Gretel they train very hard nearly everyday. Yes they are thin, but you can see they are all very toned and they do have to eat a lot just like any athlete. It always bothers me when people automatically assume dancers are anorexic.
m dunwald i never assumed anything like that. an anorexic could never do ballet obviously, at least not on a long term and not in a professional setting as starving leads to loss of muscles. all i meant was, that i am in awe, how such a skinny looking body can contain so much muscular strength and motion control, for doing such skill full moves ballett requires.
Sky Black you can just lie to yourself thats absolutely fine. but by malnutrition sooner or later your muscles are going to be wasted and then you will not be able to any more.
+Angie Montreal I had a friend who said she was told by her ballet teacher that she wouldn't be good because her bum and thighs got larger the older she grew (natural growth, like her mum and sisters), and she was so sad she didn't do it anymore. She might have not had the same sillhouette as the others, but I wish the teacher could have said something more constructive.
imho the best 'short' video that AB has released yet. The dancer given the chance to talk in depth about their role. Apart from that I have nothing but admiration for dancers.
+XactlyCeSe1 In that way, she follows in the tradition of perhaps the greatest Odette of the last generation, Natalia Makarova. Makarova is recorded quite a few times on video wandering all over the stage in the thirty-two fouettés. Never a natural turner, she even wrote in her autobiography about how she managed to whip herself off the stage and into the wings, like the wind had blown her away, she writes. I did have the rare good fortune of actually seeing her in performance many years ago, when she was having yet another off-night with the fouettés. She did them anyway. And none of us in the audience could get through the strain of her stumbling through her wobbly, wondering fouettés without gripping our armrests in anxious suspense. Still, that Swan Lake performance was that rare magical, legendary moment in live theatre, a performance where Makarova blazed brilliantly, burning larger than life, from the moment she first leapt onto the stage as Odette. A truly memorable performance, one I’ll carry in my memory for as long as I live.
It was rehearsal, if you note, she just steps out of the step and walks out. I'd like to see people criticize your rehearsal footage. Number 2, it's theatre. This ballet is more than just that sequence of fouettes. If you want to see tricks, go to the circus.
The ballerinas are the evidence that the woman is one of the most gorgeous live beings in our world! I can't find other woman as beatiful as a woman who seems awesome as odette, the princess become in swan in the Swan lake.
in my school we organised a show. students can write their own 15-20 mins ballet, the teacher in charge will choose a ballet and then we will have our performance in march 2017. one more year but we do need to train. btw not ballet school, its just your plain ol school to study. at first i thought this was weird but its actually pretty unique i guess
My dream is to someday be in Swan Lake. Not as Odette, because I can't imagine that ever happening, but just as one of the swans. My ballet studio performed Swan Lake last year, and it was breathtaking to watch. I love the music, I love the choreography, I love all of it. It's such a beautiful ballet. I wish I could see it again, and this production looks fantastic, but sadly Australia is too far to travel just for a ballet. :(
Ivanov choreographed Act II. Cruelly Petipa kept Ivanov down for virtually all his career except for this Act which is the most famous Act of all. Fortunately for posterity Petipa was ill and had to hand over control to his second in command otherwise the world would have been deprived of this masterpiece. Looks wonderful production. Wish I could see it.
Both Odette and the prince kill themselves to break to curse on all of the swans, and so they can be together. Once Rothbart dies, we are given a view of Odette and The prince in the after life
it's hard to not travel because the fouettes are so fast, unlike fouettes you do in class because it's slower. I've only seen a select few that didn't travel as much in fouettes during the coda...
Being Odette would be amazing, but I'm 17, and still a relative beginner at ballet. So I really can't imagine ever being Odette, because I doubt I'd ever be good enough.
Crying because I didn't have the body for becoming a ballerina... And yes I know it's about training also, but if you don't have the body you can't train to get to the top...
I can't tell if you're trying to get a rise out of someone or actually stupid. That is Amber Scott, who plays Odette and Odile, as she actually said herself in the video. And she isn't narrating the video she is being interviewed, so excuse her for not having a professionally trained TV voice and an Australian accent.
Wow! I love ballet, but I have always wonder these things, Plus I think that in "Black Swan" I saw I think Mila Kunis with a tatto! Now I know that it doesn't look good!!! thankks!!! XD
After watchtching Svetlana Zakharva performance this Im sad to im not impressed although, this woman gave a incredible performance also. I cant do none of that lol.
It's Odette's first variation, just type in Odette variation here on youtube and you'll see it, there's many amazing ones, Marianella Nunez is great, Anna Tsygankova, classics like Margot Fonteyn
