This is really beautiful, thank you for posting this! My mom says, "Now this is true art!"

However nice, and Legris is a beautiful dancer…please look at Anthony Dowell dancing this…for purity and line, port de bras and musicality he is unbeatable…..

@JonathanDavidDummar

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, but the Royal Ballet's version of this solo is much less demanding. Nureyev really wanted his choreography to challenge the dancers for generations to come... even if he didn't always choose the most pleasing transitions.

yes, yes it is true art he is the prince

Thank you Jonathan, but the Royal Ballet's version was created by Nureyev, and is identical to the one Legris is dancing....same choreography to the step...and Rudi made the solo first in London, because he felt that Siegried didn't have enough to dance...(which was true!) Sorry but I know this as I was there....his perios in Paris was many years later :-)!!

++Just to add......Nureyev created the solo in London for himself, so that he had more to dance.....which was typical of him at the time, and not as a gesture of generosity to future generations, however nice that idea seems! It is very difficult to dance, awkward and full of "hiccups" ... and I still feel that Dowell is the only one who manages to bestow some continuity through the fluidity of his upper body and once again, the purity of line and musicality....whereas, for me, Legris, lovely though he is, has a more "superficial" way of smoothing over the bumps of this choreography...

@TheRevengeOfPanchoVilla

6 жыл бұрын

Esther Brown As a dancer, I can say it is a waste of time to reproduce the solo as Nureyev has written it. Nureyev has a great musicality, a strange technique and it is difficult for a dancer to reproduce his character. So many dancers and coreographers used to repeat it trying to bring something quite different from the original by Nureyev. I saw Anthony Dowell films and I saw him on stage in Swan Lake. His interpretation is, imo, unsurpassed and the best in the history of ballet.

@rubyparrondo6139

6 жыл бұрын

+Esther Brown - Nureyev's creation of solos for himself was in fact a gesture of generosity for future generations of male dancers, and an enormous contribution to what we now take for granted in terms of the status of male dancers today. People complain a lot that Nureyev created roles "for himself," yet why view that - in many instances, not just here in Swan Lake - as a negative, self-centered action on his part, rather than an opportunity for the public to watch the magnificence of his musicality, his presence, his unsurpassed ability to inhabit a role? Dowell's INTERPRETATION of this role is truly outstanding and moving...but would he even had had the opportunity to dance this solo if it weren't for Nureyev? If you watch Nureyev in this solo (taped in 1967 in Vienna, the only one on KZread, I believe) you'll see that you are watching something that - almost eerily - dwells in an entirely different realm of performance and, especially, of movement. Manuel Legris always stuck faithfully to Nureyev's choreography and, for the most part, always struggled with it, although he is a magnificent dancer in his own right. The bumps in the choreography here are evident because he isn't the same dancer as Nureyev (as no one was or is) and is struggling through this.....the superficiality comes through because he didn't allow himself to bring HIMSELF into this role. As opposed to how Dowell approached it.