Nice compilation! SuperBalletgirl101, since the selection is made by choreography, I think it would be important to note the choreographer name behind each PPD, I see choreos by Petipa, Grigorivich, Ashton, McMillan, Balanchine... There is not somehing such as a "standard choreography" but a "most famous" or "most widely performed" choreography.... I personally miss Romeo&Juliet balcony PPD by McMillan...but of course this is a question of taste.... Another interesting initiative would be to see different coreographies of ta given PPD by different notable choreographers In any case, thanks for your initiative and for sharing very nice videos, I really appreciate it!
Finally sat down and watched the whole thing, and it's a wonderful compilation. Regarding Sarafanov and Osipova, I spent a wonderful few hours once watching two full Don Qs in tandem, one with Osipova/Vasiliev and one Sarafanov/Novikova---both great, but they do feel the music very differently. If you watch closely, at about 2:08, Sarafanov actually starts to step out to support Osipova's turn before catching himself because he would have gotten there too early. I realize it's about the choreography but would not have minded seeing Guillem/Cope in the bedroom pdd from Manon. And I was thinking that, since this spans so many decades and styles of choreography, it would be fun to see further development of the "best of" idea as best romantic/classical/modern/revisionist/etc pdds. I guess Petipa, Balanchine, Ashton, and McMillan would almost get their own videos, and I can't imagine the hours those would take to compile! Anyway, loved it, and thanks for all the work you put into these compilation vids!
That last pas de dux had me almost in tears! I have never seen the show, more what the plot is, but that’s when u can tell that that is a good show to watch; when you’ve only watched one clip of the performance and you keep wanting to watch more! 😍😍
Wow very good selection! It's kind of hard to choose, 'cause Pas de Deuxs are the most beautiful part in a ballet and they're honesty all amazing to me... I appreciate a lot Onegin as first, when I saw the ballet for the first time that Pas de Deux literally made me cry and paralize for a solid 2 minutes, and Manon as second (it's my favourite ballet ever, and Aurelie Dupont in perfect in that role)... However, I would have inserted the Nutcracker Pas de Deux (I know there's no standard choreography, but they're all beautiful, + you didn't really put exclusively the original choreographies) and the White Swan Pas de Deux... Anyway thanks for putting together some of the most beautiful Pas de Deux 😘😘
Really nice selection, and thank you for including something with Maia Makhatelli! She deserves to be a little better known (although I'd love to see Genia in all of the Diamonds section---she looked surprisingly Balanchine-like in the snippets I've seen). The one pdd I missed is Balanchine's Sylvia, esp as danced (and there's a good recording of it) by Martine van Hamel and Patrick Bissell, who died tragically when he had a lot of good years still before him. But that dates back to the 1980s and I realize everything there has been recorded since then. The clip from Marco Spada was especially beautifully performed. The Bolshoi kindly posted this ballet that we never get in the West during the CoVid lockdown, and it had the State Occasion Cast that included Genia and Hallberg (also Chudin). Anyway, ran through them quickly when this came in and look forward to enjoying the whole video when I'm not pressed for time.
Martine and Patrick were absolutely gorgeous together. Both had such strength and power to their movements. He was a tragic loss - would have been a star, had he not fallen into addiction.
@@ambar7439 Always nice to meet another Martine fan! She was a true dancer's dancer and although I quite enjoyed dancers like Makarov a and Gregory {who got more press}, I've really never seen a dancer who was her equal when it came to musicality, dramatic strength, and joy in the movement.
Osipova and Sarafanov are gorgeous together although nothing will surpass her partnership with Vasiliev. Much as I love Osipova, no one will ever surpass Sylvia Guillem.
Nina and Carlos, Spartacus; the best ever, so graceful, but also strong. His lifts are phenomenal. i am surprised at the inclusion of the Osipova Don Q; they are out of sync and seem to have no rapport. The rest are all wonderful.
Sally Gardner I agree with you about Osipova and her partner on the Don Q pas de deux... They look wrong together physically and their timing is so different!
Great choices! Especially the Eugene Onegin. I also like Swan Lake, Sylvia, Talisman, Giselle;, Nutcracker; but it is hard to limit it to fifteen. I'm a huge fan of the Diamonds pas de deux.
All are wonderful. (I do have reservations about the Onegin, even though it's heart-wrenching, because it's so over the top when compared to the original Pushkin's irony and even the Tchaikovsky opera's passion.) I would love to see there PDD from Symphony in C added.
I would have added the Vision Scene from Grigorovich's Raymonda to this list. Kaptsova & Skvortsov in Onegin & Kaptsova and Acosta in Spartacus are sublime.
Compilation molto bella! Secondo me però manca il pas de deux tra Albrecth e Giselle del secondo atto made Natalia Osipova e Carlos Acosta ( primo posto)
