@@Ballet20 No, it was recorded at another venue. I can't remember where, but much smaller...
@2gther4ever12 күн бұрын
I remember seeing Fonteyn at 60ish Royal Festival Hall dancing the balcony scene Romeo and Juliet, to be honest I thought we would be applauding just because she is Fonteyn, but it was a stunning performance, a wonderful memory. Thank you for posting this, one of my fav ballets.
@walterbenjamin138615 күн бұрын
What a gorgeous physique she had. And I love her crisp, British style, so specifically detailed and elegant. Somehow her style matches Tchaikovsky - exuberant and sensual. (They were both Tauruses). She was Britain's Ur Ballerina, with an ancestry in the Ballets Russes. The trajectory of her life is almost unbelievably tragic, ending up broke with cows (Taurus again) and a cheating husband, totally dependent on her, in South America. Thank you for this splendid archival treasure!
@flightydancerАй бұрын
Beautiful and inspiring.
@elisedunstan20803 ай бұрын
This is perfection.
@josephsharkrage43053 ай бұрын
This pre-dates Disney by 20 years, Margot's Princess was named Princess Aurora. That's awesome!! The Princess Aurora vs Princess Aurora. Both!
@susannevollmer23474 ай бұрын
Who is the Carabosse in this production, please?
@sedekiman8244 ай бұрын
What lovelu tuts tehey all have. Layers that hide the crotch! And not the "candle snuffers" of so many today.
@38pouet6 ай бұрын
Hello, do you know if there is a video recording of this 2007 ballet Cyrano by David Bintley? In the form of a DVD or something else?
@carles036 ай бұрын
I'm afraid there isn't. All I have ever seen is this fragment from TV.
@SlavicLanguage6 ай бұрын
Very interesting
@SlavicLanguage6 ай бұрын
💛🩵 I really love this channel
@carles036 ай бұрын
Thank you!! ❤
@kaythomas8521 Жыл бұрын
Bravo!! Magnificent Margot Fonteyn
@irinikariamis8430 Жыл бұрын
I hope one day there able to find the full recording
@carles03 Жыл бұрын
There's none... They ran out of money. We're lucky they found this act!!
@voraciousreader3341 Жыл бұрын
My favorite Aurora is Alla Sizova, and I prefer her even in the truncated film version. Between 1958 and 1961, she learned and performed _14 major roles!_ I can’t even imagine that as being possible! Nureyev said that the only thing that could have tempted him to go back to the Soviet Union was Sizova, which is an incredible admission, especially as they didn’t get along at all. Everyone has to suspend their critical faculties to really enjoy classical ballet because, as in opera, the plots can be extremely silly. The gorgeous music and costumes help, but I cannot suspend judgement enough to really enjoy Fonteyn at this age; it doesn’t matter how “perfect” she appears to be, a 40-50 year old as Aurora is just plain silly. Just because one _can_ do something, it doesn’t follow that one _should,_ and I’ve always felt really sorry for all of the wonderful young ballerinas of the Royal Ballet who never really got to shine due to the necessity of the pay Fonteyn earned to waste on her idiotic husband.
@kabardinka111 ай бұрын
Sizova was a glorious ballerina. It's a pity the filmed version with her in it has so many important parts cut out (ie the Bluebird variations). She later moved to the US for a time and taught at the Kirov Academy before moving back to Russia and a rather sad end to her life.
@rosemaryallen2128 Жыл бұрын
Exquisite and truly theatrical, unlike the banal gymnastic displays in current fashion. Fonteyn and Ulanova, both of them a prima ballerina assoluta, had an uncanny ability to convey youth when in their maturity. And the long shot of the Lilac Fairy in the last moments took one back to the magic of the eighteenth century tales which were once a beloved staple of a little girl's childhood.
@joliannebaum7206 Жыл бұрын
She is sublime. No one else can be as gorgeous, youthful and joyful as Margot. Always will be the best.
@sana11sana192 жыл бұрын
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
@user-ir4dt2sr2l2 жыл бұрын
Марго Фонтейн лучшая Спяшая Принцесса
@carles032 жыл бұрын
Я согласна с вами...
