Top Fifteen Female Ballet Variations
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- Опубліковано 21 січ 2021
- An updated version of my top fifteen female ballet variations! As always here we are ranking the choreography, not the dancer. And also we will never all agree! Let me know what you think in the comments, or if you have recommendations for other videos!
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The magic thing about Osipova is that she so completely manages to be a miracle of dance on the bottom and totally, utterly human on the top. It makes her so appealing and real at the same time as being utterly superb.
Hard to believe how many incredible dancers there are today. The competition is insane.
Marianela Nuñez Maravillosa!!!!!!!!!!!
And the beauty is it is not a competition.
it is not a competition ☺️
Instead of a competition, I think of it as a beautiful community 💖
I had never seen the Tatiana variation before but my goodness it’s so expressive and beautiful. I didn’t even know the story of Onegin at all but I could tell so much just by the variation. The choreography is amazing, and Nina did such an incredible job at expressing Tatiana’s frustration and telling the story through her dancing
Giselle’s Act I variation is my favorite!! Giselle is my ballet dream role!
There's a video of Iana Selenko floating around YT that's one of the best I've ever seen, esp with the arabesques at the beginning---perfect control and beautiful working through the foot coming down from pointe.
@@minissa2009 I love Iana Selenko!! I’ve seen the video before!
@@brackthomasfischer6139 I was introduced to her only a year or so ago---it was Corsaire or some other showpiece pdd given by Dance Open, and I loaded it mainly to see Vasiliev. She does everything well and has technique, musicality, and elegance. There's even footage of her rehearsing the pdd from Theme and Variations, and she looks good doing Balanchine!
@@minissa2009 Iana is gorgeous:). But the one to beat is always going to be the great Gelsey Kirkland, who achieves things with this variation that seem impossible: ua-cam.com/video/_-Tgfx5jFkI/v-deo.html
@@kdub10009 I didn't know that footage existed! Thank you so much. I only ever got to see her act 1, and it was during her downward spiral. Something happened and Cynthia Harvey came out for act 2. She had such incredible control and lyricism. Is there footage of her act 2?
Thank you!
00:00 No.15 Giselle Act 1 variation, Giselle
01:35 No.14 Jewels: Emerald variation. Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande. 2 Andantino quasi allegretto
02:45 No.13 Angela variation, No.11 Marco Spada
03:52 Sylvia variation, Sylvia
I've never seen Sofiane Sylve before. She danced the Sleeping Beauty Dream scene so Enchantingly! LOVELY SELECTION OF WORLD CLASS BALLERINAS DANCING BEAUTIFUL VARIATIONS. THANK YOU! 💖💙💖💙💖
They were all amazing but #9 made me stand up. So graceful. Beautiful 👑
I love the white swan and that or the black swan is only one of my dream roles
WOW!! What a great compilation of ballerinas! Some truly fabulous performances. Osipova is the one for me tho, every time!
Amazing group of dancers! They set the bar extremely high! Very Beautiful ❤️
Olesya Novikova....completely underrated🙂
All so very special in their own ways, I loved every one of them.💓💓💓
They are all amazing!!!! I love ballet
Just beautiful!
I really love all of these dancers
I love Nina Kaptsova!
Bouder and Cojocaru are my favorites.
And the always great Sofiane Sylve; I just wouldn’t have chosen this variation/choreography as the best example of her (frankly astonishing) talents. Also Tiler Peck is among those conspicuously missing from this collection (as much as I love Bouder, no one compares to Peck in the Tchai Pas variation).
In matter of choice of No 1 ... I agree - it's from La Bayadere (the most beautiful ballet I ever have seen). I agree - it's Gamzatti 's one (my favourite character - no way a villain)... but definitely different variation. I prefer so called "temple variation" from the last act. Maybe less choreographically complex, but with what an incredible emotional load. It is not enough to dance it technically well ... here you have to convey the drama of the situation. Here is link to this variation, performed by same ballerina (Nunez) :
ua-cam.com/video/AbvAeT3K5fY/v-deo.html
Nunez was one of the best in this, but I also really love her Nikiya. Dating myself here, but I was in NYC when this premiered and Cynthia Gregory danced Gamzatti. I think the music here is John Lanchberry {best dance conductor ever} and it's Makarova's choreography. Still my favorite production ever!
very good group of dancers 👏
Brava! 👏
¡ Qué maravilla !
Muchas gracias
👍your perrotmance is so beauiful! Thank you for sharing. ❤
Natalia Osipova es la mejor bailarina actualmente
Esa es su opinión. Para mi lo es Marianela Nuñez
Love ballet
Marianela Núñez
Amazing Osipova, the best. Блистательная,неподражаемая,не могу насмотреться.
I actually felt that she was the least pleasing to watch among the whole group, and have always found her wildly overrated. But to each his/her own opinion.
