Not my favourite choreography either, but when so elegantly and musically danced like this, it does become really beautiful! What a glorious dancer is Mathieu Ganio!!
A very elegant and stylish dancer. Mathieu Ganio is convincing in any version of Sleeping Beauty - he has the artistry for a convincing portrayal of Prince Florimund., his ideal physical proportions and good looks are an added bonus!
Steps, steps, steps, steps. Left and right and forward and backward. Lots and lots of them and never amounting to anything, this is a case of the sum is less than the parts. I wish I could see Mathieu Ganio in a different production...
Typical Nureyev choreo with very fussy movements but Ganio danced it so eloquently and elegantly I must say. I liked Bolle, Heyman then Ganio in this va. Music is beautiful for sure though.
it's the fussy chreo by noureev that leave him no room to breath and soked and dripping sweat make any dancer to lose his steps. Ganio is too good a dancer to miss jump after jump like that.
@@mikiohirata9627 yet people here talk about how perfect this variation is? i don't understand. the errors are so obvious. and you're right, ganio is too good for these mistakes. other men seem to be able to do that series just fine. legris for example. video here ... might be time to retire this nureyev production.
@@redshoesgirl I don't think he's having a bad night, Ganio has a problem with double tours. I've never seen a clean landing from him if he has to do multiple jumps in a row or manege like here. He may land one jump cleanly but that's all. Nureyev's fussy choreography doesn't help matters, when the time comes for those jumps the dancer is already tired, which explains why Ganio is so bad here, as a rule he doesn't wreck the landing quite as obviously as here. As to people talking about the perfection of his variation... they are fans. Most fans are notoriously incapable of seeing any imperfections ::grin::
@@arepo would just practicing them more help? if i have a problem doing something, anything, i just practice more! seems logical, but i am not a dancer so don't really know.
@@redshoesgirl That you must ask him ::smile:: He knows best. Maybe he needs to practice more, maybe it's performance nerves... He is serious about his job, and if he couldn't perfect his landings until now there's probably no solution to his problem.
Dear Passion -- you and I are going to have to agree to disagree about this. Before seeing this choreography I hated SB -- but this second act provides the rationale for the princes' existence -- he is no longer just a prop but a flesh and blood person. You can feel the longing, lonliness and even confusion of this young man. The movements express his inefible sadness -- it is a beautiful piece of choreography and of course Mathieu does it to perfection. In all of Nureuyev's choreography there are sections like this -- one of the most expressive and beautiful pieces of dance that I have seen comes in Romeo when Benvolio tells Romeo of Juliets death -- and the Abderam solo in Raymonda is sher genius -- I could go on but ...........
passionballet.topf.ru No I was one of the ones who do not care for the Nutcracker -- or Cinderella -- the CONCEPTS for both are innovative and interesting --- I am not overwhelmed with the choreography -- but think how true to life the concept for the nutcracker is -- clara/masha/marie has a dream which turns into a nightmare - her conflicted feelings for Drosselmeyer are played out very well -- the CONCEPT is so clear -- but the choreography is ok - fine- not horrible -- and I like the emphasis on the male dancer without puting the ballerina in the shadows -- all in all there is more good about it than bad -- and you must admit there are some dreary versions floating around-- ho hum versions -- at least this one makes you think!
judith booth well, then it was pediatrapaola, I think. But - where do come the conflicted feelings for Drosselmeyer from? Not from Hofmann, not from Dumas. they come from the sick head of Nureev - and this is something I'm not interested in. And the best parts of the choreography are those Nureev qouted from the Mariinsky version - only one part in fact - French dance. Everything else makes me depressive. And in winter time I don't need one more reason for being depressive :)) I don't need a nightmare with a nightmare like choreogrphy - without any logic, difficult to dance, boring to see. Well, as far as I am concerned. I don't understand why Paris sticks to all those Nureev productions - they could find better things produced for their stage.
I so agree .. I have never liked SB til I saw this .. And there is an additional solo for the Prince before this one .. So 10 to 12 min of almost continuous dancing and lovely legato dancing as well .. Have you seen the Petit solo that, I believe, Roland Petit choreographed for Mathieu Ganio in the Proust ballet? If I could just figure out how those jumps were done .. They look as though he is flying with seemingly no take off. It is on my channel should you care to go there!
He is such a beautiful dancer. But I hate the choreography - so many steps, it reminds me of an advanced ballet examination piece. Poor Mathieu (all the guys at PoB) having to dance this....
+judith booth Many dancers do them - Josua, Mathias Heymann, even Manuel Legris. It could work in my opinion - it just depends on how you do it. Mathias Heymann looks very naturally like floating through the steps, while Manuel Legris does this whole part so quickly that it doesn't look like "variation lente" anymore. However no-one is so adagio like Mathieu. The way he feels the music, his every movement almost breathing with it, building the dreamy atmosphere of this variation and prince's personality... It's just sensational. Nice user pic, btw ...
