Anna Pavlova - 'The Dying Swan' (1925)

[Ballerinchen1000]

she is my heroin.......

[nickwallacesmith]

hi Ballerinchen1000 - well put! cheers

[ilovefacebookandebay]

@Ballerinchen1000 Er, don`t you mean heroine.? !!!

[nickwallacesmith]

hi ilovefacebookandebay - either is about right - LOL!

[Ballerinchen1000]

@ilovefacebookandebay yes i mean :D

[glikomu]

Спасибо! Удивительная красота, мне тоже показалось, что это лебедь.

Трогательно до слез!

[nickwallacesmith]

@glikomu

да, фильм приносит мне до слез тоже - так сильно выразительно - большой вам нравится это слишком!

yes, the film brings me to tears too - so powerfully expressive - great you like it too!

[lexieburini]

simply breathtaking

[nickwallacesmith]

@lexieburini - isn't it!

[VVSite]

Сколько чувства! Удивительно как она оставалась жива после таких выступлений. Несравненная!!! 

[nickwallacesmith]

hi VVSite

да ей было так scedule трудный - это трудно понять, как она это устойчивый!

yes her scedule was so arduous - it's hard to understand how she sustained it!

[MassNeurosis]

moving, moving life haiku

[nickwallacesmith]

hi MassNeurosis - the very thing - cheers

[MsSandtime]

The great ballerina Pavlova.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi MsSandtime - one of the greatest!

[MsLandaw]

невероятно!!! как будто она действительно перестала быть человеком и стала лебедем!

[nickwallacesmith]

@MsLandaw Да, она действительно трансформировать себя - танцы выразительным, а не академический. рад, что вы тоже это понравилось!

[thesearemy2cats]

Thank You for giving us this very old and wonderful clip!!!

[nickwallacesmith]

hi thesearemy2cats - great you like it too - it's the best copy of this footage i've seen. cheers from sydney

[10soccerluvr1]

thumbs up if ur here cause abby lee miller mentioned her on dance moms;)

[whatsername081]

@10soccerluvr1 if you didn't know about anna pavlova before watching that awful show, i don't know what to think of the world.

[fivehundredfootlong]

I love this so much. This ran chills down my spine. Her technique was not great, poor turn out, but he lightness, and she made it so beautful and that is why she is the best female dancer of the 20th century.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi fivehundredfootlong - yes, technically Pavlova was somewhat limited (as Sir Frederick Ashton said too in the interview with Makarova) but the expressive power of her dancing makes you totally feel the meaning of the ballet - and i love that she breaks line for expressive purposes. great you love this footage too. cheers!

[Emimousiekin]

I love how it just flows. Pavlova is effortless in this. :)

[nickwallacesmith]

@Emimousiekin - yes, seemless and so totally expressive - glad you like it too!

[thebuffkins]

this is the most beautiful piece of dance/film i have ever seen. I got butterflies when i watched this, truly heart wrenching stuff no one can do anything as emotional as this its beautiful ;")

[nickwallacesmith]

hi thebuffkins - yes so beautiful as technique and expression are the one thing. and i love that she breaks line for expressive purposes.glad you love it too

[thebuffkins]

@nickwallacesmith glad you posted it :D

[nickwallacesmith]

hi thebuffkins - glad you liked it!

[cookiemonster73593]

I had to watch this for a class. I wish I decided to do this one

[nickwallacesmith]

@cookiemonster73593 - maybe next time - it is great isn't it!

[MrMusikkenner]

Hi Nick,no i havent seen this Clip. Thank you for showing it here on You tube.

Pavlova's Point- Wonderful- Wunderbar.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi MrMusikkenner - yes, she was quite perfect in her way - no criticism possible. and yes she was famous for her points - sometimes made smaller than they actually were by the photographer and some early photoshopping!

[navy1232]

definition of classical ballet. bravo!

[nickwallacesmith]

@navy1232 - and such pure expression too - though the two (technique and expression) can't really be talked of as separate entities. just perfect, unquestionably - the legend is not exaggerated, cheers

[LilyMoth12]

This should have more views! This is beautiful!

