I don't understand why there are so many negative comments on this performance. Myriam Ould-Braham is perhaps the most beautiful dancer in Paris Opera today. She has magnificent lines, wonderful footwork and the most graceful arms. Her technique doesn't equal Dupont's but I love her delicate style and she is great as Aurora. Definitely one of my favorite dancers.
udanse Agreed. And why so many down votes on every single video featuring her? She seems to have a very bad case of nerves here, but I find her dancing to be wonderfully full and textured, so to speak. The strength in her legs and torso is obvious, not to mention a stunning epaulement. Most of the really popular ballerinas these days may be able to throw their legs over their heads, and pull pained looks as a way of trying to express emotion, but they do not have the sensitivity and elegance that Myriam has in abundance. Her interpretation of Aurora is great. I can't wait to see more of her.
I fail to see any evidence of a "bad case of nerves". I love her entrance. She seems to me the epitome of the young 16 year old princess, completely graceful in her dancing. I simply do not see these flaws, but then I am not a dancer. I have replayed this numerous times.
Carrie G; you're very right my dear. Proof that being a specialist is NOT a requirement to enjoy a ballet; Actually, she had some problems with her right pointe shoe. In theater, these mishaps and little accidents DO happen. Pity it did happen precisely at that moment. Scroll to see the comments of Kim Donghwan and highlighterish for details.
Toby 1x; Okay, now I see it. That right shoe really failed her but still, she was charming. I stand by my first impressions and I'll watch this again with pleasure.
I don't see why so many people hate this woman's Aurora. I think she dances it beautifully, with lots of character. Also, why don't you try doing the rose adagio with a dead right shoe.
N. Puttonen. I have to congrat you, my dear, for having spotted that "detail". Not that is so difficult to see, and yet, many self-appointed critics here failed to see it. Thence, many "bad technique" or "bad feet" inept comments from people I strongly suspect couldn't do this half as well. Or even grab the bar properly. I just wish people could restrain from comment on things they obviously don't quite grasp. But of course, I'm dreaming...
Yes, she obviously has a problem with 1 shoe. The dark side of having such a strong arch ! 😊 She has an extraordinary footwork and outstanding precision.
@@stefani1637 Oh, is she wearing Gaynors? They do die eventually, but hers look like dead paste shoes to me. If they are Gaynors it could be a softer shank than shes used to/needs, not enough support plus the way they're pre arched can make it hard to work with one that's too soft.
Nathaniel Craig if you see the bottom of her sole, gaynors have a very distinct way of wearing away. and yes they do get softer. it just seems it wasn’t fit right.
Just fyi for the people saying she's unbalanced/messy or whatever, her shoes literally died during this performance. Watch some of the beginning then skip to the end and you'll notice. They're much softer than they were at the end so her footwork isn't as controlled. These things happen. Props to her for getting through it while still looking beautiful
For me, this is the Ultimate performance. The nuanced looks at suitors, magnificent performance and her 'look' are beyond perfection. The corps de ballet look wonderfully happy in their support for the princess and she is graceful and utterly compelling to watch. Her technique is unlike many other ballerinas, Notably Aurelie Dupont but this dancer really looks the part of a blissfully happy 16 yr old on her birthday, with shy glances and truly inspiring dancing. Margot Fonteyn was renowned for her artistic interpretation and in this perfomance, Myriam Ould-Braham has perfected style, technique and superb artistic interpretation. Perfection!
Perfect. My favourite of all. She looks like a fizzy, slightly awed 16 yr old on her birthday. Her dancing is utterly sublime and any comparison with other ballerinas leaves her sitting firmly, in my opinion, at the very highest pinnacle for the ballet is expressive as well as technical
Cette version est la plus compliquée qu'il soit! Myriam Ould Braham est la seule et unique danseuse que j'aie vu exécuter la diagonale d'arabesques sans appui, même Aurélie Dupont prend appui sur les danseuses du corps de ballet!