@@kdub10009 really?, she's my favorite after Zakharova because of how strong, yet graceful she is. The modern dancers who are strong aren't graceful, in my opinion, but Osipova is both and has amazing naturally expressive face
I really love to dance with orchestra and ballet
Buenisimas Todasssdd!!!!!!!
Osipiva is the best way up
Невероятный!
Than you for this compilation. They are all magnificent ballerinas, both technically and artistically, but I have to admit that if I had to single in out one ballerina she would be Myriam Ould-Braham
giselle has always been my dream ballet role and one day i wish to acheive it
I so hope you do 🩰🩰🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
That Aurora Dream Variation choreography is so lame compared to the versions usually performed by the French and Russians :-) It's always a bummer for me when I hear the start of that beautiful piece, to then have it lead into that dull choreography.
IKR? I've had other balletomaniacs argue with me that it was written as a pas d'action so it's more important that it advance the plot, but as someone who's both danced and choreographed, that music *begs* for sumptuous choreography rather than the little game of hide and seek with Lilac and the nymphs.
@@minissa2009 The music is incredible for Aurora to flow through and interact with, as if in a dream or vision of deeper meaning. The overly repetitious choreography wastes that. Would love to see many RoH dancers perform the other version.
@@dominusmaximus7665 Have you seen one specific version of the choreo that is standard from company to company? I remember an old Kirov production with Kolpakova that used this very dance-able music for dancing, but I wasn't sure it was standardized in any way, and I think current Mariinsky uses something similar but not the same. I think most Western productions are based on what Nicholas Sergeyev brought over from Russia. I wonder if, like the White acts in Swan Lake, it would have looked different if Ivanov had choreographed. Most of SB's music was so scripted it seems odd that Tchaikovsky produced this music if what Petipa told him was "Music for the Lilac Fairy to introduce Desire to Aurora and see if he really loves her plus they play hide and seek with some dryads." lols!
@@minissa2009 The closest I've seen to a standard is what's usually performed by Bolshoi and Mariinsky, and the similar Paris Opera Nureyev style. Whatever parent choreography these two similar versions stem from seems to be a standard. Do you know that history?
@@dominusmaximus7665 I thought I did but please tell me?
You need to watch any variation from Viengsay Valdez from Cuba.
Marianela Nuñez is technique, sense and sensibility.
My Mama said I will dance like that in Heaven for Jesus Christ ❤️
Me too I hope! 🥰
@@newcreationstudios You sure will if JESUS CHRIST is your Lord and Savior! Hope to see you in Heaven!
@@sarahfarr272 You too! Thank you!!
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Hard working
Very nice, although my preferred Sylvia is still Balanchine's. Interesting to see bits of two Ashton ballets choreographed for Fonteyn---the sheer speed of some of the footwork always amazes. And I only know this because I just watched it in the last half hour, but "Gamzatti's" variation is actually from a film of the Corsaire pdd (look at the costume) . I don't know why RB sometimes uses the Gamzatti music rather than the other two (one from the Don Q vision scene) more commonly used. Thank you for introducing me to Sofiane Sylve, she's extraordinary. And for including so many of my favorite ballerinas who are currently dancing, from Bouder to Obravtsova and yes, the hugely underrated Novikova.
Yes, I did cheat a bit with the Gamzatti variation, but it was the only non-Royal-Ballet-with-their-vigourous-copywrite version of Nunez that I could easily find!
@@SuperBalletgirl101 Good point. They and the Bolshoi can be really prickly. They relaxed a bit with CoVid but I haven't seen much from them in the past month or two. Your compilations are always a pleasure! (How about pdd codas?)
@@minissa2009 Definitely have been considering that one!
@@SuperBalletgirl101 Moscow Classical came through here a number of years ago and did one piece that was just codas from a bunch of showy gpdd. It was a lot of fun (they also did most of The Creation of the World, which was charming.)
Same here, Balanchine’s is my favorite version by a mile.
Natalia Osipova
Then novokova
How did Kitri act 1 not make the list???
Exactly
sylvia variation s music is from pissicato
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS ANGELA VARIATION. THE VIDEO HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN SINCE FOREVER
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Aurora's last variation no. 11 ???
Natalia Osipova es lam
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Только русские балерины демонстрируют классический балет таким, каким он должен и оставаться. Техника не несет красоту у других.
الواحد عايز يتعلم باليه يتعلمه ازاي
Decent top, but i would have done something pretty different.
Making a list of top female ballet variations and not including Zakharova...poor choises
The variation for Giselle in the first act should immediately be erased from everyone's memory. What a useless piece of choreography. No ballerina has ever made it look like a bit of dance worth watching. Especially that Marianella Nunez. What a shocking bore!
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