2003 Maya Plisetskaya & Charles Jude - Afternoon of a Faun 

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+DieFlabbergast He was fifty in this? WOW. He's spectacular in it. Besides Nijinsky, the best Faun in history for sure.

I think I would put Nureyev ahead of Jude, though.

De gustibus non disputandum est.

Verum ipsum!

she was amazing

Well-said

Where bro?

Это которые восстановлены по фотографиям? Или реальный архив был?

why do people lie?

There is NO original footage of Nijinsky dancing. There is a sliver of a clip of his standing on the street long after he left the Ballet Russes. What you probably saw are the cleverly morphed and "melded" stills from the ballet which give a near-convincing APPEARANCE of snippets the original choeographed movement. They've been circulating on RU-vid and the internet for years presenting themselves as actual snippets from the actual historical performance. Fraudulent as they are, they are food for thought concerning how things might originally have appeared.

Jude's performance here is superior to Nureyev's. Some people will disagree but if you compare the two its easy to see. Maya is sensational here for her age.

@@barbj9785 While I've thoroughly enjoyed Nureyev in many things, everything about his Faune performance is exteriorized. To my eye and sensibility, he cheapened the original intent of this ballet. His performance has none of the interiorization that Nijinsky (based on the photographs and descriptions) and Jude (here and in his Paris Opera Ballet performance) bring to the proceedings. The whole-body physicality is completely missing in Nureyev; he does not understand Nijinsky's very specific physicality which is intrinsically married to the choreography Charles Jude most certainly does. It's an immaculately detailed performance. It also manages to be historically responsible without ever becoming moribund. Patrick Dupond who was a supreme Nijinsky-style exponent was probably also an excellent Faune if he ever chanced to perform it

The whole clip is created from stills. Not just parts. There IS no film of Nijinsky, Daliev made sure of that.

There is NO original footage of Nijinsky dancing. However, there is a sliver of a clip of his standing on a street long after he left the Ballet Russes. What you probably saw are the cleverly morphed and "melded" stills from the ballet which give a near-convincing APPEARANCE of snippets the original choeographed movement. They've been circulating on RU-vid and the internet for years presenting themselves as actual snippets from the actual historical performance. Fraudulent as they are, they are food for thought concerning how things might originally have appeared.