient le moment de la pirouette fatidique et il faut tenir l’équilibre,… C’est aussi éprouvant que de faire partie du décor en ne bougeant pas ou peu et comme rangé, e en bataillon en attendant que la musique daigne changer de registre un petit peu et encore. Il y a beaucoup de pauses pour inspirer les peintres et les photographes plus que l’ imaginaire mais … je veux bien croire qu’à l’époque de la découverte de ce Lac des Cygnes 🦢, c’ était nouveau à bien des titres. Cela devait sûrement avoir un sens : la vision idéale de la relation homme femme dans une version qui n’est plus du tout contextuelle aujourd’hui. C’était à l’époque où il y avait plus de mariages que de divorces de toute évidence. Belle transmission culturelle, mais bon, j’ai dit mon point de vue. Pour moi, cette œuvre n’a plus de sens à moins d’un gros dépoussiérage… pas assez de place pour le duo, les déplacements à droite ou à gauche. Les danseuses sont serrées comme des sardines et c’est l’enfer pour arriver à placer les postures. La musique donne au public l’envie de dormir et c’est aussi traître pour les danseuses qui sont immobiles trop longtemps… Enfin, bref…
Sylvie was a great dancer, great performance but my very favorite Odette/Odile remains Svetlana Zhakarova. i loved Sylvie, at 19 in the Grand pas classique.
I Saw her several times in London and looked frivolous and off play /role with those ridiculous circus high legs developpes. But here she is much more concentrated and convincing . I think Nicolas’ presence helped her. The second act with this couple is fantastic, high art.
@@theGoodchoice4U Il passo a due qui è completamente destrutturato. Credo che non sia mai riuscita ad uscire dalla ginnasta per entrare in un ruolo classico di repertorio. Le doti le aveva, ma come al solito le doti nella danza sono spesso uno svantaggio. Se osserva bene vedrà che nel corpo di ballo ci sono danzatrici che hanno delle braccia "da cigno" molto superiori alle sue. È fuori ruolo, come lo fu spesso. Una sua Giulietta a Milano fu quasi fischiata. Insomma per me al di fuori dai primi piani dei suoi piedi e all'altezza delle sue gambe, quando si ritrovava in scena non rendeva, e nel repertorio moderno puzzava di tutu'.
@@deliobergamotto8876 Non sono d'accordo, non sono solo le sue doti fisiche e tecniche a renderla unica. Possiede una grande eleganza e musicalità, insieme ad un magnetismo pazzesco. Inoltre si è cimentata in tantissimi stili riuscendo sempre a mettere del "suo". E' una mia opinione ma io la trovo incantevole
@@deliobergamotto8876 Dal suo commento si evince che lei si concentra su dettagli insignificanti, tecnicismi quasi manieristi, senza considerare la grande personalità, l’originalità, lo stile e la passione, nonché ovviamente la tecnica (non il tecnicismo) di questa ballerina così dotata e poliedrica. Una delle più grandi che abbiano mai calcato i palchi di tutto il mondo.
I saw her a number of times when she danced with the Royal Ballet in London. Her technique was rock solid, she always delivered. Her musicality and shear artistic beauty was breathtaking. When she stepped on stage, you could feel the audience hold its breath. You couldn’t take your eyes off her for a moment.
I have been watching ballet since I was thirteen years old. I am now seventy-five. No one in that time is as exquisite as this dancer. She will go down in ballet history as one of the greatest dancers of all time.
Truly without peer. The most exquisite technique I've ever seen.
mi permetto di dire, pur non essendo una esperta, che tra tutte, la Guillem è quella che più in assoluto mi fa venire la pelle d’oca, per la sua leggerezza, agilità, ed espressione artistica. Nel cigno nero anche è sublime. Nessuna come lei. Peccato davvero non averla mai vista dal vivo.
I take the liberty of saying, although I am not an expert, that of all of them, Guillem is the one that gives me goosebumps the most, due to its lightness, agility, and artistic expression. In the black swan also is sublime. none is like her. Too bad I never saw her live.
you could have not put it in a better way
For me no one came close to Nunez's elegance until I clicked on this name, again and again and WOW! just WOW
May I just mention how unusual it is to hear the violin solo played so well in the theatre.
