Сергей Полунин/Sergei Polunin, Raymonda Pas de Deux
The Celebration For Nina Ananiashvili - 30 Years On Stage
State Ballet of Georgia and Guest Dancers
Georgia, Tbilisi, Rustaveli Theatre
March 2012
Ballet: Raymonda
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Music: Alexander Glazunov
Dancers: Sergei Polunin and Elena Glurdjidze
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Elena Glurdjidze:
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, she began training at age seven at the Arts School, Tbilisi then from age 10 she was accepted into the Choreographic Ballet School. Furthering her training she entered the prestigious Vaganova Academy in St-Petersburg at age 12 as a pupil of the great Russian ballerina Lubov Kunakova who coached her throughout this period developing her into the ballerina she is today.
In 2002 Elena joined English National Ballet as a Principal ballerina and was promoted in 2007 to Lead Principal ballerina.
Her repertoire included principal roles in Giselle, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Romeo & Juliet, Cinderella, Coppélia, Manon, The Snow Queen, Chopiniana, Etudes, Schéhérazade, Tchaikovsky pas de deux, The Dying Swan, Alice in Wonderland, The Canterville Ghost, Le Spectre de la Rose, Raymonda Grand Pas, A Million Kisses to my Skin, Suite en blanc, Facing Viv, Vue de l'autre, Jeux as well as pas de deux's from La bayadère, Le Corsaire and Ashton's Margeurite and Armand.
Created roles included Virginia in The Canterville Ghost (Will Tuckett), Lead Gypsy Girl in The Snow Queen (Michael Corder), Vue de l'autre (Van Le Ngoc) and Jeux (Wayne Eagling)
In 2009 Elena was nominated for Best Female Dancer at the Critics' Circle Awards. Won both the 2007 and 2008 Ballet.co.uk Audience Poll for Best Female Dancer, won Best Partner Award at 7th Perm Open Competition in 2002 and in 1997 won the Bronze Medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition. In 1998 she won the 8th Paris International Competition of Soloists.
In 2009 Karl Lagerfeld, Creative Director of Chanel, created a tutu for Fokine's The Dancing Swan which he fitted exclusively for Elena at Chanel's headquarters in Paris forming part of the Company's tribute to The Ballets Russes staged at Sadler's Wells.
In 2011 British Fashion Designer Giles Deacon created a tutu based on the Black Swan which once again was exclusively designed and created for her.
Elena lives in London and is married to Kakhaber Abashidze and has a beautiful son, Alexander, she also speaks Georgian, Russian and English. She graduated from The Royal Ballet School Professional Dancers Teaching Course - Professional Classical Ballet Teacher and was invited to teach during The Royal Ballet Summer School as well as English National Ballet Summer School in July 2013.
Her final performance with English National Ballet was as Odette/Odile in Derek Deane's Swan Lake at the London Coliseum on 18 January 2015, the role she first danced with the Company in 2002. She continues to guest with companies internationally and is currently working towards staging her own production projects.
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Sergei Polunin:
Born in Kherson, Ukraine in 1989, Sergei Polunin/Сергей Полунин is a Russian ballet dancer. Famous for his "once every hundred years" talent, he has incredulous elevation and impeccable technique. From an early age, he displayed glorious dramatic range. Home videos of him as a small boy improvising to Pavarotti are very foretelling. At age 19, he became the youngest ever male principal dancer with London's Royal Ballet company.
Ballet gained an unprecedented new awareness when he danced in Hozier's viral video "Take Me To Church." People who would never have paid any attention to ballet began to watch the tattooed phenom. He is generally attributed with bringing ballet to the modern common man. Classical, yet cutting edge, Sergei starred in Diesel's "Make Love Not Walls" campaign and has put his mark on many other promotions.
Sergei is a much sought after model and actor. Fashion designers love his breathtaking physique and brooding good looks. He has garnered only positive reviews for his acting. His appearances include Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of the Orient Express, the biographical documentary Dancer, The White Crow, and Red Sparrow.
