If you enjoyed this film about Aurélie Dupont, you’re going to love our documentary on Angelin Preljocaj, the visionary choreographer redefining the world of dance! Featuring exclusive interviews with icons like Kaori Ito, Jean Paul Gaultier, and even Aurélie herself, this is a must-watch for any dance enthusiast! 👉ua-cam.com/video/2u9eVqjOYrU/v-deo.html
My god, to see Aurelie stop due to the pain in her feet during rehearsal was intense. The dedication and mental/physical toughness of ballet dancers is just astonishing. And then, to have a child and return to the stage in such a short time just blows my mind. Total respect.
Not only is Miss Dupont an accomplished prima ballerina and way up there on my list of ultimate favourites, but she is also positively adorable. So enjoyed this video. Am so envious of those who've had the opportunity to see her perform in person--alas, that was not to be. Thank you for posting--much appreciated.
Riveting documentary - completely honest about the hard work, dedication, suffering and challenges involved in dancing at the highest level while juggling motherhood and professional responsibilities. Thank you for uploading.
What an absolutely exceptional montage that was an utter joy to watch. The editing on this was fantastic, the way it flowed between the past and the present. I loved every second of it, and I even moreso loved that it didn't have an annoying narrator talking over the entire thing. The music flowing between the scenes was all it needed. Bravo!
Absolutely loved everything in this video. The clips of her as a young dancer; how she evolved; the rehearsals; the costume changes; her partners. Up close and personal…just a beautiful documentary. Thank you.
I recently pointed out to a (male) huge sports fan the reality that ballet dancers train for *decades* just on a hope and a prayer they’ll get a job with their art someday. We pay sports people a lot of money-and rightfully so as their careers are short lived. So are those of dancers. And if they even can find a position their remuneration is so awful no wonder they remain so thin. *THESE PEOPLE DESERVE MASSIVE RESPECT AND A HUGE PAY RAISE.*
I always love rehearsals in the casual clothing more than the dramatic beautiful outfits in the performance. I like to see them learning from their errors and the teaching style of the instructors.
Totally agree! One can see how, little by little, they give exact shape and rhythm to each movement until it's perfect. I feel there is something super intimate about this footage 🤗🤗
I am so relieved to know that I am not the only one who feels this way! Once a student of classical ballet and also part-time instructor, but most importantly someone who has been in love with the ballet for as long as I can remember, over the years I have been innately drawn towards observing ballet classes and rehearsals over performances. I find them to be more fulfilling, more intimate, more educational, more real. Most people find this predilection of mine to be a bit peculiar. So it's wonderful to have this validation -- TYVM! : )
As a former classical and jazz dancer I find it alarming that in all the years Ive known dance I have not had one, 1! that's right ONE instructor that has focused enough on how the breath should be incorporated into dance. With out attention to the breath, most dancers do tricks but never really dance. Each piece should be crafted first around the breath and when it comes in and when it goes out and the quality of the breath, deep, shallow, quick, slow or sporadic. This is a huge failure in dance teaching and exists because like abuse or archaic philosophy, breathing is not taught completely in any dance school no matter how grand. Even the Russians and the French do not focus on the breath. Only on the technique, energy and quality of the movement.
I was taught to use the breath for the movement….. dance ,fitness ,yoga , strength training ,etc….. thank goodness it kept me out of the hospital while I was having my first panic attack and I didn’t know what was wrong……
ABSOLUTELY! I am a ballet pianist and it is an issue for pianists or other musicians too. But for dancers it is crucial. Finally I heard about it from someone, thank you! I even ask about breathing lessons, cause I understand how it is important. As for musician, you can’t go to the top of your performance,like competition or recital, if you can’t breathe properly.
Such as in life... Once again art imitates life and life imitates art. Breath work should be taught along with meditation techniques in early childhood development, ages 0-5yrs old. I believe this would change humanity.
Magnifique documentaire. Les images, le montage sont exceptionnels. On reste scotchés. Les danseurs ont une force de caractère hors du commun. Et bien sur Aurelie est superbe de grâce et de courage.
