Gelsey Kirkland

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  • @SeldimSeen1
    @SeldimSeen1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    My daughter danced in a ballet school. She was praised by the school for her gift of dance and was even allowed at 11 and 12 to participate in the teaching of the choreography of some of the dances. However she had a growth spirt and developed scoliosis. Thanks to ballet she still was able to maintain a great posture. However her teacher and owner of the school approached me with a complaint of the sudden "pooch in her stomach." Her teacher called it a "pasta" stomach and demanded that my daughter get rid of it. My daughter was not over weight.. My daughter admitted that she was becoming unhappy with ballet. I let her quit. My daughters self esteem was more important than any teachers ambition. Daughter is doing fine now. She is in college and a has wonderful boyfriend and is moving forward with her life just fine.

    • @kirstieb8025
      @kirstieb8025 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      that’s sick about the teacher

    • @dronesclubhighjinks
      @dronesclubhighjinks ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm so glad to hear that you put your daughter's well-being above all else. Wonderful that she is doing well! You're a great mom!

  • @speteydog2260
    @speteydog2260 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Dancing on my Grave is the autobiography written by Gelsey. The book describes her life as she lived it. She was everyone’s aspiration in the 70s. She really was one of the all time greats.

  • @bigballetlover
    @bigballetlover 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Some people are born into this world to be special, Gelsey Kirkland was one such person. These people are usually such perfectionists that their lives become difficult to handle. No one has the right to judge another - especially someone as amazingly talented and brave on the stage as she was.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bigballetlover
      Balanchine was a horrible narcissist who didn't care if she or any of the other dancers were to collapse and die on stage... I'm convinced of it.

    • @tiphanyd73
      @tiphanyd73 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The X factor is not bestowed on all. It’s the combination of gift and determination. The latter of which must be manipulated. People can bag on Balanchine- and yea, maybe he wasn’t a nice person- those who make history rarely are. But, he raised the bar for ballet. What women can do with their bodies is amazing, women, not Balanchine.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      bigballetlover I always wished they had made a really well-made miniseries or a really accurate movie about Gelsey Kirkland's life ... I believe because of her talent and drive she would have still been one of the best ballerinas ever without the abuses of the likes of Balanchine.

    • @jeantave8562
      @jeantave8562 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In my opinion Gelsey Kirkland is the Best to date! She was my idle when I was dancing.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jeantave8562 well I can certainly agree with that.. I really miss when hers was the Nutcracker ballet that used to be shown on public TV for Christmas season

  • @minnahumble2294
    @minnahumble2294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    She had to starve herself to keep very thin. I read her book, Dancing on My Grave, and I couldn’t help wondering if being hungry all the time was the reason GK could not get along with colleagues and lovers and even family. She sounds like a tortured soul. Very unstable, but a brilliant ballerina.

  • @AmatureAstronomer
    @AmatureAstronomer หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gelsey has always been my favorite ballerina.

  • @theonecounttheonecount8477
    @theonecounttheonecount8477 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Ballet is grueling everyday. I don't know when I wasn't exhausted. It gave me so much joy, but it's so much harder than people think. It's physically and mentally taxing. You have to be mentally tough, and not cave to the Balanchine, "I want to see bones!," category.

  • @cassandraunheeded
    @cassandraunheeded 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Kelsey is a great. Thank you. ❤

  • @TheAndiemae
    @TheAndiemae 8 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Thank you Casey. As a dancer myself. She was an inspiration. As I said below, until her time there was Margot and then there was Gelsey and as wonderful as Misty is ...she's no Gelsey.

    • @speteydog2260
      @speteydog2260 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Misty certainly is not. 👍🏻

    • @minissa2009
      @minissa2009 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd be happy to see any footage of Misty where she looks wonderful. Maybe it's just that the people who post her footage like to post fails, but I've not yet seen a video of her that made me feel she earned that promotion as anything other than a cash cow. Just sayin'...

  • @AmatureAstronomer
    @AmatureAstronomer ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Though life may have been rough for Gelsey, she is the best ballerina I have ever seen.