@janets91792 жыл бұрын
I love to watch her dance. And she is beautiful, doesn't look 50.
@sedekiman2 жыл бұрын
Watched this again-GLORIOUS!
@kellymac24043 жыл бұрын
Love this thank you 🙏
@miriamyapura27063 жыл бұрын
Que hermosura, me gusta la conexión que tienen ♥ El vestuario de ella es muy largo comparado con los actuales ¿De que año es esta presentación?
@carles033 жыл бұрын
La obra es de 1999. Fue un proyecto para introducir a los niños al ballet, pero se hizo una representación abierta al público, que fue esta. El vestuario se recicló de lo que nos prestaron en el Ballet de Zaragoza y lo que tenían en el Studio María de Ávila. El traje del hada creo que era del Studio. Gracias por el comentario!!
@miriamyapura27063 жыл бұрын
@@carles03 Muchas gracias a vos por la información, que lindo escuchar de esos proyectos :)
@PennyLane63833 жыл бұрын
The way she gets right on her toe at the end🤯😭🙌💖
@sedekiman3 жыл бұрын
Michael Somes has given the precise description of Fonteyn's genius-simplicity. Fining down the art to its simplest form, without losing any of the magic, intensity, or beauty.
@sedekiman3 жыл бұрын
So wonderful to see this and to think how she wowed New York in 1949!
@nancydionisi93463 жыл бұрын
Beautiful and interesting video about the great Margot Fonteyn, many thanks for sharing it!
@UYTRELLO4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic, gorgeous version!
@tdotjazzberryram614 жыл бұрын
😀😢😀😢😀😢😢😢😀😁😁😁. Thank You so much for sharing with us 😁😁😁🤣!!!Love it.
@UYTRELLO4 жыл бұрын
Heavenly ballerina! Heavenly music!
@007KayElleKay4 жыл бұрын
I’m sorry , but even when you compare her with members of the corps , you can see the stiffness in her legs and in her right arm , especially during the ‘balances’ where it was visibly shaking prior to it being held by a suitor - Fonteyn was an incredible dancer in her time , but she could not pull off Aurora at 50 when it’s obvious she’s in pain and the wide smile only hides the pain she was clearly in. Stepping down so younger ballerinas could experience their own opening nights would have been a mercy to Fonteyn and to up and coming ballerinas - one word , greed , springs to mind : whether that was hers or her husband’s, we cannot know , but there’s a reason ballerinas retire at around 40 and this film merely illustrates why that should remain the case .
@craigkavanagh57234 жыл бұрын
Sorry but completely disagree with you. Just checked out many other rose adagios on youtube and Fonteyn is easily the best - the only one who can act/dance 16 - the rest just go through the motions.
@sedekiman4 жыл бұрын
How true I don't see any stiffness at all-in fact she is extremely supple and the balances are rock solid. Look at some of the Russian performances ludicrous balance sequence!!
@ozsfi4 жыл бұрын
" greed , springs to mind : whether that was hers or her husband’s, we cannot know" As far as I know, she had to take care of her husband who was in wheelchair, could not even eat himself, it must have cost a lot.
@serenitypeaceandcomfort36693 жыл бұрын
Completely disagree. Thank goodness she continued to dance. More people got to see her. There is more film of her. I find her to encompass believability in the role more than other dancers who seem very robotic to me.
@serenitypeaceandcomfort36693 жыл бұрын
@@ozsfi Yes, In an interview she stated she had to keep going for financial reasons.
@soniamouraomourao74204 жыл бұрын
Fonteyn maravilhosa 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
@soniamouraomourao74204 жыл бұрын
Fonteyn maravilhosa 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️🥰❤️🥰❤️🥰🥰
@janetstrzelec5214 жыл бұрын
beautiful! thank you!
@barbaralemere51834 жыл бұрын
What a Treasure. Thank you for posting this. This was a landmark production for the Royal Ballet and it's so nice that it has been revived.
@carles034 жыл бұрын
My pleasure!!
