Very hard to find a pas de trois like originally scored, or full length version of this ballet. The Pas de Deux was made famous by Fonteyn and Nureyev in the '60s, and oh boy, has ballet come a long way with its new acrobatics. No disrespect to the original dancers.
I must apologize for tactlessly using the word "gay" in trying to describe a male dancer with ladylike port de bras and epaulment nuances. My comment was very poorly thought out and I actually have a lot of nice gay friends. I KNOW Farouk is all man. Simply meant some danseurs insist on dancing like ballerinas. In Farouks case...maybe its just that over-arched back that gets me.
I do not know why you removed your last comment, but it was a great comment and I actually have great respect for what you said. We all make mistakes in what we say and some of my comments to what you had said are definitely mistakes by me. it takes a great person to admit to making mistakes and I greatly respect what you have said, but you deleted that comment.. I apologize to you since you definitely deserve an apology also.
You see my comp or connection is slow so i post a comment and when it doesn't appear i post another. Later i see i've made multiple posts of similar content so i delete all but one. i'm glad you got to read my particular apology to you. no offense was intended (or taken for that matter). spasiba!
It's also the flourish in his hand and arm placement that make folks see the style as feminine. I just celebrate the fact that men can perform with their own personal inflections, and not be forced into styles dictated by the public's stereotyped expectations of what male dancing should look like. Look at clips from the 70s and before. Male ballet dancers have exploded in amplitude and nuance.
I saw Ruzimatov dance several times in London and each time he brought the house down. He had such magnetism and presence on stage as well as that extraordinary panther-like flexibility. You couldn't take your eyes off him while he was on stage. Yes, he really was unique. And, as for Altynai - exquisite true Kirov ballerina. What I loved about her was the expressiveness of her dancing, shown not just on her face, but throughout her whole body. This whole Corsaire is just amazing!
l was luky ,l saw jorge many many times,since end of 60' till just before illness.a great dancer ,really great and inspiring l can forget his peformances .
very difficult for male dancers to still project manliness in ballet but it can be done....some leads like barishnikov and godunov can do it well...many others just look or are obviously so distractingly gay and Farouk is unfortunately one of them. His tricks are great but his nuances are so ladylike. he and that third guy in the pas de trois should just leave the ladylike nuances to the ballerinas...lol.
l not agree ,not at all,off course is not godunov or vladimir vasiliev or michail lavrovsky,and give his best in exotic roles as bayaderka or sheherazade,but l saw him 3 times live,and is not as you say.once in genova spocke with him and is all right.
Ruzimatov does not have one ounce of what you accuse him of. He was always only attracted to females. He is all man and if he lived in the USA, he would support keeping marriage only between a man and a woman as God created marriage.
raoulbanzon, I once retrieved my comment, because I was full of anger and without constractive point of view. But now I got my sanity again and can speak.
I think the definition of masculinity differs far more than you think.
As far as this peice and Ali's part concerned, for me Ruzimatov's interpretation is the most outstanding one, because I can feel his surpressed passion and anger as a slave.
That is why he can make this role very real not just a few tricks.
I wish that you(Bnesque) had kept your original comment. I would have loved to have read your comment. It would have been nice to see Ruzimatov beat up raoulbanzon so gruesomely that even his family would no longer recognize him. Calling a 100% man, a homo, is one of the most disgusting comments that any man could get and almost every man would beat up the guy calling them a homo. Ruzimatov would have destroyed raoulbanzon. Ruzimatov's wife would laugh at raoulbanzon. He is 100% real man.
I really got mad when somone use gay word or N word as a insult, like in the mode of "I think it's a challenge before the whole human race, I ain't gonna loose."
as you see l do not agree with raoulbalzon,am sure faruk is all man,and also if wasn't should be his private life,but really you put him at the same level of volodia or soloviev ?l saw im 3 times live,he has great tecnique and is great in exotic roles as corsaire sheherazade bayadere,but less in romantic roles,is only an opinion off course,but not comparation with soloviev or volodia
i totally agree. i feel like farouk is totally underated!! he's AMAZING! and as for altynai the first time i saw her preform she literally took my breath away and i've heard that's she's as nice as she is talented!
