The Sleeping Beauty - White Cat and Puss-in-Boots pas de deux (The Royal Ballet)
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- Опубликовано: 23 фев 2014
- Elizabeth Harrod as the White Cat and Paul Kay as Puss-in-Boots dance in Act III of The Sleeping Beauty, The Royal Ballet 2011/12 Season. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk/sleepingbeauty
The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet's repertory. It was the ballet with which the Company reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II, announcing its move from Sadler's Wells to Covent Garden. Margot Fonteyn danced the role of the beautiful princess Aurora in the first performance, with Robert Helpmann as Prince Florimund. Sixty years later, in 2006, the original 1946 staging was revived, returning Oliver Messel's wonderful designs and glittering costumes to the stage once again.
Marius Petipa's classic 19th-century choreography is combined with newly created sections by Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Christopher Wheeldon. The ballet contains many memorable moments, from the iconic Rose Adagio, when Aurora meets her four royal suitors, to the vigorous hunting dances and the famous waltz for Aurora and her Prince. Throughout, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's score conveys passion and intensity. 
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Tchaikovsky: So I’m writing music for a scene where two cats dance
Someone: Oh that’s nice. How’s it gonna sound? Nice and happy?
Tchaikovsky: extremely fuckin’ haunted.
All I can think about while watching this is Aurora being led to the spinning wheel in the Disney movie..... I never thought about this song being played as two cats dance thanks a lot Disney for making this song scary
chimchim of busan Dude u right like wth would disney do that
chimchim of busan I know right I knew I heard this song somewhere I just couldn’t figure it out until I heard the sharp dun’s
chimchim of busan that scene is still my worst nightmare
THATS ALL I COULD THINK ABOUT TOO!!!
@@andreabweek.
Director: So this part's got Puss n Boots and the White Cat dancing a cute pas de deux.
Tchaikovsky: Minor key, building tension. Got it.
lololol
man, Cats (2019) looks great
haha if only it were like this
👁👄👁
If only!
ha
This comment is underrated
Having been a Disney fan for most of my life, I cannot describe how surprised I was when I first saw the ballet.
The meow sounds, taken out of their original context, are transformed into something terrifying in the Disney cartoon.
This is pure geniusness
meow sounds?
What Disney movie?
@@themyers48 1:26 listen to the oboe
Yes, it was Walter Disney idea to made this meow song for Maleficent theme transforming into a dark theme
The best costume design EVER!
I can't believe that the music that used to terrify me (and still does) from the disney film was Tchaikovsky all along and from a cat dance! Well i feel silly for being so scared by it now!
I know the feeling.
What Disney movie?
@@toticustv1556 Disney's Sleeping Beauty with Tchaikovski's score. Go watch it, if you haven't seen it before. A masterpiece.
Elizabet Hirro I saw the movie when I was like 2. I will have to watch it again.
Toticus TV Autora. The music plays when Maleficent lures her to the spindle.
This wasn’t a pas de deux! It was a pas de chat! 😂😂
I see what you did there. :)
Hehehe
Hahhahahha nice joke right there😂💕
😂😂😂😂😂 love the French 😂😂😂
Not quite - it was a pas de deux chats! ::LOL::
I didn't know that The White Cat and Puss-in-Boots were in the Sleeping Beauty ballet. Those are two classic French fairy tales.
Act III of "Sleeping Beauty" is a series of divertissements (diversions), which are individual dances that have nothing to do with advancing the plot; they're purely for entertainment. If you know what divertissements are, you'll understand "Cats" a lot better.
@@OofusTwillip The same should be said for "The Nutcracker Suite", since after the defeat of the Mouse King and the now-restored Nutcracker Prince brings Clara to his kingdom, what follows after is a series of dances until the finale.
The pas de chats jumps are amazing!! They are so light on their feet ( I feel like a sac of potatoes when I attempt them lol). Love this so much and I am so glad I don't remember this music from the Disney film lol!
I think that Disney made a master usage of this piece turning upside-down the sensation and emotion that it gives
What Disney movie?
I read with great interest how many people were scared by this music, thanks to Disney, as so was I! It was for me too, a great surprise to find many years later that this was a dance if cats!!!