@Noodles-ik6vh5 жыл бұрын
Margot Fonteyn owns this entire ballet. Here artistic impression, balance, and musicality are amazing. She is the best Sleeping Beauty I've ever seen!
@serenitypeaceandcomfort36693 жыл бұрын
Agreed. She mesmerizes me. She really becomes the role. Its never just technique.
@theresa422139 ай бұрын
Noodles ~ l AGREE! She can really strike a pose and hold it! Not many others can do it like her at all!
@duben555 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this!!! Here she is in her full brilliant self!!!
@williamwoolhouse37025 жыл бұрын
The Great Master at work just so wonderful.
@ernestcastro62385 жыл бұрын
I just saw Stanley Holden, I missed him the last time I saw this. I used to take his class in L A, back in the 70's.
@danzaresadmadrid67475 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting it.
@Debster85545 жыл бұрын
A rare and precious gem to add to British ballet history! Thank you so much for posting.
@sedekiman5 жыл бұрын
Just think if money had been no option what a complete treasure we would have!
@rachelm795 жыл бұрын
Glad they've got some better pianos now!
@kerogforever5 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not, I still have a original glossy magazine article with pictures and an article in it of Fonteyn at 50 - A highly treasured souvenir. This video brings back the magic of Christmas ballet broadcasts as they used to be on BBC and I was lucky to see the actual 'Fonteyn at 50' 'Beauty' when it was shown on TV.. Ugly consumerism now seems to inhibit the broadcast of such wonderful performances. Fonteyn beats all of the 'BGT', 'XFactor', 'I'm a Celebrity' 'Strictly' and 'Love Island' hype hands down. Thanks for posting on KZread.
@carles035 жыл бұрын
I can only agree with you. I wish I had seen Fonteyn dancing... I fell in love with ballet when I saw her in Romeo and Juliet with Nureyev on Spanish television, when art was still shown on TV. Thanks for your comment!!
@minissa20095 жыл бұрын
I can only imagine what the rest of Act 1 (let alone the Prologue and Acts 2 & 3) looked like. I guess this is the time period when RB really got known for its exceptional corps work because they are flawless. I don't understand why so many people reviewing a Fonteyn performance feel compelled to add a qualifier (like "good technician *for her time*"). Not that anyone here has, but it's not an infrequent occurrence around the virtual dance world). She was a great technician and a dramatic artist like no other. This will sound like an odd counter mark to refer you to, but at 11:08 she transitions from the arabesque (she bourreed forward into it) and then changes character mood, and the way the steps define the character just at 11:08. Her attack is so delightfully brisk at that point it looks like she's been shot out of a cannon. So, in a very few measures and because of strong connection to character and music, she goes from regal princess appearing at her birthday festival, regal princess posing with perfect classical lines to vivacious 16yo princess ready to meet 'n' greet her guests. And we haven't even gotten to the opening arpeggios of the Rose yet! Thanks for retrieving and posting this, it's a treasure. My area dance department (U of Utah) managed to resurrect a water-damaged (but still playable) video of Helen Tamiris and we probably all know the story of the original Black Swan score being reclaimed from the basement of Harvard (I think Harvard)'s music archive. Next time I get asked to catalogue what music and dance a facility owns, I will do so gleefully! Again, thanks for posting!
@garotadagavea5 жыл бұрын
minissa2009 those pas de chats are a treasure. The speed in which she could keep up with the music all,the while in control,of her positions was admirable.
@sedekiman5 жыл бұрын
I so agree-to my mind her technique is incredible what she doesn't do is great exaggeration-the steps are the steps and done to the tempo of the music. Everything understated -great geographical sense of the stage and where she iis. And of course superlative characterization and those balances.!
