I really like the way a swan feather comes away from her tutu,and Prince Siegfried picks it up. Never seen that before, in all the productions i have seen over the years.Nice.
that looks so immortal. They way she moves - the way she looks while she moves. Everything seems to be holy and unreachable...but the best thing about Swan Lake is propobly Tschaikowsky - the greatest componist of all times and generations
@LouieOmega They aren't all gay. I've comproved that. They are the hottest in the world when they are not gay. The problem is not "Guys dancing ballet", is "The guys that wanna be a swan".
@GoldenHoofStudios You're a girl? I'm a girl too! Wow, I never thought I'd meet a girl that would make such an ignorant, discriminative and wholly prejudiced comment, but I guess there's a first time for everything.
I know it's your opinion, genious! That doesn't make it any less filthy or ignorant. You are free to state your senseless opinions and I'm free to disagree with them once you make them (me and every single person who is going to read your comment on this video).
@GoldenHoofStudios I would dearly love to know what are the reasons/arguments behind such intriguing theses, but I suspect they would do nothing in your favour.
(btw, I was here enjoying the beautifull ballet and you wrote a hate/discriminative comment - who is really the troll here?)
PART THREE: And one more thing: A non-dancer could learn...say...'Little Shop of Horrors' choreography and pull it off; but she would have to train for a solid seven years (at 30 hours a week) to do 'Swan Lake'. See the difference? You could NOT perform a ballet such as this by simply being taught the choreography.
absolutly exquiset. almost put me in tears. the passion and romance is so visable by these two finomanal actors and dancers. just wow. too bad my spellling is so bad none of you will understand what im trying to express. although i think these dancers said it all.
the dance is not written down, each director has his own vision of the dance and they are the ones who make it up. Every dance has steps with each ballerina should know and if you don't know a dance is a mix of steps that are already made
@628813261 I did ballet for 8 years previously and from memory, the choreographer usually has a set of notes marked with formations and moves. But we students usually learn directly from the teacher/choreographer demonstrating what they want using their notes. I don't think there's a set dance to Swan Lake - each production's choreographer usually choreographs their own interpretation. And we usually count our moves, not set them to a particular note in the music (e.g. Jete on 4, Plie on 7)
@Tdahq But there is still the original choreography, each production is slightly different, but if it says Petipa/Ivanov (both of whom are long dead), it means that the main dances follow the original choreography. I am not a dancer, but I've seen many a performances of Swan Lake, and for most productions, the main dances are the same. There is also Grigorovich version; the ending is different sometimes. Each choreographer changes a few things here and there, but if it's mostly Petipa.
I have loved this music since the first time I heard it, which is also the time that I met my first love. When I was a child I took music lessons but could not take ballet because I had a bad knee. So, I became very interested in those marvelous people who could dance. I will always envy and thank them.
At first I didnt know it was Svetlana and I got really excited and thought "oh wow! I really like her, finally I like someone other than Svetlana!" then I realized it was her -_-
It is preserved from generation to generation by 'Muscle Memory' on live dancers that become Choreographers. Yes, your muscles do 'remember' certain amounts of extensions and amount of resistance that is required to keep a body part in a certain position when working against gravity. A simplistic example is remembering how to ride a bike years after you've learned how. That is the Physiology of it, explained.
All old ballets like this one have a few key dances that are sometimes tweaked by choreographers. They are passed down from the original performances and taught in ballets schools. countless days are spent listening and dancing to the music over and over, building on the original dance. this is then taught over many months to the dancers, who watch and listen for key notes, dips and rises in the music, etc to know when to transform a movement. after lots of practice, one can do this seamlessly
question for you people that know about ballet..... how DO you learn this....!!!! is there a sheet and a note pentagram with ... ballet notes??...that indicate you every step and how to do it??? ...or you can learn it only from a teacher that already knows it only.... I mean.... is the " swan lake" written in some place??.... ore only the ballet teachers have it in their minds... thank you.
@628813261 I don't have an exact idea about that. But I attended the ballet live once... and it was different from what we see here in this video. You can find different dances at the same part of the ballet here on youtube... so I guess it's the artistic vision of every director who sees things differently... I hope someone with larger knowloedge in this can help us over here...