Lors de la série de 2013 la plupart des danseuse l'ont fait sans appui ce que je trouve moche. Y a pas de difficulté majeure Vous ne voyez des ballets que sur youtube ? Myriam était tendue à cause de la camera mais elle était plus à l'aise dans les actes 2 et 3. Une belle danseuse cependant sur le plan technique dupont est meilleure ca ne fait aucun doute.
@@lindahb6181et Noella Pontois avec ou sans support a été la plus belle Aurore qu'a pu connaitre le ballet de l'opéra de Paris , suis immédiate Aurelie Dupont , toutes deux tres belles " Aurores au Bois dormant " ; cest sans doute Noëlla Pontois qui a dansé le pkus grand nombre de versions ( la dernière en Mai 83 au Palais des congrès Paris dans l'adaptation Hightower avec Noureev défaillant qui avait dépassé ses limites , dommage a cause de lui et la Fondation Noureev on ne verra jamais sur Y Tube la derniere Aurore de Noella Pontois , une grande perte pour la culture de la Danse Classique â l'opéra de Paris )
One thing to think of is the time dancers had to rehearse. We always judge as harsh as possible, but we rarely know how much time dancers had to practise and perfect the execution of the choreography.
Эта миниатюрная балерина с прекрасными данными и пропорциями тела очень хорошо смотрится именно в партии Авроры, демонстрируя ещё и свою отточенную технику. Особо сложных эмоций здесь выражать не требуется. Но эстетика ожившей куколки или статуэтки очень притягивает взгляд.
In breve tempo questa ballerina ci offre tutta la gamma delle possibilita' figurali danzanti.Passi sulle punte in eundo veloce e duplicazione volante dei passi in una riconduzione alla melodia mirabile.Non si potrebbe chiedere di più. OLTREMODO BRAVA.BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO.
Myriam Ould-Braham is one of the best Etoiles from Paris Opéra. The point shoes are not broken because in this yeard she was wearing Gaynor Minden. And how you can see in her debut, she was absolutely amazing and she still stunning, even more. She just had a bad day. She is a person, a ballerina and we don't know if she was worry about something of life, etc. Maybe she felt so much pressing about the live streaming. I don't know. But I'm so happy that she is wearing Bloch now. She was absolutely beautiful in Freed but I this Bloch give to her more stability and durability ❤❤
Her other performances presented in YT like pas de quatre in Swan Lake seemed to show more of her arch. Whatever the shoe she was wearing back then really made her arch stand out but in here it didn’t.
I know I don’t have to agree but Bloch really limits the exhibition of a dancer’s feet. Myriam Ould-Braham, Maria Khoreva are amongst them. Watching MOB’s pas de quatre in Swan Lake shows she has really good arch and for Khoreva, her barre workouts in RUclips is evident that her feet is beautiful but when these two dancers dance with Bloch, their feet isn’t well exhibited.
I used to think lowly of this performance. However, this is truly a beautiful delivery of Aurora. Yes, there were a couple of wobbles but what dancer doesn't have those?
In terms of 'falling off point" has anyone seen the Oksana Skorik;s (sp?) Giselle where she comes completely off point and she continues on demi point Her Classical Variation is quite forgettable. Ironically enough in this French Aurora it is so believable that she is a teen and not a totally controlled, perfect woman. Her looks at her suitors are so well done.
I think her shoes definitely broke in the very beginning of the video and that is why the technique is not as good as it used to be. Besides this - which is not her fault - I found very beautiful and could see a lot of Aurora in her. Myriam truly seems an excited, naïve girl!
@@stefani1637 Oh, ok. I noticed 2 distinct places where she abruptly came off point, so I could tell something was wrong. I didn’t know that Gaynors don’t break.
Beautiful dancer with some very good parts but apparently suffering from feet problems, and not so easy in the arabesques, at least at the beginning. But it was in 2013 and now she one of the bests.