❤❤❤ magnifique hommage à la danse, le ballet de l‘opéra de paris et à aurélie dupont ! montre sans dramatiser presque tous les aspects d‘une carrière de danse sans dramatiser….. bravo ! grand plaisir de revoir manu legris, clotilde vayer, laurent hilaire, gilbert mayer et tant d‘autres qui ont marqué le ballet de l’opéra de paris ! inclus biensur brigitte lefèvre…. ❤❤❤
This documentary tears open the wound of all (dream)dancers, which is sutured with the art and dedication of Aurélie Dupont and Manuel Legris. We will always love you.
beaucoup d'emotions à vous voir nous enchanter tout en endurant la gravité...je suis admirative: quelle grace et quelle perseverance...tous mes compliments !
To all of the dancers who said that Aurelie was a bully in her role of the Paris Opera lead, I say to them, she did not expect anything from ANYONE that she was not willing to give and do, herself. She didn't expect even half as much. People going into the arts now have an entirely different mindset, and I'm not saying that one mindset is more correct than another, I'm just saying that Aurelie was NOT a bully, she was only leading through the same means that she had been taught, and trying to elevate the dancers to the quality she herself achieved
Completely correct. That is the old style of dance training and learning, which is no longer seen as acceptable, but it was the norm. I once trained with a Bolshoi teacher, and she used a stick, not gently, to make corrections. I once told my military drill sergeant that he wasn’t as tough as my ballet teacher… which was true… and he thought was rather funny. I think today’s methods, both physically and in terms of style, are more effective, but that was the tradition - one which I still encounter in dance from time to time.
@@TheravadinbutoThank you for uploading this comment. I am not a dancer, but I love watching ballet, and this insight helps me to appreciate just how amazing the dancers are.
Well, the new director, José Martinez, is of an even previous generation of POB dancers than Dupont and he doesn't have that reputation of being bully.
@@aliceswanderland That doesn't mean anything. Women who are assertive get called bitches, while men get called "Go-getters" etc. He could be a bully and have people just call him "passionate" or some other excuse. Women get criticism for the exact same things that men get praised for
@@sharrablackfire7337 I know and I thought the same, but then I remembered that POB had a former female director, Lefebvre, during many years, who wasn't always loved but brought the company to its best levels since Nureyev. And then they had Millepied, a man, who was very much hated by the dancers and the critics. Aurélie Dupont didn't do a good work, the standard of the company just dropped dramatically (or kept dropping). I agree sexism and mysoginy are everywhere, but here there might be other reasons for her to be criticized.
This is fantastic! I meant to see this when it was released (2010ish..) but ultimately forgot over the years. Wish I had made it to a performance - would have loved to see her dance The Four Temperaments most of all, Hindemith’s score is gorgeous and Aurelie must’ve made every moment of it beyond words. Thanks for the share!
DOCUMENTAIRE HYPER AUTHENTIQUE. OUI, ELLE FUME ET LES POINTES NE SONT PAS TERRIBLES. ET MALGRÉ TOUT ÇA , C’EST UN PORTRAIT DE LA MEILLEURE DE DANSE FRANÇAISE DE CETTE ÉPOQUE. ❤
Please, at 38:10, The Park, what is that beautiful music? I have heard it used somewhere else and it is just out of reach. I would great appreciate any help. Im a 655 year old lady from Massachusetts, USA and I can honestly saw this is one of the most beautiful, eye opening, documentaries I have viewed about Ballet. So different from what I view here. Aurelie's costume for Raymonda(Im angry I never heard of this before!), the headpiece alone, she looked so elegant, exotic. Thank you, thank you!
That blue satin gown is unreal ❤ the rate she has to costume change there was unbelievable, that could be a sport in itself, gurgling dance then quick change no chance to sip water even and back on stage, that is like running a marathon im sure
i think its very french to smoke, speaking as a french person.. its not the first time ive seen ballet dancers smoke either, so being one + being french, i guess its double the chances of one being a smoker
Yes, Perfection requires dedication, effort and, in many times, pain........gracias por interpretar tal sacrificio por tu arte.......Perfecto......una ilustración a las siguientes temporadas que nada es facil o heredado.....es ganado en el Arte y el esfuerzo.........oxoxxoxxoxoxo
Wow - the 14 costume changes are amazing and dance sequences are amazing . Questions - After such exhilarating and exhausting performances why doesn't the company have a shuttle service/ driver / designated vehicle to transport their dancers home, especially after major performances, so they don't have to walk exhausted to the closest transport hub? Is that the norm? I'm unfamiliar with the behind the scenes logistics of dancers & company.