If ever there was a better, more athletic male dancer than Farouk Rouzimatov, then i do not know who he is, & Altynai Assylmuratova, aside from being a great ballerina, was the last word in terms of beauty.
You are so absolutely RIGHT! I saw them at the Metropolitan Opera in, I think, 1992, when the Maryinsky visited New York. I have NEVER forgotten that evening.
Assylmuratova almost made a straight guy out of me: I could not stop thinking about her for weeks afterwards—I was 18! She was a dream of beauty, with those Russian high cheek bones and enchanting smile. And, as you can see so well in this miraculous video, she could DANCE!
Sorry, seeing this has made me a little giddy.... Marvelous!
Three months have passed since i saw this videoclip & made my comments, & thank you for agreeing with me. Any reason for watching it again is fine by me & Altynai Assylmuratova was an astonishing beauty & first-rate ballerina. In my comments regarding Farouk Rouzimatov, hoffgranny has mentioned Nureyev & Zelensky. Great dancers they obviously were, but i reckon Rouzimatov [& i am not saying he was better], was definitely the more "showy" even more than the late Nureyev. Altynai? What a face!!!.
Everyone has different tastes, but one year ago, someone asked me who my favorite male dancer was. My answer was that I would have to break it up between retired dancers and current dancers. There were several great retired dancers that stuck out, particularly Soloviev and Vasiliev, but there has never been anyone like Ruzimatov. I do not think there will ever be anyone with his special traits. Yes, Soloviev had heavenly jumps and Vasiliev's technique and portrayals are wow. Ruzimatov is unique.
Ruzimatov's showy style was unique &, with the possible exception of Sylvie Guillem, was ther ever a more beautiful ballerina than Altynai Assylmuratova?. I don't think so!. If you want to watch something here on You-Tube that will take your breath away type in "Chinese Circus Ballet- Guangdung". It is jaw-dropping stuff!.
Es uno de los ballet que me encanta,unos de mis bailarines que me agrada por energia y elegancia al bailar Foroukh Ruzimatov,lindisimo..............!
That guy in the green pants...I can't even begin to describe him. He's more flexible than most male dancers, he's all over the stage, he's super fast, his unbelievably technical, he's amazing...sheer perfection!
music credits: adage by Drigo (from his Nocturne "Dreams of Spring"); 1st var. by Yuli Gerber (from Petipas 1870 ballet "Trilby"); 2nd var. by Boris Fitinhof-Schell (from the 1893 Petipa/Ivanov/Cecchetti ballet "Cinderella"); 3rd var. by Cesare Pugni (from Petipas 1860 ballet "The Blue Dahlia"); coda by Drigo. This pas was created in 1915 by Samuil Andrianov for a revival of Petipas 1899 prodcution of "Le Corsaire" -1st danced by Tamara Karsavina, Mikhail Obukhov, & Andrianov.
Very hard to find a pas de trois like originally scored, or full length version of this ballet. The Pas de Deux was made famous by Fonteyn and Nureyev in the '60s, and oh boy, has ballet come a long way with its new acrobatics. No disrespect to the original dancers.
jazzkidsmom 9 months ago
They are so exotic-looking and these roles fit them perfectly!
manderson610 1 year ago
Superb !! Imi plac foarte mult acesti balerini ! Este baletul meu preferat ......Bravo !!!
razaargintie 1 year ago
Very good dancer, but I could do without the a la sabesque in the beginning.
georgeou 1 year ago
This is my favourite pas de deux. I love it!