[nickwallacesmith]

@LilyMoth12 - it is beautiful - so beautiful that lots of people have (very rightly) uploaded it - but i keep coming back to see it again - not just dance but pure expression, quite the best i've seen of this ballet, cheers

[ilovefacebookandebay]

@nickwallacesmith Yes,I keep coming back to see it again,and again. I`ll never forget the first time i ever saw this; during an episode of Fonteyn`s The Magic of Dance on BBC2. To be able to have seen footage of her dancing; it blew me away. I have 3 copies of In Art and Life by her husband,Victor Dandre. Probably my favourite ballet book.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi ilovefacebookandebay - i've never read Dandre's book - must do it - thanks for jogging me into action. he was the common-law husband of Anna Pavlova - they never married. cheers

[theball3rina]

who could dislike this? Why is there even a dislike button for this??? :(

[nickwallacesmith]

hi theball3rina - exactly! it's perfect expression - nothing wanting.

[LilyMoth12]

Love this Ballet so much. I've seen this clip so many times! Anna Pavlova is one of the best ballerinas of all time. Love her and this ballet so much!

[nickwallacesmith]

hi LilyMoth12 - yes she is endlessly wonderful ... and watchable. glad you like it too. cheers

[Toshiya231]

It´s so sad that the cameras were so badly in these years. ;_;

[nickwallacesmith]

hi Toshiya231 - yes, so many wonderful performances not well preserved :< cheers from sydney

[Toshiya231]

@nickwallacesmith hello.

thanks for comenting ^^

And yea,I´ve seen alice in wonderland from 1903,too.and I dont really understand what happend D;

[nickwallacesmith]

Toshiya231 hi - yes i know that early 1903 'alice' - do you mean y=understand what happened to Alice? cheers, nick

[Toshiya231]

@nickwallacesmith yes, I didn´t really understand´because the cameras went so quickly and...yea ^^

[nickwallacesmith]

hi Toshiya231 - me too - i guess we needed to understand the story before we watched the film - not so good film making! cheers from sydney

[Icreachusalad]

Who are the cellist and harpist?



[nickwallacesmith]

hi Icreachusalad - the film is from a russian source and i imagine, for nationalistic reasons, the cellist and harpist - but beyond that i don't know. maybe someone help identify them? cheers

[tamacutey]

watched this for the first at kirov this summer. it makes me wanna cry everytime! gorgeous!

[nickwallacesmith]

@tamacutey - it IS very powerful, you are absolutely right!

[kassidykayte123]

i have to write a speech for class about a famous person... i think i found who im writing about!!!!

[nickwallacesmith]

@kassidykayte123 - great! anna pavlova is worthy of writing a speech about! good luck with it.

[Dedalde0ro]

En Maya Plisetskaya aún veo a la bailarina. Anna Pavlova ES el cisne

[nickwallacesmith]

hola Dedalde0ro - Eso es exactamente correcto! Pavlova se transforma, como Frederick Ashton, dijo - que la vio en el Perú en 1913, ciao

[Dedalde0ro]

@nickwallacesmith =)

[VeryMadGurl]

Well, you can see why a dessert was named after her! I love how the courues make it look like her legs are faltering

[nickwallacesmith]

@VeryMadGurl - one of my fav desserts too! yum

[Abernoch23ly]

Wow! Thank you so much for posting this :) it really inspires me

[nickwallacesmith]

hi Abernoch23ly - it really inspired me too!

[cubanmiamiboy]

As I always say.  Here's where you can really tell that this is already a clear departure from the XIX Century. Ballerinas, please...WATCH this...this is Fokine, XX Century, not Petipa's Odette...!!!

[nickwallacesmith]

@cubanmiamiboy - absolutely

[Qbendanny]

Can't see it enough. That dot in the center of her chest is the fatal wound. You can't beat those bourees.

[nickwallacesmith]

hi Qbendanny - glad it was not too much - like you, i can't see it enough too - the bourees at the end of the rubenstein ballet are pretty electrifying too

[ksol1460tv]

@Qbendanny That's a pin with a picture of Marie Taglioni, I believe.