They don’t call it a discipline for no reason. I don’t think ballet will look like this in the future. The discipline isn’t there the same way these dancers experienced. I doubt the performances will benefit from a different style of discipline but maybe ballet will “evolve” to something other than we know it to be today. We dont produce Mozarts, Chopins or Beethovens these days either but the best musicians study them so there must be value in discipline.
Re ballet I’m pretty sure that nothing has changed in the Bolchoï, just look up Natalia Ossipova now with the Royal Ballet in London. Re classical composers, listen to Lang Lang playing Yann Tiersen’s valse pour Amélie. Modern composers work for the movie industry as did Nino Rota (the Godfather).
You dont look far enough then. Ballet dancers are popping off on social medias and i will say their dancers in school seem to have way more range than actual companies.
Hugely gifted dancer that never fullfilled her early promise. Too much contemporary dance and the kind of Euro-trendy nonsense championed by Lefreve leads to endless injuries and erosion of technique in the classically trained body -- and Dupont was one of its victims. Thankfully the Opera now has a director who loves classical ballet and the future of the company is looking brighter than it has in years.
C’est Incroyable j’adore Aurélie! 😍 Mais quelqu’un peux me dire comment elle fume avant de danser?! C’est fou comme elle n’a pas de difficulté pour respirer! Je voudrais en savoir.
She was a beautiful dancer. The documentary is very well done . I would suggest to cut the cigarette scenes because they are bad example for the young people that have a tendency to copy everything.
It's honestly amazing how much the human body will adapt to anything. You'd think that a professional dancer wouldn't smoke to keep their polmonary capacity, but they don't care... And their body compensates somehow. Astonishing. Totally unhealthy, but astonishing
Physically beautiful with a face like an angel, dancers are horribly misunderstood when they want the highest standard of reaching for that always elusive perfection. To demand as much as she’s giving is a gift to other dancers and to herself. People used to complain about Nureyev n this way! He was not a slave driver despite losing his temper and demanding the very best out of his dancers with whom he danced and those under his tutelage at the POB. Never once did he demand more than he gave. Aurelie had just joined the company as Nureyev was leaving but he had a huge effect on the dancers and brought the POB into the finest world class company (leaving out Mariinsky and Bolshoi because their standards and system are very, very different.
Lisez son livre actuel et vous aurez une idée de l'atmosphère de l'Opera de Paris, c'est assez effrayant, et Claude Bessy n'est pas ce que vous croyez !!!!!
Why are you all being like this? Smoking is absolutely disgusting and repulsive to me, but I bet if she was drinking whiskey instead none of these comments would exist. People all have terrible habits that they indulge in. Clearly her smoking did not affect her 20+ years career, why is it so important to you?
I just am not moved by her, she has one emotion. Being honest. The Way she moves is nice, she executes the steps well. Just not the dancer I'm used to from the 60s and 70s and so on...
Every once in a while, I’ll have a dream where I’m on point without slippers it’s so weird. I haven’t danced since I think for 40 50 years. And I didn’t do much ballet at all, switched to Mexican folkloric and then flamenco. And you don’t use ballet slippers for either of them so why I have these dreams I have no clue, but I’m definitely dancing ballet without ballet slippers it’s and I have repetitive dreams doing this weird huh. Well, she certainly is an incredible dancer .
Why does she wear a jacket during practice? And long floppy pants? Just a question. I can’t imagine how difficult this must be. I’d be in tights and a leotard I’d I danced. This video is wonderful. Bravo to the team. ❤. Oh, and the one pant leg, and the other short? I don’t understand….thank you!
Dancers typically wear loose layers as they warm-up, removing them as their bodies and muscles warm and stretch. The one-leg-rolled-up is temperature adjustment- the knee left covered is a sign it might need a little more time, due to prior injury or sensitivity. Ballerina Sarah Lamb, for example, often keeps leg warmers on far into rehearsals with her leotard and tights, likely for similar reasons. Heading into 40 can also mean facing down hormone changes, which can include things like surprise joint pain and fatigue, so taking extra care and precautions are particularly important.
Being skinny, ballerina skinny, is very cold. You don't dance well when you're cold. I play piano and violin and my hands get frozen when I'm nervous, I have to literally warm them before I'm able to perform
She's working so hard with beautiful results. This is another film where to me it looks like the dancer had trouble with pointe shoes. Sometimes too flexible in front, and when the front is good, the backs are too low for the feet. I hope she gets a better fit soon.