Cette danseuse est très mignonne mais elle n’est pas sure de ses appuis et manque de tomber tous les 3 pas ... incroyable que le,public la porte aux nues... l’opéra de Paris a vraiment beaucoup baissé techniquement, en tout cas concernant les danseuses étoiles ... D.Gilbert, L. Pagliero et À. Albisson sont des exceptions, toutes les autres étoiles sont le fruits de petits arrangements entre amis... l’opéra mérite mieux
Luciole ce n'est pas une question de technique ms de style , ça se voit dès l'entrée ( très importante ! ) des la première minute ; très loin derrière Sylvie Guillem ( en Gyest avec le Kirov Palais des Congrès Paris ) ; ce que je reproche aujourd'hui c'est le manque de style la pureté l'aura suprême de letoile Opéra-Paris c'est mécanique précipité pas de lié etc.
je préfère maintenant regarder les danseuses russes...les étoiles de l'Opéra de Paris n'ont pas actuellement le niveau et le charisme pour danser un tel ballet..et quand je pense que dans les coulisses les danseurs français se moquent du Bolchoi ! ils feraient bien d'aller prendre des leçons..avec eux
Martine JANIAK I'm going to agree with you on that. One more thing : can someone please tell me what happened to those world-famous French feet? Their wings, the overall footwork - where did all go? Are the French lowering their standards?
M. Janiak; et vous, ma très chère, vous feriez bien de prendre de lessons avec le premier venu. De toute évidence,il saura toujours mieux que vous, du moins sur ce sujet-ci. Parole de danseur depuis 30 ans, et qui connait de l'interior ce monde-là. Si vous préférez les russes, c'est votre bon droit, mais prétendre que les étoiles du POB manquent du "niveau et charisme pour danser un tel ballet" est purement et platement aberrant. Ne vous ridiculisez pas avec des sornettes pareilles et cessez de donner de savants conseils à ceux qui n'entendront rien et n'en auront quoi faire (à raison).
I never could warm up to this ballerina. I watch her performances from time to time to try and find something I missed eventually but no.. And I am not talking about this, quite bad, performance in particular. It's just.. she misses something, and she is one of the choices of Brigitte Lefevre that I can't explain to myself.
Plamena, I completely agree with you. I have watched many videos of her and like you, tried to find something in her that maybe I missed before, but no way. Her knees seem to never be stretched and her feet are terrible (what we call in french "pied creux" - literally "hollow feet"). About the choices of Brigitte Lefevre in general...let's not try to understand.
Sorry to disagree but her knees are never stretched, on any video (that's why I don't want to see her dance on stage!) Her ankles are awful. It was not that day specially, or dead shoes, or whatever. She's weak and lacks the aura of an étoile. Sorry to be straight about it.
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I don't understand why there are so many negative comments on this performance. Myriam Ould-Braham is perhaps the most beautiful dancer in Paris Opera today. She has magnificent lines, wonderful footwork and the most graceful arms. Her technique doesn't equal Dupont's but I love her delicate style and she is great as Aurora. Definitely one of my favorite dancers.
udanse Agreed. And why so many down votes on every single video featuring her? She seems to have a very bad case of nerves here, but I find her dancing to be wonderfully full and textured, so to speak. The strength in her legs and torso is obvious, not to mention a stunning epaulement. Most of the really popular ballerinas these days may be able to throw their legs over their heads, and pull pained looks as a way of trying to express emotion, but they do not have the sensitivity and elegance that Myriam has in abundance. Her interpretation of Aurora is great. I can't wait to see more of her.
I totally agree, I just watched her dance in Paquita at Bolshoi with Nikolai Tsiskaridze and they were both wonderful...
I fail to see any evidence of a "bad case of nerves". I love her entrance. She seems to me the epitome of the young 16 year old princess, completely graceful in her dancing. I simply do not see these flaws, but then I am not a dancer. I have replayed this numerous times.
Carrie G; you're very right my dear. Proof that being a specialist is NOT a requirement to enjoy a ballet; Actually, she had some problems with her right pointe shoe. In theater, these mishaps and little accidents DO happen. Pity it did happen precisely at that moment. Scroll to see the comments of Kim Donghwan and highlighterish for details.
Toby 1x; Okay, now I see it. That right shoe really failed her but still, she was charming. I stand by my first impressions and I'll watch this again with pleasure.
She is so believable as a 16 year old Aurora. Utterly marvelous this freshness and youth.
