Elisabeth Platel in Rehearsal - Gamzatti La Bayadere

[Arrghigiveup]

Elisabeth Platel's got some of the cleanest dancing I've ever seen. And she's got this lovely elegant quality about her too.

[herny1970]

Elisabeth Platel logró el Absoluto en la Danza, será recordada por generaciones: ella es una leyenda en vida por su virtuosismo.

[fashionballetNYC]

Lovely ... just, lovely!

[balletbaybe]

OMG!!!!.....i strive to dance like her...hahaha :)

[nonstoprofling]

Platels amazing. i mean, look at how she floats around, how graceful she is. oh my gosh! (: i love her. (:

[balletbekah]

they change this variation soooooo much.

i like the one of alina somova doing this at age 17 at vaganova's graduation in 2003.

[calipso1010]

Neither the ballet, nor the variation belong to Nureyev.  The credits go as follows:

Choreography: Marius Petipa

Libretto: Marius Petipa

Music: Leon Mincus

World premiere: 1877 St. Petersburg, Russia

The only thing Nureev can claim is brining this great, perhaps the greatest ballet ever to the stage of Opera de Paris.

[sofiabaptista]

omg! Elizabeth...that's her, always joining lyrism to technique in the best manner!

[andreaannette]

Wow!!!

[PlanetBallet]

Platel is good, but choregraphy is definitely by Nureev. It is by Marius Petipa.

[alke02]

I believe Nureyve revised it for Paris Opera. I like this version a little better.

[pointemeout]

she looks acceptable here..but thats about it!

[janimari09]

PLATEL est exceptionnelle dans ce rôle

bravissima...madame la directrice de l'école de danse de l'Opéra

[321Kirby321]

wow...I've DVD of Opera Paris's Bayadere...Elisabeth Platel is fantastic in the role of Gamzatti

[panyatna]

she has such beautifully solid technique!

[calipso1010]

"Chor. Rudolf Nureyev"

This is wrong. The choreography is not by Nureev, but the French Marius Petipa. Nureyev stage the ballet fo the Opera de Paris.

[Firestarjude]

This is not Petipa's choreography.

[calipso1010]

When Nureev defected from Russia to the west, he remembered the text of Petipa's choreography that he had learned when dancing at the Kirov. He added few ethnic dances from the transcription that are scattered in different libraries and private collections.

[icarrus4u]

Platel one the original Nureyev etoiles, her technique is perfect.

[poirechocolat]

yes she's beautiful....

but elisabeth platel is not the director of the opera de paris, she's the director of the dance school of the opera !

[nicedance4u]

Wow, I learned a verry different version than that one, but she was beautiful!

[deltasigmaphi8]

she's now the director of the opera of paris ^^

[freya1936]

Mrs.Platel is such an exquisite ballerina!