Les Sylphides - Kirov/MT male variation 1950-1990s - Semenov, Nureyev, Vasiliev, Baryshnikov, ... скачать в хорошем качестве

Les Sylphides - Kirov/MT male variation 1950-1990s - Semenov, Nureyev, Vasiliev, Baryshnikov, ...

Two different mazurkas are used for the male variation in Les Sylphides/Chopiniana - the "Russian" and the "Western" one. Fokine employed both during his lifetime. Because of the tempo, it's a little devil of a variation. It does not call for modern bravura but for sustained ballon, soft landings, full phrasing, general airiness and the ability to transform the technical ingredients into metaphors for a romantic reverie. The present montage contains only the "Russian" variation (mazurka in C major, Op. 33, No. 3). What happened to the variation in last half of the 20th century? The short answer is that the tempo got slower and slower, the allegro grander and grander, the legs longer and longer, and the black top shorter and shorter (I hope they'll stop the trend before the torso vanishes completely ;) Details and nuance were discarded in favor of large sweeping gestures, and it seems the dancers aren't able to land in arabesque anymore... It was a gradual process and by no means a straightforward one (at least not in the first decades), but after the mid 80's it was a one-way street. All Kirov/Mariinsky productions, with two exceptions: 1962 and 1984 are mixed productions (Western/Russian). The male variation is Russian. All (ex-)Kirov/Mariinsky dancers, with one exception. I couldn't find a Kirov rec from the 70's and included a Bolshoi dancer instead. 1958 Semenov    • Видео   1962 Nureyev 1974 Vasiliev    • Видео   1984 Baryshnikov    • American Ballet Theatre (01) Chopin Les Sy...   1986 Vikharev    • Видео   1989 Lunyov 1991 Zaklinsky    • LES SYLPHIDES (Asylmuratova-Zaklinsky, 199...   1999 Ivanchenko    • Chopiniana (Las Sílfides). Kirov Ballet. 1...   Western variation compilation    • Les Sylphides - Western male variation - 1...