I don't see why so many people hate this woman's Aurora. I think she dances it beautifully, with lots of character. Also, why don't you try doing the rose adagio with a dead right shoe.
N. Puttonen. I have to congrat you, my dear, for having spotted that "detail". Not that is so difficult to see, and yet, many self-appointed critics here failed to see it. Thence, many "bad technique" or "bad feet" inept comments from people I strongly suspect couldn't do this half as well. Or even grab the bar properly. I just wish people could restrain from comment on things they obviously don't quite grasp. But of course, I'm dreaming...
Yes, she obviously has a problem with 1 shoe. The dark side of having such a strong arch ! 😊 She has an extraordinary footwork and outstanding precision.
Nathaniel Craig but gaynors can’t die?
@@stefani1637 Oh, is she wearing Gaynors? They do die eventually, but hers look like dead paste shoes to me. If they are Gaynors it could be a softer shank than shes used to/needs, not enough support plus the way they're pre arched can make it hard to work with one that's too soft.
Nathaniel Craig if you see the bottom of her sole, gaynors have a very distinct way of wearing away. and yes they do get softer. it just seems it wasn’t fit right.
Just fyi for the people saying she's unbalanced/messy or whatever, her shoes literally died during this performance. Watch some of the beginning then skip to the end and you'll notice. They're much softer than they were at the end so her footwork isn't as controlled. These things happen. Props to her for getting through it while still looking beautiful
Thank you Tina Spence everyone else is putting her down. I'd like to see their fat asses and flat feet up there!
Tina Spence gaynors can’t die
@@stefani1637
Except it was TOO SOFT. Ould-Braham prefers soft but here it got too soft.
@@liobu3097 yeah i think she chose the softest gaynor
I totally agree….something definitely happened to her shoes in the last third. Beautiful performance in spite of the shoes.
For me, this is the Ultimate performance. The nuanced looks at suitors, magnificent performance and her 'look' are beyond perfection. The corps de ballet look wonderfully happy in their support for the princess and she is graceful and utterly compelling to watch. Her technique is unlike many other ballerinas, Notably Aurelie Dupont but this dancer really looks the part of a blissfully happy 16 yr old on her birthday, with shy glances and truly inspiring dancing. Margot Fonteyn was renowned for her artistic interpretation and in this perfomance, Myriam Ould-Braham has perfected style, technique and superb artistic interpretation. Perfection!
What a beautiful glorious ballerina.. Her myriad of flits and turns.. Fantastic performance. And the colour of the costumes and stage. Spectacular.
Perfect. My favourite of all. She looks like a fizzy, slightly awed 16 yr old on her birthday. Her dancing is utterly sublime and any comparison with other ballerinas leaves her sitting firmly, in my opinion, at the very highest pinnacle for the ballet is expressive as well as technical
Cette version est la plus compliquée qu'il soit! Myriam Ould Braham est la seule et unique danseuse que j'aie vu exécuter la diagonale d'arabesques sans appui, même Aurélie Dupont prend appui sur les danseuses du corps de ballet!
Lors de la série de 2013 la plupart des danseuse l'ont fait sans appui ce que je trouve moche. Y a pas de difficulté majeure Vous ne voyez des ballets que sur youtube ?
Myriam était tendue à cause de la camera mais elle était plus à l'aise dans les actes 2 et 3. Une belle danseuse cependant sur le plan technique dupont est meilleure ca ne fait aucun doute.
Darcy Bussell performed the arabesques without support
@@lindahb6181et Noella Pontois avec ou sans support a été la plus belle Aurore qu'a pu connaitre le ballet de l'opéra de Paris , suis immédiate Aurelie Dupont , toutes deux tres belles " Aurores au Bois dormant " ; cest sans doute Noëlla Pontois qui a dansé le pkus grand nombre de versions ( la dernière en Mai 83 au Palais des congrès Paris dans l'adaptation Hightower avec Noureev défaillant qui avait dépassé ses limites , dommage a cause de lui et la Fondation Noureev on ne verra jamais sur Y Tube la derniere Aurore de Noella Pontois , une grande perte pour la culture de la Danse Classique â l'opéra de Paris )
Une splendide prestation !