@89kazu3 жыл бұрын
I can answer the question why the recent most viewer who may be stayed perhaps working beside ballet has ton of negative comment toward these talents,from the view as a dancer. For the last half century,ballet technique was well developed,improved.these technique that how to show our dancing very clearly on stage which all we were looking for and have pursued,even for now still going to improve. But in the moment,Most of dancers seem lost the fact they are dancing.male dancers has begun to show how our pirouettes are clean and how can move acrobatic movement,how much big jump they can do perhaps to put 10pitouettes insert whole over3,4majors of music, to compare with others as how we are talented as a dancer.eventually,their techniques proportions are well improved. It's my personal opinion but,In the last 50,60years, ballet seems going to transforme into Sports nor dancing anymore. Most of dancers who currently dancing on stage are probably not thinking about how their steps are musically made for,what was the history background,Its manners and customs in the period,music theories.reading musics how to research to make nice dance on stage by myself(well,prob some are studied at the school,and someone can read music,perhaps play instrument but i meant more further knowledges as an artist on this time).because required skills for dancers are just move as directors,Choreographers want. For such a dancers,can't admit the dancers like Fontene(and many others too in old school)dancing principal rolls. Because from their perspective,They can see them as only they r a bad dancer.and can't see no more further. i used to be like that when i was young 20th.I always had thought how many pitouette i can turn,How many big jumps i can do onstage.and I used to feel bored when i see Nureyev's performances when i saw these in my young period . But after I atleast gained "techniques" and keep dancing on stage,I feel bored and miserable myself.of course I'm trying to make myself more nicer looking,techniques more than today as a dancer,but last 7,8years. I presume there r more important things exist to make stage nicer beyond pursue only technique. I don't have no mind to criticize other dancers who are dancing in current period,I'm also a part of so but, It will be more nicer if they also could have more wider and various view,and perspectives.
@alainspiteri502 Жыл бұрын
You can imagine j agree 100-100 because you were not born .
@Sylvia-Storm5 жыл бұрын
Such a shame there wasn’t any more.
@sedekiman5 жыл бұрын
Yes how sad-money talks as they say!!
@dougr.23985 жыл бұрын
Amazing! So glad this lost footage turned up!!
@sedekiman6 жыл бұрын
How fortunate we all are that this was found!. I remember when this was first shown 1969? I was in my first year of teaching!! Thanks Cales 03!
@JohnRaymondHall6 жыл бұрын
hi Carles03 - hope you are well, as i am I have found out a little more about this footage: Margot Fonteyn in Act 1 ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ [Degamo production, directed and written by Keith Money, produced by Adrian Gaye and Keith Money. [1970]]. Keith Money's film was shot when Fonteyn was 50 (1968 or 1969), and she's dancing here with the touring section of the RB on a Sunday in Bournemouth, hence the small stage. The first Prince is David Wall. Money was unable to raise the money to film the entire ballet and years later this Act was found it in his barn. The commentator is Guardian dance critic Judith Mackrell.
@carles036 жыл бұрын
Thank you John, and sorry for taking so long to respond. Yes, there were articles in the press and dance magazines about this project when it was first shown on television. Thank you for taking the time to write them down! The ballerina talking about Fonteyn is Fiona Chadwick, in case it does not say in the documentary... I hope you enjoyed it!!
@JohnRaymondHall6 жыл бұрын
no problem - i am quite busy these days and sometimes take time to get back to people :) i don't recall whether Fiona Chadwick's name is mentioned (i think so) but i knew her by sight. i loved it! thanks so much for sharing.
@tkoran5 жыл бұрын
carles03 Yes! It does say Fiona in the documentary! Thanks so much for posting this treasure!!!
@alexderavin16 жыл бұрын
hi carles03 - someone (garotadagavea) just sent me this URL for a slightly longer section of this restored Act One of 'SB' and i thought you might like to see it. hope things are well with you, cheers kzread.info/dash/bejne/h3ml2tOIfNG3htI.html
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Is this royal opera house?
@@Ballet20 No, it was recorded at another venue. I can't remember where, but much smaller...
I remember seeing Fonteyn at 60ish Royal Festival Hall dancing the balcony scene Romeo and Juliet, to be honest I thought we would be applauding just because she is Fonteyn, but it was a stunning performance, a wonderful memory. Thank you for posting this, one of my fav ballets.
