Yvette Chauviré performs The Dying Swan (vaimusic.com)

[dreamcatcher75418]

@wendyverdades

[dreamcatcher75418]

This makes me feel so sad. :'(

[ThePA45]

elle faisait partit de ma famille je m'apelle chauvire alexis et mon pere a dit qu'elle faisait partis de notre famille

[wendyverdades]

I love how each Ballerina interprets a different swan. So exciting to be surpised!

[Mrturytury1]

Mme Chavire est l'essence meme de l'ecole francaise de ballet, sa danse atteint les plus hauts niveaux artistiques, son interpretation et son jeu dramatique depassent les limites du sublime.....Bravo!

M. Fokine en serait fier de vous......... Bravo!

[albertineification]

magnfiqueeeeeeeeeeee !

[shedano]

I do not think she is a good dying swan. She is a good ballet dancer. It's beautiful...but it is not a dying swan. If you look at Anna Pavlova's dying swan (who this dance was made for), she looks a dying swan and these two look completely different. Sure Anna is not as beautiful in the dance itself but what dying animal is?

The choreographer made it about dying, death, a swan who is dying not graceful movements. Beautiful movements...It lacks the dying part.

[toeknee1965]

what a beautiful version of this.

i am so inlove with maya plis version and am so used to it. and also of elain bauer. a ballerina at the boston ballet who i think also did an amazing amazing version. but no vid of her on here. maybe i will ask her :-) i have a video

also did you all know that anna pavlova used to imporvise this each night. so was different. and i did a new v ersion at an aids benefit in vienna this summer. enjoy mine

search dying wet rizzi

[bettycoltrane85]

Never seen better and am certain I never shall. Truly sublime.

[cubanmiamiboy]

Brava!

[88888Di88888]

That was made in heaven!

[paneche]

For me,is the best dying swan I' 've ever seen

[blackmonroe123]

enchanting, uh i love it

[Kakarota14790]

splendid.

[796824]

Absolutely stunning, unsurpassable.

[rainbowrealms]

Wonderful - thanks for posting this.

[lmarti204]

Quite frankly the best Dying Swan I've seen on you tube thus far -even better than todays technicaly perfect ballerinas! Her bouree's are tight and undulating and the use of her arms are the best ! I know Gelsey  Kirkland did the Dying Swan for PBS and she was beautiful but I have never seen it again. She also trashes her performance in her book Dancing on My Grave.She said she looked like a cooked goose!

[lmi88]

beautiful put she's second to plisetskaya! have a look!!

[pepercat17]

i lvoe how she stayed on pointe like the original corgraphy calls for !!! and does it with such grave go girl!

[taurusbs]

This is the most unemotional version of this masterpiece.

[Hausisse]

What year was this filmed in?

[therosewasshattered]

show me a picture of you with her. will you

[amyteo58]

She's beautiful! She had been my teacher in 1975 in Venice as well! A very good teacher, I must say!

[therosewasshattered]

are you serious? you know her personally?

[amyteo58]

Yes, I've written: I've studied with her in 1975 in Venice where she came for a 1 month stage...she was our "pas de deux" teacher and she had been so lovely with us...

[lashato]

Inestimable Masterpiece!!!

Incradibleperformance!

B R A V O !!!!!!!!!!

[jarelys4175]

too beautiful! =]

[passionofpersephone]

Stunning. You can't take your eyes off her. With choreography so minimalist-simple as this, you have to invest every movement with meaning. One thing most people don't know is that back in 1905, when this was first choreographed, it was thought impossible to stay on pointe as long as this. A simple bouree, sustained nearly continuously, was itself a great technical feat.

[mrparts]

and with the primitive shoes they had back then, it must have been pure torture!

[tutugirl4life]

That was so beautiful! It made me cry

[Craigmillar2000]

Absolutely breathtaking...  Madame Chauvire makes me believe she is a dying swan. I get lost in this performance. lovely.

[Politeama]

This is what dance is all about!

This is perfection. The top.