Thank you for your appreciation, we are trying our best each time:)
What an amazing beautiful dancer. She is the definition of perfection🕊
This is from the June-July 1999 run of Nureyev's Swan Lake in Paris. Sylvie danced 4 performances with Nicolas: 18, 24, 29 June and 2 July. The performance on 2 July was the last time I saw Sylvie in this role. Needless to say, it was unforgettable! Nicolas was a fantastic, sensual dancer: perfect partner for Sylvie. Once you have seen Sylvie in a given role, this sets the standart and all the other ballerinas seem ordinary in comparison. As I said to Sylvie once: 'You are divine. All the other ballerinas are mortals.'
Very muscular.
Cat Lady scoffs at fake comments. That’s not Sylvie. This dancer has got lovely port des bras, but so so feet.
I couldn’t agree with you more. She is just on another planet another galaxy another stratosphere she is just perfection beyond no other dancer I have seen no other dancer except Natalia, but Sylvia just her lines are impeccable like she is so incredibly strong and disciplined. She is the best ballerina I’ve ever seen especially performed Swan Lake
She was exceptional!
Two dance geniuses together! A captivating spectacle!
💖👏🌹
Сказочно прекрасно!!!!!
Finally a good quality video of Sylvie dancing a classical role! Thank you!!!
exactly, it is such a shame that a lot of videos (including others on YT of swan lake) are so poorly filmed or edited, maybe at the time people didn't paid much attention to it .... this one is very beautiful, the corps de ballet is also well filmed, even if it is difficult to look to another one than Sylvie Guillem
Perfection she dances like no other ballerina she is on a another planet galaxies she like Natalie are different but both dancers take you seem where far away perfection . Like Sylvia is the most beautiful dancer in the world so unique in every single way not only is she beautiful but so strong her lines are Perfect utterly perfect
Which Nathalie are you speaking about ? At that time, there was Nathalie Riquet "Première Danseuse" and Nathalie Aubin "Sujet"
INCOMPARABLE!!!🙏 Every nuance, owning movement control, musicality, extension, SPIRIT etc etc etc. She's the ONLY ballerina EVER to command joyful tears to flow while watching this pas de deux!!!😂SHEER BEAUTY in motion! Imo the "Angel Jophiel" MUST be assisting her! BRAVISIMA QUEEN 👑 GUILLEM!
The best one !!! I love her ❤️
Semplicemente unica Silvie! Due grandi artisti, forse tra i più grandi.
Thank you so much for documenting the work of amazing dancers to not be lost. Your work is very much appreciated!
Thank you very much Robin. Never had such pleasant comment:) I have other treasures to come. Subscribe and share.
@@theGoodchoice4U we wait for them to be posted thanks!!!
Her musicality is phenomenal! So perfect! Just….BEAUTIFUL. OCD is sometimes beneficial!
What is OCD please ?
@@theGoodchoice4U it’s Obsessive compulsive disorder, but often used in the place of “perfectionism”
@@meganknipe4393 Thank you very much.
your comment tells everything about you. You just label someone with OCD whom you dont know personally but can't wrap aroung your head that someone is living a very different life with different mindset from yours. you project OCD on someone who has more achievemnets than you, because you are envious. you dont understand the public pressure a principal dancer gets do you?
@@jolicskawow, you got all that from one comment? Perhaps there is a cultural difference in how we’re using the word. In South Africa we use it very loosely to describe anything from being mildly perfectionist to extreme OCD. I only have the greatest admiration and respect for her and in no way intended to insult her or anyone else. I should’ve used the word perfectionism rather.
A human being taken on the form of the majestic swan.
I keep watching this and must add that the corps de ballet is the most synchronized I believe I've ever seen.
Not wishing to be pedantic, rigour and excellence are the minima to be demanded in this art and from the Paris Opera Ballet.
thank you!! it's a great quality video so difficult to find around. thank you for your work! I saw her Odette at La Scala in 93 and it was a revelation. Swan Lake would not be the same for me after this.
Thank you very much. Don't forget to subscribe and share, I have other amazing footage. Stay tunes:)
@@theGoodchoice4U subscribed and shared days ago :)
Beaitiful delicate movements. So happy I found these videos!
The best of the best !!!
Just one word ….. a MIRACLE from an Alien …. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Watching her stop on a dime in that point shoe was amazing. It's like magic.
Фантастика , гениально ! Браво !!
