Lully. Atys. Dança dos Zéfiros (Zephirs dance)

[Pipero]

Really beautiful!. An extraordinaire choreography for a superb adaptation (William Christie and Les Arts Florissants). Concerning Ana Yepes is daughter of the famous spanish guitarist Narciso Yepes who focused a great part of his art in the baroque and renaissance music.

[barochial]

This is magnificent! The costuming is superb. The choreography is perfection. What production was this, and there any more posts of these dancers?

[TAPME]

Soberba elegência :)

[Gessikmagnifique]

muito bom.

[MarydoBruno]

the production is on again next year... YES !!!

[MonicaCLamb]

@MarydoBruno did you say the production of Atys, William Christie, was scheduled for a revival?

[jplully]

@MarydoBruno 14 15 17 july 2011 in the opera of..... Chateau Versailles !!!

[MonicaCLamb]

superb!!

[jplully]

One of my favorits !

[Akrinos]

I have seen this opera several times. A great experience with William Christie and "Les arts florissants" on the orchestral side and "Ris et danceries" on the dance side. Anne-Marie Gardette and Anna Yepes were great and still are I suppose. I wish them both love and luck in this hard world.

[LazlosPlane]

Yes, life was full of joy and to be celebrated by Louis, wasn't it?

Of course, if you were not part of the nobility... uh...LIFE SUCKED.

[mgpoliveira]

It is a truth and I in spite I like Lully music and every art related to Louis XIV court I do not ignore that their pleasures were at the expenses of people misery.

[faramir44]

So subtle and graceful.

If only the real world was this civilised.

I guess that's what art is for.

[fairyboy3]

yepes a castilian name!

[1psoas9]

houseofopera has it -- I just bought it. Thank you, thank you thank you. ANY MORE info on credits would be welcome -- who're the dancers? This production MUST have been MUCH discussed...

[1psoas9]

Thank you for all these clips -- they are FABULOUS, no less -- it is a great production of a great work. Is there a DVD available for purchase?

[devora]

howevr, if this is a history of dance . in that time period

i wonder howcome they used women costumed in this role of male .. as there are so many men who can dance this role .?. it is lovely and very beautiful as is,, just wondering

[LaBelleDanse]

They are costumed as young pages of the court. It's clear that no "real" children of that age would be capable of performing the intricacies of this dance. So Lancelot used two short women.

[devora]

thank you for answering my bit of interest.

i am still unable to aquire this movie here in u.s.a.

[LaBelleDanse]

Try the houseofopera site.

They used to sell this opera. Perhaps they still do.

[devora]

alas and alack,

thank you ...

with no luck there.

i'll keep looking.

[fan2jnrc]

They're not costumed as young pages. More precisely, this costum is the costume of the "novices du Saint-Esprit". It was the costume of the young princes the day they were admitted in the "Ordre du Saint-Esprit" (order of the Holy Spirit), the highest order of chevalry of France. During the ceremony, they leaved the little black and silver coat you see here, to receive in return the great coat of the order (black, green, orange and silver).

[tibibopan]

Do you know who choreographer of this?!

It's very enchanting!

Can you upload a Sarabande of Atys's torment?

It's very perfect!

[MissCecchetti]

The person who choreographed the dances for this opera was the late Francine Lancelot, a french dance historian. I would be willing to bet that this dance was probably adapted from an original notated theatre dance of the period.

[fairyboy3]

now i can explain all of this, they have two boys two girls and two ladies who are the teachers of all of them. i can say in my lenguage mother " Esto es la magia de los elencos en un ballet" sorry but i don`t know how to say in english

[urbiorbi]

That was not teen girls dancing; the youngest was 24 years old (on the right at the beginning). She is my baroque dance teacher presently in Montreal city (Canada): Anne-Marie Gardette. She moved from France many years ago.

[mgpoliveira]

What a great information!

I have always wanted to know who they are and what they are doing now.

Almost everybody who see this video think they are two teen girls. Maybe it is because the costumes they wear and their height in comparison to the others behind.

Do you also know about the other dancer? It would also be great to know who she is and what she is doing now.

Thank you very much for such a valuable comment.

[drewdavis58]

The other dancer was 27-year-old Ana Yepes. You can see her work over the years on my channel.

[novakova82]

@mgpoliveira I think the other dancer is the choreographer and dancer Ana Yepes who teaches in Paris

[fairyboy3]

i prefer dance at the french court that make shoes in vietnam or tailand

[mgpoliveira]

Why do you not forget such problems for a while and enjoy the music and performance?

That is why it was made for.

[devora]

most likely for a film of this grandeur

it was a current famous designer that made these shoes ..

[Dawnsteed]

Lully is Baroque Music no doubt!

[peymaania]

Could this be Considered a form of Artistic Child Abuse a la Francaise? If the answer is an affirmative, then I must condone it whole-heartedly...Vive La France-Vive La Gloire!

[mgpoliveira]

Why would it be considered a form of child abuse?

Are the girls making sex?

Such a dirty mind could only come from a person from your country where a free behavior and people without a repressed mind may be considered abusive.

You are a from country of mental slaves who do not live, only exists.

[fairyboy3]

of course is barroque the name of this Atmostphere is called "tenebrismo"

[Fuliginosus]

The two little people who do most of the dancing...are they boys or girls, or tiny adults or what? Any thoughts?

[mgpoliveira]

They are two teens girls dancing in the role of Zephirs, a greek mythology divinities.

[Fuliginosus]

Thanks, that's very reassuring. I was afraid they might be freaks of nature.

[mgpoliveira]

Freaks of nature! It was funny.

From their performance they must be very healthy and if you notice they are two very beautiful young girls too.

[fairyboy3]

this is versailles in the early 18 century, no watteu, no rocaille or rococo, the barroque dies in 1750 with the death of johan sebastian bach, after this the rococo start.!saludos desde caracs venezuela

[peficaro]

I don't realy see any Watteau or any baroque or rocaille bit too dark..

But, by the way, is there really a DVD with this wonder on the market?

[masameus]

The atmosphere of that culture is really immortalised in its art creations, aesthetics played such a prominent part in it. I just love this to bits. It transports me to another place and time.

[niklasgreve]

Lully is my favorite composer. I sure wish I could get this on DVD... Thanks for sharing!

[lesboreades]

Quin "pas de deux" més favulós! França ha donat a Europa la classe i la elegància!

[CaballeroCatalan]

So glorious and yet so cute. Love, love, love this man, Lully.

[tm37gl]

Where can I get the DVD?

[emperoroberon]

Glorious!!

[DodoMiko]

I second Zarlino's comment. Does a DVD of this piece exist? Thank you for the video, it's beautiful.

[fairyboy05]

que belleza

[jamarriage]

You can get the feel for what it must have been like at Versailles quite easily, I love the almost earie audience in the background which look like a Antione Watteau painting but alive! great Ihope you can put more of these on to watch.

[linusandjim]

oh my god !! where did you get it ?

Atys is my favourite of Lully of all times....

[zarlino]

DVD? I would like to know if it exists!

[midnightblue80]

nice!