5:42 ah, bien sur, elles fument, eh, ugh, I've never understood this, even when I was still dancing, it ruins the lung capacity, so many dancers when I was young once they went professional started smoking, and I'm sure it was partly peer pressure and to control their weight, and this was in California in the 1990s, man, it must've been worse in France
Ah bon dieu, of course someone will complain about smoking. It ruins much less lung capacity if you smoke a few here and there than what you'd ruin it you didn't have that, and I'm not talking about weight. The weight reduction is a nonsense for a few cigarettes. If anyone relies on smoking to manage weight, then you'll see such lung reduction, they won't last the morning course.
If you enjoyed this film about Aurélie Dupont, you’re going to love our documentary on Angelin Preljocaj, the visionary choreographer redefining the world of dance! Featuring exclusive interviews with icons like Kaori Ito, Jean Paul Gaultier, and even Aurélie herself, this is a must-watch for any dance enthusiast!
👉ua-cam.com/video/2u9eVqjOYrU/v-deo.html
My god, to see Aurelie stop due to the pain in her feet during rehearsal was intense. The dedication and mental/physical toughness of ballet dancers is just astonishing. And then, to have a child and return to the stage in such a short time just blows my mind. Total respect.
This was probably the best dance documentary I've ever seen. So brilliantly honest.
Not only is Miss Dupont an accomplished prima ballerina and way up there on my list of ultimate favourites, but she is also positively adorable. So enjoyed this video. Am so envious of those who've had the opportunity to see her perform in person--alas, that was not to be. Thank you for posting--much appreciated.
Riveting documentary - completely honest about the hard work, dedication, suffering and challenges involved in dancing at the highest level while juggling motherhood and professional responsibilities. Thank you for uploading.
So involving, so exciting to move through time as her world transforms. Thank the team who wanted to present this.
Astonishing archive footage of rehearsal and backstage.. so interesting and inspiring!
What an absolutely exceptional montage that was an utter joy to watch. The editing on this was fantastic, the way it flowed between the past and the present. I loved every second of it, and I even moreso loved that it didn't have an annoying narrator talking over the entire thing. The music flowing between the scenes was all it needed. Bravo!
Truly wondrous devotion. Admittedly the cigarette smoking was a shocker though. I have never seen dancers puffing away on death quite like that.
@@classicalaid1 It must be because she's French?
@@classicalaid1 They're all pretty devoted and 'fanatical', that's nothing unusual at all, but the smoking yeah! Never seen it before.
Yes. I mute narrators. So that I can see with my own eyes.
Agree yes
Absolutely loved everything in this video. The clips of her as a young dancer; how she evolved; the rehearsals; the costume changes; her partners. Up close and personal…just a beautiful documentary. Thank you.
The theaters they perform in are as beautiful as the dancers and their costumes ❤
I recently pointed out to a (male) huge sports fan the reality that ballet dancers train for *decades* just on a hope and a prayer they’ll get a job with their art someday. We pay sports people a lot of money-and rightfully so as their careers are short lived.
So are those of dancers. And if they even can find a position their remuneration is so awful no wonder they remain so thin. *THESE PEOPLE DESERVE MASSIVE RESPECT AND A HUGE PAY RAISE.*
and be payed when they retire so early, because they startet at a very young age, dont forget about this
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❤@@dorisbergmaier1455
I always love rehearsals in the casual clothing more than the dramatic beautiful outfits in the performance. I like to see them learning from their errors and the teaching style of the instructors.
Totally agree! One can see how, little by little, they give exact shape and rhythm to each movement until it's perfect. I feel there is something super intimate about this footage 🤗🤗
@@SLICE_Who thank you for uploading!
I am so relieved to know that I am not the only one who feels this way! Once a student of classical ballet and also part-time instructor, but most importantly someone who has been in love with the ballet for as long as I can remember, over the years I have been innately drawn towards observing ballet classes and rehearsals over performances. I find them to be more fulfilling, more intimate, more educational, more real. Most people find this predilection of mine to be a bit peculiar. So it's wonderful to have this validation -- TYVM! : )
The most beautiful workplace. That was so, so amazing! Manuel Legris is also such a beautiful dancer.
What an incredible dancer. Full of grace and talent. I love it…❤
As a former classical and jazz dancer I find it alarming that in all the years Ive known dance I have not had one, 1! that's right ONE instructor that has focused enough on how the breath should be incorporated into dance. With out attention to the breath, most dancers do tricks but never really dance. Each piece should be crafted first around the breath and when it comes in and when it goes out and the quality of the breath, deep, shallow, quick, slow or sporadic. This is a huge failure in dance teaching and exists because like abuse or archaic philosophy, breathing is not taught completely in any dance school no matter how grand. Even the Russians and the French do not focus on the breath. Only on the technique, energy and quality of the movement.