What a gorgeous physique she had. And I love her crisp, British style, so specifically detailed and elegant. Somehow her style matches Tchaikovsky - exuberant and sensual. (They were both Tauruses). She was Britain's Ur Ballerina, with an ancestry in the Ballets Russes. The trajectory of her life is almost unbelievably tragic, ending up broke with cows (Taurus again) and a cheating husband, totally dependent on her, in South America. Thank you for this splendid archival treasure!
Beautiful and inspiring.
This is perfection.
This pre-dates Disney by 20 years, Margot's Princess was named Princess Aurora. That's awesome!! The Princess Aurora vs Princess Aurora. Both!
Who is the Carabosse in this production, please?
What lovelu tuts tehey all have. Layers that hide the crotch! And not the "candle snuffers" of so many today.
Hello, do you know if there is a video recording of this 2007 ballet Cyrano by David Bintley? In the form of a DVD or something else?
I'm afraid there isn't. All I have ever seen is this fragment from TV.
Very interesting
💛🩵 I really love this channel
Thank you!! ❤
Bravo!! Magnificent Margot Fonteyn
I hope one day there able to find the full recording
There's none... They ran out of money. We're lucky they found this act!!
My favorite Aurora is Alla Sizova, and I prefer her even in the truncated film version. Between 1958 and 1961, she learned and performed _14 major roles!_ I can’t even imagine that as being possible! Nureyev said that the only thing that could have tempted him to go back to the Soviet Union was Sizova, which is an incredible admission, especially as they didn’t get along at all. Everyone has to suspend their critical faculties to really enjoy classical ballet because, as in opera, the plots can be extremely silly. The gorgeous music and costumes help, but I cannot suspend judgement enough to really enjoy Fonteyn at this age; it doesn’t matter how “perfect” she appears to be, a 40-50 year old as Aurora is just plain silly. Just because one _can_ do something, it doesn’t follow that one _should,_ and I’ve always felt really sorry for all of the wonderful young ballerinas of the Royal Ballet who never really got to shine due to the necessity of the pay Fonteyn earned to waste on her idiotic husband.
Sizova was a glorious ballerina. It's a pity the filmed version with her in it has so many important parts cut out (ie the Bluebird variations). She later moved to the US for a time and taught at the Kirov Academy before moving back to Russia and a rather sad end to her life.
Exquisite and truly theatrical, unlike the banal gymnastic displays in current fashion. Fonteyn and Ulanova, both of them a prima ballerina assoluta, had an uncanny ability to convey youth when in their maturity. And the long shot of the Lilac Fairy in the last moments took one back to the magic of the eighteenth century tales which were once a beloved staple of a little girl's childhood.
She is sublime. No one else can be as gorgeous, youthful and joyful as Margot. Always will be the best.
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Марго Фонтейн лучшая Спяшая Принцесса
Я согласна с вами...
I love to watch her dance. And she is beautiful, doesn't look 50.
Watched this again-GLORIOUS!
Love this thank you 🙏
Que hermosura, me gusta la conexión que tienen ♥ El vestuario de ella es muy largo comparado con los actuales ¿De que año es esta presentación?
La obra es de 1999. Fue un proyecto para introducir a los niños al ballet, pero se hizo una representación abierta al público, que fue esta. El vestuario se recicló de lo que nos prestaron en el Ballet de Zaragoza y lo que tenían en el Studio María de Ávila. El traje del hada creo que era del Studio. Gracias por el comentario!!
@@carles03 Muchas gracias a vos por la información, que lindo escuchar de esos proyectos :)
The way she gets right on her toe at the end🤯😭🙌💖
Michael Somes has given the precise description of Fonteyn's genius-simplicity. Fining down the art to its simplest form, without losing any of the magic, intensity, or beauty.
So wonderful to see this and to think how she wowed New York in 1949!
Beautiful and interesting video about the great Margot Fonteyn, many thanks for sharing it!
Fantastic, gorgeous version!
😀😢😀😢😀😢😢😢😀😁😁😁. Thank You so much for sharing with us 😁😁😁🤣!!!Love it.
Heavenly ballerina! Heavenly music!
