I'm a semi-retired academic at a Sydney university, lecturing on a Masters Program in the field of Semiotic Theory.
I'm seriously travel addicted, having lived in or journeyed extensively through Europe, the Middle East and Asia. I've been to such diverse and far-flung places as Inner Mongolia, Nepal, Kashmir, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Iran, Russia and Japan.
My interests include writing short stories, horse-riding, abseiling, swimming, theatre, opera and dance.
In my first life, long ago and far away, I studied dance at the Australian Dance Theatre with, among others, Rex Reid, an ex-Ballet Rambert principal and sometime partner of Moira Shearer.
I have a Master's in psychology and can tell you that schizophrenia is more common in men than women, and comes on in their early 20s. Vaslav was 24 when it hit him. That age is pretty typical. A real shame! I don't think there were decent medications for the disease back then, so he didn't really get any treatment. Nowadays, there are medications that can allow a the sufferer to lead a pretty normal life.
Yuri (George) was my grandmother's cousin. He was the sweetest man and always made me laugh! When we would visit him in Arizona he would make me a special pb&j sandwich when he made borscht because he knew I didn't like it! I loved hearing him and my grandma tell stories of their childhoods in Kaunas. I just knew him as cousin Yuri, I didn't know his ballet legacy until I was older. It's wonderful to see how he was so loved.
ОТРЫВОК ВЗЯТ ИЗ ГОЛУБОГО ОГОНЬКА 1963 ГОДА НА 27:46 ВЫСТУПЛЕНИЕ МАЙИ ПЛЕСЕЦКОЙ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RckQ6gUucbc.htmlsi=r8meQ_yX6QluoZjC
Впервые вижу Павлову в лебедином озере. Когда она была моложе, были другие спектакли, видимо она согласилась гораздо позже на эту роль. Или я ошибаюсь? Но я люблю её творчество безмерно!
I am not Internet savvy - Your you-tube sounds interesting - I hate to think of it closing - but I cannot understand a word of your instructions for finding the new You-tube channel
Надежда Павловп - самая совершенная балерина. Никогда ни одного лишнего движения, музыкальность, фарфоровые ступни, мягкие руки. Но и Гордеев прекрасен. Его сейчас принято хулить. Но он мощный и прекрасный танцор. Он надëжный партнëр в танце. Остальное даже не надо обсуждать. Мы не знаем и нас это не касается.
Спасибо огромное Ленфильму за сохранность культурного достояния могучего русского народа! Это шедевр, не сравнимый с театральной постановкой, всё так ярко, объёмно, красочно! А крупный план восхитителен! Браво!
I'm a little sad - I just think that these wonderful dancers are no longer with us, I image. If the chorus's was around 25 at the time of filming (1960), then they would be around their late 80s now.
I think the callas wobble in this later version (mid 60s?) is musically unacceptable, it's really a bad sound and barely in pitch, it's tragic. I love her in earlier recordings, and she is a better musician than Renata. I also think puccini soprano roles do not benefit from an acting voice so much as bel canto, as the music already has the drama encoded in it. I wouldn't want to hear teblaldi in norma or polliuto or even Lucia , but she is defo the best in this role for me. No acting required, just glorious tone, same for Mimi, Manon L and Minnie, I don't think callas can touch her tbh in these roles although Callas is overall my preferred artist.
I can see now how Rudolf Nureyev recreated some of this staging for his production of The Sleeping Beauty for the National Ballet of Canada in 1972. And this is the first time I've ever seen Carabosse dance on pointe!
thank you so much for posting - i read suzanne farrell’s memoir years ago but had to take her at her word that she was talented. i see now why she was a balanchine muse, she dances like flowing water and has such long limbs!!
Ahí está el más grande ser humano de la danza clásica en Cuba el Marstro de Marstros Alberto Alonso Rainieri. Es entre otros momentos el que es alzado ; vean la limpieza física del rol femenino sin amameramientos pero captable para una mujer .
He really was one of the best ever to do ballet--the Russians usually are. He had a panther-like prowess as he dominated the stage. Like he was lighter than air and would still crush anything in his path. Baryshnikov was a legend for a reason---but the one thing he did I thought was really wrong was firing Godunov after he took over at A.B.T. Ballet itself lost something. And Alex himself said, "Nobody prepared me... it smells like Russia".
