He is sheer physical greatness. You could not find enough adjectives. A combination of near perfection and a continual bursting of power and complicated and creative technique and feats. There is such a containment about him but yet such an explosive quality. He is so precise in his preparation yet he is unbridled. In short, he's a beast. No wonder he is so great - he brushed with Alicia Alonsa. He is just extraordinary all the way. His focus, his drive, his concentration, his innovation. What a magnificent dancer. This is such a wonderful video. Thank you so, so much.

I am so proud of him and his career. As a fellow Cuban, I could not be more proud.

I was blessed to have watched Carlos performing with the Houston Ballet in the '90's. We always visited with the dancers after the program, and he was so gracious. Signed my daughter's playbill and took pictures with her. He was our favorite. Good dancer, creative artist, and most importantly, just a really nice guy.

Basterebbe I' imperativo impadronimento del proscenio a balzi falcati amplissimi ed a sforbiciate aeree e a rotazioni volanti tortili e raccolte ad ascrivere questa performance in pura eccezzionalita '.Superlativo.Bighin Giulio Renzo. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

I'm watching this because KZread ad about Mr Acosta being interviewed , I am 56 now in 6th grade my mother enrolled me in violin class which I dont no why . But as a child you obey your parents, I learned quickly and sort of enjoy it. Back then there free trips to ballets and opera for LAUSD music school. I appreciate our music teacher MS. RUTH BUDD who taught us about music This school was Union Ave elementary school in Los Angeles. I appreciate music more now and not the garbage 1 week wonder I hear most listen to these days.

Thank you so much 😍❤.Bravo Carlos Acosta👏👏👏🇨🇺

The Cuban school and his life experience make him great

Had never heard of him but watching the movie on TV at this moment so Googled him. I love to see a man who can dance, regardless of the type of dancing.

This is so beautiful that l am crying !!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Thanks for featuring such a great classical male ballet dancer. Born in the island of Cuba. Alicia Alonso school of dance. Escuela National de Ballet. Bravo.

If you were in the audience, they'd go nits at leaps. It was the amazingly controlled finishes that got me. Not a dancer holding on at the end but with more. And the technique ...placement and turnout on turns wow. Wish I'd seen him. Slow mo gives a chance to appreciate

Carlos, o gigante. Bravo sempre

Absolutely incredible. It's not just the elevation and the ballon, but it's the sharpness of the attack.

I watched him at ROH a few times. Apart from the fantastic technique, he communicates emotion and energy like no other.

Neverovatno, fantastično... Žao mi je što nikada neću moći da ga vidim na pozornici. Hvala na zadovoljstvu koje ste mi pružili

Super ballet knowledge, bravo.

Simply breath taking!, He brings love and admiration to the art of ballet and stardom place for male dancers. A joy to see Carlos’ artistic talent.

who dislikes this??? Some people are beyond ...

Amazing.

Thank you for another terrific video, so enjoyable and painlessly informative. His elevation and ballon are surprising, given his size and height.

Thanks a million, Kent. Incredible dancer and highly instructive video. Love them.

Magnificent technique and placing!!!

What a great video! Thank you! I hope there will be also one with Carlos as a great partner dancer and other topics...

thank you Kent, i enjoyed this video a lot and learned. i love carlos!!!

BRAVO!!!!!!!

He is magnificent!so clean, graceful and powerful. Cuba seems to prioritize the arts and medicine. Simkin is just as magnificent but the vibe is so different. Acosta is majestic and Simkin ,I suspect is some sort of mystical creature.

@migueltrujillo5932

10 ай бұрын

...and he is a masculine looking guy too.

I remember when he won because i wasbin Cuba🌺👏🙏💯

Absolutely amazing. Thank you for this

Thank you so much!

I was in Cuba when he won Lausanne but my family was involved in the Choreographical foundation🥰👏🎶🎵

Another great video, I learn so much from your content and your website, thanks.

Fabuloso el Senor.