Hard333Core 1 year ago
I must apologize for tactlessly using the word "gay" in trying to describe a male dancer with ladylike port de bras and epaulment nuances. My comment was very poorly thought out and I actually have a lot of nice gay friends. I KNOW Farouk is all man. Simply meant some danseurs insist on dancing like ballerinas. In Farouks case...maybe its just that over-arched back that gets me.
raoulbanzon 2 years ago 2
I do not know why you removed your last comment, but it was a great comment and I actually have great respect for what you said. We all make mistakes in what we say and some of my comments to what you had said are definitely mistakes by me. it takes a great person to admit to making mistakes and I greatly respect what you have said, but you deleted that comment.. I apologize to you since you definitely deserve an apology also.
Thank you very much
russianballetvideo 2 years ago
You see my comp or connection is slow so i post a comment and when it doesn't appear i post another. Later i see i've made multiple posts of similar content so i delete all but one. i'm glad you got to read my particular apology to you. no offense was intended (or taken for that matter). spasiba!
raoulbanzon 2 years ago
I greatly appreciate what you have said and your attitude.
russianballetvideo 2 years ago
It's also the flourish in his hand and arm placement that make folks see the style as feminine. I just celebrate the fact that men can perform with their own personal inflections, and not be forced into styles dictated by the public's stereotyped expectations of what male dancing should look like. Look at clips from the 70s and before. Male ballet dancers have exploded in amplitude and nuance.
terrilinnrooks 2 years ago 2
I saw Ruzimatov dance several times in London and each time he brought the house down. He had such magnetism and presence on stage as well as that extraordinary panther-like flexibility. You couldn't take your eyes off him while he was on stage. Yes, he really was unique. And, as for Altynai - exquisite true Kirov ballerina. What I loved about her was the expressiveness of her dancing, shown not just on her face, but throughout her whole body. This whole Corsaire is just amazing!
Pearlaceous 2 years ago
l was luky ,l saw jorge many many times,since end of 60' till just before illness.a great dancer ,really great and inspiring l can forget his peformances .
pediatrapaola 2 years ago
very difficult for male dancers to still project manliness in ballet but it can be done....some leads like barishnikov and godunov can do it well...many others just look or are obviously so distractingly gay and Farouk is unfortunately one of them. His tricks are great but his nuances are so ladylike. he and that third guy in the pas de trois should just leave the ladylike nuances to the ballerinas...lol.
raoulbanzon 2 years ago
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Bnesque 2 years ago
l not agree ,not at all,off course is not godunov or vladimir vasiliev or michail lavrovsky,and give his best in exotic roles as bayaderka or sheherazade,but l saw him 3 times live,and is not as you say.once in genova spocke with him and is all right.
pediatrapaola 2 years ago
Ruzimatov does not have one ounce of what you accuse him of. He was always only attracted to females. He is all man and if he lived in the USA, he would support keeping marriage only between a man and a woman as God created marriage.
russianballetvideo 2 years ago
raoulbanzon, I once retrieved my comment, because I was full of anger and without constractive point of view. But now I got my sanity again and can speak.
I think the definition of masculinity differs far more than you think.
As far as this peice and Ali's part concerned, for me Ruzimatov's interpretation is the most outstanding one, because I can feel his surpressed passion and anger as a slave.
That is why he can make this role very real not just a few tricks.
Bnesque 2 years ago
I wish that you(Bnesque) had kept your original comment. I would have loved to have read your comment. It would have been nice to see Ruzimatov beat up raoulbanzon so gruesomely that even his family would no longer recognize him. Calling a 100% man, a homo, is one of the most disgusting comments that any man could get and almost every man would beat up the guy calling them a homo. Ruzimatov would have destroyed raoulbanzon. Ruzimatov's wife would laugh at raoulbanzon. He is 100% real man.
russianballetvideo 2 years ago
Desole moi, Madame.
I really got mad when somone use gay word or N word as a insult, like in the mode of "I think it's a challenge before the whole human race, I ain't gonna loose."
And I spoke complete gibberish.
Bnesque 2 years ago
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raoulbanzon 2 years ago
Oh my sweet potatoes that was amazing. I still don't get who the third guy was in the tights but he was great too.
kissobsessed 2 years ago
Evgeny Neff, he was one of the great danseur s nobles of the era.