@jilliansk In the major ballets there's a lot of recurring choreography, so bits and pieces from different productions are similar - I guess passed down from choreographer to choreographer, depending on what versions of the ballet they've seen, which company's choreography made it famous, etc. So there are a bunch of variations out there that are taught to different dancers with pretty much the same choreo (just look at ballet competition videos). But a lot of it is interpretation as well.
@jilliansk this is a live performance - Scala 2005. There are different choreographies, this for example is Bourmeister (my favourite, cause it has a happy end :) )
@jilliansk ..ahaha... I don´t know if you´ve noticed, but... I think I have recieved more answers with me comentary than in any other video.... I have actually learned a lot... THANKS TO EVERYBODY...:)
@628813261 Notice the name Petipa under the video. This is a very famous French choreographer who moved to Russia. He lived in the 19th century at the same time as Tchaikovsky. (Swan Lake in collaboration with Ivanov - notice his name too). He choreographed many classical ballets, maybe most of them. Sure there are changes over time, but the majority of classical ballets use in large part Petipa choreography. I am not a dancer, but I've seen many ballets.
@628813261 You can learn it from a teacher...as long as they have been very well trained and take time to break apart each step. It takes MANY years of countless hours in the studio to learn though. It looks effortless, but that's b/c of all the hard work, sweat, and persistance (and blood lol...from the pointe shoes) that is put into it. It's extremely difficult to get to the level these dancers are at. I could talk about it for hours...it's really interesting (to me anyways haha).
@628813261 But, yes, there is a note system in the ballet world. It's kind of like learning short hand. It's difficult to learn and only a handful of people know how to do it. It's really cool to watch. They literally can sit there and watch a ballet and as it's going on record every step and arm and head movement! I'm just starting to learn it myself.
@628813261 Actually no, a ballet piece is written to be danced but the choreographer or director "assembles" all the steps in order to interpret the music through dancing. The steps are not written, the steps are choreographed and the dancing piece is created based on the music, with heavy emphasis in creativity as each director wants to make his own vision of the story and music.
No, each choreographer who approaches the ballet does it differently. Dances are taught the choreography, and remember. There are records of choreography written. I mean, all the steps have names, all the directions you face on stage have names etc. and that's written down but the dancers themselves just listen to what steps and placements the choreographer wants. It's very easy to remember really, once you get used to doing it.
@628813261 At the Royal Ballet you are taught by old ballet dancers who know these roles or by someone who can read a score of Benesh notation; a score like music but with the dance moves and positions written on the staves...either way it is repetition which makes this possible to learn...practice makes perfect. lot of hard work and classes....................sincerely.
@628813261 Ballets are choreographed, many times, in the choreographers head. A lot of it eventually gets written down, but there is no precribed method to creating a ballet or any dance for that matter. I remember many times learning the first 64 counts with my pas de deux partner and we were simply instructed to not forget it and that would continually be built upon. Some ballets take months to choreograph and others are simply recreations with a twist, if that, that take a lot less to prepare
also, most of what we ballet dancers do on stage are moves we learn in class on a daily basis, at which point, it then becomes about what moves will be brought together and what dancers are strong enough to bring it to fruition. When I've choreographed, I simply thought of something in my head and called out the steps and like that, you have your first 8 counts. Others may have experienced something else, but I've danced with 4 different companies in America and Europe and it was the same.
@628813261 choreographies can be brought to sheet. often with sketches of the figures, with the names of them and so on. hope my english was able to explain it.
@628813261 i'm sure you can find the choreography just about anywhere. my teacher taught it to me mainly from memory because the choreography had been so imprinted in her from when she was in the royal ballet that she could never forget it. no 2 versions are ever the same, generally because no one interprets the dance or the emotions behind it in the same way, & everyone has their own experience in dancing it & in watching it.
@628813261 for every step there are special excercises. every ballet lesson begins with an half hour training for pliés, releves and stuff like that. in varitaion, like little dances, they get connected and in the chorio, ones like this one, you can only to the steps right if you know how they work - thats the reason for the little excercises.
of course there are sheets, but they are not very useful, just to learn the names of the excercises.