I was taught to use the breath for the movement….. dance ,fitness ,yoga , strength training ,etc….. thank goodness it kept me out of the hospital while I was having my first panic attack and I didn’t know what was wrong……
ABSOLUTELY! I am a ballet pianist and it is an issue for pianists or other musicians too. But for dancers it is crucial. Finally I heard about it from someone, thank you! I even ask about breathing lessons, cause I understand how it is important. As for musician, you can’t go to the top of your performance,like competition or recital, if you can’t breathe properly.
I didn't knew that... Breath is almost everything
It's the same in singing! Opera singers don't even know how to take a relaxed breath.
Such as in life... Once again art imitates life and life imitates art. Breath work should be taught along with meditation techniques in early childhood development, ages 0-5yrs old. I believe this would change humanity.
Magnifique documentaire. Les images, le montage sont exceptionnels. On reste scotchés.
Les danseurs ont une force de caractère hors du commun. Et bien sur Aurelie est superbe de grâce et de courage.
All those jewels in her hair and on her costume were so beautiful. They looked real. They may have been❤
The hard work and dedication that goes into this art of dance is incredible 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
That modern piece, especially the kiss, wow. Her chaines turns in Raymonda. She has incredible control of her body.
It’s really nice to see the dedication Aurélie puts into her craft - such a great inspiration, wishing her much continued success 💕🩰
UTTERLY GLORIOUS!!! Best dance documentary! RIVETING 👏 And WOW, what an incredible dancer 👏 😍 ❤️
What a joy to watch...Simply flawless...Congratulations ❤
❤❤❤ magnifique hommage à la danse, le ballet de l‘opéra de paris et à aurélie dupont ! montre sans dramatiser presque tous les aspects d‘une carrière de danse sans dramatiser….. bravo ! grand plaisir de revoir manu legris, clotilde vayer, laurent hilaire, gilbert mayer et tant d‘autres qui ont marqué le ballet de l’opéra de paris ! inclus biensur brigitte lefèvre…. ❤❤❤
This documentary tears open the wound of all (dream)dancers, which is sutured with the art and dedication of Aurélie Dupont and Manuel Legris. We will always love you.
Incredible dancers!
i enjoyed every moment of this
beaucoup d'emotions à vous voir nous enchanter tout en endurant la gravité...je suis admirative: quelle grace et quelle perseverance...tous mes compliments !
ライモンダにつられて再生しましたが、懐かしいオーレリとルグりのいたオペラ座時代の映像に感激。
美しい舞台とそれを作り上げるまでの舞台裏を交互に見れる事が素晴らしい。
一つ一つを積み上げて素晴らしい舞台になっていく過程を堪能出来ました。
ライモンダ、ル.パルク、オネーギン大好きな演目ばかりです😊
素晴らしい動画をありがとう！
Brilliant dancing. She is drop dead gorgeous.
Che meraviglia!!! Tanta fatica, impegno, amore, umanità, condivisione, dolore....Brava Aurélie 🥰. Fantastico Manuel Legris🤩😍
To all of the dancers who said that Aurelie was a bully in her role of the Paris Opera lead, I say to them, she did not expect anything from ANYONE that she was not willing to give and do, herself. She didn't expect even half as much. People going into the arts now have an entirely different mindset, and I'm not saying that one mindset is more correct than another, I'm just saying that Aurelie was NOT a bully, she was only leading through the same means that she had been taught, and trying to elevate the dancers to the quality she herself achieved
Completely correct. That is the old style of dance training and learning, which is no longer seen as acceptable, but it was the norm. I once trained with a Bolshoi teacher, and she used a stick, not gently, to make corrections. I once told my military drill sergeant that he wasn’t as tough as my ballet teacher… which was true… and he thought was rather funny. I think today’s methods, both physically and in terms of style, are more effective, but that was the tradition - one which I still encounter in dance from time to time.
@@TheravadinbutoThank you for uploading this comment. I am not a dancer, but I love watching ballet, and this insight helps me to appreciate just how amazing the dancers are.
Well, the new director, José Martinez, is of an even previous generation of POB dancers than Dupont and he doesn't have that reputation of being bully.