I saw Nuryev once, live, in The King and I. It was not done as a ballet, but his command of the stage was still outstanding.

Great! Dancer and Narrator, thank you! Thoroughly fascinating!

Тело Цескаридзе, техника молодого Полунина. Это просто бог какой то

@brendadufaur37

Жыл бұрын

He's better than Polunin.

Incredible 😍👏🏽

Как он великолепен!!! Великий танцор- Мастер!

@berkana8762

2 жыл бұрын

Ну,если вы воспринимаете балет,как цирк, то да,и музыка ему не мешает...

@nadezdakorosteleva4925

2 жыл бұрын

@@berkana8762 чем же он не угодил фанату Твардовского? Сам то, на что способен?

I love these videos you make and narrate. I wonder if you could find footage and talk about the careers of Kevin Pugh and Dale Brannon, who began their training in Indianapolis at the Jordan School of Dance and went off to careers in a number of important international companies. I think Pugh is now teaching in Canada. I took classes there for years with Jack Copeland and Rebecca Rutt. Jack Copeland's story and reach in training talent was fascinating, another topic that would be fun to see covered.

El mejor del Mundo en su momento.

Just wanna say, I love your channel. I love ballet but not a dancer, so you channel help me gain so many knowledge. Thank you.

THANK YOU!!!!! I am learning from you!!!!!

@KentGBecker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joseph. Will have another video soon.

Maravilloso!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Великолепный танцор, мощь и грация, отточенность движений, безукоризненное исполнение❤ Ученик Нуреева? Очень похоже...

Brilliance 🔥

Very good! I am not his fan, but very good!

Iove this human so much. After barry, possibile the other goat

true in le corsaire he did the peter schsuffus jump l saw live peter doing it in late 70's in galas in london doing le corsaire

A pleasure, as always (even learned a couple of new terms!). I would have called the step that opens Corsaire a turning pas de chat. Is it the entry that makes it a saut de basque variant? And I agree, I was seeing Simkin (also Vasilieve to some extent) in some of these he's-so-good-he-makes-up-his-own-steps jumps. But more amazing from Acosta because he's a relatively large man. I found him relatively late in his career, when he could still out-dance a lot of god-tier danseurs, but this footage from his prime is just utter perfection---on steroids! Again, thanks. I learn so much from your break-downs.

@KentGBecker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for tuning it. Probably multiple terms can be used for the step. It is generally called a saut de basque because the dancer goes off one foot and lands on the other with a turn. I was able to see Carlos as a guest artist at ABT in the early 2000s and always enjoyed it. I wished that he danced at ABT more. His Conrad in Le Corsaire was memorable.

@minissa2009

2 жыл бұрын

@@KentGBecker Have you seen his Spartacus with Nina Kaptsova? It's in bits and pieces but is available on YT. I'm so jealous! I really miss New York and its unparalleled dance scene.

@KentGBecker

2 жыл бұрын

@@minissa2009 Thanks. Never seen it. Will take a look on KZread. NYC is looking up with the NYCB season and upcoming ABT season with Giselle and mixed rep. Will have coverage on Balletfocus.com.

@rosiegreen813

2 жыл бұрын

@@KentGBecker You've perhaps found it on DVD by now. He was an older dancer by the time he danced it with the Bolshoi, but he added immense interpretation to the role.

@majawn

2 жыл бұрын

I would think that for it to be pas the chat it would require asynchronicity in leg movement: going up sequentially not simultaneously, creating a sort of rolling/domino impression.

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️your videos. ⭐️🤩🤩

@KentGBecker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jonna

СОВЕРШЕНСТВО!!

Arriba mi paisano. Partiendo la tarima 😂😜💯

Wow

Like Shaufuss a great dancer that is underrated compared to Nureyev , Baryshnikov, V. Vassiliev and even Soloviev

@KentGBecker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I am thinking about doing a video on Shaufuss. Agree he is a great dancer with many innovative steps ahead of his time.

