Competent, certainly and she was charming. He, though, looked bored and had all the presence of a dead fish, and was not much of a partner. Hardly a star in my book. And why the abbreviated pas de deux? That was just bizarre.
While the male dancer is competent, the absence of bravura steps must hark back to a time before Chaboukiani, before the early 20th century dancers, when only a superannuated placeholder was used. As you surely hoped, The Sleeping Beauty is a joyous celebratory tale, and deserves so MUCH more. Only performing the pas a few times, I was also surprised by the cuts in the score, as well as the secretive, muted recording which does NO justice to Tchaikovsky, ballet, dancers, or audience. We try to be kind, but this performance seemed more like a pre-sleep mental runthrough in the mind while in bed, hardly whistling the music for fear of disturbing the silence, and a desire not to become excited at all, lest one be unable to immediately sleep. How about a double cabriole, some tours en l'air near the vertical, with spirited ballon off the floor for the following sautes, even though the choreography itself lacks the more exciting steps that any teen performs when taught the variation can do? It is interesting to observe that the pirouette partnering seems from a distant past, with the male determining the number of pirouettes. No female soloist I know would have allowed that slow, cheap, low-level manipulation, and CERTAINLY NO etoile or principal dancer.
Tchaikovsky's score requires an orchestra of perhaps 60 or more. The excessively muted near silent score here, ignored by the uploader, does not even sound for the dancers. This is travesty, as without the music, dance is not evocative or understood.
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Competent, certainly and she was charming. He, though, looked bored and had all the presence of a dead fish, and was not much of a partner. Hardly a star in my book. And why the abbreviated pas de deux? That was just bizarre.
While the male dancer is competent, the absence of bravura steps must hark back to a time before Chaboukiani, before the early 20th century dancers, when only a superannuated placeholder was used.
As you surely hoped, The Sleeping Beauty is a joyous celebratory tale, and deserves so MUCH more.
Only performing the pas a few times, I was also surprised by the cuts in the score, as well as the secretive, muted recording which does NO justice to Tchaikovsky, ballet, dancers, or audience.
We try to be kind, but this performance seemed more like a pre-sleep mental runthrough in the mind while in bed, hardly whistling the music for fear of disturbing the silence, and a desire not to become excited at all, lest one be unable to immediately sleep.
How about a double cabriole, some tours en l'air near the vertical, with spirited ballon off the floor for the following sautes, even though the choreography itself lacks the more exciting steps that any teen performs when taught the variation can do?
It is interesting to observe that the pirouette partnering seems from a distant past, with the male determining the number of pirouettes. No female soloist I know would have allowed that slow, cheap, low-level manipulation, and CERTAINLY NO etoile or principal dancer.
@@briseboy You just articulated my thoughts beautifully! Thank you.
Tchaikovsky's score requires an orchestra of perhaps 60 or more. The excessively muted near silent score here, ignored by the uploader, does not even sound for the dancers.
This is travesty, as without the music, dance is not evocative or understood.