The Ballet of the Paris Opera Featuring Serge Lifar (c. 1940) Rare Official Films with Amber Tone
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- The Paris Opera Ballet (French: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris) is the oldest national ballet company in the world, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it. It has always been an integral part of the Paris Opera, which was founded in 1669 as the Académie d'Opéra (Academy of Opera), although theatrical dance did not become an important component of the Paris Opera until 1673, after it was renamed the Académie Royale de Musique (Royal Academy of Music) and placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully. The Paris Opera has had many different official names during its long history but since 1994 has been called the Opéra National de Paris (Paris National Opera). The company presents ballet primarily at the Palais Garnier.
Serge Lifar (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Лифа́рь, Sergey Mikhaylovich Lifar; Ukrainian: Сергій Михайлович Лифар, Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar) (15 April [O.S. 2 April] 1905 -- 15 December 1986) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century.
As ballet master of the Paris Opera from 1930 to 1944 and from 1947 to 1958, he devoted himself to the restoration of the technical level of the Paris Opera Ballet to return it to its place as one of the best companies in the world.
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As John Hall has noted in the comments below the actual performers on the film are Serge Peretti and Suzanne Lorcia in Ivan Clustine's 'Suite de danses' (1936). This was an unusual mistake, that improperly credited performers that were more well known for these roles in ballet to perhaps sell the film to a wider audience.
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Serge Peretti is a dancer french original Italian, born in Venice in 1905 1 and died in Paris on 20 August 1997. Trained at the School of the Paris Opera , he joined the Ballet in 1920. principal dancer in 1930 , he became the first man to receive the title of Star in 1941. He left the Opera in 1946 to devote himself to teaching dance . From 1962 to 1970, he returned to the opera as a teacher of the class of stars.
Considered the greatest dancer of his time, he is defined by elegance and purity of his technique. He created many roles for Michel Fokine , Leo Staats , Bronislava Nijinska , Lycette Darsonval especially Serge Lifar . In 1945 he choreographed the Call of the mountain of Arthur Honegger . Two months before his death, director Dominique Delouche devotes a film called Serge Peretti, the last Italian.
Susanne Lorcia (December 18 of 1902 - November 27 of 1999 ) was a French dancer. In 1914 at age 12, she began to study dance at the School of the Paris Opera. In 1918 she was hired for the Ballet of the Paris Opera later, in 1931 she became a star dancer, finally leaving the company in 1950 . She also participated in the ballet "Les Animaux Modèles" with Serge Lifar with music by Francis Poulenc.
Official Films was a home movie distributor founded by Leslie Winik in 1939 to produce educational shorts. Soon, after buying the Keystone Chaplin library, they found themselves in the home movie business. Official also purchased the backlog of the Soundies Distributing Corporation of America, releasing numerous short musicals; both singly and in compilation reels.
Film to digital transfer by: Gerald Santana - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
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Everyone's talking about technique and how this is "weak" but I'm here a casual bypasser going "ooh so lovely". 🥰 Love this!
Как же это прекрасно, а ведь было это почти 100 летназад... Спасибо за возможность посмотреть и восхититься!!! ❤
Back when people were really romantic and less demanding athletic qualifications!
you talk about Russians here , j think really that Frenchs prefer to more the style stylus than demonstrative dancers ( j talk here as lover-ballet not as the millions TH-camrs)
bro people still are romantic and people then also had athletic qualifications as well 💀💀
just think, the kids in this ballet might still be alive today!
...probably not, majority are prob dead. If you think abt it, most of the girls here are probablt 20 ish. That would mean theyre around 90 today
yep wow technique. The music was lovely. The dancers danced beautifully. Rare video 💕
The beginning is so beautiful!!
this appears to be Clustine's SUITE DE DANSE, as follows: "Suite de danses: Chor: Ivan Clustine; mus: Frédéric Chopin, orch. by André Messager & Paul Vidal; cos: Pinchon. First perf: Paris, Opera, June 23, 1913; Paris Opera Ballet.//Revival: Paris, Opera, Feb 20, 1922; Paris Opera Ballet" and probably re-worked for film. it's typical for Peretti to opt for pointe-shoes as his footwear as seen here.
It's beautiful.
how did things progress so quickly?!
Балет тяжёлое искусство. Выносливость, сила.
Super Cool ! ! . . . So Atmospheric !
hi Gerald
A little while back, I uploaded on my channel what I thought (and hoped) was footage of Ballets Russes legend, Olga Spessivtzeva as ‘Serge Lifar and (perhaps) Olga Spessivtzeva - Filmed with the Ballet of the Paris Opera (1931)’. There seemed to be some reasons to support these hopes, which I included in the notes for the video. One reason was the title given at the beginning of the footage, which identified Lifar.
Sadly and happily, I found these dancers not to be Serge Lifar and Olga Spessivtzeva, but Serge Peretti and Suzanne Lorcia in Ivan Clustine's 'Suite de danses', which was presented at the Opéra de Paris in 1936. And quite by chance a few days later I found a much clearer example of this same footage in the French documentary ‘Serge Peretti - Le Dernier Italien’.
I've re-posted this clear version on my channel.
Cheers from Sydney!
Thanks for identifying the film John, it has been noted above.