Bnesque 2 years ago
yes l saw him in genoa doing swan lake,him and kostantin zaklinsky at that time were the thruly danseurs noble at kirov
pediatrapaola 2 years ago
I never saw Neff in person, but always thought him as perfect fit for melancholic elegant Prince Siegfried.
Bnesque 2 years ago
yes melanchonic and noble are the right words
pediatrapaola 2 years ago
I was certain that you would have seen a video of Neff in Swan Lake.
russianballetvideo 2 years ago
Just a fragment of him and glorious Mezentseva in the class thanks of you.
Bnesque 2 years ago
as you see l do not agree with raoulbalzon,am sure faruk is all man,and also if wasn't should be his private life,but really you put him at the same level of volodia or soloviev ?l saw im 3 times live,he has great tecnique and is great in exotic roles as corsaire sheherazade bayadere,but less in romantic roles,is only an opinion off course,but not comparation with soloviev or volodia
pediatrapaola 2 years ago
pediatrapaola, you force me to compare Faroukh with Soloviev or Vasiliev which I don't want to?
Soloviev adn Vasilev were great romatic heroes. Soloviev moved like a poetry. Vasiliev was your archetypical lead man.
Faroukh was not. Instead he brought us
his unique animalistic feline-like masculine beauty and razor-sharp movement.
I just can say he was really unique and truelly revolutional.
And he gave me great inspration no other person can did except the dancer named Jorge Donn!!!
Bnesque 2 years ago
seen old Farouk
MyChemLover009 2 years ago
MY GOD. ruzimatov is so wide and manly. the balancés and the attitudes are ridiculous!
brandonstylee311 2 years ago
BlindnyBeauty: I'm 99.9% sure it's the Kirov Ballet.
ibuprofenPill 2 years ago
ibuprofenPill, you are 100% correct, that is the Kirov Ballet - they are Ruzimatov and Asylmuratova...
by the way I love your youtube name...
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odile77 2 years ago 2
Thank you! :D:D
BlindbyBeauty 2 years ago
absoulutely stunningly amazing the most breathtaking thing ever!!!1
TheCoalHeart 2 years ago
i dont like the way farouk arches his back and sticks his ribs out
urranuss 2 years ago
Hey um :$ Which company is this?
BlindbyBeauty 2 years ago
7:52 - 8:20 ♥
THAT SO AMAZING!!!!
BlindbyBeauty 2 years ago
amazing...... we did this for our dance show, and ours looks like complete and utter crap next to this
4lsr 2 years ago
Fantastico!
cca1954 3 years ago
OMG, this was effing amazing. It made me want to go throw away my ballet shoes lol. That entire clip was just breathtaking.
wiresxandxwaves 3 years ago
farouk is a good dancer, but i have to say his back is just way to compre for me
jokerboy6665 3 years ago
i agree too much back can make a dancer look feminine...
MrFatality 3 years ago
i totally agree. i feel like farouk is totally underated!! he's AMAZING! and as for altynai the first time i saw her preform she literally took my breath away and i've heard that's she's as nice as she is talented!
bbillingsley82 3 years ago
that was amazing!
snapshots2468 4 years ago
If ever there was a better, more athletic male dancer than Farouk Rouzimatov, then i do not know who he is, & Altynai Assylmuratova, aside from being a great ballerina, was the last word in terms of beauty.
hotwok19 4 years ago 7
rudolf neureyev? zelensky? i hope this helps.
hoffgranny 3 years ago
You are so absolutely RIGHT! I saw them at the Metropolitan Opera in, I think, 1992, when the Maryinsky visited New York. I have NEVER forgotten that evening.
Assylmuratova almost made a straight guy out of me: I could not stop thinking about her for weeks afterwards—I was 18! She was a dream of beauty, with those Russian high cheek bones and enchanting smile. And, as you can see so well in this miraculous video, she could DANCE!