@628813261 well, most of us learn from teachers, i'm a ballet dancer. i'm on pointe, and yes i learn from a teacher, i don't have a manuel. aha (: and Tchaikovsky, i'm sure wrote his choreography down. (; it's a classic.
@628813261 i didn't really get what's your question was but to get it from the start there are different ballet techniques like russian ballet or english ballet with different choreografies about every dance and in some way some important differencies like some moves or the high of a jump or the legs and so on...it needs A LOT of practice indeed to get to this level like those dancers are but the truth is that ballet is the most difficult dance ever and the most wonderful...
@628813261 my grandma told me what to do , i had no idea that what she was telling me to do was all pertaining to ballet. one day, she told me to wear some shoes, and I danced a "pas de duex" with a boy it barley counted because of my age and how sake i still was, but i kind of slowly got on pointe at age 11 when my bone were fairly well developed so i guess it just takes time and steps and focus and your grandma screaming at you in a different language about tearing your head off and eating it.
@628813261 The steps are different for every company that does it. The music is all the same, but choreographers pick the steps and teach them to the dancers. I've been in two different Nutcrackers. They are all similar (same characters in each scene) but the step sequences are different. That is funny to think of magical, secret directions, though! :)
@628813261 PART ONE: Ballet is mostly made up of steps/moves learned in class. That is to say that there is very little...OTHER choreography. Unlike, say jazz or hip-hop, where there are an endless number of things you can do; and they're always changing. Don't get me wrong, there ARE "set" things in jazz, such as the jazz square or the jazz pirouette. But in a ballet, it is virtually ALL pre-learned steps. When you perform Swan Lake, you've already done EVERYTHING in class.
@628813261 PART TWO: Your choreographer/teacher could literally just SAY all the steps (each is a french word) and you would know how to put it all together. It could be a list on paper. As far as the formations go, there are blueprints out there.
@628813261 PART THREE: And one more thing: A non-dancer could learn...say...'Little Shop of Horrors' choreography and pull it off; but she would have to train for a solid seven years (at 30 hours a week) to do 'Swan Lake'. See the difference? You could NOT perform a ballet such as this by simply being taught the choreography.
@628813261 Well, I'm daning ballet and i think it is not only steps. You learn the grace, the elegance and the feelings (in this case) Odette feels. Sure you have to know your steps but you have to connect the moves with your feelings.
@628813261 OK. I'll try. There is the story, the lats say, the "libreto". There is a music, that never changes, one conductor can not create his own version of the music, although you find some interpretations, and you have the dance, a coreographer that, yes, whrite the movement in a pentagram, but on the contrary of the music, a coreographer can create the dance, the steps and movements freelly as he wishes.
@628813261 most ballet companies base their stagings on the choreography of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, but every director has his own vision so it can change a little, but almost always you have the reference of some choreographer. The choreography of Ivanov and Petipa is a revival makes for the Mariinsky Theatre and it's written. Later, become part of the repertory of many famous ballet companies.
Indeed, Swan Lake is a tragedy... in the original version, you see that the only way Odette can be freed is if she dies, for she would rather die than live without Siegfried. Siegfried cannot live without Odette and declares that he will die with her. When Rothbart appears, Odette throws herself into the lake and Siegfried follows her.
In the climax of their sacrifice, Rothbart's powers are destroyed and the spell is finally broken; Odette's companions are freed from the enchantment. As the sun rises, Siegfried and Odette ascend into Heaven together, united in love for all eternity...
this music has a name and i wanna know what it is. and nobody plz tell me that its called "swan lake theme". cuz i heard it b4 from my older bros itunes and it has a name but i forgot and he wont tell me what it is.
it really is sad that in general, in this country, the art of dancing and ballet is virtually unknown by the general public who prefer cheap entertainment like horror movies or violent action films. They just don't know what they are missing. If they were placed in the middle of a symphony orchestra for example, surrounded by magnificent sounds, they would be so thrilled and overcome they would understand the pop culture fed to us by the media is really worthlless.
