I was taken to the Royal Opera House to see Nureyev dance in The Nutcracker one Christmas when I was young - unforgettable. Much later I saw him dance with Merle Park and everyone was simply holding their breath because it was so wonderful. I was taken backstage to meet Merle Park and she said Margot Fonteyn had been in the wings watching, and that she herself could hardly believe she was dancing with him as Margot had.

I dance with national ballet 20 years ago when Rudy was still with us. His lines were so beautiful. It was perfection, and such a pleasure to be with him.

@rmp7400

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever meet Merle Park, too? She is very daring in this pas de deux.. Is it true that ultimately, she had an accident while dancing ...that somewhat shortened her brilliant career?😢❤

@user-kj7hc8ub4s

11 ай бұрын

Непревзойденная постановка Рудольфа Нуреева!

@salomonbenavides529

11 ай бұрын

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@salomonbenavides529

11 ай бұрын

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11 ай бұрын

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Extraordinary Rudolf Nureyev!!! I'm ballerina and always have admired, the talentous, brilliant, energetic, personality and of course Artist Rudolph Nureyev. Before married I had a great poster into my bedroom of him at an incredible jump! He really seemed to fly .I love forever Rudolph Nureyev. 🌹❤️

So much is amazing about the way THESE TWO execute this pas de deux! BUT PLEASE!!! Has anyone watching this video ever seen any male dancer hold the final position like Nureyev does here: her full body weight so high aloft upon his one leg - so cleanly and for so LONG a time? Yikes!!! Almost as breathtaking as that amazing twist in the air she does after he throws her high above his head. (Honestly - how did they even REHEARSE that?) Phenomenal... daring ...memorable... Beautiful!🌹🎆

@arch1arch213

Жыл бұрын

pas utile la dernière pose.

@rmp7400

Жыл бұрын

​​@@arch1arch213 BEAUTY is not about MERE "functionality," dear soul.... ♥️

@maryrosenblatt6741

5 ай бұрын

@@rmp7400 Beauty follows function and enhances it.

@rmp7400

4 ай бұрын

​@@maryrosenblatt6741 Oh dear! Not always!😅

@CristinaF210

4 ай бұрын

@@rmp7400 omg right?? this was one of the most beautiful things i have ever seen, its incredible

Wow that was beautiful. They were like one person. I have only just started to watch Ballet 🩰 such a beautiful dance ❤

Moved to tears. Only on repeat viewings have I become conscious that the music is magnificent; so mesmerised by the beauty, grace and strength of the dancers. Thank you for sharing this- we are enriched

What a beautiful pes de deux. The line of beauty is perfect. I cannot help watching rudi and merle over and over again.

Watching this never gets old.

I had the privilege of watching the two of them from the wings of the Met. As I see this clip now I can't help but compare their performance of Swan Lake's Pas de Deux with that of so many others--something I could not have done back then, when in my early twenties. What I see is that while many of today's premier male and female dancers have physical proficiencies not seen in dancers of Nureyev's and Fontayne's time, it is the connection the two maintained with each other on stage--a respectful intimacy--that needed none of the acrobatics we often see in dance today. They danced. My thanks to whoever posted this clip. It's brought me back to a very happy time.

@malcolmwhitehead7225

2 жыл бұрын

Its not Margot. Its Merle Park! MW

@cattycorner8

2 жыл бұрын

Cal Pozo "They danced" amen bro, amen

@TheMaisie80

2 жыл бұрын

Two perfectly matched wonderful performers ❤️

@americandreamer6092

2 жыл бұрын

@@malcolmwhitehead7225 Yeah, and it’s The Nutcracker not Swan Lake. Poor thing.

@malcolmwhitehead7225

2 жыл бұрын

Wgi said it wasnt, Dreamer? M..W Whatever, its lovely musicn fine dancng. n Rudi is perfecction in every way. MW

Почти 70 лет Адажио из Щелкунчика П. И. Чайковского моя сама ая любимая музыка, независимо, кто танцует, слушаешь ли в театре, на пластинке или как сейчас - в планшете. Поистине гениален наш великий Пётр Ильич!

Rudolf Nureyev was unique. He has been the best!!! Marvelous, extraordinary!!! I love him forever.

