Никому еще не удалось так проникновенно станцевать, в Плисецкой безупречная пластика, грация и талант, но здесь я вижу надломленную, раненую, обессилившую птицу, камнем на земь, и взлетающую вновь, настоящие крылья раненой птицы..., сердце замирает... бесподобно, браво!
Quelle danseuse peut se vanter d'avoir une aussi belle qualité de mouvement et autant de grâce de nos jours ? Une prestation poignante et surement l'une des plus belles expressions de la beauté.
Посмотрите умирающкго лебедя в исполнении великой Галины Улановой, это несравненно не с кем, а ведь у нее не было возможности изучать свой танец на видео.
Чтобы не писали и не говорили - это лучшее исполнение. И не потому что первое. Именно тут видно борьбу жизни со смертью. Все остальные показывали не идею, а мастерство - кто сильнее выгнется или плавнее руками поведет. Все это от Зверева. Тьху, от лукавого :) Браво Анна ты неповторима и "неперевершена" (українською) !
Exactly! Dying and the fight to live is what this piece is about. This was Pavlova's masterpiece as she expressed this moment through the lyrical art of ballet.
some say she is the best ballerina of all time. i don't like to claim someone is the "best", but she certainly has a spark that puts her in the greatest
I read on the library the other day that there is one performance on record that there was not a dry eye in the theatre and that they applauded her for about 45 minutes none stop, I wish there was footage of such but this is very good I know nothing about ballet but I feel something weird when I watched her. Thanks for sharing!
Exactly! Not only it's emotional, it's real! Really like a swan, and one fighting off dying. Sometimes, I imagine her watching other dancers and saying, "She obviously hadn't seen a dying swan before", because she certainly has.
she was and still is in my opinion the most talented,beautiful, emotional dancer in the history of all. she could have lived longer but she refused to have a surgery to save her life-that would leave her unable to dance, and she refused choosing ballet over life. i dont think any other dancer would have been able to do that. she became her soul on stage.
Я решил не выбирать между отцом, сыном и святым духом - Павловой, Улановой, Плисецкой и Лопаткиной. Бог во всех этих историях - сам танец, само балетное искусство, а каждая из этих гениев - его ипостась. Их танцы совсем не похожи друг на друга, и в этом весь смысл, потому что каждая из них заново изобретала формулу абсолютной пластической красоты. Я влюблен в каждую из них. Правда же, глупо выбирать, кто из твоих возлюбленных лучше.
Dear "TheKat1473" When you say, "the most emotional interpretation" & later, "she is not dancing, she is actually living it emotionally" I gasped. I agree about this particular clip: the 1st moment I saw her movement at the start of the clip, I quivered in recognition... As a classical pianist, I play the excruciatingly beautiful transcription by Leopold Godowsky, & use what I call "deeper agogics" to intensify expression. That is what I experience when I play beautiful music in recital.
Just a small boring comment about the caption "Anna Pavlova in Dying Swan, The Kirov Ballet 1907" In 1907 the Theatre was named Mariinsky Theatre. The name "Kirov Theatre" was given to it only in 1934 (and was held untill 1992). Thus Anna Pavlova (1881 - 1931) never was in troupe of the Kirov Theatre, she was in Mariinsky Theatre. However this is the same Theatre.
This is really beautiful and because of the filming at the time looks almost ethereal. Love it! Oh and thank you to Christie (Chloe's Mom) on Dance Moms for mentioning this dancer Anna Pavlova, it's the reason I looked it up!
@TheKat1473 -- Yes, I was just thinking the same thing as I watched another dancer's interpretation. Beautiful movements--perfection--but they do not posses the emotional feelings present in Pavlova's interpretation for it appears that she is the dying swan.
@Broadway3 But death is NOT always perfect and beautiful...I can't help but feel that part of anything that seems off pointe was intentional. This is sheer beauty. She IS the swan. Amazing...she is the difference between a dancer portraying the swan and actually becoming the dying swan.
The beautiest death i ved ever seen. :,-) she s a very good dancer, and it looks so ....realistic, like a real swan . a little bit scary . But i love ballett, i ve ever wanted to go and watch swan lake or nutcracker, cause i practice it 10 years and then my ballett school was away......
Yes the show is a ridiculous guilty pleasure. However, it was not my source for history it just happened to be the spark, the random reference made by a crazy mom on a tv show led to my looking this up and reading Pavlova's biography. I don't see a dance history class in my future but I've been reading. So however I heard the reference at least i bothered to find out more from reliable sources.
@TheKat1473 you want to see real emotion? watch Vera Karalli - 'The Dying Swan' 1916 or 1917 she stays on pointe the entire time, the way it was supposed to be. in my opinion the best and truest performance of dying swan ever.
Она видно была очень ...легкой, кость тоненькая,вся как на шарнирах гибкая. А так, положа руку на сердце, я , как обыватель не вижу тут особого мастерства.
Maybe it is a question of time and development. Dancers today have extremely refined techniques. They can see themselves dancing via videos, and refine whatever they want. When we see dancers of yesteryear we are disappointed. Too much flapping of the hands, lack of elegant fluidity --- not truly the swan of these days. Catch Maya Plisetskaya on one of her last appearances in an open air concert in Moscow. Truly sublime.
Thing is, this is supposed to be about dying swan. A dying swan fits a desperate, sharp flaps of wings more than a beautiful fluid swift. She did well representing it.
