Wow for both Markova and Dowell, but Dowell absolutely shone, what an incredibly elegant and memorable dancer he was. He and Markova brought a level of genuine acting and elegance to this ballet that is seldom seen today with the prevalent vulgar emphasis on gymnastics.

The amazing thing about this woman is that she was so passionate that she even knew where to look ,how amazing she placed her head,her face and eyes expressions are what made her so great,besides the fact she is a perfect ballet dancer,a one of a kind dancer❤🌠.no other dancer expresses herself the way she does❤

I just realised how talented she was. Amazing ballerina - she has everything: technique, artistry, musicality and beautiful look and proportions.

God that chemistry!! And she's just the most incredible Odile, every movement no matter how small means everything in her interpretation. Like the way she moves her shoulder and she's so aware of her neck!

I saw them perform this very ballet in South Africa in 1976, sitting two rows from the stage. An unforgettable experience.

Out of this world both of them OMG

Великолепная Макарова с ее уникальным изысканным стилем! Каждое движение - произведение искусства!

The best Odette/Odille I've ever seen. This should be required viewing for ballerinas first time playing those parts.

What a moment to watch when a dancer meets that still center! All the years of perfecting. 🌹One word - Markarova! And wonderful Dowell as a consummate partner! ♥️

Two legends! ❤❤❤

Makarova is a goddess! No one can compare with her in this ballet. She is able to cast a spell on everyone who sees her dance. And how she moves! She is floating!

@julannaml21

3 жыл бұрын

Look Uliana Lopatkina.she is the best of the best!!!she is top!!!

@etherealtb6021

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! I've never seen a better Odille. She's plays it flirty, fun, sexy and dangerous, not evil. She's also the sweetest and most innocent Odette. Truly, the most balanced White/Black Swan performance I've ever seen.

@talararuth4792

11 ай бұрын

Agree! A magnificent dancer, coach and person.. only rivals perhaps those she personally coached like Evelyn Hart.

@Artes2024

6 ай бұрын

Estoy de acuerdo con su opinión! Ella es una : Prima Ballerina Assoluta!!!

Oh Sir Anthony Dowell, the most elegant and perfect ´stepmeister¨ partner and performer- years of practice, again and again every day have made you the well deserved star that you are. xx

@VLind-uk6mb

Жыл бұрын

He's fabulous. Did you notice that his grands pirouettes à la seconde were in the opposite direction to most dancers?

@Qwerty-db1js

Жыл бұрын

@@VLind-uk6mb He's a left turner, wasn't he?

My favorite ballerina of all time. Thanks!💕

Para mi la mejor version.

She’s just breathtaking

OmG! Odille's dance... Awesome! So light

Love love love love N. Makarova ❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣

Dowell and Nagy were my favorite partners for her.

She is amazing...what a technique and inimitable grace

the violin and bassoon solos touch me to the bottom of my soul.

Her skillful ,was how she moved her arms as well as coordinate with her legs in swans lake pas de deux to

Divina❤ Braccia "parlanti" ❤

Absolutely stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dos leyendas Mágicos Viva la lírica!

Beautiful 😍

great chemistry :)

IMHO,, unmatched.

😍🌹thanks Anne xx that's my exercise for the week xx brilliant

Makarova: petite but powerful !

5:45 - Incredible! She spells pure magic...

Von Rothbart is waving his arms around like, she’s Odette, don’t let the black feathers fool you. Think of them as her evening wear.

@sandragreen9338

2 жыл бұрын

Yah...Von Rothbart crowding these two sublime dancers...interfering with/obscuring their exquisite shapes in space..I may be presumptuous in saying, but whose idea to have him hovering like that??

nunca vi tanta perfeccion extraordinario

Only a few partnerships are as great as theirs

Lindóoooo demais um sonho

meravigliosa

❤❤❤❤❤

Maravilhosa

Unfortunately this seems to have been compressed width-wise and the distortion makes everyone look taller and skinnier than they really are. Please can you correct this

I was so mesmerized that I did not notice, Sorry.

Wonderful production and dancing. Wondering if Makarova was carrying a lower back injury - just a little constraint?

@conradmartinez4175

8 ай бұрын

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNEW THAT. I NOTICED A FEW NEGATIVE COMMENTS ABOUT BALANCE MOVES AND LINE EXTENSIONS I HAVE SEEN HER AT HER BEST AND EITHER WAY SHE WAS THE ULTIMATE "ODILE"

Consummate, consistent, and marvellous! What can you say about Makarova's dancing that is negative? :)

@conradmartinez4175

8 ай бұрын

YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING NEGATIVE SHE WAS THE "ULTIMATE ODILE"

@theresa42213

8 ай бұрын

@@conradmartinez4175 ~ She didn't cheat with her fuoettes either. She did the full ones.

@conradmartinez4175

8 ай бұрын

@theresa42213 THANK YOU THAT'S RIGHT! BUT THE ARM MOVEMENTS LIKE WINGS, AND HER SASSY ODILE LOOK ON HER FACE WAS A GOOD ADDED FACTOR.

Awesome!!!

Love Makarova, he have a dramatic intention in every role. Dowel excelent. But...are various and splendid etoile dancing black swan. Perhaps too many for to name in this occasion.

Perhaps not the most technically brilliant or secure Odile, but definitely the most dramatically gripping. Watch her eyes harden at 1:00 minute, as she faces the Prince for the first time. And again at 14:55 when she vanishes literally into thin air.