Она просто совершенство. Ничего оригинального сказать не могу❤
Thanks a lot for this post....so beautiful...every gesture with significance...
Extraordinary - thank you❤❤❤❤❤
Beautiful!
So exquisite!! How can the audience be so subdued here???!!!
The camera mic is very directional which is why you hear so much of the feet of the corps and hardly any audience applause.
Absolutely stunning 👌🏻🦢🩰
Exquisite!
Always a favourite
I really saw the swan!😱
Unsurpassed to this day!
She’s amazing of course but Lopatkina is still my favorite swan yet
Speechless beauty and pathos. More please. Thanks
Wonderfull Dancers. I am happy to found this beautifull vídeo. Thanks.
Perfection
Un andamento di fibrillazione sulle punte che sfocia nella Lene e defibrata caduta in una morte del cigno MIRABILE. Ottimo altresì quello che con un mio neologismo mi piace chiamare convolo aereo ed elanista della ballerina ottimamente indotto e tenuto dal partner. OTTIME Le pose figurali assunte anche in fase esecutiva. OTTIMO IL senso del continuum dato alla pièce danzante.Molto bravi. BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO
As Claude Bessy has told, she has exptionals gifts!
Wow, thank you so much! Do you remember what year it was?
Stunning. Which year is this from?
Очаровательная Сильвия Пластика просто замечательная Партнёр тоже хорош, очень даровитый и заметный
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Can you please tell us the date of this recording?
At 06:50 --> when Sylvie moves her right foot quickly...what does it mean? I mean, what does it symbolize?
I've been searching for more Goddess Sylvie and today Nureyev's ascension day so many videos appeared. Sorry not sorry I turned you down. Thanks for remembering me.
That is a better match!
2 mn 49.... Myriam Ould Braham first rank as Petit cygne !
What a Swan?
Guillem est incomparable avec n'importe qui. Merci de l'avoir publié. Avez-vous la fonction complète? Pourriez-vous le poster s'il vous plait ?
Не могу сказать ,что меня очень уж очаровал ее танец , но Энергетика Притягивает.
I think she wasn’t wearing ribbons on her pointe shoes. Yet, somehow, it worked beautifully…
I think you’re right. How is it possible?
Who is that one person who downvoted. We will find you lol 😂
the photographer is sooo annoying...but he knows PERFECTLY when to shoot. I was used to "underestimate" Sylvie in the early 90s when doing the white acts....I was so mesmerized by her more temperamented stuff (both classical and modern). I was very shallow and wrong. I think there's a lot to "discuss" here....deep within the soul
It's like she's telling a story with her movements even though there's no actual mime during WS pdd.
I shot with just one camera, it's like travelling for me when I follow the dancers. Believe me I was not annoyed:) Thanks for your comment. Hope you subscribed anyway. It will encourage me in sharing my other treasures.
I shot with just one camera, it's like travelling for me when I follow the dancers. Believe me I was not annoyed:) Thanks for your comment. Hope you subscribed anyway. It will encourage me in sharing my other treasures.
The sound of clicking cameras is so distracting. Why was it permitted?
It’s the wooden blocks in the pointes
@@janel342 No. It’s cameras. You can hear them at the 1 minute mark and every time she holds a position especially, the camera shutters start going off.
I think it is the dress rehearsal, so there are usually press photographers clicking away, it is distracting, but is permitted for the sake of publicity/archives.
@@Ichioku I had no idea. That makes sense.
오후수업^^
4:00
What does it means please ?
Has anyone notice that her pointe shoes are hold in place with transparent elastics and not with ribbons? Keep in mind that this is not the most safe way to keep pointe shoes in their place.
I myself didn't noticed until you. Thanks:)
@@theGoodchoice4U Elastics tend to become loose after a while. Other ballerinas would have made sure that the shoes were tied tightly on their feet but Sylvie never had such kind of insecurities and she went on to perform on stage with elastics on her shoes. That's how strong her feet were (and probably still are because in her newest interview admitted that she keeps on training ).
Tout est parfaitement bien présenté, danseuses, Sylvie, Nicolas, la musique est superbement restituée, bravo les costumes, l’éclairage. Etc, rien à redire.