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Phenomenal. He is the Dancer of the century
Sergei, c'est toujours sublime
Thank you, Pam, for yet another video highlighting the beauty and grace of Sergei’s dance. So expressive, yet precise, so powerful, yet graceful. His technique is so spot-on, yet seems spontaneous and joyful. You’ve captured his remarkable virtuosity yet again. Thank you for posting.
@PamBoehmeSimon
4 жыл бұрын
You're very kindly welcome Tricia. My pleasure of course.
hi there.. hello again 💐 Beautiful 😇, thank U 4 this magical moment !
Elena Glurjidze is now one of my teachers!
magnifique
Thank you, that was absolutely lovely -- I have no idea where you found this old footage, but I'm so glad you shared it with us!
Amazing dancing - thanks for putting that up. Shame about the way he fell out of that pirouette, but he covered well! The height on his jumps is just spectacular.
Thank you Pam for this beautiful performance of two talented dancers. Your videos are always appreciated. C❤❤❤
SERGIEI IS THE BEST
@margaretlavender4418
4 жыл бұрын
lucynka102. You mean, he WAS. Now, he is appalling. His whole attitude now is appalling. No longer the man we loved. Shaven head, tattoos everywhere, and doing only modern and contemporary dance which I absolutely loathe. Only the classical, as here, for me. Plus ballets as Symphonic Variations and Monotones.
Пам вы большая молодец!!!
BRAVO
Сергей прекрасен и Елена Глурджидзе великолепна.Большое удовольствие и от прекрасной игры оркестра.Все сложилось.Спасибо.
Lovely... thanks, Pam
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Bravo Sergei
I like you take your time to publish the bios of the dancers. Very educational. Thank you.
Thanks Pam for sharing ...
Потрясающий Полунин! Прыжки завораживают, выше всяких похвал! Для него не существуют законы гравитации, висит в прыжке столько, сколько нужно для красоты и точности элемента. Балерина не попадает в музыку и это очень печально... Контраст с Сергеем как свет и тень.
Potriasaiushchaia Elene Glurjidze ona fantastichna, bravooo!!!
Tanks Pam🌺🌺🌺🦋🦋🇸🇻
@PamBoehmeSimon
4 жыл бұрын
You're welcome Sofia. =)
No words to express my mood of pleasure and enchantment at this moment. Thanks, Pam.
@PamBoehmeSimon
4 жыл бұрын
Happy to help spread the joy that is Sergei. Glad you're enjoying Antonio.
Очень хороши оба
Più che dignitosa Elena, molto meglio di tante altre più famose e accreditate
Thank you very much Pam Boehme Simon for this, even so,nevertheless i prefer to see him in contemporary performance, because he has a lot more options to show his terrific skills
@masmedi3539
4 жыл бұрын
but this type of dancing is CLASSIC.. showing ballet as when ballet was invented by the French then immortalized & popularized by the Russians thanks to Nureyev...BRAVO OUR GORGEOUS SERGEI..but ..gustos son gustos...(it's all about taste).. and people like different things, so i got you..
@ilonaruggle4513
4 жыл бұрын
@@masmedi3539 your right, but classical ballett is, in my opinion and this especially for the male dancer, limited in movements. Maybe you remember the statement from Nureyev ....what a challenge and pleasure contemporary dance for him is.
@elizzy8754
4 жыл бұрын
Polunin, because of his natural gifts, proportions, training, acting ability, sense of humour, wide experience in the repertoire, is the quintessential classical ballet dancer. I would like to have seen him do more Ashton (did he ever do Symphonic Variations?), Roland Petit, Neumeier, Mats Ek, possibly some Carlson, Crystal Pite; and who knows, even a collaboration with Akram Kahn. But each individual goes the way they feel they have to go.
🤩😍👏👏💐💐🕊
Откуда эта балерина? У нас так не танцуют
Thank you, Pam! Really excellent work, as usual:-) Was he still with Royal or had he left at this point...? His technical precision and expressiveness artistically NEVER fail to amaze:-)
@elizzy8754
4 жыл бұрын
Pam has noted that this was March 2012.