What instrument is playing the melody?
eriksborn 1 day ago
Very nice....it's so Soviet/Russian like...
caguy562 1 day ago
can´t dislike
TheEliteteamLeader 2 days ago
WHAT AMAZING MUSIC.
jonathan55751 5 days ago
Omg
So beautiful T.T
LihSayuri 6 days ago
My mom was a ballerina and performed swan lake. Im proud ;) Thank you Russia ;)
Hatinonthehaters 1 week ago 2
I NEVER tire of listening to this music...
MrsJeanAviles 1 week ago
Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky is the 2nd best composer of the history! (for me)
1954mikel 2 weeks ago
Thanks, great that it's possible to watch this through the Youtube -- when I cannot watch it for real.
Thanks a lot!
lucysalmo150 2 weeks ago
I really like the way a swan feather comes away from her tutu,and Prince Siegfried picks it up. Never seen that before, in all the productions i have seen over the years.Nice.
ilovefacebookandebay 2 weeks ago
imagine this niow with Dark Moor-swan lake XD
merdaporrenta 1 month ago 4
@merdaporrenta ROFL!!! it would really be something!!!
/me tries to do it himself
jilliansk 1 month ago
Tchaikovskiy is the best and I am related to him
chak210 1 month ago
@chak210 And what about Tchaikovsky? ;0
Seanus32 1 month ago 2
Perfect ! Congratulations !
jrsuzart 1 month ago
that looks so immortal. They way she moves - the way she looks while she moves. Everything seems to be holy and unreachable...but the best thing about Swan Lake is propobly Tschaikowsky - the greatest componist of all times and generations
DJRomeoV 1 month ago
My personal favourite
Serinathedancer 1 month ago
Oh. Yeah. !.
MeliiLynn 1 month ago
All. Guys. Should. Dance. Ballet. They. Are. Hot.
mariaesn 1 month ago 53
@mariaesn lol yes they are :D and their all gay too, which is a plus for me. Sorry honey. lol
LouieOmega 1 month ago
@LouieOmega They aren't all gay. I've comproved that. They are the hottest in the world when they are not gay. The problem is not "Guys dancing ballet", is "The guys that wanna be a swan".
mariaesn 1 month ago
@LouieOmega You are saying "which is a plus for me" cause you are a gay guy too? xDD
Bresalio 1 month ago
@Bresalio lmao mmmhm haha
LouieOmega 1 month ago
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18reviver81 3 weeks ago
@mariaesn Totally gay.
kanervatie 2 weeks ago
Wow, he's eyes, He is so handsome *.*
DesiFuyuko 2 months ago 4
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GoldenHoofStudios 2 months ago
@GoldenHoofStudios You're a girl? I'm a girl too! Wow, I never thought I'd meet a girl that would make such an ignorant, discriminative and wholly prejudiced comment, but I guess there's a first time for everything.
I know it's your opinion, genious! That doesn't make it any less filthy or ignorant. You are free to state your senseless opinions and I'm free to disagree with them once you make them (me and every single person who is going to read your comment on this video).
filipamd 2 months ago 2
@GoldenHoofStudios I would dearly love to know what are the reasons/arguments behind such intriguing theses, but I suspect they would do nothing in your favour.
(btw, I was here enjoying the beautifull ballet and you wrote a hate/discriminative comment - who is really the troll here?)
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PART THREE: And one more thing: A non-dancer could learn...say...'Little Shop of Horrors' choreography and pull it off; but she would have to train for a solid seven years (at 30 hours a week) to do 'Swan Lake'. See the difference? You could NOT perform a ballet such as this by simply being taught the choreography.
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hididdleydee 2 months ago
absolutly exquiset. almost put me in tears. the passion and romance is so visable by these two finomanal actors and dancers. just wow. too bad my spellling is so bad none of you will understand what im trying to express. although i think these dancers said it all.
LiSa22LoLs 2 months ago 2
0:51 GOOSEBUMPS!!!!!!!!
alinabiryukova 2 months ago 2
OMG i love this! i cant even explain how wowed i am
memow500 2 months ago
at 0:52 i half expected the audience to scream, "he's behind you!"
awsome123138 2 months ago
the dance is not written down, each director has his own vision of the dance and they are the ones who make it up. Every dance has steps with each ballerina should know and if you don't know a dance is a mix of steps that are already made
tutitau2000 2 months ago
i did this solo on oboe (the instrument playing the theme)
best song ive ever did
gahlony42 2 months ago
coreographed by each company's director of dance
Different troups will do their own, ameteur troops try to copy from pros.
mwhite0313 2 months ago
woooooow just wonderful , how beautiful i have no words to say!!!!!!! love it!
