Alicia Alonso in Black Swan Pas de Deux (vaimusic.com)

http://vaimusic.com/VIDEO/DVD_4343_AliciaAlonso.htm
Excerpt from "Black Swan Pas de Deux" from Swan Lake danced by Alicia Alonso with Azari Plisetsky (music by Tchaikovsky)
Choreography: Alicia Alonso (after Marius Petipa)
From: VAI DVD 4343 Alicia Alonso: Prima Ballerina Assoluta
A compilation of performances from 1963 to 1985 includes many of Alonsos most celebrated roles. These range from Giselle, Swan Lake, Don Quixote & Coppélia, Romeo & Juliet, and others. She is joined by members of her company, The Ballet Nacional de Cuba. As bonuses are performances from the CBC (with Igor Youskevitch,1958) and Bell Telephone Hour (with Melissa Hayden, Nora Kaye & Mia Slavenska, 1960).
74 min., Color, B&W. Playable in all regions
TO PURCHASE THE COMPLETE DVD, PLEASE VISIT www.vaimusic.com OR CALL TOLL-FREE IN THE US 1(800)477-7146 (OUTSIDE OF THE US, CALL 914-769-3691.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Tchaikovsky
• Alicia
• Alonso
• Swan
• Lake
• Pas
• de
• Deux
• Ballet
• Dance
• Classical
• Music
• Azari
• Plisetsky
• Choreography
• Prima
• Ballerina
• Performing
• Arts
• Cuban
• National
• Symphony
• Orchestra
• of
• Cuba
• Manuel
• Duchesne
• Cuzán
• Upscale
• Prestige
• Pointe
• Toe
• Shoes
• Video
• Artists
• International
• vai
• vaimusic

[mochabubble]

For the idiot who said Murphy was better, you obviously don't understand who this wonderful lady is. You can't even begin to compare the two because Alicia Alonso is on a whole different level.

[teenovels]

i saw her on the cover of the newspapper today, she says she is not going to have a successor to take over her compeny, and she is going to keep teaching, no matter how old she gets! i must say i think alicia shows us all what ballet is really about, not giving up :) and never doubting yourself! fact ballet is probably what has kept her in such good health! she makes me cry when ever she sings!

[theamazingsoter]

@MsRisingphoenix She was partially blind here, yet she managed to do all those amazing pirouettes and fouettés... never mind about the haters (or should I say ignorami?) - sometimes it's better to just ignore the comments of such idiots.

[MsRisingphoenix]

you know the funny part of this is? I bet all the people posting the hater comments and don't even dance!!!!! lol I think she's off axis because of the shoes themselves, you they make pointe shoe more stable now than they did way back in the 50's & 60's.

[jubah]

the male dancer is actually quite good too!

[MrTurytury]

This film was taken in 1968 by Eduardo Manet at Cubanacan Studios and I am one of dancers appearing in the back, at the end of Alicia's Black Swan.....

She was 48 years old and almost blind; at that age most dancers are already

retired....Maya Plisetskaya, Margot Fonteyn, Lupe Serrano, Maria Tallchief , Yvette

Chauvire and many others could not dance with such a brilliant technique as

Mme Alonso did at that time.....

She always was a legend and she will be forever and ever.....!!!!!!

Bravo!!!!

[madrid117]

viva cuba , viva alicia

[fayebrown88]

To those talking about the axis...it called balance and the Cubans own it. You are an idiot if you think this is 2011 it's the 1950's and she was amazing. I bet you guys thought Black Swan was amazing...Stupidos

[jessDance00]

Alicia alonso was partially blind and though she did those 6 pirouettes at the begining .. WOW!!!!!!!!!!

[CMGGOttawa]

@nicktesla45 The answer you deserve is a sounded raspberry. Beyond any doubt, you are a half-witted ignoramus. All what you are achieving with such ill-intentioned comments is to nourish your mediocrity. She was the absolute best of her time. I know this reply is a waste of my time and you do not even deserve a reply, but, you better stop distilling your vile jalousie and hatred. Cubans are and will be the finest dancers on the world. That is reality, as you, a POISONOUS STINKY VIPER.