Sword fighting in Romeo and Juliet (The Royal Ballet)
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
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Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers encounter passion and tragedy in Kenneth MacMillan's 20th-century ballet masterpiece, screened live around the world and on BP Big Screens on 11 June 2019.
Gary Avis (Tybalt) and Matthew Ball (Romeo) share their experience of rehearsing and performing their sword fighting scenes in Romeo and Juliet.
Kenneth MacMillan's passionate choreography for Romeo and Juliet shows The Royal Ballet at its dramatic finest. Sergey Prokofiev's iconic score provides the basis for the ballet's romantic pas de deux and vibrant crowd scenes, while 16th-century Verona is created by Nicholas Georgiadis's magnificent designs.
In 1965, MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet was given its premiere at Covent Garden by The Royal Ballet and was an immediate success: the first night was met with rapturous applause, which lasted for 40 minutes, and an incredible 43 curtain calls. The title roles were danced by Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, although the ballet had been created on Christopher Gable and Lynn Seymour. It has been performed by The Royal Ballet more than four hundred times since, as well as touring the world, and has become a true classic of the 20th-century ballet repertory.
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it actually looks more believable than most tv swordfighting, fencing just lends itself really well to that rhythmic steppedy step dramatic dance they're doing lol
I love Gary Avis! More of him please. Such an intelligent character artist! I couldn't praise him enough.
My brother and I before we arrive at the dinner table
😂😂👍🏼
As a fencer I can relate to having to peel off your hand from the grip 😂
My sabre is actually sticky from my gritty hands lol
Yes I am super late
My fencing coach be like: "hold it like you're holding a bird! Don't crush they bird!"
They definitely applied the correction about making a big circle around the stage. During the June 1st performance I thought Ball and Avis were going to destroy the set!
Great video! Royal Opera House, you never disappoint 😉
I love Gary Avis!
Love both of them! Gary is the best Tybalt! Matt is a good Romeo-Tybalt dancer, loved his Tybalt in the film edition of R&J
Once in an insight, Gary joked that he was Matt's enemy in one show and his uncle in another, the shift was challenging while interesting: -)
my favourite sword fight is the 1rst act when both families' members are felously fighting. So many dancers at the same time fighting in a coordinate way!. So exciting!! fabolous choreography!
I remember when the Royal Ballet produced another such video several years ago, again featuring Chris Saunders as coach, and the very cute Alexander Campbell. It created an enormous uproar, specifically among professional and competitive fencers, and especially from people who train actors in sword fight scenes in movies and plays. They were absolutely vociferous in their many objections to the way Sir Kenneth MacMillan choreographed the sword fight scenes, and the way the Royal Ballet coaches coached them - incorrect technique, horrifyingly unsafe, unconvincing, etc. The changes they proposed would have amounted to drastically changing MacMillan’s choreography. So many objections were voiced that the video was taken down. At least, I haven’t seen it in years.
There is this one, but it's not with Alexander Campbell: ruclips.net/video/JFKGuAVE-Ww/видео.html
What a shame the video was taken down. For the average balletomane the important thing is that the illusion of a sword fight within the dance is maintained successfully. The authenticity of the fencing would certainly be secondary to the dramatic intensity of the dance choreography (well, for me anyway).😊
Nobody does it quite the way you do (ROH) you're simply the best!
Lowkey my cousin and I trying to decide whether I should take a shower in the morning or evening. Trust me, morning showers are nice-
Bravo or Bravo to the rehearsal pianist and
Brave or Bravi to the
symphony orchestra that provided the music by Prokofiev to this stunning video!
I love these videos! I hope I can go to the royal one day to see a piece! :)
Me too ^w^
Please please please upload the whole performance or at least more clips from the version performed on 11th June 2019💓💓 it was breathtaking I loved it😍😍
I saw nearly all of those fights, also different casts, they done it very well, don't forget that it have to be strictly in tact with music as well!
Recently finished watching the #FOHTYH Romeo and Juliet, and I absolutely am in love with it! I might rewatch it once or twice more before they take it out. :))
Brilliant!
As a fellow practicioner of the art of sword dance, mad props
Really cool.
Some helpful technique for the men. Personally as a soprano I hated the fight scenes we had to do in Carmen as it is very difficult to support the voice well in these situations even though I enjoy normal stage action in the less aggressive moments! Did study the Gounod Juliet and Bellini Giulietta who I suspect would not need this! Hopefully not Micaela also.
You guys are really brave! Not only do you have to dance but you have to remember swordfight choreography too! Yikes.
Massa 😊😊😊
Grace.
Is it the same coreographer of the Australian Ballet?
no - royal ballet does the version choreographed by MacMillan. australian ballet does the version choreographed by Cranko. both were choreographed around the same time though - early 60s. ABT, royal swedish, and birmingham royal also do the MacMillan version.
At 2:57 the pair are suddenly left-handed 🤔
Its a mirror
That’s....confusing