These dancers are VERY good - best baroque era period style dancing I've seen so far (and I tend to watch this stuff). Their ensemble timing is something most modern dance companies could learn something from.
Very beautiful performance , for those complaining that it must performed by men : well originally la folia is a dance that was danced to by women and they start moving according to the tempo of the music ,when it speeds up they start moving so fast to the point that they look like * fools * .
Wow - these women are such great dancers - to have five of them together! I'm not nuts about the costumes - references to La Camargo are often not done as well as they could be and the straps over one of the gold gowns strikes me as unpleasantly clownish. I'm reasonably sure that La Follia was choreographed for women as well as for men. I think at least one version is a female solo. And I'm almost positive Feuillet choreoed variations for men and for women. I'd love to know who did the choreo for this group arrangement. Very stirking and musical.
In Baroque, the steps are sometimes counterpoised to the music. There are also interstitial steps that do not necessarily fall 'on the beat' or bridge the beats. And telling a dancer to "Follow the music" is...well....not done. The dance and the music are in conversation with each other, the dancer is not, nor should they be, enslaved to the music.
I know nothing about baroque dance, so I have no way of knowing if this is good or bad. It seems like they used arm movements too much at the beginning of the dance. Most dances have movements that are euphemisms for activities we do in everyday life. For example, the greeks do dance moves that imitate real fisherman pushing their nets through water. This baroque dance with the many arm movements makes the women look like they are pulling taffy or winding thread on their arms.
In Baroque dance, the hand and arm gestures are very specifically prescribed. These are among the best I've seen (agree with T.Villamotte above; I, also, watch a lot of this work). Greek folk dance does indeed involve mimetic work movements, and that's germane to the style and period of dance that those works come from. Baroque dancers work from the most specifically detailed instructions in dance history up to that time, and in this group the accuracy and speed of arm and hand transitions, as the sources require, is very precise. It's good for all of us to recognize that there are areas we know something about, and other areas where we don't--welcome to the world of seeing dance, and trying to figure out what you're seeing while you're looking at it, and learning to enjoy different styles. I hope you keep looking and thinking and learning!
La choregraphie ne correspond pas a la musique. Celle-ci est vive , rapide, gaie , enjouee... Autant la danse est molle, triste et ne correpond pas, a mon sens , a cette musique !
merci
These dancers are VERY good - best baroque era period style dancing I've seen so far (and I tend to watch this stuff). Their ensemble timing is something most modern dance companies could learn something from.
Marche vers la cérémonie turque d'après la pièce de Molière Le Bourgeois gentilhomme et Les Folies d'Espagne écrites par Jean-Baptiste Lully
Потрясающее исполнение, великолепное, блестяще ....прекрасно!!!
Hermoso!!!
Very beautiful performance , for those complaining that it must performed by men : well originally la folia is a dance that was danced to by women and they start moving according to the tempo of the music ,when it speeds up they start moving so fast to the point that they look like * fools * .
Magnifique ❤❤❤❤❤
La musique est de Jean Baptiste LULLY
Very exciting and beautiful! Great production of choreography and scenography, admirations for this video! Thanks!
Splendide les filles !
Les filles de ballet ❤️
Absolutamente hermoso
I am not a baroque dance specialist but this is lovely even if it's performed by women and ALLA DANZA is a grat companie!!
I meant greAt!
Many thanks for the compliment! :-)
Блестяще
Que maravilla
--a lovely way to use this choreography!
This is so beautiful!! I might use it as reference for an animation project! Wonderful! Thank you for this beauty
Mesmerizing peformance.
Wow - these women are such great dancers - to have five of them together! I'm not nuts about the costumes - references to La Camargo are often not done as well as they could be and the straps over one of the gold gowns strikes me as unpleasantly clownish. I'm reasonably sure that La Follia was choreographed for women as well as for men. I think at least one version is a female solo. And I'm almost positive Feuillet choreoed variations for men and for women. I'd love to know who did the choreo for this group arrangement. Very stirking and musical.
Que belo!!!!!
They are in a world of their own. How about following the music?
In Baroque, the steps are sometimes counterpoised to the music. There are also interstitial steps that do not necessarily fall 'on the beat' or bridge the beats. And telling a dancer to "Follow the music" is...well....not done. The dance and the music are in conversation with each other, the dancer is not, nor should they be, enslaved to the music.
Несказанно красиво во всех аспектах.
👍👍👍😊
Wow! Nice to know Baroque Dance is a thing. I thought it was a dead dance form.
Hermoso
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Who are the musicians? Is it Capella Regia?
Very beautiful but what we are missing is the other half. the male partner in the dance. I always find it easier with a partner
I know nothing about baroque dance, so I have no way of knowing if this is good or bad. It seems like they used arm movements too much at the beginning of the dance. Most dances have movements that are euphemisms for activities we do in everyday life. For example, the greeks do dance moves that imitate real fisherman pushing their nets through water. This baroque dance with the many arm movements makes the women look like they are pulling taffy or winding thread on their arms.
In Baroque dance, the hand and arm gestures are very specifically prescribed. These are among the best I've seen (agree with T.Villamotte above; I, also, watch a lot of this work). Greek folk dance does indeed involve mimetic work movements, and that's germane to the style and period of dance that those works come from. Baroque dancers work from the most specifically detailed instructions in dance history up to that time, and in this group the accuracy and speed of arm and hand transitions, as the sources require, is very precise.
It's good for all of us to recognize that there are areas we know something about, and other areas where we don't--welcome to the world of seeing dance, and trying to figure out what you're seeing while you're looking at it, and learning to enjoy different styles. I hope you keep looking and thinking and learning!
La choregraphie ne correspond pas a la musique. Celle-ci est vive , rapide, gaie , enjouee... Autant la danse est molle, triste et ne correpond pas, a mon sens , a cette musique !