The best dance scenes from "Le Roi Danse." Music by Lully 

Ah, like Netflix during the Pandemic.

This is how Satan works in an extremely subtle way. Do you know that Apollo, the "god" of the sun, Zeus, etc. etc., all the Greek and Roman "gods" are names of Satan? The temple of Zeus in Pergamum is even mentioned in the Apocalypse as the seat of Satan. Luis XIV was the most deceived king in French history and he destroyed France spiritually. He thought he had become some kind of god, but he became a puppet of Satan and after France killed hundreds of thousands of Protestants - worshippers of the truth and of Christ - France's fate was sealed. She languished until the mason Napoleon and the Revolution razed her. To hell with it. Louis XIV, like his beloved flatterer Lulli, died of a rotten leg - they were broken from top to bottom - just like the self-worshipping human kingdoms - Nabukadnezzar declared in the dream that the prophet Daniel interpreted.

My ballet teacher said classical ballet began with the Sun King.

Exactly! I had the very same thoughts & impressions when I first saw this video here - and I decided that I definitely have to watch this movie. Also, check out some more music by Jean Baptiste Lully. ;) And George Friedich Handel's "Sarabande" (among others) ! ~

Everything is amazing -to-tears in this movie, the acting, the coreographies, the costumes, the music, the script. It is such a joy to see true artists doing their best.

This is how Satan works in an extremely subtle way. Do you know that Apollo, the "god" of the sun, Zeus, etc. etc., all the Greek and Roman "gods" are names of Satan? The temple of Zeus in Pergamum is even mentioned in the Apocalypse as the seat of Satan. Luis XIV was the most deceived king in French history and he destroyed France spiritually. He thought he had become some kind of god, but he became a puppet of Satan and after France killed hundreds of thousands of Protestants - worshippers of the truth and of Christ - France's fate was sealed. She languished until the mason Napoleon and the Revolution razed her. To hell with it. Louis XIV, like his beloved flatterer Lulli, died of a rotten leg - they were broken from top to bottom - just like the self-worshipping human kingdoms - Nabukadnezzar declared in the dream that the prophet Daniel interpreted.

And thus the ballet was born.

C'est vrai.

yes. 4000 rich. the King Court...and 20milion in misery.....REVOLUTION SEEDS .

Michael Olivares Then you're smarter than your professor

Michael Olivares what? Comedy? Well, good for you to question it.

If they think this is comedic, they don't know what the point of the act was: to show to the world that Louis really was all-powerful ruler of France: if he can prance around, dressed as the sun god, then how can anyone question him on more serious affairs? then there's the symbolism: Louis is the sun--the source of light and warmth, and with them, life it self. He is also at the center of the solar system (i.e. France itself). The message is clear: Louis = life and center of France, its ordainer and sustainer of motion (i.e. what France revolves around)., and the planets = the people who depend on him to survive. To understand Louis' various seemingly megalomaniac acts, one has to remember that he had grown up during a civil war which pitted the nobles against his authority; thus his mission as an adult was to consolidate power purely in his hands--to prevent another Fronde. To that end, every means of literary and cultural expression was controlled in Louis' France: paintings, dance, opera, music--everything Noblemen (ad foreign dignitaries) could see. And by and large, he succeeded. He might have been a tyrannical king, but France had never been so powerful since Charlemagne.

@@Albukhshi indeed. The sun was ascendant until 1866 (end of Napoleon III's reign).

It was all carefully calculated. Louis' throne was far from secure. Competing nobles refused to recognize his authority, while his mother and Cardinal Mazarin had no intention of lifting their regency, treating him as a figurehead and witless child. He turned the tables on all of them, appointing qualified men no matter their birth to administrate the government and military. At the right time he announced he was taking over, ruling in his own name and packing off the Cardinal and his mother. He used spectacles like these to build a cult of personality and turned Versailles into a gilded prison for the nobility, keeping them away from their estates and cutting off their power base.

@@sidneyfrederickson3941 I have never look at that way! Very interesting. You got some reading about the subject you could suggest?

@@sjorshoeijmans5442 Nancy Mitford's "The Sun King" is a good place to start.

Actually, Donald Trump is the greatest ballet dancer in the history of the world.

@@mikeFolco he and Epstein invented "The Letcher".

Vive Henri Quatre!

acerb45666555 yes he is coming back to reign as one of the kings of the earth in the millennium kingdom of Jesus Christ👏👏

Bring Hollande back!

Yes, and bring back Nero while you are at it. Are you daff? Le Roi Soleil was a dangerous and bellicose, narcissistic AUTOCRAT and DESPOT who drained the French treasury with his many abortive adventures abroad and intrigues within.

Baroque dance experts I have spoke to about this movie would disagree with you, whole-heartedly. Besides, the actors aren't doing most the dancing, they had doubles in for the far shots, all of whom were trained baroque dancers. The close-ups were of the actors. Not quite sure of the reasoning behind your criticisms, nor the reason you made them.

se uno è LE ROI Sennò fanno ridere

I'll bring it back

Oh, mon Dieu!

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