I have not seen this variation before and this was lovely. Quite a technical piece too. I love how much control she has over her extensions and turns. Quite beautiful to watch.
Damaris Muñoz Her shoes are fine, they obviously aren’t the best, but many dancers have their preferences with pointe shoes when it comes to a show or a competition. Like for example, I wear Bloch European Balance Strong Shank normally in class, but when it comes to shows or competitions I wear Gaynor Mindens in green bag. I’m not trying to be mean! I really don’t want you to think that I’m a know it all or a mean person, but I just wanted to maybe let you know. 💓💓😁
mrlopez2681 my princess, the right tempo for dance is not the one that you get in iTunes, the right tempo will be with the orchestra in live, but that is imposible in competitions. Focus on the goods job that this girls is doing and try to do something like this.
+Gypsy Hall Princess?? LOL!! :) The modern-day preference of ballet dancers for sluggish tempo (what the kids today call "performance speed") is one of the main reasons why ballet is becoming more & more a sport than an art. Today it is, in many ways, an art of posing, into another pose, into another, with the only "dancing" that takes place occurring during the transitions into other poses. Most people don't realize that many ballet dancers really don't "dance".
If you've ever been to the Kirov in St Petersburg or to the Bolshoi in Moscow, you'd know that this is the original, correct tempo, as it was composed and performed in it's first iteration. The technique required not only to perform at the slower tempi but to "pose" while executing the en pointe tours and leaps, is what defines a true artist. Yes, you'll see some of the current great ballerinas performing this, and other classic roles in much quicker tempi, but you will also see them performing these same roles in the original tempi. When you do see the two variants, I believe that you'll finally come to understand the technical prowess, grace, elegance and brilliance which comes from the dancer(s) who have mastered their craft and doing so in the original, slower tempi.
Léon Pluymaekers This sluggish tempo has nothing to do with "art" & everything to do with these increasingly long dancers who have poor petit allegro & are unable to manage fast tempo, something Balanchine himself would have never allowed, Petipa & Fokine as well.There is notation of these variations from Petersburg at the turn-of-the-20th century, some recorded while Petipa himself took Anna Pavlova through rehearsal circa 1904 for Paquita as well as Giselle, & I can assure you this tempo is NOT correct. There are metronome markings on these notations. Regarding the music, I have sheet music & orchestral parts of many of these pas, variations, etc. dating from the late 19th century. Some in published form, & others that are copies in the form of violin or piano répétiteurs from the Imperial Ballet's rehearsal scores. Just because the music is coming out of the Mariinsky or Bolshoi Theatre's orchestra pit at a certain speed does not mean that it is automatically correct, especially not from the Bolshoi, who do not even have in their possession the original orchestral parts for many of the old pieces, particularly those penned by Pugni, Minkus & especially by Drigo. Even some of their scores for Tchaikovsky's ballets have missing orchestration. The Mariinsky is the only theatre in the world to have any authentic orchestration, but their dancers ignore musically designated tempi and it has gotten slower & slower in the last 30-40 years,. This variation is the bonafide original solo for the Prima ballerina in the Grand pas of Paquita. It is by MInkus, & the dancer here is utilizing Spassov's recording of it. She has slowed the music down by at least half, & it is most certainly NOT the "original, correct" tempo.
This Is so amazing, I am doing this variation and I had been looking for someone on UA-cam that is not scout Forsyth that does this variatio!!!
just PLEASE dont slow the music down to this absurd tempo! ;)
maravilhosa
I have not seen this variation before and this was lovely. Quite a technical piece too. I love how much control she has over her extensions and turns. Quite beautiful to watch.
You need to get othwr type of pointe shoes
Damaris Muñoz Her shoes are fine, they obviously aren’t the best, but many dancers have their preferences with pointe shoes when it comes to a show or a competition. Like for example, I wear Bloch European Balance Strong Shank normally in class, but when it comes to shows or competitions I wear Gaynor Mindens in green bag. I’m not trying to be mean! I really don’t want you to think that I’m a know it all or a mean person, but I just wanted to maybe let you know. 💓💓😁
sounds like this girl gave the techs at this competition a bunch of Valium. What a horribly slow tempo. Yuck,.
mrlopez2681 lol!!! It is incredible how you can not high your jealousy
mrlopez2681 my princess, the right tempo for dance is not the one that you get in iTunes, the right tempo will be with the orchestra in live, but that is imposible in competitions.
Focus on the goods job that this girls is doing and try to do something like this.
+Gypsy Hall
Princess?? LOL!! :)
The modern-day preference of ballet dancers for sluggish tempo (what the kids today call "performance speed") is one of the main reasons why ballet is becoming more & more a sport than an art. Today it is, in many ways, an art of posing, into another pose, into another, with the only "dancing" that takes place occurring during the transitions into other poses. Most people don't realize that many ballet dancers really don't "dance".
If you've ever been to the Kirov in St Petersburg or to the Bolshoi in Moscow, you'd know that this is the original, correct tempo, as it was composed and performed in it's first iteration. The technique required not only to perform at the slower tempi but to "pose" while executing the en pointe tours and leaps, is what defines a true artist. Yes, you'll see some of the current great ballerinas performing this, and other classic roles in much quicker tempi, but you will also see them performing these same roles in the original tempi. When you do see the two variants, I believe that you'll finally come to understand the technical prowess, grace, elegance and brilliance which comes from the dancer(s) who have mastered their craft and doing so in the original, slower tempi.
Léon Pluymaekers
This sluggish tempo has nothing to do with "art" & everything to do with these increasingly long dancers who have poor petit allegro & are unable to manage fast tempo, something Balanchine himself would have never allowed, Petipa & Fokine as well.There is notation of these variations from Petersburg at the turn-of-the-20th century, some recorded while Petipa himself took Anna Pavlova through rehearsal circa 1904 for Paquita as well as Giselle, & I can assure you this tempo is NOT correct. There are metronome markings on these notations.
Regarding the music, I have sheet music & orchestral parts of many of these pas, variations, etc. dating from the late 19th century. Some in published form, & others that are copies in the form of violin or piano répétiteurs from the Imperial Ballet's rehearsal scores. Just because the music is coming out of the Mariinsky or Bolshoi Theatre's orchestra pit at a certain speed does not mean that it is automatically correct, especially not from the Bolshoi, who do not even have in their possession the original orchestral parts for many of the old pieces, particularly those penned by Pugni, Minkus & especially by Drigo. Even some of their scores for Tchaikovsky's ballets have missing orchestration. The Mariinsky is the only theatre in the world to have any authentic orchestration, but their dancers ignore musically designated tempi and it has gotten slower & slower in the last 30-40 years,.
This variation is the bonafide original solo for the Prima ballerina in the Grand pas of Paquita. It is by MInkus, & the dancer here is utilizing Spassov's recording of it. She has slowed the music down by at least half, & it is most certainly NOT the "original, correct" tempo.
Amazing.
Beautifull *^*
Amanda did so well
i hate the music
Beautiful!