Sylvie is so charming in the first section of the coda - what a jump and beautifully articulated linking steps. I liked her a lot more in classical works back then. BTW, you can see young Laetitia Pujol and Stéphane Phavorin in the audience!
"the guy" is Patrick Dupond, the former director of POB and one of the best principal ever... It doesn't prevent the fact that Sylvie has an incredible talent, but I don't think that anybody "almost" forgets him while watching this vid...
16 ! but zomg i literally did a 'faint' off my chair when it ended . so.... omg ! this was the yr and mth i was born, 22 years ago when SHE was 22 ! shit, what am i doing in MY dance life !?
are you kidding? she's amazing! it's not only knowing how to dance, but also to have the amazing flexibility and strength to do this all while performing and looking beautiful. i would like to see you try to reach this level of performance and control- that is... if you know how to dance... and if you were really wondering- it's pretty damn hard.
@karebear331 As someone with a naturally high arch (and I'm not trying to show off; I inherited my arches from my dad), I would like to say that it's actually quite hard to pull up after a long time of continually standing on one foot in pointe. Your weight will naturally sink your arch forward and down into the shoe. Tha's why I'm really worried about progressing in pointe; my arch always sinks forward into my foot, and my weight is always distributed forward, making it hard to balance.
@CarolineCatastrophy Search for 'Smoke' with Sylvie (chor: Mats Ek) - three videos when she is doing contemporary and is barefoot. Then you will what her feet are REALLY like :) Watch the whole piece it is absolutely amazing!!! (unless you already have seen it, that is)
Although her technique is amaaaazing, I feel her dancing is a bit... mechanical. Kinda like a degagé exercise instead of a ballet... But i stil love her
@karebear331 i guess you have two options when that happens - either you stay up and try to push yourself up on balance again until you are supposed to go into the next step or you go down and continue. she clearly chose to stay up and fight for the balance. and not many world class ballerinas would go down early would they, they would fight for the balance i am pretty sure...
how would you know? maybe they feel good to her. If they didnt do you think she would have them on? You have to break them in and see how they feel before you go on stage with them. SO she's probably had them for a while and likes them
Let's keep it respectful. Ok, yes the shoe is a disaster, and she is compensating well, in spite of it. But look at some of her other performances and stills. You will see a trend for the right foot, particularly at the toe box. There have been plenty of manufacturers so it is not that she could not find the right shoe.