I’m sorry , but even when you compare her with members of the corps , you can see the stiffness in her legs and in her right arm , especially during the ‘balances’ where it was visibly shaking prior to it being held by a suitor - Fonteyn was an incredible dancer in her time , but she could not pull off Aurora at 50 when it’s obvious she’s in pain and the wide smile only hides the pain she was clearly in. Stepping down so younger ballerinas could experience their own opening nights would have been a mercy to Fonteyn and to up and coming ballerinas - one word , greed , springs to mind : whether that was hers or her husband’s, we cannot know , but there’s a reason ballerinas retire at around 40 and this film merely illustrates why that should remain the case .
Sorry but completely disagree with you. Just checked out many other rose adagios on youtube and Fonteyn is easily the best - the only one who can act/dance 16 - the rest just go through the motions.
How true I don't see any stiffness at all-in fact she is extremely supple and the balances are rock solid. Look at some of the Russian performances ludicrous balance sequence!!
" greed , springs to mind : whether that was hers or her husband’s, we cannot know" As far as I know, she had to take care of her husband who was in wheelchair, could not even eat himself, it must have cost a lot.
Completely disagree. Thank goodness she continued to dance. More people got to see her. There is more film of her. I find her to encompass believability in the role more than other dancers who seem very robotic to me.
@@ozsfi Yes, In an interview she stated she had to keep going for financial reasons.
Fonteyn maravilhosa 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Fonteyn maravilhosa 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️🥰❤️🥰❤️🥰🥰
beautiful! thank you!
What a Treasure. Thank you for posting this. This was a landmark production for the Royal Ballet and it's so nice that it has been revived.
My pleasure!!
Margot Fonteyn owns this entire ballet. Here artistic impression, balance, and musicality are amazing. She is the best Sleeping Beauty I've ever seen!
Agreed. She mesmerizes me. She really becomes the role. Its never just technique.
Noodles ~ l AGREE! She can really strike a pose and hold it! Not many others can do it like her at all!
Thanks for this!!! Here she is in her full brilliant self!!!
The Great Master at work just so wonderful.
I just saw Stanley Holden, I missed him the last time I saw this. I used to take his class in L A, back in the 70's.
Thanks for posting it.
A rare and precious gem to add to British ballet history! Thank you so much for posting.
Just think if money had been no option what a complete treasure we would have!
Glad they've got some better pianos now!
Believe it or not, I still have a original glossy magazine article with pictures and an article in it of Fonteyn at 50 - A highly treasured souvenir. This video brings back the magic of Christmas ballet broadcasts as they used to be on BBC and I was lucky to see the actual 'Fonteyn at 50' 'Beauty' when it was shown on TV.. Ugly consumerism now seems to inhibit the broadcast of such wonderful performances. Fonteyn beats all of the 'BGT', 'XFactor', 'I'm a Celebrity' 'Strictly' and 'Love Island' hype hands down. Thanks for posting on KZread.
I can only agree with you. I wish I had seen Fonteyn dancing... I fell in love with ballet when I saw her in Romeo and Juliet with Nureyev on Spanish television, when art was still shown on TV. Thanks for your comment!!
I can only imagine what the rest of Act 1 (let alone the Prologue and Acts 2 & 3) looked like. I guess this is the time period when RB really got known for its exceptional corps work because they are flawless. I don't understand why so many people reviewing a Fonteyn performance feel compelled to add a qualifier (like "good technician *for her time*"). Not that anyone here has, but it's not an infrequent occurrence around the virtual dance world). She was a great technician and a dramatic artist like no other. This will sound like an odd counter mark to refer you to, but at 11:08 she transitions from the arabesque (she bourreed forward into it) and then changes character mood, and the way the steps define the character just at 11:08. Her attack is so delightfully brisk at that point it looks like she's been shot out of a cannon. So, in a very few measures and because of strong connection to character and music, she goes from regal princess appearing at her birthday festival, regal princess posing with perfect classical lines to vivacious 16yo princess ready to meet 'n' greet her guests. And we haven't even gotten to the opening arpeggios of the Rose yet! Thanks for retrieving and posting this, it's a treasure. My area dance department (U of Utah) managed to resurrect a water-damaged (but still playable) video of Helen Tamiris and we probably all know the story of the original Black Swan score being reclaimed from the basement of Harvard (I think Harvard)'s music archive. Next time I get asked to catalogue what music and dance a facility owns, I will do so gleefully! Again, thanks for posting!
minissa2009 those pas de chats are a treasure. The speed in which she could keep up with the music all,the while in control,of her positions was admirable.