Omg so beautiful! What a gorgeous and mega mega talented dancer! What a solid and flawless performance 👌🏻 This girl got skills! 💁🏻♀️💃🏼
Она чудесна: юная, непосредственная, искренняя. Великолепная балерина и актриса.
This finale is absolutely beautiful.
What a wonderful performance!
One thing to think of is the time dancers had to rehearse. We always judge as harsh as possible, but we rarely know how much time dancers had to practise and perfect the execution of the choreography.
She's lovely.
Эта миниатюрная балерина с прекрасными данными и пропорциями тела очень хорошо смотрится именно в партии Авроры, демонстрируя ещё и свою отточенную технику. Особо сложных эмоций здесь выражать не требуется. Но эстетика ожившей куколки или статуэтки очень притягивает взгляд.
Absolutely beautiful! It is everything it should be.
Can you please upload the full-length performance?
In breve tempo questa ballerina ci offre tutta la gamma delle possibilita' figurali danzanti.Passi sulle punte in eundo veloce e duplicazione volante dei passi in una riconduzione alla melodia mirabile.Non si potrebbe chiedere di più. OLTREMODO BRAVA.BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO.
Myriam Ould-Braham is one of the best Etoiles from Paris Opéra. The point shoes are not broken because in this yeard she was wearing Gaynor Minden. And how you can see in her debut, she was absolutely amazing and she still stunning, even more. She just had a bad day. She is a person, a ballerina and we don't know if she was worry about something of life, etc. Maybe she felt so much pressing about the live streaming. I don't know. But I'm so happy that she is wearing Bloch now. She was absolutely beautiful in Freed but I this Bloch give to her more stability and durability ❤❤
Her other performances presented in YT like pas de quatre in Swan Lake seemed to show more of her arch. Whatever the shoe she was wearing back then really made her arch stand out but in here it didn’t.
I know I don’t have to agree but Bloch really limits the exhibition of a dancer’s feet. Myriam Ould-Braham, Maria Khoreva are amongst them. Watching MOB’s pas de quatre in Swan Lake shows she has really good arch and for Khoreva, her barre workouts in RUclips is evident that her feet is beautiful but when these two dancers dance with Bloch, their feet isn’t well exhibited.
MAGNIFIQUE
Precioso, qué buena es, y qué coreografia más bonita.
Enchanting.
Beautiful!!! Simply amazing!!!
Elle "est " Aurore .Son interprétation me plait beaucoup . J'adore la voir danser!!!
Bravísima!!!❤
I used to think lowly of this performance. However, this is truly a beautiful delivery of Aurora. Yes, there were a couple of wobbles but what dancer doesn't have those?
Merveilleux ❤🎉!
Thank you for posting this piece! Is this Myriam Aurora debut?
She danced it in 2004 (watch?v=8_bAX16H39A), aged 22, but it was her «premiere» on this 2013 serie.
myriam 🇩🇿💕
ohmygoddddddddd
Superbe danseuse.
Absolutely beautiful!!!!
In terms of 'falling off point" has anyone seen the Oksana Skorik;s (sp?) Giselle where she comes completely off point and she continues on demi point Her Classical Variation is quite forgettable. Ironically enough in this French Aurora it is so believable that she is a teen and not a totally controlled, perfect woman. Her looks at her suitors are so well done.
she is the ideal Aurora. simply, Ideal ¡¡¡ thanks for the video.
WOW!
I think her shoes definitely broke in the very beginning of the video and that is why the technique is not as good as it used to be. Besides this - which is not her fault - I found very beautiful and could see a lot of Aurora in her. Myriam truly seems an excited, naïve girl!
Paula Rocha they’re gaynors, can’t break
@@stefani1637 Hahahaha
@@stefani1637 Her right shoe definitely broke.
@@levondelite4072 it’s gaynors. they don’t “break” she probably chose too soft of a shank
@@stefani1637 Oh, ok. I noticed 2 distinct places where she abruptly came off point, so I could tell something was wrong. I didn’t know that Gaynors don’t break.
