P.I.Tchaikovsky Swanlake ,Margot Fonteyn,Rudolf Nurejev I

vienna opera
le lac des cygnes

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[nutballetfreak]

margot was famous for having bad feet and bad extensions but having a majestic and gracefulness that made you watch only her when she was on stage. that kind of thing cannot be taught in a studio no matter how beautiful your arches are or how high you leg goes. i think margot was brillient on every one of her performances.

[glistergirl]

I know nothing about ballet, whether these were good or bad dancers. Also I have no idea what the term "bad feet" means. All I know is that usually the dancers seem to bounce on their tippy toes constantly when not striking ridiculous and ugly poses. No offence intended, like I said I know nothing of dance. However, bad dancers or no, I loved watching these two. Every pose and movement inbetween poses was gorgeous! If all ballet was like this I would like it so much more...

[tairanotomomori]

Completely baffled. I was floored by Alicia Markova's dancing, her lightless and agility, but this is embarassing to watch. I'd rather pay to watch today's ballet dancers. You might call them mere athletes but still they are more enjoyable to watch than THIS.

[teenovels]

@antisocialist87 i dont think so, margot fonteyn is a dancer with a lot of emotion, but SOME Russian dancers give so much emotionally, like Uliana lopatkina!

[antisocialist87]

@TanBarbieGirlxox

What a lot of people don't understand is that ballet is not simply about technique. Many of the ballet virtuousas out there would be considered technically not so great, but the problem is that many people do not understand subtlety. Margot practically pushes herself into the characters, which is something that a lot of the Russian dancers do not do. The Russian Dancers are phenomenal to watch in regards to technique, but have all the emotion of a brick.

[fraskita]

So overall, completely overrated - only because truly magnificent Russian ballerinas were not let out of Soviet Union much. Now though there is a chance to see them much more.

[nestersg]

@mistercleopatra

Some people just have no sense of humor!

[mistercleopatra]

@nestersg i resent that ppl havent voted you up looool

[FyreBalletDancer]

@glistergirl i wonder what kind of "usual dancers" u watch, cuz i dont know any who match ur description ...

however, these two are amazing indeed

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@nutballetfreak You said "margot was famous for having bad feet and bad extensions". By whom? I was around at the time, and knew Rowena Jackson also, as I was from Invercargill, and she was our prima.

The only think that Fonteyn was famous for was being the only ballerina that people knew of other than Pavlova. She was as big a celebrity as England has ever had. That was in the days when celebrities were celebrities.

The equivalent in the US were Charles Lindbergh and Glenn Miller.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

@glistergirl Well said. You don't have to be an expert to know just how good these two are. Believe me, they are amongst the best there is.

[TanBarbieGirlxox]

Okay, so Ive been trying to find who was the "best" ballerina ever and everyone on the internet says Margot is one of them. I don't know whats wrong with me, but I don't think she's the best AT ALL. Have any of yall heard of yulia makhalina? She is the absolute best ballerina *I* have everrr seen but no one has ever heard of her!! She is just the definition of perfection and I don't understand why she is soooo under-rated. She blows all of these dancers out of the water. no one can beat her!!