Baroque Dance: Castor et Pollux

This is not the La Belle Danse company performing. This excerpt comes from a 1982 production of Rameau's "Castor et Pollux" staged in Athens, Greece. The costumes are particularly notable as they seem to be faithful reproductions of the original designs by Louis-Rene Boquet.

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• baroque
• dance
• ballet
• Rameau
• 18th
• century
• rococo
• Castor
• Pollux
• danse

[tibibopan]

I think it is a dance company of Beatrice Massin "Fêtes galantes".

[LaBelleDanse]

@tibibopan No this is not Beatrice Massin's company. This video was made in the early 1980's.

[tibibopan]

@LaBelleDanse yes, you are right, it's from 82 , dir. Charles Farncombe. Sorry.

[JeremyNasmith]

Yes, those costumes are gorgeous. I miss the days when Opera Atelier had the men in tonellettes (sp) and everyone in powdered wigs. Believe it or not, I actually miss dancing in heeled shoes! No comment on the authenticity of the dancing though, and Daniel, I think you can back me up on that statement... But it was '82, to their credit. And @ HelgaMaq, Check out the Paris Opera Ballet's reconstruction of the original La Sylphide by Pierre Lacotte back in the '80s...

[Jeremie1987]

Musique magnifique, costumes kitchissimes !

[kefaad]

This is in the Roman Theater ΩΔΕΙΟΝ of Herodus the Atticus under Acropolis in Athens:-)It is nice for us (the Athenians)every summer to attend concerts and operas in such a lovely setting:-)

[anzdf]

Hermosa danza, gracias por compartirla.

[HelgaMaq]

Nice! Would like somebody doing the same with romantic ballet, like Sylphide, Esmeralda...