  • @minissa2009
    @minissa2009 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    For a video entitled Gelsey Kirkland, this doesn't have all that much about her (but gotta love that opening pique arabesque from Giselle'variation, which she totally nails). Also, if you're suggesting that Nutcracker video was her one final performance, that's wrong. I saw her for a number of years after that with ABT and as a guest through the early 1980s. She was well into her downward spiral then, but even dancing "under the influence" the worst you could say about her was that she looked unfocused and maybe not quite as sharp. I wish there was more footage of her from her time with NYCB because she really was extraordinary.

    • @dmmchugh3714
      @dmmchugh3714 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Kirkland-Barishnikov line in Nutcracker was extraordinary.

    • @brandywineblogger1411
      @brandywineblogger1411 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes - I was hoping this would be an interview of Gelsey. Don't know who the other ladies are.

  • @JamesCraigWhoop
    @JamesCraigWhoop 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow that was very interesting and amazing. We are related as she is my great aunt. Lots of stories about her growing up but since TH-cam I've learned more about both sides of her fame.

    • @alexandra3ogden
      @alexandra3ogden 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      James Craig I’m friends with her, she goes to church in Richmond, ME.

  • @queenjillian3995
    @queenjillian3995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    And just look at the way she dances it makes me cry tears of happiness she dances like an angel I love her because she’s one of my favorite ballerinas I used to take ballet classes

    • @kirstieb8025
      @kirstieb8025 ปีที่แล้ว

      yet was killing herself

  • @michaelshenk6800
    @michaelshenk6800 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I will always remember Gelsey in "3 Preludes"by Rachmaninov. only Gelsey and a piano. Kennedy Center, around 1979.she was still an ABT star.new book 'Ballerina' by Deirdre Kelly explains how best dance companies treat dancers as healthy athletes.athletes with muscles and rhythm.

    • @stedmantx
      @stedmantx 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +michael shenk, yes wasn't it wonderful!

    • @joscarman
      @joscarman 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was Ben Stevenson's choreography. The composer was Rachmaninov. She was partnered in the duet.

    • @minissa2009
      @minissa2009 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joscarman By Patrick Bissell, IIrc

    • @joscarman
      @joscarman 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@minissa2009 Or by John Meehan

  • @zephiniyahhamashiachs6455
    @zephiniyahhamashiachs6455 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The pressure that is put on young girls, will grow into insecurities of a women. This idea to atttain the idea of perfection, is ungodly and should be criminalized.
    I was told at 12yrs while taking modeling, I would never be able to work in New York. That I was too fat, at 5'8 and 127 lbs. That I needed to lose 25lbs????!
    My modeling instructor then took the time to pull each of us in front of the class, and point out the things that she felt where wrong with our bodies.
    She shamed us, humiliated us, wounded our fragile sense of well being. I ended up developing anorexia and bulimia and a heavy drug addiction.
    I remember saying when I was 5'9-1/2, at 138Lbs at 16 yrs old. I was walking home from the bus stop. And I said out loud to my self " why do I even try?"
    Today I am 45 Yrs old and 264lbs. If I could go back and speak to my self, I would tell me self, that "I would never be as beautiful, in my brokenness."
    In our struggles, this is when we need encouragement, words of wisdom, and the truth. To heal the wounds and trauma in our lifes.
    I wish I had somebody tell me, my identity is in Lord Jesus, and not of the world. I am not what the world says about me. I AM WHAT GOD SAYS ABOUT ME.
    I have lost all my bottom teeth, to drug addiction, and have had 13 plastic surgeries, Liposuction and my entire body is covered in tattoo's
    We can't cover up the ugly that people have done to us, or what we think about our selfs. It always will find it's way to the surface.
    I really feel this is for someone out there.
    You are so loved, you are not what people have done to you, or said about you. Your situation doesn't determine your self worth. Nobody can validate you, only God can.
    Only God can heal you, and help you to forgive and change your situation.
    When you think you have hit rock bottom and that your never going to be loved. That's when God will step in to encourage you to find out who he is.
    You don't need a church, a building or other people to experince the freedom in Lord Jesus.
    All one has to ask is " God, I need to know you, show me who you are. Show me that your really real. I can't live my life in this pain and suffering anymore. I'm sorry for my sins please forgive me Lord Jesus. Come into my life, now, right now! Amen"
    Watch what happens next. I would also add, say this with every fiber of your being, with all your heart.
    Lord Jesus is very real and he is waiting to know you. He will only enter into your life upon intivation. Because he gave us free will.
    Once we choose Him, he swoops in and recuses us, from utter destruction every time.
    God bless you, out there,
    Thank you for sharing this important video, it really inspired me to share my testimony.
    Ballet is a beautiful expression that was created by God. It's human beings, limits us, not God 💖 with Him All Things are possible💖😇💖

