I find that ballerinas back in the day focus more on speed than grace, technique, and it seems like some of those ballerinas can't even do the splitz
@ballet323 - whether a ballerina "back in the day" focused on speed, grace, technique depended on the ballerina, & in those days doing the "slpitz" was considered a vulgarity. Technique was not everything to them, as it is to dancers now. But, to Dudinskaya, technique was EVERYTHING, as she is one of the great virtuosas is ballet. Never hold a dancer of yester-year to the standards of your own time.
kind friend I saw all your video annd saw you in england years ago off course Vacktang is a legend and inspiration for all male dacer but you are really good
Marlo, I feel privileged to watch this magnificent display of technical virtuosity in a Hollywood setting where fantasies come true.There is enough drama in the world. Great Post.Nat.Dudinskaya is bewitching.Loved Chabukiani's Diana Acteon Variation.
Calipso, please stay away from the complete opening of this film clip (on "Glory of the Kirov") which has an abreviated entrance of the shades that will put your hair in curlers. Cheap animation of ballerina shades gliding down that staircase at a speeded up tempo in a winding pattern that probably had Marius Ivanovich levitating in his grave while rotating at 150 miles per hour.
Calipso, this production was staged by Pyotr Gusev with additional choreography by Chaboukiani - mostly Solor's solos. This film, obviously a short or part of a variety compilation has been filmed like a sequence from a Hollywood musical from the thirties (the bakelite floors?). Clearly the staging and huge cuts (the Three Shades) show that this does not reflect the Kirov staging of 1940 at all. So ignore the staging and enjoy the dancing.
Not only can I enjoy, but I cant even watch this video without deepest disappointment and pain for Marius Petipa and Mariinsky Theater. To reduce perhaps the greatest ballet the world had ever known to some cheap Hollywood show is inexcusable. This is of course IMO.
@pediatrapaola listen, both of them are Fantastic and his energy is volcanic really powerful ! It is true what someone remarked about the staging being a little Hollywood movie of that eara..... Now I can umderstand more the exotic elements in Le Corsaire & in La Bayader and all tha variations I can just see it in him and his dancing !Thanks
Chaboukiani, although a capable ballet master got it all wrong. Petipas Bayadere takes place in mythical India. In the original and well documented Petipas version the Shades which represent restless souls of twilight, descend from the Himalayas. Chaboukiani replace Himalayas with marble-esque staircase. This fact alone demonstrates his lack of understanding of Petipa's tradition in general and La Bayadere in specific.
Wow! Wonderful passion and attack!
Pearlaceous 1 year ago
I find that ballerinas back in the day focus more on speed than grace, technique, and it seems like some of those ballerinas can't even do the splitz
ballet323 1 year ago
@ballet323 - whether a ballerina "back in the day" focused on speed, grace, technique depended on the ballerina, & in those days doing the "slpitz" was considered a vulgarity. Technique was not everything to them, as it is to dancers now. But, to Dudinskaya, technique was EVERYTHING, as she is one of the great virtuosas is ballet. Never hold a dancer of yester-year to the standards of your own time.
mrlopez2681 6 months ago 4
dudinskaya the best hall time
etoiledelkirov 1 year ago
great ,macho ,and powerful tecnique for his time
pediatrapaola 2 years ago
Wow, I do not know what to say. I am speachless. I have so much respect for Russian ballet
helimets 2 years ago
I dont know a thing about ballet, what is the difference between russian ballet and other styles (french?) ??
imeldaDuke 2 years ago
kind friend I saw all your video annd saw you in england years ago off course Vacktang is a legend and inspiration for all male dacer but you are really good
pediatrapaola 2 years ago
this videos make me wanna have a time machine! and enough money to travel... Impressive and priceless.... and Dudinskaya WOW!
odile77 2 years ago
vakhtang!!!!! just priceless seeing footage like this. loves it!
JulianBotnarenko 3 years ago
Marlo, I feel privileged to watch this magnificent display of technical virtuosity in a Hollywood setting where fantasies come true.There is enough drama in the world. Great Post.Nat.Dudinskaya is bewitching.Loved Chabukiani's Diana Acteon Variation.
qbendanny1 3 years ago
@qbendanny1 GREAT, MACHO .FIERY,TERRIFIC FASTNESS OF HIS CHAINES AN MANEGE
pediatrapaola 2 years ago
Impressionante.Vale a pena assistir.
cca1954 3 years ago
Calipso, please stay away from the complete opening of this film clip (on "Glory of the Kirov") which has an abreviated entrance of the shades that will put your hair in curlers. Cheap animation of ballerina shades gliding down that staircase at a speeded up tempo in a winding pattern that probably had Marius Ivanovich levitating in his grave while rotating at 150 miles per hour.
MarloManners66 3 years ago
dear friend we are anyway lucky seeing the great vachtang so few was filmed about him
pediatrapaola 2 years ago
Calipso, this production was staged by Pyotr Gusev with additional choreography by Chaboukiani - mostly Solor's solos. This film, obviously a short or part of a variety compilation has been filmed like a sequence from a Hollywood musical from the thirties (the bakelite floors?). Clearly the staging and huge cuts (the Three Shades) show that this does not reflect the Kirov staging of 1940 at all. So ignore the staging and enjoy the dancing.
MarloManners66 3 years ago
Not only can I enjoy, but I cant even watch this video without deepest disappointment and pain for Marius Petipa and Mariinsky Theater. To reduce perhaps the greatest ballet the world had ever known to some cheap Hollywood show is inexcusable. This is of course IMO.
calipso1010 3 years ago
anyway we are lucky so few was filmed about great chabukiani
pediatrapaola 2 years ago
@pediatrapaola listen, both of them are Fantastic and his energy is volcanic really powerful ! It is true what someone remarked about the staging being a little Hollywood movie of that eara..... Now I can umderstand more the exotic elements in Le Corsaire & in La Bayader and all tha variations I can just see it in him and his dancing !Thanks
opensecret51 1 year ago
@opensecret51 THEY HAD THE ALLURE OF THE GREAT STAR ALSO WITH THAT AWFUL STAGING
pediatrapaola 1 year ago
Chaboukiani, although a capable ballet master got it all wrong. Petipas Bayadere takes place in mythical India. In the original and well documented Petipas version the Shades which represent restless souls of twilight, descend from the Himalayas. Chaboukiani replace Himalayas with marble-esque staircase. This fact alone demonstrates his lack of understanding of Petipa's tradition in general and La Bayadere in specific.
calipso1010 3 years ago 3