NUTCRACKER GRAND PAS DE DEUX (Kistler, Woetzel)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- From 1993 here are Darci Kistler and Damian Woetzel in a definitive version of Balanchine's version. Even though the lighting is too dark you can see the speed, precision, and musicality of these two superb dancers at the height of their powers. Both were trained at our school in Los Angeles and Damian danced for 3 years with my original LOS ANGELES BALLET before joining the NYC Ballet when we were forced to close because of pressure from the LA Music Center. They had named the Joffrey Ballet as the resident company (Ron Reagan Jr. was dancing with them and political pressure came in to play).
she always makes it look like she takes his hand or uses his help because she wants to, not because she needs to. She is just phenomenal.
She doesn't need to, it's just to make him feel better about himself
I love this choreography and the tempo, the climax feels more epic than some of the other versions I've seen.
Couldn’t agree more!
It’s the most exciting. The most thrilling. Balanchine could really bring the drama.
I agree, but the Barbie version will forever be my favorite. Lol
This is the only version of this dance that fits perfectly for this ballet. Even though others have done it well they all lack the musicality needed which is all over this version here. Every other version just looks like static steps. It doesn’t look like they are dancing with each other and they don’t take advantage of the rise and falls in the music to time specific poses and jumps. This is the superior version of the dance and remains my favourite after nearly 3 decades.
Balanchine's choreography for this Pas is like no other. All others are so repetitive its like watching paint dry... pirouette, promenade, pirouette, promenade .... Darci and Damian are just soooo good. Darci's artistic quality in the littlest things like a hand change is so good. Just love this..
I see his name appear many times when reading on the choreography of the grand pas deux, but I don't know what is so different between his style and others. I am not very trained on dance so could you please explain what Balanchine's vision for the pas is in contrast to others? thanks!
He is pretty much the creator of American ballet . American ballet or Balanchine style is much different that European ballet. The movement is much bigger, faster and overall more dramatic. Balanchine was even pickey about the finger placement. wanted all 5 fingers to show creating a more dramatic look from stage. He is also the creator of New York City Ballet where he created ballet for 35 yrs.. The first ballet he created in the US was the first ballet ever created that didn't have a story line ( Serenade). Very progressive for the time. His works are modern and had movement no one had seen before and fit the music like no other... Even his classical stuff had so much more musicality than any other. His ballets were always first about the music. The beautiful always drove the movement he created. This is a pretty cool clip of a girl who came to Miami City Ballet to learn his Technique and Style.
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wow! thank you so much Neely! I will definitely check out the vid and more into Balanchine if possible! I love directors with precise detail
I think that sometimes tradition can be beautiful in itself. I don't understand why we always have to compare the different styles ballet is beautiful in itself. You can have a preference obviously but some people prefer the classical style🤷🏻♀️
So glad we have this video preserved. To have a pas like this that still holds up as the height of ballet technique 25 years later is really special. This is stunning
Karenna Hall Im 25 years old too
Absolute perfection! The choreography and the dancing are by far the best of any Nutcracker I have seen! Darci really had something special. Even her walk gives me goosebumps!
She is so fast, so elegant, she just sparkles and he is unstoppable in those turns, wow oh wow
It's the BEST nutcracker pas de deux I have seen. Love it 💕💕💕
I know nothing about ballet, but this without question the most beautiful example of art & athleticism I’ve ever seen. Thank you to the performers and teachers, I truly appreciate this.
Yup
Also see in YTube this famous piece by Nureyev at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden (London, 1968)
I will never tire of watching this pas de deux. Kistler and Woetzel's both techniques are so spectacular but really it is the joy that both of them exude that makes it so special. No posing. Just dancing. Transcendent.
Just magical. My favorite music and dance of all ballets. Never a dry eye. Perfection.
