"La Bayadere" Shades with Dudinskaya and Chaboukiani 1940

Vakhtang Chaboukiani and Natalia Dudinskaya dance in a truncated "Kingdom of the Shades" scene from Petipa's "La Bayadere". Kirov Ballet 1940

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[MarloManners66]

Calipso, please stay away from the complete opening of this film clip (on "Glory of the Kirov") which has an abreviated entrance of the shades that will put your hair in curlers. Cheap animation of ballerina shades gliding down that staircase at a speeded up tempo in a winding pattern that probably had Marius Ivanovich levitating in his grave while rotating at 150 miles per hour.

[MarloManners66]

Calipso, this production was staged by Pyotr Gusev with additional choreography by Chaboukiani - mostly Solor's solos. This film, obviously a short or part of a variety compilation has been filmed like a sequence from a Hollywood musical from the thirties (the bakelite floors?).  Clearly the staging and huge cuts (the Three Shades) show that this does not reflect the Kirov staging of 1940 at all. So ignore the staging and enjoy the dancing.

[mrlopez2681]

@ballet323 - whether a ballerina "back in the day" focused on speed, grace, technique depended on the ballerina, & in those days doing the "slpitz" was considered a vulgarity. Technique was not everything to them, as it is to dancers now. But, to Dudinskaya, technique was EVERYTHING, as she is one of the great virtuosas is ballet. Never hold a dancer of yester-year to the standards of your own time.

[calipso1010]

Chaboukiani, although a capable ballet master got it all wrong. Petipas Bayadere takes place in mythical India. In the original and well documented Petipas version the Shades which represent restless souls of twilight, descend from the Himalayas. Chaboukiani replace Himalayas with marble-esque staircase. This fact alone demonstrates his lack of understanding of Petipa's tradition in general and La Bayadere in specific.

[Pearlaceous]

Wow! Wonderful passion and attack!

[pediatrapaola]

@opensecret51 THEY HAD THE ALLURE OF THE GREAT STAR ALSO WITH THAT AWFUL STAGING

[opensecret51]

@pediatrapaola listen, both of them are Fantastic and his energy is volcanic really powerful ! It is true what someone remarked about the staging being a little Hollywood movie of that eara..... Now I can umderstand more the exotic elements in Le Corsaire & in La Bayader and all tha variations I can just see it in him and his dancing !Thanks

[ballet323]

I find that ballerinas back in the day focus more on speed than grace, technique, and it seems like some of those ballerinas can't even do the splitz

[etoiledelkirov]

dudinskaya the best hall time

[pediatrapaola]

@qbendanny1 GREAT, MACHO .FIERY,TERRIFIC FASTNESS OF HIS CHAINES AN MANEGE

[pediatrapaola]

anyway we are lucky so few was filmed about great chabukiani

[pediatrapaola]

dear friend we are anyway lucky seeing the great vachtang so few was filmed about him

[pediatrapaola]

kind friend I saw all your video annd saw you in england years ago off course Vacktang is a legend and inspiration for all male dacer but you are really good