  • @ra7271
    @ra7271 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    this was a lost angel for sure

  • @mariachile2368
    @mariachile2368 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    La mejor bailarina q ha existido !!! 🎉❤🎉❤

  • @carodemora-argentina4235
    @carodemora-argentina4235 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So Paloma Herrera must be an alien. Read her autobiography, people. It's absolutely the complete opposite of all of this craziness.

  • @nancylaor3674
    @nancylaor3674 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best dancer ms Kirkland

  • @michaelshenk6800
    @michaelshenk6800 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    any dancer with a negative body image can be helped by watching videos of Maya Plisetskaya from Bolshoi Ballet.one of history's greatest ballerinas and muscular too.there was never a greater artist than Maya.

    • @TheAndiemae
      @TheAndiemae 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +michael shenk Sorry, there was lady Fontaine and then there was Gelsey.

    • @toeknee1965
      @toeknee1965 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      as a student in america in the 80. i was obsessed with new york city ballet and only much much later did i find maya . thank god for youtube. what a godess it is true what a great artist and dancer. but yes there are others

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ichigo Red
      It's been a very long time since I read any of the books about ballet but I think it was even Baryshnikov who said Plizetskaya was the greatest although I could be wrong

    • @mathildewesendonck7225
      @mathildewesendonck7225 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That doesn’t really help anyone…

    • @egparis18
      @egparis18 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anna Pavlova was healthily built too. Far from bony.
      th-cam.com/video/i6lgrrz63Uc/w-d-xo.html

  • @theresa42213
    @theresa42213 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    l paid attention to ...this girl...when l watched ''Theme and Variations''. l didn't know hardly anything about the ballet world, but l saw her dance that and l thought WHO is THAT?! She was phenomenal! l cant watch any other version of that ballet because everyone else looks like they're dancing slow and sloppy.

    • @minissa2009
      @minissa2009 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That is a fantastic video. But the first time I saw it, I said, "They're mad at each other." Fun to see that confirmed in Dancing on My Grave.

    • @theresa42213
      @theresa42213 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@minissa2009 ~ l havent read the book, but l do want to. l just cant get over how perfect, and lightning fast she danced! Some people are just mad talented!

  • @ninajenniferbolibok8074
    @ninajenniferbolibok8074 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great!

  • @mbr7156
    @mbr7156 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the triptych of krystal tini took my breath away......

  • @elaineeike5363
    @elaineeike5363 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Most ballerinas are ghastly thin, thanks to Balanchine, whose ideal ballerina looked like a 12-year-old.

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Elaine Eike
      Like an emaciated 12 year old

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Baby Bunny left a comment here... and it's weird because it only showed up in my notifications but not here in the comment section

    • @jcliff26
      @jcliff26 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That’s ridiculous. Gelsey had drug problems in her youth and everything she remembers comes from that altered state. I was her partner and choreographed several ballets for her before she went to ABT. A brilliant dancers yes. But her faulty memories about Balanchine are very misguided and plain wrong.

    • @85doc
      @85doc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Balanchine would tap a ballerina’s chest and say, “I want to see ribs showing here.”