@@aliceswanderland That doesn't mean anything. Women who are assertive get called bitches, while men get called "Go-getters" etc. He could be a bully and have people just call him "passionate" or some other excuse. Women get criticism for the exact same things that men get praised for
@@sharrablackfire7337 I know and I thought the same, but then I remembered that POB had a former female director, Lefebvre, during many years, who wasn't always loved but brought the company to its best levels since Nureyev. And then they had Millepied, a man, who was very much hated by the dancers and the critics. Aurélie Dupont didn't do a good work, the standard of the company just dropped dramatically (or kept dropping). I agree sexism and mysoginy are everywhere, but here there might be other reasons for her to be criticized.
This is fantastic! I meant to see this when it was released (2010ish..) but ultimately forgot over the years. Wish I had made it to a performance - would have loved to see her dance The Four Temperaments most of all, Hindemith’s score is gorgeous and Aurelie must’ve made every moment of it beyond words. Thanks for the share!
DOCUMENTAIRE HYPER AUTHENTIQUE. OUI, ELLE FUME ET LES POINTES NE SONT PAS TERRIBLES. ET MALGRÉ TOUT ÇA , C’EST UN PORTRAIT DE LA MEILLEURE DE DANSE FRANÇAISE DE CETTE ÉPOQUE. ❤
Such a beautiful dancer! This was a joy to watch.
SUPER de re découvrir ce document 🤩 😍 et facile de comprendre sans sous titres : Aurélie de l'école de danse jusqu'as ETOILE
The hard work and beauty of Ballet. Great documentary.
Magnifique.
Quel travail ! C'est incroyable !
Wonderful, passionate, determined Aurélie Dupont ✨✨✨✨✨
Intimate portrait... lasting beauty!❤
Please, at 38:10, The Park, what is that beautiful music? I have heard it used somewhere else and it is just out of reach. I would great appreciate any help.
Im a 655 year old lady from Massachusetts, USA and I can honestly saw this is one of the most beautiful, eye opening, documentaries I have viewed about Ballet. So different from what I view here. Aurelie's costume for Raymonda(Im angry I never heard of this before!), the headpiece alone, she looked so elegant, exotic. Thank you, thank you!
Wow, such an achievement! How was dance in 1369 compared to today?
Jokes aside, the piece is Mozart K.488 in A, 2nd movement.
Used by Papadakis/Cizeron when they became 2015 ice dancing world champions. Maybe that's where you heard it.
@19Edurne Thank you, will look it up!
It's Mozart's Piano Concerto #23 - Adagio (2nd Movement)
Hahahahahahaha!!!!! 65! So sorry. J7st saw my typo now. Never noticed it before. Thank you to all who gave me the musics title. Much appreciated.🥰
That blue satin gown is unreal ❤ the rate she has to costume change there was unbelievable, that could be a sport in itself, gurgling dance then quick change no chance to sip water even and back on stage, that is like running a marathon im sure
Magnifique !
That, was amazing! Thank you.
She's super gorgeous
Simply stunning! Thank you so much for this wonderful experience! 🩰🩰🩰🩰🩰🩰🩰🩰🩰🩰🩰🩰
Всё, что красиво и вечно - адский труд, озарение и муки.
Абсолютно.
But Manuel Legri was incredible as well.. Both great dancers!
great dancing. Thanks
Astonished she smokes!
I know quite a few ballet 🩰 dancers who smoke 😅
Helps with curbing the appetite.
I could NOT believe it!!!
i think its very french to smoke, speaking as a french person.. its not the first time ive seen ballet dancers smoke either, so being one + being french, i guess its double the chances of one being a smoker
@@melowlw8638c'est francais de ne pas s'en cacher devant les cameras
Yes, Perfection requires dedication, effort and, in many times, pain........gracias por interpretar tal sacrificio por tu arte.......Perfecto......una ilustración a las siguientes temporadas que nada es facil o heredado.....es ganado en el Arte y el esfuerzo.........oxoxxoxxoxoxo
Wow - the 14 costume changes are amazing and dance sequences are amazing .
Questions - After such exhilarating and exhausting performances why doesn't the company have a shuttle service/ driver / designated vehicle to transport their dancers home, especially after major performances, so they don't have to walk exhausted to the closest transport hub? Is that the norm? I'm unfamiliar with the behind the scenes logistics of dancers & company.