After all these years she is by far the best at this. She keeps up with the tempo of the music, the music doesn’t have to keep up with her. Incredible. Used to watch this movie as a kid I’m so glad I found this thank you 🥹
Part of the reason this is so amazing is that Darci herself is so amazing, and part of the reason is that she has such a solid partner in Damian and can trust him so completely.
She's is amazing. I've watched this about a million times and I'm still entralled by her grace
Damian Woetzel's performance is magnificant.
There are no words. Or not enough. But... WOW. Their precision, their power, their grace... Too glorious to be real!
Breathtakingly beautiful! I love this music so much! Balanchine’s version is the absolute best!!!
The beautiful Darci Kistler is undoubtely an Angel from heaven . See the dance at 4:27 , Oh Lord ! that dance goes against the laws of gravity . Where is that from ?? no doubt from heaven . The best pax de deux ever..
how does this ballet move work? is her partner dragging her on the tip of the pointe shoe across the stage or...?
It’s actually a disc on the floor that they step on at that moment….it’s placed there for the ballerina ……still so incredibly hard to pull off with such grace. I looked into it because I was wondering myself how they could pull it off lol
She is fantastic !! Reallyyy
I've watched so many versions of this and This is my favourite! Absolutely stunning!
Agreeeeeeee !!!!!!
Brava and Bravo! Phenomenal technical and artistic refinement. All the hours in the studio paid off handsomely.
Both of them are SO amazing! Blending elegance and athleticism beautifully. I just love it so much 😭
Soothes my nerves . Thank you Tchaikovsky, you brilliant man.
3:50. That is all. The tears. The chills.
I've never found better interpreter than these.... it's perfect
Cindy Falla agreed. Both trained at me school and Damian danced in my company for 3 years before joining the NYC Ballet. I've posted many videos of him from those years.
Their lifts seems so effortless and seamless. I've watched many videos, and these two dancers are superb.
Absolutely exquisite. The precision at that speed is incredible. Thank you.
Darci inspired me to become a ballerina! Wow that lift chills just wow! This is my favorite version ever of Balanchine nutcracker!!!
I love Darci Kistler. An important feminin powerfull woman on stage. I can see: she loves dancing!
Takes my breath away 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻⬇️
The timing of her pas de chats just made me shed some tears🥹💞✨😂 always love watching Darci Kistler wish I could've seen her on stage
Geesum. Was that trick video when she is in arabesque being pulled from the front on her foot on pointe?! Wow!!!!!!!!
Itcwas a trick from the original 1892 production. She’s standing on a small pad that’s pulled across the stage.
Beautiful dancing and sweeping music! I'm more of a musical fan but who doesn't like fine ballet like this?
I can't stop watching this.
I felt in the very first instance when I played the video, that, Kistler and Woetzel were two very beautiful, remarkable and impressive 'classical ballet' dancers! And they are. In my opinion Kistler and Woetzel will always be one of the best, to render an interpretation of 'Nutcracker' Grand Pas de Deux. Thank you to @John Clifford for sharing.
Maravillosa versión, magistral interpretación.¡¡¡
she is truly one of the best sugarplum fairies. always smiled and her technique is so effortlessly beautiful
By far .. the BEST Nutcracker
Thank you so much for posting this!
It’s so good I cry everytime
Muy hermoso baile, excelente coreografía, excelentes bailarines, una obra de arte digna de los mejores !
Just wonderful
Just wow
Gave me goosebumps!!!!
Audaciosos e perfeitos ! ❤️
Legitimately, how does she do that from 4:30 to 4:40? My brain can't process it, other than she's literally floating.
Ah ha! Not going to give the secret away.
I want to know too!!!
The very best sugarplum I have ever seen, she is a genius!,,,,!
chills everytime
Mind blown... o.o
내가 봤던 nutcracker중에서 가장 품격있고 우아하다.
it is beautiful...
A versão mais perfeita!
Perfection!
brilliant.