    • @jcliff26
      @jcliff26 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@85doc I never heard him say this to anyone. He actually told Farrell to gain weight when she rejoined the company after dancing for Bejart for several years.

  • @nancylaor3674
    @nancylaor3674 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gels let Kirkland was the best Clara ever👏👏👏👏

  • @IceOfPhoenix88
    @IceOfPhoenix88 ปีที่แล้ว

    My ballet teacher has no mirrors in the studio anywhere now that I think about it

  • @kirstinetermansen3426
    @kirstinetermansen3426 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Perfection know also in military as in horse sport racing

  • @2degucitas
    @2degucitas 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What she did for her craft

  • @islandbirdw
    @islandbirdw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Taking lean to the extreme

  • @Dane_Youssef
    @Dane_Youssef 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Miss Gelsey Kirkland: A Life.

  • @jondavwal13
    @jondavwal13 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This video has nothing to do with Gelsey Kirkland and contains tons of inaccuracies. At her peak she was the greatest ballerina whoever lived, given too many gifts in every area that she drove herself insane. There has never been anybody in the arts who had the depth of technical and artistic abilities rolled into one person. There were no weaknesses. She could be perfect. In the end that destroyed her.

  • @shantausalazar1868
    @shantausalazar1868 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    YHE EFFING BESY DANCER IN WORLD..
    NIKNO..
    MY TALENT..
    2 SEE TALENT..
    NO BETTER THAN HER
    TRUTH

  • @antonietasousa4099
    @antonietasousa4099 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    gelsey um dom que e so para alguns mais nao digo a sua biografia o diz.

  • @benedictaroxannegelsey9920
    @benedictaroxannegelsey9920 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    my name is gelsey

    • @hannahringel4892
      @hannahringel4892 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Benedicta Roxanne Gelsey, it‘s from the Persian language and means Flower. I think it’s a beautiful name.

  • @IceOfPhoenix88
    @IceOfPhoenix88 ปีที่แล้ว

    Her ballet school closed down because of covid I think

  • @2snowgirl520
    @2snowgirl520 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sadly, her academy has closed.

  • @shantausalazar1868
    @shantausalazar1868 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fucking..BALLET..
    WORLD..
    EVIL..
    COMPETITIVELY..
    RUTHLESS..
    N VERY INTIMIDATING..
    VERY FRW GALZ..SUPER KIND

  • @deecohen1383
    @deecohen1383 ปีที่แล้ว

    I get it dancers I get it female dancers in male dancers but you’re not alone OK marathon runners triathletes and I suppose from what I’ve heard wrestlers especially male wrestlers we all are prime candidates for eating disorders figure skaters any kind of endurance athlete that also requires massive strength but wants you to be super slim but powerful at the same time we all suffer the same

  • @RONIDC1979
    @RONIDC1979 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    PA ballet 14? who gets hired at that age? if anythings they would have told her to go to the school and i went to their school as a black man who is muscular and so did micheala deprince who is African and muscular and beckanne sisk as well

    • @minissa2009
      @minissa2009 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      It may be getting better but unless you have some connection to a company by your mid-teens, it is unlikely you will be able to make ballet your profession.

    • @kathandy74
      @kathandy74 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Paloma Herrera was hired at 15 by ABT

  • @shantausalazar1868
    @shantausalazar1868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Id yhat mz.kirland?..dont look like het

  • @kaylamarchbanks1836
    @kaylamarchbanks1836 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And People say misty has it bad and is the best prima ever

    • @dmmchugh3714
      @dmmchugh3714 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Misty is a B+ ballerina. She brings up race repeatedly and at every opportunity. The glitterati fawn over her, but she is by no means in my own top 10.

    • @christar9527
      @christar9527 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No way does she come close to being the best Prima ever.