Sorry, seeing this has made me a little giddy.... Marvelous!
AulicExclusiva 3 years ago
Three months have passed since i saw this videoclip & made my comments, & thank you for agreeing with me. Any reason for watching it again is fine by me & Altynai Assylmuratova was an astonishing beauty & first-rate ballerina. In my comments regarding Farouk Rouzimatov, hoffgranny has mentioned Nureyev & Zelensky. Great dancers they obviously were, but i reckon Rouzimatov [& i am not saying he was better], was definitely the more "showy" even more than the late Nureyev. Altynai? What a face!!!.
hotwok19 3 years ago
Everyone has different tastes, but one year ago, someone asked me who my favorite male dancer was. My answer was that I would have to break it up between retired dancers and current dancers. There were several great retired dancers that stuck out, particularly Soloviev and Vasiliev, but there has never been anyone like Ruzimatov. I do not think there will ever be anyone with his special traits. Yes, Soloviev had heavenly jumps and Vasiliev's technique and portrayals are wow. Ruzimatov is unique.
russianballetvideo 2 years ago
Ruzimatov's showy style was unique &, with the possible exception of Sylvie Guillem, was ther ever a more beautiful ballerina than Altynai Assylmuratova?. I don't think so!. If you want to watch something here on You-Tube that will take your breath away type in "Chinese Circus Ballet- Guangdung". It is jaw-dropping stuff!.
hotwok19 2 years ago
That should be 'Chinese Ballet Circus-Guangdong". Sorry!.
hotwok19 2 years ago
Bello ballet;Altynai Azimultova ,Neff and Ruzimatov se ven fantásticos .........;gran elenco!
cristycr 4 years ago
Es uno de los ballet que me encanta,unos de mis bailarines que me agrada por energia y elegancia al bailar Foroukh Ruzimatov,lindisimo..............!
cristycr 4 years ago
the slaves feet are flexed during the first switch leap...ouch
jamesacleary 4 years ago
That guy in the green pants...I can't even begin to describe him. He's more flexible than most male dancers, he's all over the stage, he's super fast, his unbelievably technical, he's amazing...sheer perfection!
GWWII 4 years ago 8
He is Farouk Rouzimatov and you are right, he is amazing.
XimenaBaires 2 years ago 2
GREAT
jenknermario 4 years ago
music credits: adage by Drigo (from his Nocturne "Dreams of Spring"); 1st var. by Yuli Gerber (from Petipas 1870 ballet "Trilby"); 2nd var. by Boris Fitinhof-Schell (from the 1893 Petipa/Ivanov/Cecchetti ballet "Cinderella"); 3rd var. by Cesare Pugni (from Petipas 1860 ballet "The Blue Dahlia"); coda by Drigo. This pas was created in 1915 by Samuil Andrianov for a revival of Petipas 1899 prodcution of "Le Corsaire" -1st danced by Tamara Karsavina, Mikhail Obukhov, & Andrianov.
mrlopez2681 4 years ago 2
Thanks for posting the history. Can anyone identify and date this video?
msw28 4 years ago
RUZIMATOV, ASYLMURATOVA, NEFF
NATULINAN 4 years ago
Great. What a splendid performance.
msw28 4 years ago
the male dancer is amazing
badfeetcat 4 years ago
her arms are so graceful
carlarg77 4 years ago
i still think the one with svetlana is nicer , shes a better dancer
fanfoon29 4 years ago
Stunning and ive only watched the first 10 secs so far
Megera2006 5 years ago
a highlight pas de trois from the full length ballet. A great performance
drwls 5 years ago
those fouettes of hers are simply stupendous.
ganwenying 5 years ago
her fouettes are amazing
mmhp07 5 years ago
marvilleaux, merci beacoup
miguelcas 5 years ago
Je vous remercis beaucoup!!!
mosefranco
mose3 5 years ago
perfect, perfect, perfect
mmhp07 5 years ago