Beautiful dancer with some very good parts but apparently suffering from feet problems, and not so easy in the arabesques, at least at the beginning. But it was in 2013 and now she one of the bests.
Bailarina sem força nos pés. Cai da ponta com facilidade.
Cette danseuse est très mignonne mais elle n’est pas sure de ses appuis et manque de tomber tous les 3 pas ... incroyable que le,public la porte aux nues... l’opéra de Paris a vraiment beaucoup baissé techniquement, en tout cas concernant les danseuses étoiles ... D.Gilbert, L. Pagliero et À. Albisson sont des exceptions, toutes les autres étoiles sont le fruits de petits arrangements entre amis... l’opéra mérite mieux
Luciole ce n'est pas une question de technique ms de style , ça se voit dès l'entrée ( très importante ! ) des la première minute ; très loin derrière Sylvie Guillem ( en Gyest avec le Kirov Palais des Congrès Paris ) ; ce que je reproche aujourd'hui c'est le manque de style la pureté l'aura suprême de letoile Opéra-Paris c'est mécanique précipité pas de lié etc.
... laborieux ...
ops she fell off the pointes a couple of times
Very stressed i think. It was better in act 2 and 3
Poor lamb. I bet she's glad that's over and done with!
Yes 100% this perception is spot on.
Yikes
Gente ela é muito estranha, ou é impressão minha? Sem alma, ansiosa e um pouco suja e me pareceu meio insegura....
je préfère maintenant regarder les danseuses russes...les étoiles de l'Opéra de Paris n'ont pas actuellement le niveau et le charisme pour danser un tel ballet..et quand je pense que dans les coulisses les danseurs français se moquent du Bolchoi ! ils feraient bien d'aller prendre des leçons..avec eux
Martine JANIAK I'm going to agree with you on that. One more thing : can someone please tell me what happened to those world-famous French feet? Their wings, the overall footwork - where did all go? Are the French lowering their standards?
M. Janiak; et vous, ma très chère, vous feriez bien de prendre de lessons avec le premier venu. De toute évidence,il saura toujours mieux que vous, du moins sur ce sujet-ci. Parole de danseur depuis 30 ans, et qui connait de l'interior ce monde-là. Si vous préférez les russes, c'est votre bon droit, mais prétendre que les étoiles du POB manquent du "niveau et charisme pour danser un tel ballet" est purement et platement aberrant. Ne vous ridiculisez pas avec des sornettes pareilles et cessez de donner de savants conseils à ceux qui n'entendront rien et n'en auront quoi faire (à raison).
Vous êtes concierge de l'opéra pour savoir ce qui se passe en coulisse ?
M Janiak : ils ne se moquent pas , ils ne sont pas éblouis !
Can't compare to Aurelie
Poor thing she looks out of breath! This variation is god so technical! not perfect but I wouldn't be able to do 5% of it myself so won't judge!
suffering from "heavy legs" as the French say. A very lack lustre performance!
Her right pointe’s dead, Pav. Get a gripz
I never could warm up to this ballerina. I watch her performances from time to time to try and find something I missed eventually but no.. And I am not talking about this, quite bad, performance in particular. It's just.. she misses something, and she is one of the choices of Brigitte Lefevre that I can't explain to myself.
Plamena, I completely agree with you. I have watched many videos of her and like you, tried to find something in her that maybe I missed before, but no way. Her knees seem to never be stretched and her feet are terrible (what we call in french "pied creux" - literally "hollow feet"). About the choices of Brigitte Lefevre in general...let's not try to understand.
Virginie Martin
Her shanks didn’t support her here. Her other performances were also good.
Sorry to disagree but her knees are never stretched, on any video (that's why I don't want to see her dance on stage!) Her ankles are awful. It was not that day specially, or dead shoes, or whatever. She's weak and lacks the aura of an étoile. Sorry to be straight about it.
not very good
definitely not ready///promising////messy////not good enough for paris opera////
barbara boudot who are you to say that? hahaha
Her shoes died halfway through