HappyEverytimee 2 months ago
who are2 dislikes??
HappyEverytimee 2 months ago
@628813261 I did ballet for 8 years previously and from memory, the choreographer usually has a set of notes marked with formations and moves. But we students usually learn directly from the teacher/choreographer demonstrating what they want using their notes. I don't think there's a set dance to Swan Lake - each production's choreographer usually choreographs their own interpretation. And we usually count our moves, not set them to a particular note in the music (e.g. Jete on 4, Plie on 7)
Tdahq 3 months ago
@Tdahq But there is still the original choreography, each production is slightly different, but if it says Petipa/Ivanov (both of whom are long dead), it means that the main dances follow the original choreography. I am not a dancer, but I've seen many a performances of Swan Lake, and for most productions, the main dances are the same. There is also Grigorovich version; the ending is different sometimes. Each choreographer changes a few things here and there, but if it's mostly Petipa.
jewelmarkess 3 months ago
I have loved this music since the first time I heard it, which is also the time that I met my first love. When I was a child I took music lessons but could not take ballet because I had a bad knee. So, I became very interested in those marvelous people who could dance. I will always envy and thank them.
mcfeist1 3 months ago
Oboe part <33
iPodTouchAngel 3 months ago
2 PERSONS DUMB
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i love it . the show is kising I hate kising
kentang12 3 months ago
i love it . the show is kising
kentang12 3 months ago
At first I didnt know it was Svetlana and I got really excited and thought "oh wow! I really like her, finally I like someone other than Svetlana!" then I realized it was her -_-
LaPetitSauvage 3 months ago 21
@LaPetitSauvage lol :P
lightmateo1 3 months ago
This theme by Tchaikovsky was used in all the old Bela Lugosi Dracula pictures.
FalseFlag369 3 months ago
Karloff? Sidekick?
Houdini774 3 months ago
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MegaJohnnyR 4 months ago
It is preserved from generation to generation by 'Muscle Memory' on live dancers that become Choreographers. Yes, your muscles do 'remember' certain amounts of extensions and amount of resistance that is required to keep a body part in a certain position when working against gravity. A simplistic example is remembering how to ride a bike years after you've learned how. That is the Physiology of it, explained.
ladesigners1 4 months ago
i really love this, but i can't stop laughing. I'm shallow-minded. :/
sheelahbhabyy 4 months ago
All old ballets like this one have a few key dances that are sometimes tweaked by choreographers. They are passed down from the original performances and taught in ballets schools. countless days are spent listening and dancing to the music over and over, building on the original dance. this is then taught over many months to the dancers, who watch and listen for key notes, dips and rises in the music, etc to know when to transform a movement. after lots of practice, one can do this seamlessly
108dessy 4 months ago
Has everyone seen the video of Nureyev on the Muppet Show--performing "Swine Lake"? Very amusing!
RoyFeni 5 months ago
question for you people that know about ballet..... how DO you learn this....!!!! is there a sheet and a note pentagram with ... ballet notes??...that indicate you every step and how to do it??? ...or you can learn it only from a teacher that already knows it only.... I mean.... is the " swan lake" written in some place??.... ore only the ballet teachers have it in their minds... thank you.
628813261 5 months ago 9
@628813261 I don't have an exact idea about that. But I attended the ballet live once... and it was different from what we see here in this video. You can find different dances at the same part of the ballet here on youtube... so I guess it's the artistic vision of every director who sees things differently... I hope someone with larger knowloedge in this can help us over here...
jilliansk 5 months ago 4
@jilliansk In the major ballets there's a lot of recurring choreography, so bits and pieces from different productions are similar - I guess passed down from choreographer to choreographer, depending on what versions of the ballet they've seen, which company's choreography made it famous, etc. So there are a bunch of variations out there that are taught to different dancers with pretty much the same choreo (just look at ballet competition videos). But a lot of it is interpretation as well.
