4 TEMPERAMENTS (NYC Ballet 1964 Canadian filming)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The dancers are in order,
1st Theme: Carol Sumner and William Weslow
2nd Theme: Marnee Morris and Earle Sieveling
3rd Theme: Suki Schorer and Ramon Segarra
MELANCHOLIC: Richard Rapp
SANGUINIC: Pat Wilde and Anthony Blum
PHLEGMATIC: Arthur Mitchell
CHOLERIC: Patricia Neary
This is the exact version I learned when Boston Ballet premiered this in the late 60's...did all themes then phlegmatic from then on....a joy forever !
Clifford you are a master...Balanchine should be very proud of you...giving us lost or forgotten masterpiece
So wonderful to see my ballet teacher , Ramon Segarra, in this historic dance film. What a gem of a piece. All the dancing is extraordinary.
I'm currently reading and enjoying the Homans Balanchine biography. That led me to search out The Four Temperaments, which I haven't seen in years. An amazing ballet.
This is priceless. Thank you John Clifford. My mother was in Ballet Society and in the world premiere of this masterpiece ballet. November 20, 1946 at the Central High School of Needle Trades, NYC. My mom continued on into the first couple seasons of NYCB as well. Danced opening night in Symphony in C at City Center. October 11, 1949.
What was your mother’s name? Very cool!
Mary Jean Golden (Hamilton). 1925-2016
Ciò che colpisce maggiormente in questo balletto è la ricerca costante delle positure figurali alcune delle quali con carattere di novità SENSIBILE.Molto bravi Tutti.Bighin GIULIO RENZO
W O W. How can we thank John Clifford enough for giving us this. I have been an avid balletomane for 55 years. I wait a whole lifetime to see this greatness of Balanchine. THANK YOU BEYOND WORDS.
Fabulous in every way - thank you!!!
I've never seen Four Temperaments danced with such playfulness and what I'll call "humanity" for lack of a better word. The company now is technically very strong but they don't move me, even in beloved Balanchine works like Symphony in C. They're more athletes than dancers. But this 1964 4T's is a joy!
Sometimes I wonder if it is the idea that the works are so sacred they're terrified of "putting a foot wrong". After all in many quarters there are complaints of things being too much this or not enough that no matter what they do.
Good point.
I guess the NYCB in Montreal. With (Theme) Carol Sumner, William Weslow, Marnee Morris, Earle Sieveling, Suki Schorer, Ramon Segarra ; (Melancholic) Richard Rapp, Kay Mazzo, Bethijane Sills ; (Sanguinic) Patricia Wilde, Anthony blum ; (Phlegmatic) Arthur Mitchell ; (Choleric) Patricia Neary More info : search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6509090
This is beauty beyond any words that I know!
The tempo and skill and technique and ‘quality’ of the musicians and dancers is incomparable!
Today everything is fast and furious and athletic and without thought behind anything.
Thank you, thank you, John Clifford for bring into the present the most wonderful past, for bringing to life some of my fondest memories of NYCB.
Today will go down in history with these posts!
What deep joy. I saw this quite a few this in the early 1960's but never from this angle. Usually from the second balcony. This is dancing,for real. Many thanks.
This ballet! So mystical. So strange and beautiful.
Thank you John Clifford. Thank you so very much.
Stunning!
OMG Arthur Mitchell.
Now that's DANCING!!!!
Thank you so much!!! it is passionating to see again all this ballet!!!
This was fantastic! There was a loose, wild energy to this cast that is completely missing from dancers today. I wonder what the change between then and now is.
Peter Martins has a different esthetic.
Yes, he does. He has tried to meld old world classicism with Balanchine's neo-classical. While it looks beautiful and composed, like watching Greek statues come to life. It doesn't have the heart I see in this clip. I do see remnants of that energy in works coached by dancers who are not in the NYCB universe anymore. But without a pulpit, without the original company, their efforts will be lost.
Kerry Takashi Yes I was thinking the same thing, that loose and wild energy is missing from todays dancers. This was wonderful.
Martins runs the company according to his own tastes. Why he prevents other Balanchine dancers from coaching , I don't know. Balanchine had some idea that his company would change after him and did nothing to prevent it. Otherwise he would have requested Farrell be made AD or Kent or any of the other female dancers he favored.
Kerry Takashi Lincoln said Balanchine wanted to take it with him. Don't forget his brain was slowly going for three years before he actually died. It was Lincoln's decision about Peter.
Dear John Clifford, thank you, thank you, thank you so much for sharing this. I think I've never seen such a committed and powerful 4Ts! I always thought the Choleric part was not much interesting... until today! So much power and wonderful dancing by Patricia Neary!
I live in Buenos Aires and I keep great memories of your work here.
Wow! Pat Wilde makes that quick foot work look easy-breezey. Thank you so much for posting this.