[oOoRuptuReOoO]

freaky

[yamepa]

She is 100 percent the best dying swan out of all the videos ive seen thus far its amazing her flexability is unreal. Kudos for this video

[shloomper]

does this piece have a different name because it's ballet? or it's jsut an error on Saint-Saens' Swan?

[bittenbystarship]

its from a ballet called the The Carnival of Animals. Saint-Saens is the composer and Fokine is the choreographer of the ballet but he took the Dying Swan and expanded i guess

[peregrinusnoctis]

Very nearly....

It's from Saint-Saëns's orchestral work in fourteen movements, The Carnival of the Animals. I believe that "Le Cygne"--the thirteenth movement--is the only one that's had a major piece of dance choreographed to it....

The whole work is wildly entertaining and richly evocative, and is a must-have for any home music library. The composer sneaks in bits of familiar themes which children will recognise. One of those classics!

[bittenbystarship]

thank you for clarifying. it just really bothers me when people claim this piece is from swan lake. there is a "dying swan" in swan lake but it is not this specific piece of music. no one did here but on a lot of other videos i have seen of this piece people are constantly saying it is from swan lake. but thank you. i thought it was an entire ballet.... :)

[peregrinusnoctis]

You're more than welcome....

Both are important pieces. Each is very different from the other, but both are wonderfully evocative of how we humans perceive and interpret nature, and how we relate ancient tales....

[venom486]

absolutely enchanting...

[swanningaround]

France's greatest ever dancer. Wonderful.

[Andante735]

One of the most overlooked dancers of our time. It's a shame.

[Wjoe09]

She is No.1 swan Ballerina!!

[jacobsimon]

I love it. She dies to a most beautiful and melancholy cello melody.

[796824]

As said, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever"

[Nyweo]

The title is confusing. The "dying swan" is in Tschakovsky's ballet "Swan Lake", but the music in this video is a Saint Saens compostion, specifically as a part of "The Animals Carnival"

[genzano]

yes, it's Saint-Saens but Fokine just gave it a different name.  As it often happens with solo, non-dram pieces, the title takes on a life of its own...

[lmi88]

the dying swan IS NOT part of swan lake. They are totally diferent ballets

[csipas]

How is the music composer?

[volodya2]

Is good.

[balletfanRGA]

Camille Saint-Saens

[lucadepu]

he's doing good

[pangaea611]

i don't get it. was she trying to immitate Anna Pavlova? please answer

[Cavaradossi1981]

nooooo!!!!! she was not trying to imitate NOBODY!!! She was (and still is) Yvette Chauvire!!!!!!!!!! you idiot

[balletfanRGA]

I second you on that one, please try not to be an ignorant when you write about one of the greatest ballerinas of the XX century. Some respect.....

[suonabella]

She so beautifully transformed herself into a swan... everything from the movements of her arms to the ruffling of her feather tutu... simply stunning and poetically poignant.

[pangaea611]

yes, but dancers are supposed to be unique and different so they stand out from one another, and this just seems like she saw Pavlova dance because this dance was originally made for only her, and she danced it exactly like her- which is called immitating.

[peregrinusnoctis]

Actually, it's called "interpretation," rather than "imitation" or "mimicry"; even if a dancer follows the same choreography (Fokine's, traditionally) of the original interpreter (Pavlova, in this case) every dancer yet brings her own form and line to any dance....

That aside, have you actually seen Pavlova's version? Chauviré's version--especially as seen here, in this clip--is astonishingly different....

[pangaea611]

yes, i have seen her dance, but it's an old video clip. still you can see why people loved her so much from the way she moves. i agree with you though... it makes more sence.

[Redshoed]

wow...wow wow, amazing,

shes makes you feel shes not gonna hit the note but righht at the last minute....

one of the best dying swans ive seen to date!

[Politeama]

Absolutely beautiful!!! Stunningly beautiful!

[elodieschillemans]

Wow thank you so so sooo much for this video, it's stunning, really inspiring.

[qbendanny1]

With the exception of the soviet ending,everything was absolutely hypnotic, real and beautiful.

[Leonnidik]

You are right QbenDanny, Fokine NEVER approved that ending. The end comes after the right hand resting on the right foot drops to the side.