Giselle Pas de Deux

[Karen25ledzeppelin]

HERMOSO, SIMPLEMENTE BELLISIMO!

[EdwardBellaLuv4ever]

wow this is great. i just got to see ABT doing Giselle last week. doing Giselle. it was wonderful.

[alliebibi]

wow.

[louiseduvee]

i had to watch this one 3 times. I'm enchanted!

[bluecrushce2]

doesn't even matter.

As a spirit in this act, Giselle is supposed to look etheareal, floating, not quite touching the ground, hence (I believe) the raised shoulders at times.

And incidentally, if you really are so very intelligent, your pathetic attempts at insults wouldn't be such failures.

Get over yourself, don't talk about things you have absolutely not clue about, and learn to appreciate true the truly fantastic beauty and strength that is ballet.

[voxdance]

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apexpark (11 months ago)

[voxdance]

We just added this great video to VoxDance (new dance video website). Thanks for posting it!

On VoxDance you'll find the best video of Ballet, contemporary dance, flamenco, indian dance and belly dance.

[elfantgirl]

if I remember right, this was from a "Live at Lincoln Center" TV broadcast in the mid-70's.  The entire thing was filmed live, so forgive NM any tiny foibles. I remember that in one of the peasant variations she was losing her balance slightly on a pirouette series and the cameraman helpfully zoomed on her upper body to help cover. I don't know if the video that was made later preserved that moment when even she - the ultimate perfectionist - was not perfect!

[Andante735]

I was there, I saw it live and in person. Does it really matter if she lost her balance slightly? Having said that, it was one of the most magical nights of my entire life. I don't believe in God, but if I had to define what that meant, this would be it.

[merluzasfritas]

In fact, How important is for some people to notice what, if you get into the magical of the dance, you shouldn´t notice.This just so magical. I DO NOT CARE about her loosing the balance.

[uclmu2008]

@Andante735: I could not agree more! I just saw this for the first time, and this really is the kind of performance where I stop thinking about technique and athletism and stop comparing. I just sit there and hear the voice of God singing (and no, I'm not religious either).

[Andante735]

@uclmu2008

Great! You just described the ultimate expression of artistry. That's exactly how it felt watching Makarova, there was no evidence of her or anyone in the audience thinking about technique - transcendence is the word that comes to mind.

[MillayD]

The most beautiful pas de deux of all time!

[Andante735]

Without mentioning or acknowledging a certain comment posted here- I can personally attest to a few things, having seen several performances of Makarova's Giselle as a young boy and ballet student at ABT School. I don't recall having ever seen a raised shoulder, or hip. I actually got to watch them Rehearse this in the studio too! Also, High Extensions are inappropriate to the Romantic Style.

[pacoenfadonha]

Couldn´t agree more, Andante.

[heyyouarestupid]

too bad her shoulders were up...and her hip...and too bad she had such low extensions

[goldenidol]

I think the stage lighting made her shoulders appear up. The hip is usually released in the Vaganova (in which Makarova was trained)technique. Although I think high extensions are sometimes breathtaking, they are not the be all or end all of technique! High extension does not a ballerina make. Watch Fracci, Alonso or Markova. Then you will see that high extensions are not so important.

[heyyouarestupid]

haha calm down...just because you've never accomplished anything in your dance career doesnt mean you have to take it out on me and by the way my IQ is 139...much higher than a shoebox im sure..

[sledriders9554]

IQs don't mean crap! and why the hell are people talking about shoeboxes?!?!

[bluecrushce2]

your username is so dreadfully ironic i am actually laughing right now.

if you actually have the audacity to criticize Natalia Makharova's outstanding performance, then you must be either an embarrassingly ignorant imbecile or so incredible of a dancer that you make Makharova look bad.

Since the latter is so obviously not true, let me educate you. Many of her extensions are shoulder level. And for all of the ones lower than that she maintains such beautiful, stretched line that it

[Andante735]

Too bad you know nothing about brilliant dancing. Too bad you're in the tiny, tiny, minority of people, who would be imbecilic enough to even utter your comments. Too bad you have the IQ of a shoebox; and that's being generous. It's really just too bad that you even exist--now go and watch some reality tv garbage, and avoid any further discusssions of ballet or artistry.

[Andante735]

Oh, I forgot, too bad you're blind.

[mariogorga]

Markharova and Baryshnikov were a partneship made in heaven for Giselle!Pitty we can have all the Pas de deux!

[kurichka]

Five more seconds and it would have finished in that marvellous photograph!! what a pitty!!!