I can't stop watching this its so beautiful.
This is better technique than most modern professional ballerinas
Oh my gosh the Phlegmatic section with Arthur Mitchell ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yes, I echo what others have posted, thank you thank you for this marvelous document of one the great Balanchine ballets danced by a gold standard cast! LOVE LOVE!
Funny how even if your feet arent great or your body isnt feline you can still can be a great dancer. There are some ballets of Balanchine where I go OMG he IS a genuis. This is one of them. Concerto Barrocco is another.
Who can dislike this? What is wrong with people?!
Fantastic! Masterpiece of a ballet! Loved seeing Wilde & Neary! Thanks for posting!
The beauty of this brings me to tears.
I love this version.
Thrilling.
Excellent performance! I especially liked the soloists in Sanguinic and Choleric. Nicely filmed, too.
Priceless! Thank you for posting!
A group of four girls always doing something weird in this ballet! 😄
You call it weird. I call it fascinating, innovative, genius.
@@jcliff26 Absolutely! I was just making a joke through a naif's lens. But I'm a 4T fanatic since seeing it for the first time 50+ years ago. ! I just saw it here in Phoenix the other night and plan to see it once more this weekend.
Our company in Phoenix is led by Ib Anderson, and he's improved the company immeasurably. But when I compare performances with videos of NYCB, what always strikes me is that certain details get lost, that are quite distinct in NYCB. For instance in Sanguinic, the girl's solo during the second theme ends with a squat-like pose with the arms down and back behind her. It's as if other dancers run out of time. I could list countess other examples. Is this largely a matter of the speed of NYCB dancers? By the way, Bart Cook's Melancholic has spoiled me for any other performance I've come across!
@@dennischiapello3879 ua-cam.com/video/H3H-0b3JRTs/v-deo.html. Balanchine coached me in this and only had me dance it while was in the company.
@@jcliff26 Thank's so much for showing me this! Beautiful performance! No doubt Mr. B was pleased! Melancholic strikes me as one of the most emotionally expressive dances he made. (And the 4 girls are scary!)
I was there in Montreal at the taping of this at radio Canada. T.v.station
so great. Carol is wonderful. all of them :-). love how he does the Melancholic solo. wow. and is that kay Mazzo as one of the 2 Demi soloists in it. ?
I so wish the dancers were listed here. And the piano soloist. This is without a doubt the definitive record of this masterpiece.
I've just listed all their names. I thought they were already in the opening credits. The pianist is listed in the opening credits.
@@jcliff26 Thank you so much.
Thanks so much. A great work, inexhaustible. Great that you put it up. Thanks.
This video leaves me kind of flabbergasted and in shock, because I think my interpretation of Flegmatic was completely wrong ! I was a dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, in 1966 John Taras came to put on Four Temperaments, and he gave me Flegmatic to dance. I was still in the corps the ballet, the year before Kurt Jooss chose me to dance Death in his Green Table, after Flegmatic I became a principal dancer. I Always thought I danced Flegmatic really well, Hector Zaraspe gave me great compliments when he saw me doing the role, however, now I am not sure at all ! In my company Flegmatic was owned by my collega Reuven voorembergh, he was greatly admired in that role, I however did not like his interpretation, i thought he was too feminine and sissy like, so I danced as sec and athletic possible. Last year I saw a video of the Bosten Ballet, and now this one, with Arthur Mitchell dancing it in the way Balanchine wanted, boy, turns out I had no idea what I was doing ! Why did Taras allow me to do it my way on stage, he came back a few years later, he never told me my conception was not right ! I doubt if I would have been able to do it the way it was supposed to be, although I am gay, I Always worked on stage as great and strong as possible. Oh well, I know the Earth will keep on turning, evenso I feel funny watching this video !
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Such pure movements 💕💕🎶🎶
This is the one
Wow !
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Who's the conductor? Irving? the music really breathes. Boelzner is wonderful....
YES.
This is AMAZING! Thank you so much for posting this!!
I've always wanted to see Patricia Wilde dance. And Arthur Mitchell!
Can you tell us, is it Carol Sumner in the first Theme? Suki Schorer in the 3rd Theme?
Yes...you got it.
That is made before I was born in 1973.
Who are the stars in this performance?
Patricia Wilde in Sanguinic?
Yes indeed!
the second girl had such little feet !
r u the dark haired guy that comes out after the first couple at about 3:05
Nope. This was before I joined the company.
So who made you take down all the other videos?
Barbara Steinberg Don’t understand. What’s been taken down?
John, I made a mistake. I thought I didn't see some videos I was looking for from my favorites list, which I thought everything you have put up was on. But I was wrong. They are still here. I have favorited them now. Apologies.
Who are the dancers, please?
They are listed in the beginning on that other video I posted.
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