2th Paquita variation

with Ekaterina Kondaurova

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• paquita
• ballet
• ekaterina
• kondaurova
• kirov

[cahsandman]

Kirov Ballet!

[SilverInsanity]

...There are over eleven "Paquita" variations. The Cupid Variation is one of them.

[SteelioC]

Beautiful arms, feet, and pirouettes!

[jennyluvballet]

@ballerinababe901 same here

[Buondelmonte123]

@avesraggiana Thank you. You can't imagine the amount of variations I've seen in Paquita, including the lovely solo from Talisman. It makes me LOL when I see the variation danced by Mme Karsavina from Le Pavillon d'Armide, in Fokine choreography, performed under the guise of Paquita. Fokine would have been horrified as ballet-divertissements such as Paquita, were, as we know, something he fought hard against in his choreographic aesthetic.

[avesraggiana]

@Buondelmonte123 Damn right! As I’ve said in other posts, the great revelation of post-Soviet ballet was that there were heaps and heaps of these seemingly interchangeable Petipa-Minkus/Drigo/Pugni just lying around all over the place and not much else. As an aside, someone HAS posted a Bolshoi performance of Paquita with rather informative and lengthy descriptions of the different variations. Look for the Bolshoi performance with Natalia Osipova in one of the variations.

[pottermoreFUIM]

which variation is this?

[Buondelmonte123]

@SilverInsanity any Minkus/Drigo/Pugni, even Tcherpnine, variation is fodder for Paquita. Anyone who wants to attempt at sorting it all out had better have a large bottle of aspirin along side them in their well nigh hopeless endeavour.

[Buondelmonte123]

@londonfiv Cesare Pugni, Nisia's variation from Tsar Kandavl. Damn I'm good.

[Buondelmonte123]

Nisia's variation from Tsar Kandavl, [music by Pugni]

[ballerinababe901]

@Silverinsanity isn't cupid from Don Quixote?

[bolshoiballet1]

I wish there was the full version. This is a rarely seen variation nowadays yet one of the most beautiful when done well

[imyours10101]

i love this variation. its definitely a hard one