Auréole with the Royal Danish Ballet and Rudolf Nureyev

[vnpei]

Auréole always fared well on The royal danish ballet stage, the dancers did well, Paul Taylor enjoyed it there (not at least the beautiful smiling women) and the audience loved it. The piece is of course a child of it´s time, but it has lot of integrity, musicality and beautiful rounded movements - in the Taylor-style. Vivi Flindt was an excellent dancer in this field, other fine dancers also dances it well on stage then. Only the extraordinary Rudy seems here a little out place.

[vestrisfodafunk]

@kimmois1 This Choreography is so stupid ...NO DANCERS COULD make it look good it comes from another time where modern choreografers were still in search of "inspiration" I guess .

We are talking here about Great dancers as said they were all Principal at the Royal Danish ballet one of the great classical companies and Rudolf Nureyev PLEASE!

[oldaardvark]

@vestrisfodafunk

I guarantee you that dancers make this choreography look great all the time, because it is great choreography. I never understand why fans of one dance genre feel a need to show their ignorance and bad-mouth another genre.

[Ringokris]

Thanks for the upload! Interesting to see how excellent ballet dancers can dance this piece horribly because they don't understand the qualities of choreography. Having seen it both live and on video by the original dance co one understands what is really missing. Rudi looks just absurd - doesn't make him less goog dancer, but it just helps one understand that being excellent in one school does not mean being autmatically excellent in another.

[charemaine]

@Ringokris look at the lift at 7.44...it looks deceptively easy but it's one of the hardest in

dance and Nureyev lifts her like she's a feather...also his spine and arms are amazing.

[oldaardvark]

@charemaine

He does make it look easy but when I watch it I get a shooting pain in my right knee.

[micand2]

Fabulous...  just love Vivi Flindt

[iDancer101]

please stop smiling. 

[oldaardvark]

Although I love these dancers, it is true that no one should judge this choreography at all without (1) seeing the whole work (2) and seeing it performed by the Paul Taylor Co, Taylor 2, or a company on which it is staged by a member of the PTDC or a former member. You can even get an idea from the excerpts of the Harvard Dance Co., which can be seen on youtube. The consensus is that it is one of the great dance works of all time and for me, it goes straight to my soul..

[balletnut]

Absolutely fantastic.

At the beginning I thought the choreography was by Mr. B.

Shame this was so short. Thank you so much for posting it.

[kimmois1]

@balletnut And that's the problem with this interpretation, babycakes. The RDB schooled in the ballon that Balanchine so loved are the wrong company to dance Taylor which makes major use in Aureole of the weighted connection between earth and modern dancer. Aureole is absolutely a piece that's best served by the Taylor company, this most definitely is Taylor lite.

[MrNocco]

great dancers, so bad choreography..... looks like something for a school play

[kimmois1]

@MrNocco So, you stupid cunt, Aureole is a masterpiece of modern dance. Ballet dancers can't dance it properly, bad choreography my fucking arse you stupid shit eating donkey raping fucktard. Why not fuck off and sniff one of your stolen ballet boys jockstraps and wank off to Don Q you fucking inbred incest riddled cunt. Peace out and expand your frame of reference, babes. xxxx

[MrNocco]

@kimmois1 please calm down will you? these dancers are star dancers with the RDB and and beyond, and even Rudy is in this. But this choreography looks like dance from the dark ages... everyone is entitled to an opinion so please dont bash just because i dont agree with you on this....

[oldaardvark]

Maybe the most beautiful dance ever choreographed.

[tedsler]

@oldaardvark really? are we watching the same video?

[oldaardvark]

@tedsler

No.

[tedsler]

@oldaardvark I have seen other works by Paul Taylor and they gave me so much more. This was only skips and hops and port de bras for me. Guess we can't all like the same

[kimmois1]

@tedsler Aureole is actually a very great work, but it's not one for ballet dancers. They bring none of the weight, use of the back and contraction that this work needs if it's to be done properly, also this work is a signature of the Taylor school and style and needs dancers truly trained in his technique. It IS very popular with ballet companies because they can just misinterpret it as port de bras & skips and hops. This is one work that needs to be seen at source, not as a ballet piece.

[ai51inn]

Oh so beautiful. Thank you so much for uploading this wonderful and rare footage.

[pauloalfredo100]

Thanks!

[SuperBallerina97]

Really, really good! No, thats FANTASTIC! :) Thanks for uploading.

[Triority]

That's beautiful! Thank you for sharing it!