Flemming Flindt and Toni Lander in Pas de Vestale

From 1967 with Flemming Flindt and Toni Lander from Bournonville's Saturday School. This is the incredibly difficult "Pas de Vestale", created by August Bournonville for himself and Lucile Grahn in 1834. Miss Grahn was only 14 at the time!

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• Vestale
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[WagonWheelRanchTexas]

Oh my, Toni. This is a HARD piece to dance. Try it.

[1psoas9]

@ilyaballet WOnderful! Just a guess, but my hunch is that Bournonville wanted to save the perfected line that pointe gives for big effects. THe sylphide herself does the big pirouette at the end of her sissonne-solo on half-toe -- the piques with the "all the time in the world" develloppes she does on pointe because that's hte image he wants us to keep....

Balanchine later in career had dancers do chainees on half toe and finish with a double soutenu on pointe....

[kabardinka1]

I love the nearly unisex nature of this piece. 2 amazing dancers both greatly missed.

[mom6930585]

I was fortunate to work with Toni Lander before she died and she was a wonderful teacher and a very warm hearted person.

[metteholm75]

@Terr58y No, in the 1830´ies the shoes weren´t stable enough. In Bournonville style, they only dance on pointe some of the time, when they have to appear weightless, - especially in the early works.

[ilyaballet]

BIG THANK YOU FOR THIS TREASURE

♥♥♥♥♥ (>-<) ♥♥♥♥♥

[Terr58y]

Wonderful to watch! Was this filmed in the main ballet studio? Also, does anyone know why many of the turns and such were not on pointe, although she was wearing pointe shoes? Were the shoes at the time of choreography not stable enough to support turns and such, perhaps? (turning on half-pointe in pointe shoes is harder than en pointe, IMO!)

[1psoas9]

Strong medicine. Hard as it is they don't whine.

And though it's all from the hard book, it's not ungrateful.

THANK YOU for posting this!!!!

[1psoas9]

Strong medicine. Hard as it is they don't whine.

THANK YOU for posting this!!!!

[BulletPromotions]

I envy the control they have!