rehearsing. 1982. Some male variations from: Gorsky's Swan Lake, cup variation from MB' s Don Quixote (music piece from Paquita!! BS), Jerome Robbins' Other Dances, Petipa's and Gorsky's Don Quixote, and Swan Lake again.
Godunov was one of the greatest ballet ever saw, perhaps ever will. Whereas his friend and colleague Baryshnikov was light and petite, this man had a beastly dominating way with all with such animal intensity. One of the brightest stars that ever shined in the ballet universe. Most male dancers look like classical Prince Charming. He looked like an '80's metal star. The man WAS ballet's rock star. He'd be at home standing at the mike. Why do the Russians always get to be the greatest?
Godunov was a great dancer in part because acting is taught in ballet. Gestures, features, are all outsized for stage. His insecurities about being compared to Nureyev and Balanchine did not help. As for Mischa... little egotistical rat. He is now known as a drunk and a wife beater. A midget with knee replacements.
The other night I was watching him in Die Hard and decided to watch a sequence in slow motion, and I noted his exceptional grace. I took some teasing in the past for my crush on him from my own lover, because I felt certain there was something really special about him. Now I finally understand. I once danced myself, and I can tell you, he is flawless. Bravo Alexander...you were indeed so special and so exceptional.
A lot of ballet danseurs like to feel like rock stars. If there was just one you could honestly swear was, it would be Alexander. Baryshnikov was Peter Pan with a deeply haunted way. Nureyev was all princely animal. Ethan Stiefel was gymnastic and Peter Martins was a cavalier. But Alexander could've held an axe and wailed away at it while he leaped and pranced about. He had a beastly way, no question. But he could seem weightless and float at the same time. How? --For "Sasha", Dane Youssef
Сорри конечно, что влажу в вашу тусовку балетную, но без понятия кем он был и каким танцором, так как вообще не переваиваю балет, при этом вижу, чт он про, координация на высоте, тут без вопросов. Но вот что этот человек сыграл карла в одном из лучших боевиков 80х, да хотя и по сей день... Аж не верится, актёр с него тоже норм.
ThaTchubi Roger Ebert (film critic): "first of all, an electrifying and poignant love story. Then it is a movie about the choices we make in life and the choices that other people make for us. Only then is it a thriller."
Si tuvieran presente a Aquel que les ha dado ese don maravilloso de la danza, no se odiarían tanto como para sucumbir en las drogas y en el alcohol. Un grande, lástima su final.
Tha Tchubi this was NOT a crappy movie It was very well presented good story very well acted Have you no taste ? The music was extraordinary & it became a greatly desired film to watch The actors in it cannot be sublimed
I've sometimes wondered if part of the reason why the public never warmed to Godunov quite as strongly as they did Nureyev and Baryshnikov might have had something to do with their backgrounds. Both Nureyev and Baryshnikov trained at the Vaganova school and even had the same teacher (Alexander Pushkin) -- both went on to perform with the Kirov, while Godunov performed with the Bolshoi. It occurs to me that maybe -- just maybe -- the public preferred Kirov to Bolshoi "style" for some reason.
What is Alex wearing here? It's very fetching ballet attire. Is that some kind of long underwear? A fashionable thermal? A kind of uni-tard? Or a men's--rather, a danseur's body-stocking? I dance... I could use something like that. A one-sie. Just a one-piece suit for the ballerino. Where do you get that? And what do you call that?
aren't you tired of repeating this inaccuracy? Did you measure him? Look at him dance with Gregory, She when on pointe is exact his height. So narranor is right, He was no taller than 188 sm and not 191 as you suggesting.