seegensays 5 months ago
@jilliansk this is a live performance - Scala 2005. There are different choreographies, this for example is Bourmeister (my favourite, cause it has a happy end :) )
Leirix61 4 months ago
@jilliansk ..ahaha... I don´t know if you´ve noticed, but... I think I have recieved more answers with me comentary than in any other video.... I have actually learned a lot... THANKS TO EVERYBODY...:)
628813261 4 months ago
@628813261 Notice the name Petipa under the video. This is a very famous French choreographer who moved to Russia. He lived in the 19th century at the same time as Tchaikovsky. (Swan Lake in collaboration with Ivanov - notice his name too). He choreographed many classical ballets, maybe most of them. Sure there are changes over time, but the majority of classical ballets use in large part Petipa choreography. I am not a dancer, but I've seen many ballets.
jewelmarkess 3 months ago
@628813261 yeah you just knida learn it lol
TrnsfrmerPrncs4lyfe 5 months ago
@628813261 You can learn it from a teacher...as long as they have been very well trained and take time to break apart each step. It takes MANY years of countless hours in the studio to learn though. It looks effortless, but that's b/c of all the hard work, sweat, and persistance (and blood lol...from the pointe shoes) that is put into it. It's extremely difficult to get to the level these dancers are at. I could talk about it for hours...it's really interesting (to me anyways haha).
danc3r610 4 months ago
@628813261 But, yes, there is a note system in the ballet world. It's kind of like learning short hand. It's difficult to learn and only a handful of people know how to do it. It's really cool to watch. They literally can sit there and watch a ballet and as it's going on record every step and arm and head movement! I'm just starting to learn it myself.
danc3r610 4 months ago
@628813261 Actually no, a ballet piece is written to be danced but the choreographer or director "assembles" all the steps in order to interpret the music through dancing. The steps are not written, the steps are choreographed and the dancing piece is created based on the music, with heavy emphasis in creativity as each director wants to make his own vision of the story and music.
Melvito2 4 months ago
@628813261
No, each choreographer who approaches the ballet does it differently. Dances are taught the choreography, and remember. There are records of choreography written. I mean, all the steps have names, all the directions you face on stage have names etc. and that's written down but the dancers themselves just listen to what steps and placements the choreographer wants. It's very easy to remember really, once you get used to doing it.
doctorwhofangirl22 4 months ago
@628813261 At the Royal Ballet you are taught by old ballet dancers who know these roles or by someone who can read a score of Benesh notation; a score like music but with the dance moves and positions written on the staves...either way it is repetition which makes this possible to learn...practice makes perfect. lot of hard work and classes....................sincerely.
seal1ify 4 months ago
@628813261 Ballets are choreographed, many times, in the choreographers head. A lot of it eventually gets written down, but there is no precribed method to creating a ballet or any dance for that matter. I remember many times learning the first 64 counts with my pas de deux partner and we were simply instructed to not forget it and that would continually be built upon. Some ballets take months to choreograph and others are simply recreations with a twist, if that, that take a lot less to prepare
kedohill 4 months ago
also, most of what we ballet dancers do on stage are moves we learn in class on a daily basis, at which point, it then becomes about what moves will be brought together and what dancers are strong enough to bring it to fruition. When I've choreographed, I simply thought of something in my head and called out the steps and like that, you have your first 8 counts. Others may have experienced something else, but I've danced with 4 different companies in America and Europe and it was the same.
kedohill 4 months ago
@628813261 choreographies can be brought to sheet. often with sketches of the figures, with the names of them and so on. hope my english was able to explain it.
GumbasCorner 4 months ago
@628813261 there is Benesh notation, which looks like music notes. and old videos to learn from. and teachers
theAnnafilms 4 months ago
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@628813261 i'm sure you can find the choreography just about anywhere. my teacher taught it to me mainly from memory because the choreography had been so imprinted in her from when she was in the royal ballet that she could never forget it. no 2 versions are ever the same, generally because no one interprets the dance or the emotions behind it in the same way, & everyone has their own experience in dancing it & in watching it.