Exquisite 💕
Can someone please explain the glide she does in arabesque? 😭😭 I can’t figure it out
Perfect 👌 ❗
WOETZEL,
Yours are the GREATEST a la secondes ever recorded, I rate them above Baryshvikov and BUJONES. BRAVO!!!
DARCI,
Sometimes, though rare, a ballerina enters a particular zone of invincibility and perfection, THIS performance achieved that. You glow in a world of enchantment and beauty and why it's "SUGAR PLUM", you give it a feminine glamour and sensual beauty of movement that is missing in the Ashley/Lavery version.
BRAVISSIMA.
MrQbenDanny I agree but don’t forget this was a film and they had several takes to get it right, so Damian told me. The Ashley/Lavery one was a live performance with no retakes.
@@jcliff26 I actually think there's more psychological pressure on a film set because you want so MUCH to be perfect, to get the RIGHT take for that eternal archival footage. Yet, DARCI and Damian here appear possessed and determined for that goal, YOU John know better than anyone what a grueling chore a film set is, and yet, the end results were magically present. ONLY the gifted can blow their nose,wipe the sweat and after a 10th take can still nail it SHUT. That's what I always loved about your dancing at NYCB, you always enjoyed being in the higher dimensions when it counted, and so comfortable there too.
When DARCI married that blonde sasquatch with iceberg lettuce talent, I had a very hostile reaction, I completely boycotted her and condemned her for having the bad taste to marry him. Peter Martins, contaminated my love for DARCI. Thanks to this post on your channel, I'm able to summon the crush I had for her and relive the fun of loving a ballerina, THE most beautiful beings in creation.
MrQbenDanny I’ve known Darci since she was a nine yr old student at my school. There is much in her family’s background which explains her relationship with Martins. It’s private so i won’t discuss it here, suffice it to say she was a victim in all this more than you or the public knows. Films are VERY hard to do, but Damian told me they did many takes of everything and used the best ones. Shouldn’t be compared to an actual live performance.
@@jcliff26 America's GREATEST playwright Tennessee WILLIAMS wrote in his Pulitzer prize-winning play "A Streetcar Named Desire":
"Cruelty is not forgivable, deliberate cruelty is NOT forgivable, It is the one thing in my life I've never been guilty of..", These heartbreaking lines were written for Blanche Du Bois, a character the great ballerina DARCI KISTLER I believe has some close ties to. Blanche, was a victim in life and against all odds, she was also a survivor. Darci is a survivor of cruelty, but worse than cruelty is DELIBERATE CRUELTY.
When Peter Martins was exposed in the famous NEW YORK TIMES article on noted and on the record charges of being a batterer to his wife DARCI, my reaction was not of surprise, but of confirmation of the creepy feelings I always had about the woman beater named Peter Martins. Which, makes the assignment of ballet director to the famous house that Balanchine built even more disturbing and tragic. To have a psychopath as director of ANYTHING much less a fragile community of obedient souls is a masterpiece of catastrophe.
DARCI KISTLER deserves now more than ever, kindness and respect. The labyrinth of emotional distress, torture and belittling from that empty coward posing as a director of NYCB, is a true horror story. Darci I'm sure is not the only victim. However many "Me too's" are involved, only a true tell all would state the case.
My message to the great Balanchine ballerina DARCI KISTLER is, go get revenge on the creep named Peter Martins, expose every molecule of that disgusting and evil Nosferatu, roast him over a fire pit. Revenge is a necessity for cleansing the soul. I truly believe it. Go get your justice DARCI KISTLER, and don't take any prisoners, including your family. You are loved, appreciated and respected by all of us who love the art of ballet and those who made it better. YOU Darci, made ballet better, you like Clifford made Balanchine better. Never forget that. Now go get revenge!!!
Wow
Flawless ..🔥❤️🔥❤️
Could someone explain how she slides across stage in arabesque?
Why ruin the mystery? She’s the Sugar Plum Fairy and can float.
