I LOVE the way I have no idea what they are saying in French but I understand it from the ballet terminology and the movements themselves. Ballet is a universal language xxx
The best thing about this documentary is the way they contrast the students with the professionals, showing how each exercise is designed with specific goals in mind. It's lovely!
Reconnaissez vous Aurélie Dupont à la 3:09 minutes (danseuse étoile)? Elle a dit qu'elle avait été humilié, qu'on lui avait dit des choses affreuses. Eh bien son regard en dit long.
Did you recognize young aurelie dupont. At one moment the headmaster claude bessy says : i know it's hard but you must push till the end. It' when you are getting exausted that you are improving ! All is said.
the girl in the middle at the end is Ghislaine Fallou. She was 14 at the time but already a graduating student. She had to repeat the year, however, in order to join the corps the ballet because at 14 she was still too young. I think the other girls are a bit older than her, between 15 and 17.
I swear I've seen this clip a hundred time...I LOVE this particular clip. Esp when they are doing tendu, it makes my eyes spin. The coup de le pied also very impressive.
It is a cultural thing that is a little difficult to explain. The way your explain the translation however is very accurate and your key to understanding them. To fully be in total control of your body is not only a physical excercise but a mental one. In Russia (and with Russian teachers) in order to do well and not injure yourself you have to work smart not just hard. They may never say this but they want you to draw that conclusion. You know your limits and how to push yourself beyond them.
mon probleme c'est que moi, je deteste cette obsession pour avoir la physique parfaite pour danser.... parfois il ny a rien qu'on peut faire pour avoir "la physique parfaite"
Bien que l'obsession du physique parfait est trop poussée (regardez ce que ça a donné avec Ghislaine Fallou qui promettait tellement...), je suis d'accord sur le fait qu'on ne peut danser très bien et de manière légère en étant grosse...
c vrai mais il n faut pas "avoir la physique parfait" pour danser et bien il y a de gens grosse qui seulement voulent danser sans etre des danseurs etoiles...
My comments were clearly addressing the methodology of the school, not a personal attack on the dancers and students. They are beautiful kids, the best bodies (they were selected for this, after all). I am well familiar with their syllabus, and there are very obvious inconsistencies in the material only some of which are evident in this presentation. Not enough space to go into details, too bad.
Je trouve que l'on voit clairement que Aurélie Dupont a le petit truc en plus qui fait la différence par rapport à l'autre fille (qui est très douée aussi hein^^)
wow the barre work was soo fast. great stuff. I love how when the dancer in white is demonstrating for the younger dancers, how the younger dancers are discussing the move the dancer in white performing. it looks like hard work but the dancers look amazing.
Aurélie Dupont est un pur produit de l'Opéra et c'est une personne très intelligente! Je pense qu'elle sait plus que vous si on l'humilié! L'une des plus étoiles depuis longtemps je ne veux sous estimer les autres étoiles mais sans doutes ses profs on du voir en elle une future étoiles et donc sans doutes l'on bcp poussé à aller plus loin!
She told her to push herself harder with each step, that it's at that moment of exhaustion that she can work through the tiredness and make real progress, but that instead Aurelie lets go when she is tired...
@xSugarplum Yes you are right that anyone what can point their foot correctly, but what she is saying is that there are people who have a high arche (" coup-de pied") and then she asked the girl to curl her foot to try to imitate how people without a high aches may seem when their foot is pointed, demonstrating that the line is cut. She is not talking about pointing your foot correctly.
Je suis certainement sûre que c'est la video de DVD de ce company, qui n'est plus vendu. En fait j'y ai demandé à Paris si ils le gardent encore... Vraiment, nostalgique.
Merci, malheureusement je n’ai trouvé aucune information en ce moment... Et vous? Mais je suis contente de savoir que quelqu’un qu’autre désire la même chose;)
@@orion.8589 bonjour, j'ai fait une petite recherche. Le documentaire s'appelle "les enfants de la danse". Il est disponible sur RU-vid découpé en plusieurs parties. Malheureusement je pense qu'il n'est plus vendu au public par contre
Salut! Ça va comment après? J’ai fait aussi une grande recherche et enfin trouvé le dvd, qui a été publié au Japon. Il n’est plus vendu au public non plus mais se trouve quelques-uns d’occasion en ligne. Si vous avez déjà un appareil à regarder le dvd avec PC, il ne vous sera pas trop difficile je crois.Le code de région est le même.
Admire them! Anyone know where to buy this video? I went to Amazon and I found this video on "Etoiles - Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet". Is this the correct video I'm looking for? Thanks for your help! Reply!
Little girls being tortured !, human body is not made for such moves and stretches, they end up paying the price later with all sort of medical problems, like in gymnastics. Just my opinion.
These classes betray a lack of detail and clarity in the poses and the use of the head and arms in relation to the jumps... that their system can produce nice dancers is obvious, but I am surprised to see the shodiness in these respects. They seem focussed on feet and legs to the neglect of coordinated movement, and the exercises themselves are arbitrary, i.e., I can't understand their purpose.
