Feel free to share videos of your own favourite Raymondas in the comments section below! You can watch a better quality video of Pontois's Hungarian variation here: th-cam.com/video/aljJci5BlQQ/w-d-xo.html
artdecochicgirl2 I don't see why Raymonda shouldn't smile in this variation. No dungeon dominatrix for me either, which is why I'm not crazy about renditions by such dancers as Guillem and Gillot. Extremes should be avoided, whether it's too coarse or too bland. Also, the clapping of hands (and yes, they are a part of this solo in every production!) isn't the only way of showing folkloric flavour; for example, very few ballerinas get the characteristic head movements right. They aren't even part of the Nureyev version! I love Kolpakova and Komleva in this also, but theirs is still a very different take from this one and, to a lesser degree, of the older stagings by Gorsky and Balanchine: more delicate and less voluptuous.
And then there's Makarova, who sort of falls in between: th-cam.com/video/pgkZAwINvFs/w-d-xo.html -- I like this one: refined but also energetic when the music asks for it. Makarova said of this variation that you had to add "a little paprika" to it.
artdecochicgirl2 I think that's just Makarova's way of feeling the music, though -- a more lyrical take, I guess. She did excell in the lyric-dramatic register rather than the severely classical (Aurora) or the soubrette.
I absolutely adore her here in Raymondas act lll… so exquisite she is in such beautiful form, every move ⭐️⭐️⭐️.. I have watched and re watched this brilliant performance.
Feel free to share videos of your own favourite Raymondas in the comments section below! You can watch a better quality video of Pontois's Hungarian variation here: th-cam.com/video/aljJci5BlQQ/w-d-xo.html
artdecochicgirl2 I don't see why Raymonda shouldn't smile in this variation. No dungeon dominatrix for me either, which is why I'm not crazy about renditions by such dancers as Guillem and Gillot. Extremes should be avoided, whether it's too coarse or too bland.
Also, the clapping of hands (and yes, they are a part of this solo in every production!) isn't the only way of showing folkloric flavour; for example, very few ballerinas get the characteristic head movements right. They aren't even part of the Nureyev version! I love Kolpakova and Komleva in this also, but theirs is still a very different take from this one and, to a lesser degree, of the older stagings by Gorsky and Balanchine: more delicate and less voluptuous.
And then there's Makarova, who sort of falls in between: th-cam.com/video/pgkZAwINvFs/w-d-xo.html -- I like this one: refined but also energetic when the music asks for it. Makarova said of this variation that you had to add "a little paprika" to it.
artdecochicgirl2 I think that's just Makarova's way of feeling the music, though -- a more lyrical take, I guess. She did excell in the lyric-dramatic register rather than the severely classical (Aurora) or the soubrette.
I absolutely adore her here in Raymondas act lll… so exquisite she is in such beautiful form, every move ⭐️⭐️⭐️.. I have watched and re watched this brilliant performance.
probably one of the best Raymonda.every moves she makes seems so easy and natural.she is also very musical
There are two Raymonda on Y Tube : Nathalia Bessmertnova Bolchoi 1989 - Noella Pontois Paris-Opera 1983
adore her 💖
Love her
Extraordinaire une danseuse à nulle autre pareil, ou peut-on se procurer le.dvd.
Merci
she was a very rafinate dancer l saw her in more occasions usually partnered by vladimir derevianko
she is rather tiny
@@pediatrapaola M Barychnikov it's tiny ?