@attitude-devant9530

7 жыл бұрын

Technique? Aren't we talking about art? Nowadays technique is mistaken with over extensions and contortionims... that is NOT ballet dear, Mr. Aves. But THIS performance is... It is all that ballet is about. For more information: www.attitude-devant.com

@philipcondenzio1035

7 жыл бұрын

Bravo, to you!!!

@avesraggiana

6 жыл бұрын

+attitude - devant. Oh, I’m completely with you, believe me. I just finished writing another post where I described how Makarova’s fouettes fell apart about halfway through, in the one live performance I was very fortunate to see her. But her indifferent fouettes were nothing, compared to the remarkable and thoroughly compelling reading of Odile that she gave. Bewitching, beguiling, menacing, her hold over the character of Odile and over her audience never wavering. I’ve watched many, many Odiles, including the vaunted Cynthia Gregory, Olga Chenchikova, Altynai Asylmuratova, Galina Mezentseva, Darcey Bussell and Uliana Lopatkina, to name a few. In spite of their stronger technique, none of them gave as riveting or as memorable performance as Makarova did on that night. Truly a singular theatrical experience, and this recording with Sir Anthony Dowell and the Royal Ballet captures a little of it.

@mingdynasty112

6 жыл бұрын

The speed at which Makarova performs the entire pas de deux and the demands that places on her are what make this truly exciting and difficult to do. I think it's a masterful performance. I don't need stunt fouettes with double and triple pirouettes between fouettes that slow down the music to thrill me--that type of thing is just 7 seconds of pleasure--a kind of obscenity--we don't seek at the ballet unless we've arrived very late in the game and as "attitude-devant" says, represents "technique" that is "mistaken" for "contortions" of all kinds. Dowell was one of the greatest technicians of his day and is also completely present on stage and a wonderful partner. They do a marvelous Odile/Albrecht. Makarova has so many different interpretations of Swan Lake and I love seeing her so lithe and lean in this one. It's unusual for her and I think she's the bomb!

@etherealtb6021

Жыл бұрын

@@attitude-devant9530 Yes! Her technique is impeccable - except for a wee wobble on that solo arabesque balance.

Came to his video to see how Makarova (whom I thought would be very precise) would sweep the leg back into attitude derrière at 1:17 only to find that she went with a développé. I wonder if she changed it because of that awkward moment going through 1st to get to attitude.

Hei hei hei

In 16/9 please.

Where are the famous 32 fouettes?

@gudrunw7268

6 ай бұрын

11:50

So in the plot, why are they engaged in a dance off?

@FredMaus

10 ай бұрын

It's how pas de deux work. The plot has to wait a bit.

@melenatorr

8 ай бұрын

@@FredMaus But there's still some character work going on in how Siegfried expresses his joy in his solo, and how Odile builds on her persona and seduction.

Of all the partners she ever really had, Dowell was perhaps the only one she ever really fell in love with. She had real genuine romantic feelings for him... but like many good men in ballet, he personally goes the other way. She was... somewhat broken. Huh. How many other ladies in the field of ballet personally really did go through this themselves?

@Qwerty-db1js

Жыл бұрын

When exactly did she fall for him? Am really extremely curious to know 😬

Too much of the big guy in the robe, got very distracted by him....but loved Dowell and Makarova.

@karenkaren3189

5 жыл бұрын

Dowell, especially....his partnering, his turns and jumps, the look of sheer joy on his face at 12:30.

@karenkaren3189

5 жыл бұрын

I always loved the sweet look of humble gratitude on Sir Anthony’s face when he acknowledged applause.

@karenkaren3189

5 жыл бұрын

He doesn’t look that muscular but apparently all his partners said he was as strong as steel.

@sandragreen9338

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! The big guy in the big bathrobe: who invited him??

@gudrunw7268

Жыл бұрын

that is Derek Rencher and he is playing Rothbart.

we don't see anymore cetain finesses...

Musicality

Ноги-да, но руки... Грабли

@user-mf3td9iw6f

3 жыл бұрын

Обвисшие...

Not a lot of warmth in this partnership and why oh why does she insist on holding that wobbly balance at 5.37 on much better to finish quickly and cleanly

@liobu3097

5 жыл бұрын

LID ROGERS The artist behind it is responsible for it. Makarova just follows what the choreographer wants.

@FredMaus

10 ай бұрын

She is an imposter, wickedly fooling him, and I think her radiance with an undertone of malice is perfect here. Watch more to see how different her Odette is.

I expected more from her technically..........

@matina_angel

6 жыл бұрын

if this is the only thing you found to say by watching this, then you have no idea what ballet is.

@bw3747

3 жыл бұрын

@@matina_angel Technic has everything to do with it..

@matina_angel

3 жыл бұрын

@@bw3747 actually Makarova is one of the best technical dancers ever, she can do the steps while doing the most difficult and expressing port de bras. So yes, technique is everything, and she has surpass it.

@Qwerty-db1js

Жыл бұрын

I get what u mean. Her turns can be wobbly, but her intensity/stage presence and upper body movements are sublime.

She doesn't have the energy, posture and those magical hands that Maya Plisetskaya had. Just one more confirmation that Plisetksaya was the best of the best.

@sandragreen9338

2 жыл бұрын

?? best perhaps for you...both great artists, but two different characteristic energies, personalities, eras, differing styles & training, different body types...

Редакция Горского более красива ...

When I see her chest bones protruding it's so disturbing. Starving for art.☹

@VLind-uk6mb

Жыл бұрын

She put on a bit of weight in the west and danced the better for it. But she has those wonderful Kirov arms -- best in the world.

What a moment to watch when a dancer meets that still center! All the years of perfecting. 🌹One word - Markarova! And wonderful Dowell as a consummate partner! ♥️