I have seen so many versions of this Pas De Deux, both live and on video and it just never gets better than this. Sylvie Guillem is and will always be the best ballerina ever.
Try this link:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_Z1cb9jjPRk.html&ab_channel=JohnHall. Fonteyn and Nurejev, same dance as this one, but even more beautiful.
How can people criticize her? Oh my god! Sylvie Guillem is a beautiful dancer!!! If she wasn't then she wouldn't have been a prima ballerina. And if you have extension why not flaunt it right? Its not like she has no emotion, she is full of it!...
BRAVO SYLVIE!!! I'm NO wussie BUT I can actually cry! ALL of that BEAUTY & then that ending starting from the frappes coupled with music??? Magical!!🌷🌷🌷👏👏👏🙌
@balletdevon Very few criticize her and those who do, it is obvious they know little and nothing about ballet...No doubt they do it out of ignorance. I guess they could criticize her personality (if they happen to know her, be friends or ex-friends of hers) tell us that she is crazy, annoying or whatever...but as an artist and a superb ballerina, whoever knows the slightest thing about ballet would admit that she was amazing.
this is geart technique, but it's not a swan in any way, too dry , rythmical and abstract to my vision of the ballet. The Grande Sylvie is at her best when it's all about dancing, romantic ballets are far not her forte
She is beautifully presented by her partner. Manuel Legris is the most tender and skillful prince I have seen! His technique is perfect, his acting is wonderful, his care for her is loving, she was lucky to have him as her partner. She of course is exquisite !
@nicolezly Strange, I was actually thinking along the same lines. But earlier in this thread a lot of people accused her of not acting at all. Some say her movement is too "stylized" others say she not stylized enough, not enough of a swan. I'd say that she is just extremely fluid, very "otherworldly" very ethereal, very regal but at the same time vulnerable, but not fluttering about with movement screaming "look I'm a bird, watch me flutter" she simply is, which a very thoughtful approach...
...but perhaps not enough of the same as everyone else who's ever done this role. Maybe in the end that is the problem people have with her performance of this ballet. Where we expect flutters or "acting" we don't get what we're used to. But looking at the ballet with a fresh eye, we not only see it performed with remarkable technique but with a unique point of view, which is sorely needed in ballet. JMO
Sylvie was criticized for the over-use of her extension (even having some label her an "ear whacker") I think that in some places, a 180 penchee was used to show the world that she could do it...the others are more correctly "classical." and this was the Paris Opera--the original home of Romantic Ballet. oh, yeah, and it matches the line of his arm :P
Some people have commented on her over extensions found it vulgar. Nowadays some people think you are not a good ballerina without it. I see some ballerina's doing a Sylvie extensions, but there is no artistry. I think the dancer's in this generation are focusing way too much on hyperextensions instead on working on both. I guess that comes with being gifted with these qualities like Sylvie and other ballerina's out there.
I think Kirov Mariinsky bellerinas are the bests for this role with their profound dramatization. Makarova, Makhalina, Mezentseva were born to dance Odette.
Sylvie Guillem is a lengend! Elegant, beautiful, breath taking and master of technical skills. One of the greatest, alongside Patricia McBride and Diana Vishneva imo.
I’m so sick of comments like this. Fonteyn’s artistry was no where near the greats of today. Ballet wasn’t exciting and awe inspiring until Patricia McBride and Baryshnikov. Nureyev was lumbering and sloppy and Fonteyn was as technically mastered as a sub par ballet student. Artistry is totally subjective. It’s like the emperor’s new clothes, all hype and no substance!
