Pavlova was told that she had pneumonia and required an operation. She was also told that she would never be able to dance again if she went ahead with it. She refused to have the surgery, saying "If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead." She died of pleurisy, three weeks short of her 50th birthday. She was holding her costume from The Dying Swan when she spoke her last words, "Play the last measure very softly.. Anna Pavlova your the best ballet dancer ever lived!! I adore you until now..
Декабрь 2021 год и смотреть про Великую Балерину сплошное наслаждение, даже, если текст беседы непонятен, СПАСИБО огромное за Радость Просмотра Видео!!!И Божество, и Вдохновение, и Жизнь, и Слёзы, и ЛЮБОВЬ....
I read her biography when I was in the 6th grade. Any naysayers regarding her dancing should do the same. I was mesmerized by her single-minded devotion to her craft. She would dance until her feet bled. She has remained my personal heroine my entire life. When I have been tempted to give up, I have remembered her bloody feet and have shed a little blood myself.
thankyou, i was very grateful to see this video and was very pleased to find people living who remember this is not just entertainment but about life and its many perspectives , god bless anna pavlova
He talks about Anna's time as better than his own. We do the same thing today about the past.. I think that will always happen, "Those were the days, everyone had so much more class and grace back then." It's a shame we can't stop the cycle and just appreciate the beauty of our current age. I'm not talking about Anna Pavlova, but the mindset in general that the past was better. Just a thought.
Anna was pretty unconventional and danced with a Passion like no other. She was a romantic! Natural movement,she was truly a magical person. Technique wasn't always on the forefront.
@ElvenQueen01 When sound came to movies in order to get better sound they started filming at higher speeds to increase the sound quality. When you play back a silent film using a sound projector it appears sped up. They can correct the speed using software though.
@Yuri92001 You're right. It's the way they recorded it - at that time, they had to handle the camera manually, so the speed would naturally be altered.
Ballet is endlessly changing as is everything but it's rooted in the past. The fundamentals were established ages ago and each generation builds upon those aesthetics but then excess can take hold and it's necessary to clean the canvas...Pavlova, in her way, was influenced by some of the modern trends that emphasized expressive movement versus hard core technique.
Hey, it's the way in which movies were made back then. Every film has fewer images than those now. Now, it's 24 shots per minute, back then it was around 20.
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I have seen this kind of "speed up" effect in other black and white films of the era. It was the style of camera they used. No, the speed is not natural. If you look up other films from the time you will see the same type of odd almost jerky speed movement.
Not the type of camera. Not exactly. The impression of speed is from mis-matches between projectors. Mechanical parts of modern(mid-20th century) film projectors were not matched with the sprocket holes of early film. Re-mastering of these films, as video, restores the correct speed and the original fluid movement of the subjects of the film.
Annette Thermos Yes, I just read it, she trained, but by the standards back-then they told her she was too tall at 5'7" - which would've been perfect today - and apparently weakened by malnutrition during the war.
@IceRose13Kellira actually she was always that fast, the film back the only had 20 shots a minute, now its about 24. So thats why it looks like its speed up
hi there! great video - do i have permission to use some of this footage in a music video i’m working on? i’m collecting vintage clips from the past and thought this would fit in nicely :)
At the time, all film was like that. (Speeded up) If you see charlie chaplin and the like, its all the same. They didnt have normal speed film at that moment, sadly.
Sarah Blomquist this interview was years ago. You have clearly never seen the likes of Uliana Lopatkina, Diana Vishneva, Natalia Osipova or Alina Cojocaru. Your assertion that "dancers are too technical these days, no emotion and grace", is patently preposterous.
pvandck Sorry to burst your bubble mate, but unfortunately, she's right - many ballerinas today ARE too technical, especially when compared to Pavlova and three out of the four ballerinas you mentioned are prime examples. The only one who isn't too technical is Alina Cojocaru, but the others... Lopatkina - very overrated and probably the most boring ballerina ever to have been called a prima! Vishneva - always milking her diva fame more than showing emotion Osipova - very grotesque and anachronistic, which is misinterpreted into "artistic genius". At least she has a lot of fire in her belly when she dances Kitri.
