Raymonda - Olesia Novikova - Act II variation

Novikova's extraordinary entrechat-quatre en pointe during the II act variation in Sergei Vikharev's new reconstruction of Raymonda.

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Entertainment

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• dance ballet
• balletto
• Olesia Novikova
• Raymonda
• entrechat-quatre
• Sergei Vikharev

[gramilano]

Date was the October 11 première. The ballet is being broadcast on Italian television on October 27 so additional clips will be available soon after!

[mrlopez2681]

The fact that this variation hasn't changed much in over 100 years, as well as the featre of the entrechat-quatre en pointe, are a testament to the extraordinary abilities of the great Pierina Legnani. It is wonderful to see Novikova wearing all of Legnani's original 1898 costumes.

[theamazingsoter]

Wow, so the original variation had entrechats? And now this step is always danced as a changement en pointe or sometimes pas de cheval. I can wait to see this reconstruction on TV next week! Novikova is amazing here.

[26LGL26]

Wow! How is she doing this??? I didn't even know that it was possible to do entrechats 4 on pointe shoes. And it looks so much easy for her. Her arms are so fluid and she is always smiling! That was amazing!!!

[mrlopez2681]

@Buondelmonte123 - I'm sorry my dear but you have no idea what you are talking about. The notation is read accurately. Just because you are not personally familiar with "Vikharev's provenance for his 'authenticity'" doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Do you think he just made the whole thing up? Are you bloody mad?!?

[mrlopez2681]

@theamazingsoter - yes the entrechats are original. Contemporary reviews from 1898 tell that Pierina Legnani caused a sensation with her "steel-like points".

[marisha74]

@kaninchenrc I can not wait either! She deserves it!!

[marisha74]

Olesya is Absolutely Gorgeous!



[theamazingsoter]

@Buondelmonte123 I was a bit harsh. It's not true that I can't bear to watch Sergeyev's production - I will always want to see the Mariinsky dance Sleeping Beauty. But yes, overall I much prefer Petipa's choreography for the Pas de Six and the Grand Pas from Act II, and also the mime scenes. I wouldn't have minded so much if they had left Marie Petipa's variation out, though.

[nefabit]

Wowwww her entrechats on pointe are so spectacular! The seven people who dislike this video are jealous. :P

[Buondelmonte123]

@theamazingsoter "So you consider Sergeyev's modifications necessary?" Oh yes, indeed. "I can't bear to watch Sergeyev's mess anymore." That is your prerogative.

[theamazingsoter]

@Buondelmonte123 Now we are talking about completely different things. You think that Sleeping Beauty is a "symphonic score that Petipa could not match choreographically", so you consider Sergeyev's modifications necessary. I feel exactly the oposite. In fact, after watching Petipa's reconstructed prologue and Act II Pas d'action I can't bear to watch Sergeyev's mess anymore.

[Buondelmonte123]

@theamazingsoter I should point out, if only forr other readers, Konstantin Sergeyev, was the Soviet dancer and choreographer who restaged, and remounted The Sleeping Beauty during Soviet times at the former Kirov [Mariinski]. Nicholas Sergeyev was a per-revolutionary dancer who abstracted the notations of Vladimir Stepanov [1966 to 1896] from the files of the theatre when he fled to the West in the early 1920s. Ballet's Elgin Marbles?