First time ever seen 'mirror reflection' partnership, between two remarkable dancers.

This may be the most beautiful pas de deux I've ever seen. Breathtaking!

@letitsnow8518

10 ай бұрын

Not really!

@buttonsjunior1131

10 ай бұрын

💀 @@letitsnow8518

@angelsandocean2853

8 ай бұрын

absolutely.. I had rainy cold night here .. had nothing else to do. I watched so many on KZread from different era, different theaters. And this is THE BEST performance!!! So emotional, makes you feel wonderfully alive ❤as well

@angelsandocean2853

8 ай бұрын

​@@letitsnow8518which one made bigger impression on you? Thank you

@carlabasto9574

5 ай бұрын

@@angelsandocean2853 How about this one with Megan Fairchild & Joaquín De Luz? PS: The precision, the timing and the snaps positioning are Spectacular! Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker―Sugar Plum Fairy & Cavalier (Megan Fairchild & Joaquín De Luz - New York City Ballet) kzread.info/dash/bejne/dKegyLFqZqrJirA.html .

What poise grace and strength this dance piece requires. Here it was carried out beautifully. The timing was excellent. What most don't see is all the hard work and practice that has gone on behind the scenes.

Tchaikovsky's music, Nureyev and Park on the stage -what a marvelous combination! Saludos from Uruguay

Brava Merle! Seeing her dance was one of my fondest ballet memories. A truly great talent!

I watch this every day. The music and nureyev and park are stunning.get goose bumps every time. Fabulous.

@susanpanaro7820

5 ай бұрын

I saw Patricia McBride's final performance in NYC and the stage was covered with roses.

@jayneforryan4830

5 күн бұрын

How wonderful

Breathtaking performance !❤

omg his technique is sublime, omg this choreo is amazingly dangerous

No puedo dejar de llorar al ver esta maravilla ! Cómo envidio a los q estuvieron ahí, q privilegio. 🥹❤🥹❤

Идеально! Не насмотреться! Божественно красивы! Слиты с божественной музыкой! Гармония до слез!

I had the joy of watching Nurejev in Macerata at the end of his career. No one ever held the stage like him.

She is simply beyond words!! We all know how surreal and sublime the peice of music is!

@letitsnow8518

10 ай бұрын

She is terrible, always late and wobbly Y

I LOVE this choreography! It is THRILLING! It gave me CHILLS!!!

So beautiful! So talanted! Nuryeev has his special something what makes wanting look at him more and more.

Вот какое золото оставил Нуреев! На кого скажите после такого посмотреть? Бессмертный Рудик! Брависсимо!!!

@Anna-uh4ri

Жыл бұрын

Нам теперь Цискаридзе предлагают и не только он сам. Меня упрекают за то, что я восхищаюсь Нуреевым и не воспринимаю Цискаридзе. Вроде как вообще ничего не понимаю

I watch this over and over I love everything about it from the beautiful corps de ballet, the costumes, the lovely music-centered dancing. I do not care for the acrobatics of modern ballet. I can’t get enough of this style!❤

The greatest Rudolf Nureyev

The most beautiful performance mesmerising and ‘other worldly’ it’s just extraordinary, thank you so much for the opportunity to witness it’s a rare treasure indeed.

@bastiennehemon3654

3 жыл бұрын

Parfait, !,

IMO Dame Merle Park was the supreme academic classicist of the Royal Ballet in her heyday - bar none!

Una couple admirable. Fantasticos milimetro a milímetro, segundo a segundo. Fantásticos !!!😊😮

Там,где Рудольф Нуреев,дух захватывет!все меркнут!Совершенство смотреть бесконечно!Его постановка Щелкунчика непревзойденна!Гений,так много сделавший для развития балета и поднявший на высоту мужской танец!!!!!!Он должен бы жить!Его искусство на века с нами!!!!

@user-qs5sr8dy9x

3 жыл бұрын

Он бесподобен!

@lenavats21

Жыл бұрын

Он жив и будет вечно жить в своих постановках ♥️

@user-ko5hb5rv5h

7 ай бұрын

Его искусство на века, непревзойденный, гений , красава он будет вечно в наших сердцах.!Браво Рудольфу !!!❤❤❤

Simply breathtaking. Such grace, such beauty, such extreme athleticism. Wonderful we have this record of these amazing dancers.