    • @GiselleKlara
      @GiselleKlara ปีที่แล้ว

      you know, if it's just the Black dancers that you like, there are so many better ones. Watch Lauren Anderson, Francesca Hayward, Katlyn Addison...there are many. I saw a performance by Misty and it was truly shameful. She basically walked around the stage and was a "Black Principal Dancer" and that was it. She does't realize her race obsession has turned people off to her. No problem with Black dancers but sick of hearing it esp when she was obviously promoted for publicity

  • @kirstinetermansen3426
    @kirstinetermansen3426 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's a outcome as in sorry modeling, porn, stripe and narsism is not the best

  • @dailybls
    @dailybls 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    If you can't reach an ideal body or performance without doing drugs or developing an eating disorder, than don't do it. If it doesn't come naturally, give it up, do not blame the standards. Nobody "has to" be a famous ballerina or model. It's your ego's problem, not ours. If you can't do it naturally, in a healthy way, without abusing drugs or yourself, than you do not belong to wherever you want to be. Simple as that. Let someone else be the best ballerina.

    • @christar9527
      @christar9527 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Right. I understand desire to be someone who excels in a particular field but don’t blame anyone for you choosing to abuse your own body. I was a ballerina but I was one of those rare types who was naturally bone thin. All my bones stuck way out and body cavities were sunken in. Kate Moss was known to be naturally thin and they were blaming her for setting unreachable standards for a model. She set them straight by telling them that that’s what her body is like naturally so don’t go blaming her when they offer her great modeling jobs.

    • @yodservant
      @yodservant ปีที่แล้ว

      @@christar9527 Kate looked like a cocaine addict...sorry...not my definition of beauty, but to each their own...

    • @GiselleKlara
      @GiselleKlara ปีที่แล้ว

      it's one reason the traditional Soviet system was best. MUCH easier to be disappointed at 10 than to try to force a teenage body into something that even if a company accepts it, a dancer might never feel good with. Choose the bodies first, then train them (but that doesn't work with the American 'you can do ANYTHING!' idea ...well you can, but no one is going to pay you do it and if you are very determined, it can cause a lot of heartbreak.

    • @sabineb.5616
      @sabineb.5616 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@GiselleKlara, your comment seems to be very sensible, and I completely agree with you that the American idea, that everybody can reach a certain goal if he or she just keeps trying hard enough, is plainly wrong! However, it's absolutely not true that the Soviet system produced healthier ballerinas! Since illegal drugs like cocaine weren't readily available back then, the Soviet ballerinas didn't use hard drugs like cocaine - but many of them developed eating disorders, and the Soviet system even starved them deliberately at the academies! Just listen to Natalia Makarova, who said that they were always hungry as children, and they had to steal food because they were always so hungry that they couldn't sleep at night! And while it's possible to predict body proportions by looking at young children, it's not possible to predict with certainty who will be naturally thin as adults! And there wasn't anything natural about the Ideal Soviet ballerinas! Starving was an important part of producing world class ballerinas, and eating disorders were very common.
      Unfortunately the Soviet system of mass producing great ballerinas is alive and well today because the ideas about the ideal bodies of female dancers haven't changed at all.

  • @pat3834
    @pat3834 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Will Kirkland's lips ever look normal again?

    • @bobcaygeon6799
      @bobcaygeon6799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So sad. She looked just great BEFORE the plastic surgery. SMH. It's called 'plastic' for a reason. 😞

    • @minnahumble2294
      @minnahumble2294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A reputable plastic surgeon would have seen that she was suffering from body dismorphia and would have refused to perform that surgery.

    • @cassandraunheeded
      @cassandraunheeded 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She wanted he lips visible from the balcony. It worked.

  • @shantausalazar1868
    @shantausalazar1868 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What..her 1st. Ballet?..is thia joke??

  • @shantausalazar1868
    @shantausalazar1868 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Exiting..site noe..ugh

  • @NEMO-NEMO
    @NEMO-NEMO 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ballet is an unnatural dance. It asks the body to do the impossible and ballerinas comply.

  • @RRJ2208
    @RRJ2208 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Seriously, it's so boring to hear people talk about their eating disorders.

    • @dawnscopel7633
      @dawnscopel7633 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Rebecca Johnson why even watch then?

  • @kirstieb8025
    @kirstieb8025 ปีที่แล้ว

    this sounds horrible