TheBgoz 3 months ago
@628813261 for every step there are special excercises. every ballet lesson begins with an half hour training for pliés, releves and stuff like that. in varitaion, like little dances, they get connected and in the chorio, ones like this one, you can only to the steps right if you know how they work - thats the reason for the little excercises.
of course there are sheets, but they are not very useful, just to learn the names of the excercises.
you have to learn the moves step by step.
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@628813261 well, most of us learn from teachers, i'm a ballet dancer. i'm on pointe, and yes i learn from a teacher, i don't have a manuel. aha (: and Tchaikovsky, i'm sure wrote his choreography down. (; it's a classic.
VampirexLoverxxx 2 months ago
@628813261 oh, and after they teach us they write down the steps, and everything. (:
VampirexLoverxxx 2 months ago
@628813261 i didn't really get what's your question was but to get it from the start there are different ballet techniques like russian ballet or english ballet with different choreografies about every dance and in some way some important differencies like some moves or the high of a jump or the legs and so on...it needs A LOT of practice indeed to get to this level like those dancers are but the truth is that ballet is the most difficult dance ever and the most wonderful...
ViciousMinius 2 months ago
@628813261 my grandma told me what to do , i had no idea that what she was telling me to do was all pertaining to ballet. one day, she told me to wear some shoes, and I danced a "pas de duex" with a boy it barley counted because of my age and how sake i still was, but i kind of slowly got on pointe at age 11 when my bone were fairly well developed so i guess it just takes time and steps and focus and your grandma screaming at you in a different language about tearing your head off and eating it.
nafanua123 2 months ago
@628813261 I did ballet and this can take about a month or two to learn it!
webkinz08100 2 months ago
@628813261 The steps are different for every company that does it. The music is all the same, but choreographers pick the steps and teach them to the dancers. I've been in two different Nutcrackers. They are all similar (same characters in each scene) but the step sequences are different. That is funny to think of magical, secret directions, though! :)
magicalmuggle16 2 months ago
@628813261
So I don't know whati t's like with ballet. but I guess it is like other dances. you learn it step by step, fromyour teacher
Kakaokoenig 2 months ago
@Kakaokoenig Geez!
garciagar64 2 months ago
@628813261 PART ONE: Ballet is mostly made up of steps/moves learned in class. That is to say that there is very little...OTHER choreography. Unlike, say jazz or hip-hop, where there are an endless number of things you can do; and they're always changing. Don't get me wrong, there ARE "set" things in jazz, such as the jazz square or the jazz pirouette. But in a ballet, it is virtually ALL pre-learned steps. When you perform Swan Lake, you've already done EVERYTHING in class.
hididdleydee 2 months ago
@628813261 PART TWO: Your choreographer/teacher could literally just SAY all the steps (each is a french word) and you would know how to put it all together. It could be a list on paper. As far as the formations go, there are blueprints out there.
hididdleydee 2 months ago
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@628813261 PART THREE: And one more thing: A non-dancer could learn...say...'Little Shop of Horrors' choreography and pull it off; but she would have to train for a solid seven years (at 30 hours a week) to do 'Swan Lake'. See the difference? You could NOT perform a ballet such as this by simply being taught the choreography.
hididdleydee 2 months ago
@628813261 Well, I'm daning ballet and i think it is not only steps. You learn the grace, the elegance and the feelings (in this case) Odette feels. Sure you have to know your steps but you have to connect the moves with your feelings.
ballerina107 2 months ago
@628813261 OK. I'll try. There is the story, the lats say, the "libreto". There is a music, that never changes, one conductor can not create his own version of the music, although you find some interpretations, and you have the dance, a coreographer that, yes, whrite the movement in a pentagram, but on the contrary of the music, a coreographer can create the dance, the steps and movements freelly as he wishes.
gatofelixriodejaneir 2 months ago
@628813261 Google it. It gives the whole story and meaning of ballet.
garciagar64 2 months ago
@628813261 most ballet companies base their stagings on the choreography of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, but every director has his own vision so it can change a little, but almost always you have the reference of some choreographer. The choreography of Ivanov and Petipa is a revival makes for the Mariinsky Theatre and it's written. Later, become part of the repertory of many famous ballet companies.
veronicamanrique 2 months ago
Who are these dancers? They are both good. I like the guy (in a purely esthetic way, you understand!).