@PamBoehmeSimon
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Nancy! He left the Royal Ballet in January of 2012, so this performance was shortly thereafter.
ДА_А!Этого парня надо хорошо кормить-он тратит столько силы,энергии-прыжки умопомрачительные,слов нет,но я уверена,что его Леночка кормит так вкусно и качественно,да и вкладывает своё умение готовить, а также любовь и своё сердце!
@yoannavladimirovnakurtina5242
4 жыл бұрын
У Вас, по-видимому, много опыта в развитии сверхспособностей человека, что Вы так рассуждаете со знанием дела.
@koqna
4 жыл бұрын
Ето 2012 год
Am a bit confused as to why Glazunov's original music was taken out and replaced with a piano solo which isn't really in keeping with the dance. It doesn't happen anywhere else in the video so maybe the original audio for this section was poor quality or something? Would be grateful if anybody could throw some light on this please.
@PamBoehmeSimon
3 жыл бұрын
The original audio file was corrupted and a suitable matching version was not readily available. ☺️
With such a beautiful couple how could the pas de deux change music and be cut suddenly! It is Glazunov for God's sake!
Muy adornada la versión, nunca había visto una adaptación así del Pas Classique Hongroise, y no me encantó. Raymonda tiene otro Pas de Deux, en la segunda escena del primer acto donde el adagio sólo lo baila la pareja. En el segundo acto está el Pas de Action con Abderrahmán. Prefiero la versión original
What is the name of the jump at 5:10?
@minissa2009
4 жыл бұрын
It's a front cabriole with a double beat (I think this is the one you mean).
что касается балерины,то по-моему мнению,танцуя с ним,считают за Счастье все балерины!
Je suis desole. Je ne parle pas français bien. Quoi est le nombre du sauter a 5:10?
@elizzy8754
4 жыл бұрын
I think it is a cabriole battue, or a double cabriole devant but someone with better knowledge than I may like to answer! Je crois que le saut s'appelle une cabriole battue ou bien une double cabriole devant.
@minissa2009
4 жыл бұрын
@@elizzy8754 That's what I would call it. I don't know why there are so many questions about it, though. It's not that uncommon a move, esp for a man, although he really soars on them.
Как называется прыжок в 5:10?
@user-wf9fi7po8m
4 жыл бұрын
вариант ассамбле ан турнан.двойной
Женская партия это не балет а просто национальный танец какой-то!
Барышня не для балета, ноги короткие, мышцы круглые. Сергей великолепен
i came here to watch beautiful people behaving in a classy civilized manner after watching protests on the streets (on TV!) for 12 days! (protests are posing/show off..to be on the news cuz why else? if media didn show it..they wouldn be there..cuz if U want officials to change things you appear in city hall meetings and write letters, run for office etc..not litter the streets using the bathrooms in the parks destroying parks as the occupy Wall-street move did=destroyed the people's park! & end up with a fringe of violent brutes abusing others and looting...c'mon!
Барышня-ну просто никуда не годная, любительский танец какой-то!
Оркестр играет не в танец Полунина.
Хорош, и все же - не Церикадзе.
@user-nt7ot9ml5m
3 жыл бұрын
Да ! Это не Цискаридзе ! Это гениальный, божественный Сергей Полунин!!
I don’t agree that Polunin is the dancer of the century, and am not even sure which century is meant to be his. Certainly critics throughout the 20th century said Nijinski was the best male dancer of the 20th century....has Polunin surpassed him? I look at Vladimir Vasiliev, Irek Mukhamedov, Rudolph Nureyev, David Hallberg, and others in a higher position than Polunin, who has-in my opinion-been a major disappointment and a poor steward of his talents. Almost from the time Polunin became a professional dancer, his terrible attitude has interfered with his progress. I hope that he’s able to get himself together before he’s much older.