38:55 THIS is what a first kiss should feel like 🖤
Wonderful documentary about Wonderful type of dancing....welfare by modernized civilizations
That's an interesting comment. What does "welfare by modernized civilizations" mean?
Merci mit Congrats ! Wonderfull trupe ...
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We used to arrive at the studio at 8am for class & end rehearsals at 9pm. Then go disco dancing till midnight. Then next day...repeat.
When you are 20 you can do this 😅
@@mathildewesendonck7225 😁😁😁
@@mathildewesendonck7225in theatre school the same 😂
@@tatianacherie 😁😁😁
They don’t call it a discipline for no reason. I don’t think ballet will look like this in the future. The discipline isn’t there the same way these dancers experienced. I doubt the performances will benefit from a different style of discipline but maybe ballet will “evolve” to something other than we know it to be today. We dont produce Mozarts, Chopins or Beethovens these days either but the best musicians study them so there must be value in discipline.
Re ballet I’m pretty sure that nothing has changed in the Bolchoï, just look up Natalia Ossipova now with the Royal Ballet in London.
Re classical composers, listen to Lang Lang playing Yann Tiersen’s valse pour Amélie. Modern composers work for the movie industry as did Nino Rota (the Godfather).
You dont look far enough then. Ballet dancers are popping off on social medias and i will say their dancers in school seem to have way more range than actual companies.
The park, Brilliant very moving!
My respect and admiration: a beauty, a talent, a mother! ❤❤❤
Hugely gifted dancer that never fullfilled her early promise. Too much contemporary dance and the kind of Euro-trendy nonsense championed by Lefreve leads to endless injuries and erosion of technique in the classically trained body -- and Dupont was one of its victims. Thankfully the Opera now has a director who loves classical ballet and the future of the company is looking brighter than it has in years.
She could cut something with that jawline. Simply stunning.
Ballet dancers ‘off duty’ outfits haven’t changed in 20 years 🩰🖤
Выдающаяся танцовщица, украшение мирового балета
C’est Incroyable j’adore Aurélie! 😍 Mais quelqu’un peux me dire comment elle fume avant de danser?! C’est fou comme elle n’a pas de difficulté pour respirer! Je voudrais en savoir.
They SMOKE???
Forget it
She's strong....not emaciated.❤
una chica muy hermosa
Wow! 🎉🎉❤🎉🎉
She should definitely get into acting.
Think you could dance en pointe like Aurélie Dupont? 😉 Not as easy as it looks, right?
😅😅
OH ! OUI JE VEUX JE VEUX SVP? JE FERAI MIEUX QUE DANS LA RUE . FORCEMENT ..
A member of the audience has a right to an opinion about the art!
I did pointe for many years. If I never do it again, I'm ok with that.🙃
I can dance en pointe but nothing like how she can.
She was a beautiful dancer. The documentary is very well done . I would suggest to cut the cigarette scenes because they are bad example for the young people that have a tendency to copy everything.
It's honestly amazing how much the human body will adapt to anything. You'd think that a professional dancer wouldn't smoke to keep their polmonary capacity, but they don't care... And their body compensates somehow. Astonishing. Totally unhealthy, but astonishing
Yes ❤
Physically beautiful with a face like an angel, dancers are horribly misunderstood when they want the highest standard of reaching for that always elusive perfection. To demand as much as she’s giving is a gift to other dancers and to herself. People used to complain about Nureyev n this way! He was not a slave driver despite losing his temper and demanding the very best out of his dancers with whom he danced and those under his tutelage at the POB. Never once did he demand more than he gave. Aurelie had just joined the company as Nureyev was leaving but he had a huge effect on the dancers and brought the POB into the finest world class company (leaving out Mariinsky and Bolshoi because their standards and system are very, very different.
Ballet dancers have such long necks! Does dancing and stretching make them longer or are they just born that way? They are so beautiful
They are born that way and also hand-selected in the case of top schools at least.
gilbert mayer instructing ballet class! Incroyable!
Interesting.
Please, what's the song in the beggining?
She is incredible... But not sure at all about 'unmatched grace'
Lisez son livre actuel et vous aurez une idée de l'atmosphère de l'Opera de Paris, c'est assez effrayant, et Claude Bessy n'est pas ce que vous croyez !!!!!
L'atmosphère à l'opéra de Paris est la même que celle pour tout activité/sport de haut niveau.. intense.
Son regard à 4:17 en dit long !!