RoyFeni 5 months ago 4
@RoyFeni Roberto bolle... I believe...
jilliansk 5 months ago
@jilliansk the girl is Svetlana Zacharova
MrsYotavril 2 months ago
@MrsYotavril yup... that's what's written in the description no?
jilliansk 2 months ago
@RoyFeni Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle. They are amazing indeed.
FyreBalletDancer 4 months ago
@RoyFeni Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle
Leirix61 4 months ago
mmmmm dat assss. And I love Tchaikovsky too lol
LouieOmega 5 months ago
to who's wondering why this vedio don't have lotof views ..
because only " us " can understand it =)
alrmithi86 5 months ago
I have NEVER had such chills run down my whole body. TRULY AMAZING.
forshinjaa 6 months ago
Awwwww love the feather!
music88loverable 6 months ago
I got chills and teared up a little.
Tiny21Dancer 6 months ago
There was a Swan Lake in our Town, but I didn`t goT_T
P.S. Sorry for mistakes........
HelenaBCsfun 6 months ago
Is the man Andrei Merkuriev.?
Timmy95ich 6 months ago
@Timmy95ich no it is roberto bolle
TheBallerinaForLife 6 months ago
@TheBallerinaForLife thanks (:
Timmy95ich 6 months ago
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doesn't really fancy the male ballerino's outfit... XP
It just looks... distracting >.<
BridgetteVedant 9 months ago
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BridgetteVedant 9 months ago
This version doesn't have a "happy ending" does it cause Swan Lake is supposed to be a tragedy?
lukebccb 1 year ago 6
Indeed, Swan Lake is a tragedy... in the original version, you see that the only way Odette can be freed is if she dies, for she would rather die than live without Siegfried. Siegfried cannot live without Odette and declares that he will die with her. When Rothbart appears, Odette throws herself into the lake and Siegfried follows her.
jilliansk 1 year ago 4
In the climax of their sacrifice, Rothbart's powers are destroyed and the spell is finally broken; Odette's companions are freed from the enchantment. As the sun rises, Siegfried and Odette ascend into Heaven together, united in love for all eternity...
jilliansk 1 year ago 12
Svetlana Zakharova is gorgeous!
voilalapetiteanna 1 year ago
i love the part 0:51-0:52 is that when she turns back into a swan?
coleyoko94 1 year ago
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cravin4chocolate 10 months ago
very sweet music :)
shouphoebe 1 year ago
am so touched........is one of the most wonderful pieces of tchaikovsky.....can't stop listening to it and of course watching it....
pomegradelove 1 year ago
was that not too fast?!
evanescentpv 1 year ago
this music has a name and i wanna know what it is. and nobody plz tell me that its called "swan lake theme". cuz i heard it b4 from my older bros itunes and it has a name but i forgot and he wont tell me what it is.
09flodom 1 year ago
@09flodom Look up Swan Lake, Op. 20 Suite: 1. Swan Theme
VerdeVertigoPictures 1 year ago
@09flodom Sorry, but thats whats it called... Swan lake 1st theme...
getouttamyeffinglawn 1 year ago
Whenever I here this tune, I think of Bela Lugosi.
sspdirect02 1 year ago 23
@sspdirect02 lets shoot this fucker
cabinthewoods90 6 months ago
@cabinthewoods90 ED WOOD
sspdirect02 6 months ago
greatest classical song of all time :]
Cori1357 1 year ago 2
ahhh, that's bealtifulll..i love it..my favourite ballet..kiss from brazil !!! svetlana!!!!!
27vaninha 1 year ago
This is gorgeous. I can't believe how few people have viewed it. Magnificent dancing and scenery.
booziggums 2 years ago 26
@booziggums
it really is sad that in general, in this country, the art of dancing and ballet is virtually unknown by the general public who prefer cheap entertainment like horror movies or violent action films. They just don't know what they are missing. If they were placed in the middle of a symphony orchestra for example, surrounded by magnificent sounds, they would be so thrilled and overcome they would understand the pop culture fed to us by the media is really worthlless.
Richichka 2 months ago