I remember being a child and being behind the scenes watching how one of the eldest dancers danced this pas de deux with her partner and I was completely blown away by the beauty
Who says ballet is boring? It contains dancing cat-people! :)
You would LOVE cats the musical then
I HATED that musical. This is delightful! No comparison.
@@garotadagavea Funnily enough, the CATS choreographer Gillian Lynne got her first major solo in this ballet
Kkk, yes, it is so funny. 😁
I have a hypothesis on why people find it boring; ballet can't be done properly without making it look easy and to make it look easy is to make it look unimpressive and unimpressive things are boring to watch. So it doesn't work unless the emotions that are being conveyed can be picked up by the onlooker, and most people can't pick up on them or pick up on the story.
It's so weird seeing the music used in a TOTALLY different context/scene.
+Nexils Yeah, no kidding!
*It was super effective!*
Imagine being so terrified of this music as a child then finding out it's for cats
seriously though that white cat costume is pretty cute, it has that aesthetic about it as though it could be in a game like bioshock infinite where it later turns into a ferocious beast, i think its the mask
The White Cat's costume doesn't seem quite right to me. I think it's because the tail should be under the tutu skirt, instead of over it. Cats' tails are at the base of the spine, not at the waist.
Rose! DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!
spiritgirl41192 Touch the spindle!
Touch the spindle I say!!!
@@dtaylor4552 Ahahahaha! 😈
You poor simple fools. Thinking you could defeat me, ME?! The Mistress of all evil!? Well HERE is your precious princess! Ahahahahaha 🔥 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!😈
The white cat's feet are so flexible and strong.
The costumes and the scenography are mind-blowing!
It's so funny to learn that the music used in the animated feature was just Tchaikovsky thinking about cats.
Thanks to Disney the music now sounds way too dark for such a cute scene......
That’s the genius of Walt Disney. He was able to take a music piece that was written to be such a cute and comedic sequence and then torture it and turn it around into something that could be quite terrifying.
@@sspdirect02 Even if I hadn't seen the movie, I would've thought this song was too dark for a goofy scene involving cats.
Absolutely wonderful. The choreography is light, graceful, evocative and funny. The dancers, esp. the White Cat are great. Her movements are perfection!
I will never get over how creative the Royal Ballet choreography and costumes are. Simply flawless!!!!
I'm in love with the white cat's outfit. So pretty!
OH MY GOD THE MUSIC IS MEOWING. Its cliche but listening to this is just familiar enough to make me feel stupid but still feel like I'm listening to something entirely new
Do you mean... Entirely mew? 😂😸🧶
1:58 "Touch the spindle. Touch it, I say" ~Maleficent
Touch.
Elizabeth Harrod!!❤️❤️❤️ such amazing comic timing wow!
Probably one of my top favorite pas de deuxs, in not my favorite! The style and craft behind the acting is superb
i love the choreography. So cat like.
Oh my that was SO good...she's a-mazing :) Also the orchestra, sublime. I can't bear other companies interpretations of the scores..esp when it's Tchaikovsky. A good illustration of why I think The Royal are still the best!
The only thing that comes to mind when I listen to this piece of score is "Touch the spindle! Touch it, I say!" 😂😂😂😂
ROH has so beautiful costumes
Just imagine what if the audience started screaming because of the music and the dancers stood there like ''???''
Wished there was more Elizabeth Harrod; she’s phenomenal 💛💛💛
It’s incredible how much inspiration Disney took from this timeless ballet “The Sleeping Beauty”, watching ballet choreography is beyond satisfying.
I love this dance! 😍 If I were a ballerina I would want to play the white cat !!!
In the ballet: Meow...
In the movie: Au-rooo-ra...
Why is this music so distressing, I love the dance and all but I feel like something is waiting in the back to creep in or something.
Karen Durant Thank the Disney film for that
It's in a minor key, and the use of the discordant jumps is frequently used to signal at least something that should be startling, or at least ominous. I think the bigger takeaway from this is that maybe Tchaikovsky wasn't really that great of a storyteller as much as he was a composer of really good music -- if someone else wrote the story to fit the music he made.