I so agree-to my mind her technique is incredible what she doesn't do is great exaggeration-the steps are the steps and done to the tempo of the music. Everything understated -great geographical sense of the stage and where she iis. And of course superlative characterization and those balances.!
I can answer the question why the recent most viewer who may be stayed perhaps working beside ballet has ton of negative comment toward these talents,from the view as a dancer. For the last half century,ballet technique was well developed,improved.these technique that how to show our dancing very clearly on stage which all we were looking for and have pursued,even for now still going to improve. But in the moment,Most of dancers seem lost the fact they are dancing.male dancers has begun to show how our pirouettes are clean and how can move acrobatic movement,how much big jump they can do perhaps to put 10pitouettes insert whole over3,4majors of music, to compare with others as how we are talented as a dancer.eventually,their techniques proportions are well improved. It's my personal opinion but,In the last 50,60years, ballet seems going to transforme into Sports nor dancing anymore. Most of dancers who currently dancing on stage are probably not thinking about how their steps are musically made for,what was the history background,Its manners and customs in the period,music theories.reading musics how to research to make nice dance on stage by myself(well,prob some are studied at the school,and someone can read music,perhaps play instrument but i meant more further knowledges as an artist on this time).because required skills for dancers are just move as directors,Choreographers want. For such a dancers,can't admit the dancers like Fontene(and many others too in old school)dancing principal rolls. Because from their perspective,They can see them as only they r a bad dancer.and can't see no more further. i used to be like that when i was young 20th.I always had thought how many pitouette i can turn,How many big jumps i can do onstage.and I used to feel bored when i see Nureyev's performances when i saw these in my young period . But after I atleast gained "techniques" and keep dancing on stage,I feel bored and miserable myself.of course I'm trying to make myself more nicer looking,techniques more than today as a dancer,but last 7,8years. I presume there r more important things exist to make stage nicer beyond pursue only technique. I don't have no mind to criticize other dancers who are dancing in current period,I'm also a part of so but, It will be more nicer if they also could have more wider and various view,and perspectives.
You can imagine j agree 100-100 because you were not born .
Such a shame there wasn’t any more.
Yes how sad-money talks as they say!!
Amazing! So glad this lost footage turned up!!
How fortunate we all are that this was found!. I remember when this was first shown 1969? I was in my first year of teaching!! Thanks Cales 03!
hi Carles03 - hope you are well, as i am I have found out a little more about this footage: Margot Fonteyn in Act 1 ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ [Degamo production, directed and written by Keith Money, produced by Adrian Gaye and Keith Money. [1970]]. Keith Money's film was shot when Fonteyn was 50 (1968 or 1969), and she's dancing here with the touring section of the RB on a Sunday in Bournemouth, hence the small stage. The first Prince is David Wall. Money was unable to raise the money to film the entire ballet and years later this Act was found it in his barn. The commentator is Guardian dance critic Judith Mackrell.
Thank you John, and sorry for taking so long to respond. Yes, there were articles in the press and dance magazines about this project when it was first shown on television. Thank you for taking the time to write them down! The ballerina talking about Fonteyn is Fiona Chadwick, in case it does not say in the documentary... I hope you enjoyed it!!
no problem - i am quite busy these days and sometimes take time to get back to people :) i don't recall whether Fiona Chadwick's name is mentioned (i think so) but i knew her by sight. i loved it! thanks so much for sharing.
carles03 Yes! It does say Fiona in the documentary! Thanks so much for posting this treasure!!!
hi carles03 - someone (garotadagavea) just sent me this URL for a slightly longer section of this restored Act One of 'SB' and i thought you might like to see it. hope things are well with you, cheers kzread.info/dash/bejne/h3ml2tOIfNG3htI.html
This is marvelous! Thank you!