Seulement, si je résume la gestuelle du passage…on passe à l’équilibre sur la pointe gauche ou droite. On se baisse et / ou on lève la jambe puis vient le moment de la pirouette fatidique et il faut tenir l’équilibre,… C’est aussi éprouvant que de faire partie du décor en ne bougeant pas ou peu et comme rangé, e en bataillon en attendant que la musique daigne changer de registre un petit peu et encore. Il y a beaucoup de pauses pour inspirer les peintres et les photographes plus que l’ imaginaire mais … je veux bien croire qu’à l’époque de la découverte de ce Lac des Cygnes 🦢, c’ était nouveau à bien des titres. Cela devait sûrement avoir un sens : la vision idéale de la relation homme femme dans une version qui n’est plus du tout contextuelle aujourd’hui. C’était à l’époque où il y avait plus de mariages que de divorces de toute évidence.
Belle transmission culturelle, mais bon, j’ai dit mon point de vue.
Pour moi, cette œuvre n’a plus de sens à moins d’un gros dépoussiérage… pas assez de place pour le duo, les déplacements à droite ou à gauche. Les danseuses sont serrées comme des sardines et c’est l’enfer pour arriver à placer les postures.
La musique donne au public l’envie de dormir et c’est aussi traître pour les danseuses qui sont immobiles trop longtemps… Enfin, bref…
🥺 Это вы прокомментировали танец величайшей балерины ?
Sylvie was a great dancer, great performance but my very favorite Odette/Odile remains Svetlana Zhakarova.
i loved Sylvie, at 19 in the Grand pas classique.
May I say...A GREAT "PRIMA BALLERINA ÉTOILE"!!!👏🙌
Why can't you spell her name? Zakharova.
Paris Opera was stupid to let her go away.
лебеди? 😳
J
Omg Sylvie’s feet and extensions. Sigh.
I Saw her several times in London and looked frivolous and off play /role with those ridiculous circus high legs developpes. But here she is much more concentrated and convincing . I think Nicolas’ presence helped her. The second act with this couple is fantastic, high art.
Didn't you find her smashing in "Raymonda Act III" at Covent Garden?!?
Nicolas Le Riche is actually her fave partner...
Лопаткина недосягаема в этой роли!
Да ладно
вполне неплохо,для ЧЕбоксар,не более,она хороша там,где нет наших гениальных балерин,не более,а он вообще никакой
Маруся, на кухню. Гречка подгорит
Ничего красивого в балерине, какой- то трансгендерный лебедь или птиродактиль
Это вам к Волочковой. Ну и птЕродактЕль, если что. Ценитель однако, в одном слове две ошибки.
@@viki56k88 ценитель, если что, птеродактиль
@@user-oe9mx5fx5v Маладца Светлана, оказывается можно если хочешь
Terrible !
In che senso per favore ?
@@theGoodchoice4U Il passo a due qui è completamente destrutturato. Credo che non sia mai riuscita ad uscire dalla ginnasta per entrare in un ruolo classico di repertorio. Le doti le aveva, ma come al solito le doti nella danza sono spesso uno svantaggio. Se osserva bene vedrà che nel corpo di ballo ci sono danzatrici che hanno delle braccia "da cigno" molto superiori alle sue. È fuori ruolo, come lo fu spesso. Una sua Giulietta a Milano fu quasi fischiata. Insomma per me al di fuori dai primi piani dei suoi piedi e all'altezza delle sue gambe, quando si ritrovava in scena non rendeva, e nel repertorio moderno puzzava di tutu'.
Yes, it’s true! The comment is “terrible!” 😜
@@deliobergamotto8876 Non sono d'accordo, non sono solo le sue doti fisiche e tecniche a renderla unica. Possiede una grande eleganza e musicalità, insieme ad un magnetismo pazzesco. Inoltre si è cimentata in tantissimi stili riuscendo sempre a mettere del "suo". E' una mia opinione ma io la trovo incantevole
@@deliobergamotto8876 Dal suo commento si evince che lei si concentra su dettagli insignificanti, tecnicismi quasi manieristi, senza considerare la grande personalità, l’originalità, lo stile e la passione, nonché ovviamente la tecnica (non il tecnicismo) di questa ballerina così dotata e poliedrica. Una delle più grandi che abbiano mai calcato i palchi di tutto il mondo.
This is when she started tasting those steroids lol... her arms are thickening, her legs too....
???????