Wow! That final lift was amazing to see and very much a surprise! I've never seen this interpretation before. Lovely. :-)

@rmp7400

2 жыл бұрын

And who but Nureyev could have done it - holding (for over 7 seconds) during that final lift, the two of them on his one leg - so decisively, so poetically!🎆

Merle Park was Rhodesian. Many dancers in the Royal Ballet came from Rhodesia. One of the many good things about that country.

Beautiful! Wonderful to see such a classic recording from 1968.

@suklaray7800

2 жыл бұрын

Magnificent!

Amazing. His lines are so beautiful. Unbelieveable. And the costumes are worldclass.

It’s lovely to see so many comments from Russians who love Nureyev so much! I have no idea if he even thought about how the _people_ in his country would feel about him after his defection-I’m pretty sure he was only thinking of the politicians and secret police-but I’m glad that they revere him for what he did and how he always represented Russia, no matter where he went or what he did. Even Merle Park’s headdress speaks Russian! Beautiful dancing here, just a beauty and symmetry filled with feeling, so much more beautiful and artistic than physical pyrotechnics!

I really love this performance, it seems dangerous and beautiful all at once. Thanks so much.

@JeremyNasmith

Жыл бұрын

Right!?!? Excitement in every moment because it could go wrong at a y moment, yet they don't let it!!! This is Ballet at it's best if you're in the house watching, you're on the edge of your seat, and if they make it you can't help but shout Bravo!! Please compare this Nutcracker pas to any other you might find: I guarantee that sense of dangerous excitement sill be lacking.

@salomonbenavides529

11 ай бұрын

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choreography! Love this so much!

That was absolutely breathtaking. I really loved the choreography, and those lifts where out of this world☆

@susannevollmer2347

11 ай бұрын

The lifts are rather dangereous for the ballerina.

@francoisedesalmand517

10 ай бұрын

Noureev and Cathy

Beautiful, just beautiful!!!

La perfección en todo su esplendor! Que tiempos aquellos!!!!

This music is beautiful

What an exquisite interpretation.

Magnificent!!! Bravo!

Magici interpreti, eleganti, raffinati, pieni di armoniosa bellezza, una vera gioia per la mente e per il cuore. Rudy, I love you forever!!!❤️❤️❤️

Великолепный Рудольф Нуреев , великолепная Мерл Парк !!! БРАВО !!!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤❤

Rudolph will always be a legend - timeless & perfection in every deliberate move. He always stole the show & presented the ballerina in the best way, yet one still watches him. Miss when ballet had lavish costumes & backgrounds. Now it’s all just lighting & simple costumes.

@monichat

2 жыл бұрын

I watched mostly the ballerina

Casa si può dire di Nureyev. .. fantastico irripetibile!

Beautiful performance to that soaring piece of music. Thank you.

Could not BE more beautiful!!!!!!

Merle park is just sublime in this

I first saw this video 11 years ago and it sparked an interest in ballet that still lives in my heart today. I'm a musician, not a dancer, but I've had the privilege of playing in the orchestra for the nutcracker and it was one of the most musically satiating experiences of my life. I'm so happy to have found this video again! I thought it was taken down for the longest time. Seeing it again, I can't believe it's from 1968! The passion, the drama, this might be the most incredible pas de deux choreography ever. I just love it so much!

Just wonderful!!!

Hermosísimo...perfectos

Una vicinanza concorde che tuttavia non rende difficili i passi calcolati del balletto.Un simbionte e gradevolissimo accordo.Bighin GIULIO RENZO

The music, the dsncing...the incredible beauty. Perhaps there is hope for the human race, after all.

I love this orchestration of Tchaikovsky's music.

@hansdekorver7365

6 жыл бұрын

Written for orchestra , and arranged for the piano by Pletnev.

Que dire d'autre que : FABULEUX..... On reste accroché à ces quelques instants de Merveilles !!!!

Still gets to me every time I watch it.

Cuánta belleza, cuánta perfección en la danza. Bellísimo.