2:54 What's the music, please ?
The opening music? It's the Hungarian variation from Glazounov's ballet, Raymonda.
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No, the one at 2:54.
Quit smoking, Aurelie! Then you will be less tired and have MUCH more stamina!
Anyone knows who plays Abdrruahman?
25:06 Of course her feet are killing her. That is one ill-fitting pair of pointe shoes. (maybe her feet changed a ton w/ pregnancy, would make sense)
She's got that horrible banana shape to her feet in these shoes. Hope she got refitted
The elegance of her foot work is typical of French classical ballerinas. Actually watch all the female dancers here.
i cannot believe that such a talented and intelligent dancer smokes. After all the health warnings we've had.
enough puritanism. Tell us about what you do but shoudn't ...
I presumed because it’s an appetite suppressant
Her remark wasn't being puritanical. She was speaking from a health standpoint
this was at least two decades ago in France, it was very common, and yes the appetite suppressant thing is very real
Why are you all being like this? Smoking is absolutely disgusting and repulsive to me, but I bet if she was drinking whiskey instead none of these comments would exist. People all have terrible habits that they indulge in. Clearly her smoking did not affect her 20+ years career, why is it so important to you?
Superbe documentaire de Cedric Clapish. Mais aurelie dupont ne m a jamais ému, je n ai pas été la voir à l'opéra, je suis aller voir sylvie guillem !
I will never forget the loooong lines, musicality, swiftness, emotion of Guillem! Absolutely incredible.
That kiss
Just danced her first full ballet in a year, says her feet are killing her, then walks home in heels. 😅
I just am not moved by her, she has one emotion. Being honest. The Way she moves is nice, she executes the steps well. Just not the dancer I'm used to from the 60s and 70s and so on...
what year is this documentary made ?
Shot between 2006-2009 and released in 2010
thanks
C un cours particulier?!😅
Every once in a while, I’ll have a dream where I’m on point without slippers it’s so weird. I haven’t danced since I think for 40 50 years. And I didn’t do much ballet at all, switched to Mexican folkloric and then flamenco. And you don’t use ballet slippers for either of them so why I have these dreams I have no clue, but I’m definitely dancing ballet without ballet slippers it’s and I have repetitive dreams doing this weird huh.
Well, she certainly is an incredible dancer .
Does anyone know of the music starting from 4:58?
Why does she wear a jacket during practice? And long floppy pants? Just a question. I can’t imagine how difficult this must be. I’d be in tights and a leotard I’d I danced. This video is wonderful. Bravo to the team. ❤. Oh, and the one pant leg, and the other short? I don’t understand….thank you!
Dancers typically wear loose layers as they warm-up, removing them as their bodies and muscles warm and stretch. The one-leg-rolled-up is temperature adjustment- the knee left covered is a sign it might need a little more time, due to prior injury or sensitivity.
Ballerina Sarah Lamb, for example, often keeps leg warmers on far into rehearsals with her leotard and tights, likely for similar reasons.
Heading into 40 can also mean facing down hormone changes, which can include things like surprise joint pain and fatigue, so taking extra care and precautions are particularly important.
Being skinny, ballerina skinny, is very cold. You don't dance well when you're cold. I play piano and violin and my hands get frozen when I'm nervous, I have to literally warm them before I'm able to perform
The other dancer?
Manuel legris
I wonder that she wears high heels all the time.
le travailli que illi fos
She's working so hard with beautiful results. This is another film where to me it looks like the dancer had trouble with pointe shoes. Sometimes too flexible in front, and when the front is good, the backs are too low for the feet. I hope she gets a better fit soon.
She quit dancing on stage in 2015. Then she was the director of the same company. But she wore bad point shoes all career long.
5:42 ah, bien sur, elles fument, eh, ugh, I've never understood this, even when I was still dancing, it ruins the lung capacity, so many dancers when I was young once they went professional started smoking, and I'm sure it was partly peer pressure and to control their weight, and this was in California in the 1990s, man, it must've been worse in France
Ah bon dieu, of course someone will complain about smoking. It ruins much less lung capacity if you smoke a few here and there than what you'd ruin it you didn't have that, and I'm not talking about weight. The weight reduction is a nonsense for a few cigarettes. If anyone relies on smoking to manage weight, then you'll see such lung reduction, they won't last the morning course.
A ballerina told me that some smoke to suppress their appetites. They have to be very strict with their weight.