Gerald Santana
Excellent to see footage of Peretti, who was also, in 1922 for a couple of weeks only, a Diaghilev dancer.
yes, i know - he was born in Kyiv :)
Well, Lorcia DOES look like Spessivtseva-- VERY lovely, exquisite footwork, feathery entrechat sixes, light, and with the look of lightness. Peretti doesn't pull his lines like modern dancers do, but he's clearly centered, his dancing looks like dancing more than some modern men do. The choreography isn't "interesting," difficult intellectually-- it is NOT modern-- but it is limpidly danceable and charming. SO glad to have seen this. Thank you for posting, and for all the annotations and proper crediting.
@@1psoas9 it does look like Spessivtseva - i think people want there to be more film of her and accepted it as such.
this looks older than 1940! the eyebrows of the girls are far too thin for it to be in the 40s?
1936
It is very clear from the fashions and hair styles that this video must date from the early 1930s, not ca. 1940.
I was thinking the fashions didn't fit the 40's style.
30s or 40s it was great.
Yeah i noticed by the hairstyle. Very short and curled up
It was 1936
she got the balanchine-style claws lmao
благодарю за видио о Лифаре
I think it's perfect!
!!!!!!!!!!+++ Большое спасибо за видео !!!
Isso é lindo de se ver
amazing
I am puzzled, they look like most likely they are dancing Chopiniana but the music is not Chopin, the corps looks like Sylphides and male dancer is in a typical Chopiniana Poet costume. Can you clear this up? Was music substituted because it was not available? Or is it a different ballet depicting Chopiniana?
Pointe shoes back then, your feet are R.I.P (left alone balancing on them)
That was the shortest ballet I've ever seen!
Nice.
This has more feeling than nowadays. The modern ballet sucks.
Then you haven't watched good ballets...
@@BytomGirl Probably because the "good" ballets are too rare and hard to find these days -- proving OPs point that modern ballet sucks.
@@athens31415 They are not rare at all... there are so many classical ballets to watch, many reconstructed and there are many choreographed in recent times that are great, just look for Roland Petit, John Neumeier, Uwe Scholz among others. You just have to know how to find them . There are those stupid modern ones of course but they are not majority. Find for example Illusions Like Swan Lake of Neumeier, incredible ballet about Bavarian King Ludvig II
I see this, and while I enjoy it, I’m wondering if the Fall of France had already happened (June 1940).
1:50, what is the name of that music and whose composer is it?
HE IS SERGE PERETTI FROM LE DERNIER ITALIEN
The difference in the level of technique I already expected but the fact they're all wearing modern hairstyles seems odd, even in 30s and 40s I thought a bun or similar was standard practice, maybe I just haven't done enough research haha
What ballet is this?
Serge Lifar 💙💛
Ce n est Pas Serge Lifar Mais Serge Peretti Et Suzanne Lorcia. !!
Oui, c'est Serge Peretti Et Suzanne Lorcia, les crédits sont faux.
Oui bravo
These dancers look so technically weak, it must be much earlier than 1940
They didnt have pointe shoes back then so yeah
I mean their pointed didnt have the strong support the nowdays pointes have. And they couldnt stand on their points long
Judging ny hairstyle is aroun 1920-1930
Its 1936. And they're good technicaly for the time. These dancers learned ballet at the beginning of 20th century. In 1910, the last female travesty danced on paris opera stage, so serge peretti (the male principal) comes from a generation that has revived male dance (there were only few good male dancers at paris opera from 1880 to 1900).
In that time paris opera was still practicing ballet in a vert academic way. They would never speak about "lines purity". The knee had to be flexible during the execution of petite batterie for example. Port de bras and epaulement are beautiful.
have a look at chabukiani's videos on yt he in 30's had already strong technique as many other russians like sergeyev yermolaev messerer etc etc
What ballet is this???
Chopiniana, wrong music was added, was supposed to be 7th waltz of Chopin
He was a grate ukrainian
The shoes looks very thin
Bb
1931*
what's with the weird pointes?
Weird? Whats weird about them? That they don't make the woman's feet the same size as the males? With a massive paddle box like modern pointes? That's what i consider weird!! I would much rather see this style of pointe shoes again
Well their pointes back then didnt have the kind of support at the toes like todays pointes have.
@@timothyk9086 its incredibly difficult to stand on those or to basically do piruottes or other stuff. Thid shoes didnt have support but the ballerinas had incredibly strong ankles but still you cant use them anymore cuz its difficult to dance with those. Especially if u have to dance for 1 or more hours
@@timothyk9086 Modern pointe shoes offer dancers much more support than the shoes of the past. They are better suited for advanced moves on pointe unlike the shoes used in this video. Also, women can have the same foot size as men, with or without pointe shoes.
Mostly turned in...now I'm confused if that's classical or contemporary 🤣
It's classical, turnout wasn't as big of a deal back then
Russians are the most beautiful human beings on earth.
Many of them are wonderful...such as Maya Plisetskya, Ulyana Lopatkina and Svetlana Zakarova, for starters.
So bad in every way it's funny. Can't even move in time. The male dancer LOL!
According tyo our modern standards and taste, this looks like an amateur adult group.
Dancers were heavier in those days.
looked stupid then looks stupid now. what an unnecessary form of art.
Что это за балет ? Музыка очень понравилась . Чья это музыка ?
is serge peretti not lifar