@brendadufaur37

Жыл бұрын

So very, very true Joseph.

I think I can help you with some terminology. I know that “double assemblé” is out there, but it’s a misunderstanding of assemblé, which is very simply the bringing together of the legs in a tight fifth position. Adding tours only makes it an “assemblé with two tours” or assemblé en tournant. Not to belabor the point, but one can only assemblé the legs once. I certainly applaud your efforts to bring the terminology to the fore.

@KentGBecker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

SUPERBE!

So wonderful. What does he do now,?

@Not_YourAv3rageJO

2 жыл бұрын

He is now the director of Birmingham ballet!

@lynnerichardson1490

2 жыл бұрын

That’s “Birmingham, UK” not Alabama, BTW

@rethinkcps2116

2 жыл бұрын

@@lynnerichardson1490 - OK. I wondered about that. You are kind to clarify, tactfully. 😎

@Not_YourAv3rageJO

2 жыл бұрын

@@lynnerichardson1490 yes lol 😆 sorry I didn't specify!

@huwaidaguindi8225

2 жыл бұрын

@@lynnerichardson1490 what about the ballet company or school … he had founded in cuba…???

Ok we can talk about his steps and how he does it all. U sound like a sports commentator in this. Which is kind of funny. But Can we just say how hot he is? !!! Instead of saying he is athletic. And those legs. That that giant body can do those things. A ballet monster in all The good senses. Like Nureyev And that balconey pas de deux in romeo that is online. That kiss at the end and how he approaches her. Wow. So honest. Now I sound like a sports commentator. Haha

@brendadufaur37

Жыл бұрын

great comment Tony!

👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏

I would like to let you know that one day I'll be in one of these videos 📹🙃🙂

@KentGBecker

2 жыл бұрын

I can't wait! Where do you dance?

@Not_YourAv3rageJO

2 жыл бұрын

@@KentGBecker Ballet center of fort worth is where I might be formally training next year 💪🏽

@KentGBecker

2 жыл бұрын

@@Not_YourAv3rageJO Best of luck!

@Not_YourAv3rageJO

2 жыл бұрын

@@KentGBecker Thank you so much! 🙏🏽 You'll see me succeeding monumentally in 4 Years

Накаченный гладиатор. Это поражает, но не восхищает!

I haven't seen anyone who impressed me as much as Mischa in his prime. Those buns, thighs and calves. Wow!!! What a great body he has, not to mention his wonderful grace in all his movements. 72 yo woman ..... Sighing... .aaaahhhhhh!!! LOL!!!

Hai TSIYA YELLOW MUSK TABLE OF INTELLIGENTSIYA BALLET. .CONGRATULATIONS. .FUNTASTIK THESE. .PERFORMANCE. .D'ACO D'OIRO. .THANKS FOR ALLES UND LIEBEN ZI! FROM YOURS GENERALLE BALLERINE MOURA MUSK GENERALLE ASTRONAUTA OF INTELLIGENTSIYA OM STARSHIP MICHELLE VIII. BNDS MISSILE Y X KARAJE PIMENTADO. 🔰🔰🔝👟👟

По танцам на нуриева похож

This vision of Carlos' childhood as "very humble" is no accute. Poverty in CUba has nothing to do with poverty in other countries, even in the USA. A poor child whose father has a fixed job who has time to encourage his abilities and is as educated and nourished tas o be able to get where he is is not "poor", as understood in the rest of American countries.

Not as good as Bartshnikov

@vivianjames9797

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad I can’t spell Baryshnikov

@sakura44553

2 жыл бұрын

Carlos Acosta gives me more pleasure than Михаил Николаевич Барышников. Both are great dancers of their time!

@terezwinkler6658

2 жыл бұрын

Oder Nurejew

@sakura44553

2 жыл бұрын

@@terezwinkler6658 Nurgejew had the worst technic of the famous dancers in 20th century, even he did a lot for the development of man in ballet.

Ну, физкультурник и что?