This is what was used when Maleficent enchanted a grown up Aurora to go up to the tower and prick her finger
Love the costumes!
I still get terrifyed by this song!
It really does sound like “aurora” once you’ve seen the movie, you can’t unhear it
Scary music! Dx Love the costumes!
Can we just talk about how beautiful the costume the mask the wig the everything is
This is by far my favourite ballet dance i've watched
What a fun role to do.
It's the minor key that makes it so scary and that enabled Disney to scare the crap out of kids
I love the ridiculous amount of pas de chats in this. It’s like a play on words. Pas de chat means rep of the cat for those who don’t know
It is so amazing how the team that worked on the animated Sleeping Beauty adapted this song into one of the most crucial moments in the movie.
How they thought of adapting this and use it in a very eerie and dark way, I love it.
And you gotta admit, even with the dancing cats, the music itself is definitely eerie, no wonder they used it in the spindle scene.
The music for the bit of Sleeping Beauty I was terrified of...is the music for a pair of dancing cats?
Could watch this forever and always adore it ❤
I haven't seen the Disney movie in forever, but all these comments about it have got me imagining Malleus Draconia with cat ears... which is.... a very good thing... (and Leona with horns, then?) I just... really want to see that. Some spell goes wrong and makes them switch. And Vil would make Malleus dance this with Lilia...
Growing up with this scary piece from the Disney movie. I am now trying to see if I can switch to joy and fun with the dance, but nope. My imagination still says two scary monsters were dancing and something bad would happen. Good job Disney.
so fun and playful! absolutely love the costumes! fabulous job by all.
amazing! one of my favourite pas de deux!
Honestly, it's kind of a good thing Disney associated this song with Maleficent, because the song just sounds too evil to accompany 2 cats goofing around.
I REMEMBER THIS WAS MY FIRST DANCE PERFORMANCE IN BALLET
Absolutely wonderful!
Wonderful! Just wonderful!
I LOVED this!!!
so funny that a cat dance is full of pas de chat lol
this music still scares me 🥺
Same
This is adorable!
Maleficent
I can't get enough of this PDD!!!!
This honestly just made the song a lot creepier to me.
ikr 🥺
Wow, Beautiful
Beautiful!♥
Great that they always do the step pas de chat 😀
Whoever choreographed this had observed real ones. And now, I must quit slacking and go wait on them.
I get to dance this role in my ballet company this fall I'm super excited!
Totally loving the character
Love the music and dance it's the best!!! ❤️❤️🎶🎼🎵🐱🐈
2 cats dancing! This is so good!
I'm in love with this ❤❤
And the clothes!! Love it
Wonderful!
Beautiful!
He also made the masks for the film Tales of Beatrix Potter andthe Slipper and the Rose
Am I the only one laughing at the fact that they are playing cats and they did a bunch of pas de chats in a row?
oh my god, you're *right*
So, the scariest and most eerie soundtrack of all the classic animated Disney movies Sleeping Beauty… is originally from a ballet? And a Puss in Boots ballet?
Not to mention the performance looks so sweet and innocent next to an eerie soundtrack!
Wow the new cats movie looks nice
Wow the new Cats film looks great
Love ballet omg
Superbe je suis fan de ce ballet. ❤😻
Lindo o sincronismo perfeito 😻😽
Bravo ballet😍
This is lowkey the weirdest and funniest dance lmao
The people in the background are so still that they look like it's a painting.
Is this...The meaning of life?
Yes it is fellow cat
Pretty dress!
Now this is a pas de chat.
The CATS movie should take notes
Winchester Sister bahahahaha
ta pra nascer alguém que gosta mais desse pas de deux que eu…
Bravo! Great!))
This is my favourite pas de deux
beautuful
Прелестная пара. Отлично сыграно и исполнено.
can anybody tell me what part the cats play in the original ballet telling of this story? are they significant??
This pas de deux is from a series of divertissements (small set pieces) given at Princess Aurora and Prince Florimund's wedding in Act III in The Sleeping Beauty. These divertissements are on a fairytale theme; here we have Puss in Boots and the White Cat, and others include one with Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, and Princess Florine and the Bluebird.
So entertaining!