No me cansaría de verlo bailar a Rudof. Único en su grandeza .

Непревзойдённое па_де-деГения Рудольфа Нуреева и Мерле Парк из превосходного балета его же постановки!!!!Дух захватывает!!!!!

Unparalleled perfection. And the music.... so gorgeous

Божественно!Пластика,артистизм,чувственность ...Прекрасная партнерша у Гениального Р Нуреева.

Nobody can top these performances of Nureyev, he was just out of this world.

This rendition looked just beautiful to me . I enjoyed this very much. Thank you.

Que lindo!! Que sincronidade entre eles! Que leveza!! Grandes bailarinos. 👏💯♥️

This is so beautiful! Love the video. Rip Rudolph. You were a amazing talent and beautiful. Especially Nureyev. He really works hard to make it look effortless and to make Merle look good. Very impressed!

Stunning, it was amazingly beautiful and this piece of music is one of my favourites. I would love to go to the ballet and watch this ❤

My God….I’m crying! I’m sitting here crying! They’re so beautiful….so beautiful….

Нет слов, чтобы описать внутренние ощущения - и гениальная музыка Чайковского, и генильный Нуреев со своей партнёршей... До слез !

@Anna-uh4ri

Жыл бұрын

Спасибо Вам за такие слова!

@elenastamm2422

Жыл бұрын

Очень нравится! Как хорошо, что есть эти съёмки?

@user-qv7qs7wt8u

Жыл бұрын

Раньше почти перед каждым Новым годом ходила на,,, Щелкунчика,,, и уходила с ощущением счастья оттого, что я русская

Più che li osservo e più mi dico NESSUNO RAGGIUNGERÀ questa perfezione ed eleganza...... Come ho già detto qui sotto.... 2 ANNI FA Comunque ringrazio tanto per aver ri-inserito questo post

The dancing here never equaled the beauty of the musical score. Don’t know that it ever could

Beyond spectacular! OMG.... I have never seen anything so breathtakingl beautiful. Superb is an understatement.

@nenapap1086

Жыл бұрын

Bozanstveno , nikada nedostignuto. 😍

Thank you so much for posting this. I saw this interpretation of The Nutcracker with Rudolf Nureyev in NY many years ago, but didn't appreciate it as much as I do now (too young I think). This pdd I watch at least once a day now! So beautiful....

Неподражаемо и гениально!Наслаждение и восхищение!На века!

Superbe chorégraphie, merveilleusement interprétée ! Merci mille fois !

Il Pas de deux più strabiliante mai visto.

To me this is a marvelous blend of superb artistry and some of most powerful music is ballet.

Elegance at its very best. Thank you.

Ahhhhhhhh🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I usually don’t like dance or two, but oh my goodness this was a treat! A dance or two where both dancer shine, equally, and ughh!! Bravo!!!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Nesses tempos de tristeza e ansiedade de hoje!! Assistindo essas danças mágicas é muito caro e amoroso para nossa Alma!ac

she's amazing!

Siempre me ha gustado el ballet y si volviera a nacer cambiaría mi profesión de arquitecta por esta manifestación de arte que me lleva a la gloria. Mis lágrimas lo confirman.

Прекрасно!.,!

There are 2 PAS DE DEUX in the ballet The Nutcracker. The one we are admiring here is called the GRAND PAS DE DEUX

Well, it doesnt get any better than that. I dont know how many times Ive watched, it always brings me to tears. 🌹🙏🏻

Bravo! Bravisssimo!!! One more time!!!!

Rudolf out of breath???? never seen that before! fabulous, went right into my favorites

Quel cadeau, de bon matin. Merci!

So different structure or coreography . QUITe. BEatifull .Perfect. Grate Nureyev ando Merle Park. From Chile - Southamerika. Admiration for ever.

I have goose bumps watching this and the music is perfect...😘👏♥️

precioso, el ballet y la opera, me facinan, gracias x los videos

Mon Dieu ! Qu'ils sont beaux !

Sublime!!! 👏👏👏👏👏

!!!!!!!!+++ ОГРОМНОЕ СПАСИБО ЗА ВИДЕО !!!

Breathtaking!

Majestuosa, imponente... cuanto arte desbordante...