Now & Then - Sleeping Beauty Prince variation - 11 solos - Fullington, Ratmansky, Baryshnikov, ...
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- The choreo for the Prince variation comes in two main persuations: The notated one and the "new" one by Konstantin Sergeyev, written half a century later. Most stagings use the K. Sergeyev or a derivative.
The K. Segeyev has three zigzag lines with cabrioles, a double tours line, a pirouette and a manege. The first two and last two jumps in the manege are different, the rest are coupe jetes en tournant. The dancer ends the variation down on knee.
Derivative choreos usually leave out the pirouette or change the first two jumps in the manege (jetes entrelace) to something else. The Bolshoi had in the 1980-90s different choreo for the zigzag lines.
And then there was Nureyev, who added more steps to the zigzag lines and changed the manege to half barrel turns, half jetes, and ended the variation standing. There are other minor changes as well - it was very much a work in progress.
The RB likes to do small changes every few years. Sometimes it's the zigzag lines, sometimes the last two double tours, sometimes the first two jumps in the manege.
The NBC did not change the zigzag lines much but put everything and the kitchen sink in the manege.
I'm sure there are many more derivatives out there...
And last but not least, tempo and length vary greatly.
For the montage I used footage available on YT. Many thanks to the uploaders.
notated variation 1 (Fullington) • Pacific Northwest Ball...
notated variation 2 (Ratmansky) • LUCYMAY DI STEFANO-CLA...
Sergeyev w/ pirouette: don't remember the source
Sergeyev w/o pirouette (Baryshnikov) • Baryshnikov Sleeping B...
Sergeyev w/o jetes entrelaces
(Fadeyechev) • Video
(Tsiskaridze) • The Sleeping Beauty Pr...
Nureyev w/o assemble tour • Video
Nureyev w/ assemble tour • Nureyev Sleeping Beaut...
RB 1970s (Wall) • Video
RB 2000s (Kobborg) • Sleeping Beauty pdd 2 ...
NBC 1970s: don't remember the source
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Baryshnikov just FLOATED rings around all the others. It is scary. One watches him and then all the others just look clumsy.
Misha is apart. We can discuss about the others
This is just fantastic, Navarre Brixen. Thank you for this pedagogic breakdown.
Very fun to compare these artists. Thank you.
The problem with Baryschnikov is that laws of gravitation don't apply to him...
Agreed. I've never seen any dancer whip gravity's ass like that. He can stay in the air for like 3.5 counts. Sorcery.
Maravilloso, mil gracias por compartir.
Mother Russia has so many gifts ! ☆☆☆
The first version shown here ages the most sense musically, and strikes me as the most perfectly aligned with musical nuances that the piano offered.
The second one makes wonderous sense musically, too ! Love it! So tasteful and modest, with a POW in just the right places...
That is Petipa’s annotations.
Except sadly no passion inn the dancer...lovely but without soul
My favorit in this solo is still the one and only Simeon Chudin!
Thank you for this really interesting compilation. It is hard to imagine though that 53year old Pavel Gerdt was capable to do all those tricky brisé volées and those tour en l'airs ended in attitude. Has this version really be used in 1890?
Navarre Brixen Sorry, but that must be a mistake: Benno and Odette in Sleeping beauty?
Нуреев лучший!!!На его фоне все меркнут.Браво Рудольф!!!
great montage! thanks a lot! I've doubts about BT: Grigorovich would claim the version to him, not to Sergeyev. Then, I think the first BT variation is danced not by Alexey Fadeyechev but by Vyacheslav Gordeev and the second quite sure by Nikolay Tsiskaridze.
and I have a question about NBC - isn't it a version by Balanchine? If it's so I can't understand why versions by Sergeyev and Balanchine have something in common with each other and nothing in common with "notation"?
Navarre Brixen In the first video is no prince and the second is ananiashvili with fadeyechev but he has nothing in common with our heroes :)
Navarre Brixen Thank you, of course, it's National Ballet of Cuba! No Balanchine! I mixed the abbreviations.Stupid of me. And then I wondered ....
Just read that 1922-23 Lopukhov made an attempt to stage SB as near to Petipa as possible. I suppose he made the variation Sergeyev and Grigorovich used later.
+Navarre Brixen It looks like A. Fadeyechev.
Wasn´t the soviet Prologue Lilac variation also created by Lopukhov?
And who is that dancing the 1960s Kirov one? Vikulov maybe? I might have shown the Soloviev one from the 1964 SB... no one does that version cleaner. And is the NBC 1970s one John Meehan? Kind of looks like him.
yes is vikulov is from a documentary obout him with 3 different partners he performs this more others pdd ,and is very good ,l was amazed by his technicall level .the whole doc is on YT
It's interesting to see the original variation but it doesn't quite convince me. A bit too Bluebirdy for my taste.
The manege of the last one is strange. Who's the dancer?
+Navarre Brixen l always liked esquivel ,unfortunatly defected too late
Navarre Brixen he was an outstanding dancer with an amazing phisique but spent the most of his carrer like a blind dog ( l know it was bad lol)
Navarre Brixen no never saw him live .but a friend of mine here on yt (blooandwinearered ) saw him live doing giselle guesting in usa (blood did classical pddin the same perf ) and told me that he was really strong
Navarre Brixen don't know in which occasion
+Navarre Brixen I don't think he guested with ABT, but the Cubans visited NYC and Washington DC during the 70s. I remember seeing Alicia Alonso on a US talk show during that time and it was a big deal she was back dancing in the US. Esquivel used to be a character dancer with SF Ballet for quite a while and teach at their ballet academy but now he has a ballet school with his daughter a little south of San Francisco.
God, when will Ratmansky's version finally be on video?!
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Нуреев недосигаем, лучший!
I loved all the beats and footwork in the first versions. After that, all the arabesques and cabrioles felt just so stiff to watch... Princes, boring, womp. :-(