AAAArrrghhh! That´s just not fair! Some people just has IT! I´ve been practising classical ballet for seven and a half year now, and I´m not even half as good as those irritating, bloody ten-year-old french children... Fortunately, I´m not going to be a classical dancer, lucky me :P! Anyhow, they´re all AMAYSING! VIVE LA FRANCE!
Sorry, I meant to ask joeinparis about Ghislaine Fallou but it didn't work. She's clearly different from other girls in this adage and no wonder she got so quick promotion at Paris Opéra. She looks like... une déesse, and yet so young!
Um, well, with work comes progress... One of those girls in the purple is the young Aurelie Dupont, a Etoile dancer with Paris Opera. She's fantastic now. Look her up.
No.. This video is from the late 80s. blue : Miteki Kudo, Noemie Djiniadis White :?, Raphaelle Delaunay violet : Delphine Baey, Aurélie Dupont pas de deux :Nicholas LeRiche (?), Ghislaine Fallou
Iswearyou Fallou-Lagache-Marrache or Alexandra gonin -Jennifer Goube were an erea of Sujets before ten years before A Dupont , you mixe all generations of danseurs : un non sens ce que vous écrivez .
@@alainspiteri502 c'est vous qui vous trompez ! A,Dupont et G.Fallou sont entrées à l'école de danse respectivement en 83 et 81, engagées dans le corps de ballet en 89 et 88. Elles sont nées ttes les 2 en 73, sont de la mème génération ! Rien à voir avec C.Lagache, J.Goubé et A.Gonin !
Hi ! just to say that it's true that last years POBS students were less good but I am one of them and U can say that this year they fired a lot of students (I mean a little bit more than the 3/4 of the school)to raise the school level. And now it is definitely as good as that time. Please excuse my bad english
@monequu well, actually. She is not really saying that if you don't point your foot in the right way. It actually is in your bohnes. Some people are born with an arch, others aren't. And the people who don't have the arch will never be able to poiunt their foot correctly. Otherwise, the rest is correct :) ( im french)
Bonjour !!! Trop super cette vidéo ! Je viens de publier une vidéo concernant l’opéra garnier... je vous invite à la visionner et à me dire ce que vous en pensez ! Merci !!
I would have to agree with mdicanio. I don't feel as if the Paris Opera Ballet was under good manegment for a very long time. If you watch some of their professionals in the videos they put out, they are fantastic dancers, just the training is shoddy and far too individualistic.
Ottima l'idea di presentare il grande lavoro che sottende a quella mirabile impressione di leggerezza che poi apprezziamo nei balletti. BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
I actually don't speak french but i THINK she's saying somthing about if you don't pointe you foot the right way you're using the the wrong mucles, and your foot won't have a good line...
@broadwaynballet I am sure there are tears, but yes ! The russian teachers are always barking around at their students! I watched this video once where the teacher was yelling at her student saying that only smart people could be true dancers and the she was an idiot and that she would never make it as a dancer... Sick
my ankles are hurting just watchin this. I have a question. Dont yall ankles hurt after doing that en pointe or watever? especially when u are jumping from one leg to another?
@jennyluvballet You can't "make" a high arch, you are born with them. However, if you have a lower arch, you can develop the muscles in your feet to achieve maximum point. If you're a sad soul like me (no pun intended) with absolutely no arches, it's very difficult, if not impossible to train your feet into the correct degree of point. Of course, in all honesty, there are people who should not dance ballet because their body simply wasn't made for it and injuries could occur.
the best classical ballet academy in the world only from here sublime and unparalleled dancers have come out ... the other schools churn out high-level dancers a common product for an academy
Broadwaynballet- I'm a Vaganova ballet master and I'dont think so, we "barking around" our students. Our teaching method is very disclipined and efficient. Poppearlgirl- I don't know your height and weight. But If your legs and ankles are not enough strong and you have plus weight, it could causes you injuries and problems in the future. Think it over, do it slow and take care! :-)
this is ridiculous, i'm 17 and the girls at 0:57 are doing a class way harder than the classe i have... and i'm the youngest in my class... it's price for living in a place where classic culture is almost nonexistent.
The difference in between the Opera and the Vaganova academy, I think, is that the French ballet is much... faster. The center exercises for example, are much much faster, where as the russian exercises are more down to basics, simpler, more perfectionist-like :p
Aurelie was beautiful even as a kid! Can someone who understands French translate what the teacher is saying to Aurelie and the other girl in purple near the end? is it good or bad?
Why do all of them have such high arches?? Did they make them by efforts, or were they just born with them? The girls are amazing, I wish I could dance like them.
Ankles don't hurt during jumps, but ankles can often feel strained on pointe when transition from flat to releve. That's why dancers on pointe are required to acquire significant ankle strength first.
of course its not too late. i started when i was about three and i loved it. and when i was twelve there was a fourteen year old i my class dancing for the first time ever and there were some points where she outshined me. follow your dreams and go for it.
Thank you :) I'm wearing bloch triomphe at the moment that aren't too bad, they don't have too many different brands round where I live cause there's only 2 ballet shops :/ only a few blochs and grishkos, apparently grishkos are really hard though
@HKGleclercq I know because i'm french, go to french school, speak french gfluently and also mostly because i'm so in love with l'opera de Paris that i must have watched this documentary a million times LOL xD
