1958 Part 3 of 3 Kirov Mariinsky Ballet Les Sylphides Chopiniana Petrova Kolpakova Alekseeva Semenov

[iskander21024]

Now we can clearly see what ballet we lost with the distruction of the USSR. No modern stars will save it. It is becoming commercial which is fatal for Russian classical ballet. And here we are witnessing The Tsardom Of Spirit.

[Paranich1]

Потрясающе!!! Как же человек может создать такую красоту!..

[pepercat17]

the guy in the final dance pisses me off. he looks like he half does it. and its like looking at a man taking something (he deems fem) and tried to butch it up....iit just aggrivates me. just suck it up and dance the dance like the girls are. (i mean your donig ballet, so you shouldnt be worried about oh do i look feminem?)

[unsatura]

great recording, thanx.

[Bnesque]

What a great historical document!

I really love the way dacers' phsycs differs from these days. they are more feminine with ample curves, as if from some tableau of the romatic era.

thnk you very much for sharing.

[russianballetvideo]

I do not know if you ahve this video, but in 1967 there was afilm called "Bolshoi Ballet 67". I was watching Sergei Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, starring Ekaterina Maksimova. Just before started that ballet, they show class and rehearsal for it and the different bodies, compared to today's ballerinas is shocking. The baallerinas had big curves from their hips to waists, like real women. Bessmertnova had very extreme curves.

To be continued

[russianballetvideo]

Continuation Most of today's ballerinas are so skinny that they have lost most of these curves and do not look like women, but girls approaching puberty. That is why someone like Yulia Stepanova is so crucial to the ballet world because as an elderly woman, who has worked at the Mariinsky Theatre for many years, told me, that Yulia has such a perfect body that she looks like a real women with curves in the right places.With her immense talent, I hope that she will destroy this anorexia plague

[Bnesque]

These days I always tell myself that I don't want to see Corps Bride like Aurora, Kitri, Raymonda or Manon, anymore.

I wish Stepanova to bring us back the festivity of feminine beauty. And I belive that the balllerina named Yulia can do it like another Yulia did!

[russianballetvideo]

I hope so, but there is a sickness in theatres that skeletons are desired by management. Yulia is already under that pressure. Please resist bravely.

[Pearlaceous]

Completely agree! Yulia is thin anyway - OK, she has more curves (i.e., boobs) than some other dancers and beautiful curvy legs, but she is THIN. Most other ballerinas are not thin - they are skeletal. It's time ballet management realized that this is not what the public wants to see.

[russianballetvideo]

I agree 100%.

[Bnesque]

And Yulia is very long with beautiful feminine curves.

Is it tghout to be sin to have a mesmerizing decorte line?

I feel like being in the century where women were banned from the thetere....

[AyahuascaZ]

@Pearlaceous

Indeed! I just can't enjoy ballet with dacing skeletons! It looks like danse macabre allegory

[palubob]

Thank you very much for this. The dancing is superb, and the video is remarkably clear after 51 years. This is a transfer from film to video, isn't it?

[russianballetvideo]

Russian TV

[palubob]

Alexandr Glazunov doesn't receive enough credit for his beautiful orchestration of Chopin's piano music for this delightful little ballet.