Ballet Styles Compared: The French School

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  • Опубликовано: 4 дек 2024

Комментарии • 47

  • @iamclassicforlife
    @iamclassicforlife Месяц назад +21

    I always love how "put-together" the French style seems to be
    Fell in LOVE with Aurélie Dupont as Aurore in Sleeping Beauty!!

    • @theDanceLens
      @theDanceLens  Месяц назад +1

      Agreed ❤

    • @melowlw8638
      @melowlw8638 29 дней назад +1

      the channel Slice Who uploaded a 50min long video, compiling Aurélie Dupont's career in archival footage, i highly recommend it!! it has english subtitles too

  • @cheriestl
    @cheriestl Месяц назад +23

    Love these! I’d love a look into Hong Kong’s style as well.

    • @theDanceLens
      @theDanceLens  Месяц назад +6

      They are one of my fav companies! And thank you so much ❤❤❤❤

  • @GhislaineBeauce
    @GhislaineBeauce Месяц назад +9

    Dancers at the Paris Opera school still learn Baroque dance as part of the curriculum, and I think the French style is influenced by that. Baroque dance is surprisingly difficult to pick up, the musicality is different, and some of the dances are quyite vivacious and demand stamina.

  • @marypagones6073
    @marypagones6073 Месяц назад +13

    I never connected the 19th century Russian obsession with all things French before regarding ballet-of course the French were first. Makes so much sense.

    • @theDanceLens
      @theDanceLens  Месяц назад +3

      So much fun right! The historical and geopolitical connections are fascinating ❤

    • @edwinnavarro6017
      @edwinnavarro6017 Месяц назад +1

      The beginning of Ballet is Italian .. NO French

    • @melowlw8638
      @melowlw8638 29 дней назад +4

      ​@@edwinnavarro6017 they created it, but the french made it an institution led activity, they "codified" it as Cynthia says

  • @markbeck8384
    @markbeck8384 Месяц назад +8

    This is a great series of explanations. I find myself very drawn to the French style, particularly the feet. It feels a little more like the Danish. The American and Russian styles are much more exaggerated, and have a different kind of spectacle-drama. I like the English style too. It strikes me that maybe the Japanese are also growing into a bit of a style I admire.

    • @theDanceLens
      @theDanceLens  Месяц назад

      Some great dancers coming out of Japan I agree ❤

  • @altongrimes
    @altongrimes 22 дня назад

    Your videos stoke the fires of the ballet of which I harbor a great passion

  • @katelynne7211
    @katelynne7211 Месяц назад +7

    My favorite French ballerina is Agnes Letestu, somehow she’s not mentioned very often compared to Sylvie or Aurelie but to me she’s the French school at it’s finest

    • @theDanceLens
      @theDanceLens  Месяц назад

      She was wonderful wasn’t she ❤

  • @LittleWaffle
    @LittleWaffle Месяц назад +4

    I really enjoy this series! Can't wait for part three ❤❤❤❤

  • @Beth-sn9ip
    @Beth-sn9ip 29 дней назад +2

    I would love to see a ballet done from the time of Louis the 14th and later, the court dances and the ones performed on stage, both as they developed over time. I think this is something unique the Paris Opera Ballet could do.

    • @melowlw8638
      @melowlw8638 29 дней назад

      there is a movie called Le Roi Danse, which i discovered recently, by seeing behind the scenes footage, i recommend looking at these videos on ytb!! they recreate historical dancing from the Louis XIV court, which u might enjoy!! it seems like there was a lot of historically based research in the choregraphy too, with the costumes/decors as well

  • @lucylepidoptera7405
    @lucylepidoptera7405 Месяц назад +6

    I looove these videos

    • @ghkdwls360
      @ghkdwls360 Месяц назад +2

      me too! I hope she continues to explore different styles of ballet in the world!

  • @angela-kv9de
    @angela-kv9de Месяц назад +2

    Can you please make a video about the Cuban style ?

  • @lilbatz
    @lilbatz Месяц назад +4

    My favorite dancer, the goddess aka Sylvie Guillem. Love me the French style of ballet.

  • @bulldwang1931
    @bulldwang1931 Месяц назад

    Thanks for these videos, very interesting learning the different schools of ballet.

  • @michaelgarcia2973
    @michaelgarcia2973 Месяц назад +4

    Hi Cynthia ...I fell in love with the Kirov Ballet The Swan Lake Ballet Beautifully performed

  • @ghkdwls360
    @ghkdwls360 Месяц назад +2

    this is so cool!

  • @germainelowpt7206
    @germainelowpt7206 Месяц назад

    Yes ! I was waiting for this one !

    • @theDanceLens
      @theDanceLens  Месяц назад +1

      Hope you enjoyed it!

    • @theDanceLens
      @theDanceLens  Месяц назад

      Yay! ❤

    • @germainelowpt7206
      @germainelowpt7206 Месяц назад

      @@theDanceLens oh yes !!! This must be my favourite series, and not just on your channel

  • @acoke4u
    @acoke4u Месяц назад

    i need more of this please.

  • @mayermargolis8990
    @mayermargolis8990 26 дней назад

    Please add the words "Part 2" to the headline. It will make the video easier to find. People looking for "Ballet Styles Compared Part 2" won't find it.
    I love your video.

  • @VenusianLissette
    @VenusianLissette Месяц назад

    this is so cool, thank you~

  • @cf8595
    @cf8595 6 дней назад

    i'm glad you can focus on techniques so that I can foster some appreciation, because I think their lack of facial (and body, honestly) expression is so flat. I just can't hang with it, but i definitely think nureyev nutcracker 1989 with paris opera is the best storytelling/choreo Ive seen...but is that crediting PO or Nureyev?

  • @MissLatuca
    @MissLatuca Месяц назад +2

    Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. etc etc still originated from italy though and brought to France by Catherine de Medicis when she married Henrry II historically speaking. Also Ballet comes from balletto who comes from ballare wich means dance and become in French Ballet but yes the french words and form are still used all around the world.
    Thanks for this great video ♥

  • @jenniferharris7633
    @jenniferharris7633 29 дней назад

    When I'm sitting in the audience, the use of the dancers eyes to express emotion is lost on me. I don't want subtlety to convey feelings, I want grand gestures that I can see from the nosebleed section.

  • @foropera
    @foropera Месяц назад

    Aurélie is Aurélie, she is not the epithom of the french Ballerina. Noella Pontois, Dominique Khalfouni and Ghislaine Thesmar were proéminent french Star Ballerinas.

    • @theDanceLens
      @theDanceLens  Месяц назад +3

      She also is a prominent French star, literally, and she aptly represents the style for the purposes of this lesson ❤

    • @myriamaguilar6592
      @myriamaguilar6592 Месяц назад

      Creo que el estilo Francés quedó marcado para siempre por Nureyev! No pueden despegarse de esa exigencia en los pasos!

  • @edwinnavarro6017
    @edwinnavarro6017 Месяц назад +1

    French School very respectful and beautiful , but nothing better like the Russian School/Method Vaganova …