И все-таки Григорович и Большой театр. Навсегда!
How's Darci moving like that? At 4:35 ?? Must have been a platform that was moving. Never seen _that_ before!
Although this is technically great and very elegant, I actually prefer Kelsey Kirkland's interpretation better. It's soft and languid and, ultimately, for me, much more romantic and like a young girl's dream.
dancerlisa That's of course your choice. This Balanchine version is a classical Pas De Deux and the Baryshnikov version is his more modern interpretation. To each his own. In the original ballet this Pas is danced by the "Sugar Plum Fairy" and her "Cavalier." In Baryshnikov's version which is based on the old Soviet version this Pas is danced by "Marie" (Mascha in Russian versions). Note however the grandeur of Tchaikovsky's score. It was not meant to a be a romantic Pas de Deux it was written for a star ballerina. It is quite symphonic and mature....hardly music for a young girl's dream
@@jcliff26 John, I'm delighted you've posted some of this NYCB material. I grew up in the suburbs of NYC and was lucky in being exposed to ballet while a teen. Later I moved upstate not too far from Saratoga Springs where I could see NYCB in the summer. I'm enthralled with what that company has done, with Balanchine and Robbins works, and now Peck. Such a glorious combination of movement and music.
Lindo 😭
Yes
4:30 ?
Not giving away any secrets 😃
This is gorgeous, everything is great, only bad part about this movie was Mulcalhy Culkin, he's great in movies, but ballet no.
I didn't mind Mac being in this Nutracker
He. ACTED. no dancing.
❤
Stunning…both of them. Amazing even today. I just hated that drag in arabesque on pointe though. What was he thinking?
That “drag” is from the original 1892 production. In that year she was standing on a scarf and her Cavalier pulled the scarf, with her standing on it en pointe. The stage had panels that could move. Balanchine didn’t make this up out of thin air. It was an homage to the past.
This is amazing. These 2 are so confident and secure. I've never seen a dancer pulled along on her point before. Is there some trick to overcome the friction of the rosin on her shoe?
Susan .Yamada she's not actually standing just on her shoe. There's a very small plate on the floor which moves.
John Clifford when you were training with Balanchine did he ever say heels up in things like pile and such?
Susan .Yamada that glide, love it
Very complicated answer but totally misunderstood today.
Even knowing how it's done, it looks freakishly fantastic. If I were a ballerina (a girl can dream, can't she?) I'd want Damian Woetzel to partner me. Always attentive, effortless lifts, and dazzling as a soloist.
What political pressure came into play?
Ronnie Reagan Jr joined the Joffrey Ballet and Nancy Reagan got a Republican billionaire friend to give $2M to the LA Music Center to name the Joffrey as “resident” company. This destroyed my board’s fundraising ability.
great revision since the one with Kirkland and Misha.
Daryl Fowkes Balanchine choreographed this in 1954 years before Baryshnikov’s version.
@@jcliff26 thanks for the clarification
do you have tchaikovsky pas de deux??
Is this classical or romantically? HW question :/
Glitzyyy "Classical" and Romeo and Juliet Pas would be considered "Romantic."
From a music standpoint, this is more romantic, though technically neither. From a ballet standpoint, more classical
its better if the tutu is stiff
I didn't know the history of the demise of LABallet from back then. Joffrey didn't even last long here, if they were ever here. Pretty stupid! 😡
t koran They lasted about 7 years.
Curious to know what you think of the current LA ballet?
t koran I know some of the dancers from class but haven't seen them perform.
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The boy is really good but I almost feel be for him being outshined like that. Also, just saying, I would not wear thuoghs pants.
Hardly outshined, and what pants?
So lame🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Lame?” Hmmm.
the pirrouhtes 13:15 looks off, does not flow, & as the crecendo of music increases after , those grand jetes lifts do not do justice to music? seen better choreography😨
That’s your opinion of course. For me, I’ve never seen any choreography that even comes close.