LightSpirit06 Yes of course, the past was always better than today. It's been that way all my life. The future will always be worse still, no doubt. "Too technical" is still a preposterous assertion. It's interesting that you don't even define what it means. You might as well describe a wheel as being "too round". Incidentally she doesn't say "some dancers" or "many dancers". She just says "dancers" (without qualification) are too technical. It's still an absurd thing to say. They cannot be "too technical". As for my "bubble" being burst, that's quite funny. You're welcome to your opinions but, please, don't masquerade them as incontrovertible facts. We're not discussing science or anything falsifiable. We're discussing preferences in ballet styles, that's all... and your "superior" taste, obviously. In my opinion most of today's principal dancers, women and men, are much better actors and dancers than their predecessors. I'm afraid I don't equate technical deficiencies with "emotion". You are of course duty bound to disagree. One really interesting thing (probably the only thing of note) I can glean from your comment is that you're rather keen on ascribing motive.
pvandck Well I'm glad I made you laugh lol. The term "too technical" means that today, technique is focused on more than it ever was; it has become THE end, when it's actually supposed to be a MEANS to an end and this is something I've learned from my studies on ballet history. You'd be surprised how talented dancers of the past were at acting. If you're interested, my advice would be to read Ivor Guest's biography on the great Italian ballerina, Virginia Zucchi, who was the most inspirational ballerinas ever to have lived. Not only was she a fantastic dancer, she was also an absolutely tremendous actress, probably the best ballerina-actress of the 19th century. She actually made the audience cry with her acting and she even shed real tears when she danced the role of Esmeralda; that's something we don't see happening today in ballet.
Of cause it is a BS about "too technical". Anna Pavlova was great for her time. I think the ballet progressed forward and I love the new dancers. Cojocaru is probably the best but only because she is more fluent with her technique. It would make her more technical ;).
I've been thinking about this recently. I hadn't been to a ballet for a very long time and was pining for it, as I live a bit far from NYC. I went to NY yesterday and saw a ballet with a famous ballet company, and since I hadn't been to one in quite some time started thinking of this.
Depends who the dancer is, so generalizing isn't realistic. Technique, artistry, emotion, grace, skill, personality, interpretation . . . runs a very wide spectrum.
take close look at the Marrinsky tv ballet if you doubt that tequniqwue isnt a vital part of the huge valued performance of every famous true prima ballerina assoluta I am very proud to be the husband one such ballerina her Dying Swan conjures up sad sorrows including the crashing change to minor key as the swan realises she is going to pass away such sweet sorrow
Sir Frederick Ashton does seems cruel judging the wonderful Anna Pavlova even before he witnessed the performance still he did have somewhat of a insightful synthesis although smug
Sir Freddy was a queer took all those famose dame parts as his right a detestible man loved the boys who hated him a sharp tongue destroyed many a fabulous career dancer
May I be permitted some dislike of Pavlova's dancing? I can appreciate that she made it possible for people all over the world experience something of classical ballet. She deserves credit for this. I just don't like her style. In these film fragments the influence of Isadora Duncan is clear. Pavlova stated that she had been influenced by Duncan, to abandon the constraints of classical ballet. Biographies of Pavlova and Duncan include this information. The result of their collaboration was the Fairy Sylph prancing and leaping around in the forest cliche, repeated over and over again. I don't like it. In my opinion it comes off like a Vaudeville or Music Hall act. It's not difficult and even average dancers can improvise it. Without knowing much about 19th and early 20th century dancers, I'll say that Tamara Karasavina was probably a far more accomplished dancer. Ashton is incredibly diplomatic and restrained through this interview. He has to have known that Pavlova's fan base consisted mostly of people who had no way to experience full ballets, performed by the great dancers of the time. This IS a fascinating interview. Thank you.
charlotte. In ballet, the dancers in the past may have been dancers in clowns' constumes. History will show that today's ballet, dancers are clowns in dancers' costumes.
Ballet in the past looked like dancers in clown's costumes doing flamenco. :/ nothing like ballet today. phrasing and technique and audience expectations are all different.
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