Fasinating!!!@ Brought me back to my ballet days in the 1950's

This is soooooo old. Released when she retired from Royal Ballet. This preceded her final performance in Rite of Spring.

that McMillan guy looks creepy

i just don't see the expressivity and artistry such as of Russian dancers, nothing even close. After you watch the greatest Russian dancers you always feel like something (or alot) is missing in all the rest, though sometimes it's hard to even put your finger on it. It's a kind of stiffness maybe, both physical and emotional

I Ve never seen something like this..god blesss

WOW = Awesome dancer 😮

She is darling. So down to earth and without vanity. Amazing what her body can do. And other ballet dancers too.

absolutely LOVED this documentary, thank you

What a lovely person!

Darcy Bussell both beautiful and elegant

oohh!! David Howard! <3

Darcy was and is a real treasure!💐🐞

She is gorgeous! Love watching her dance. 😊😊😊

Her footwork is amazing, but everything about who she is and her dancing is amazing.

she is lovely

Could hear her and her enormous feet clonking onstage - and the breathing ffs. Irek out for a year with neck injury - Bussell being much taller than him was an enormous strain on the neck. Hey ho,box office receipts more important. Always ruined Balanchine Symphony in C as she always chose to leave the arabesque longer just in case we, the audience, didnt realise the rules and timing of a lovely company piece did not apply to her.

Beautiful and emotional! Very interesting Ballet Dancer.

A fascinating documentary. Ms. Bussell is absolutely incredible. A gorgeous woman, inside and out, and such a beautiful dancer, despite being tall for a ballerina. ❤❤❤

she didnt retire did she?

1989 she was really hot

have you eaten ballet pizza yet?

how you doing

She was told by someone to just "give up on ballet". That she'd never make it. Well, F-them with something hard and sharp. The dear girl was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in the 1995 New Year Honours for services to ballet, Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in the 2006 Birthday Honours, and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to ballet. The late Queen herself was a devout balletomane. And Her Majesty acknowledged when someone from the Motherland made an accomplishment on behalf of it. Let's be grateful she was--as she puts it, "stubborn".

After seeing this video, and others similar, find that the love and hunger has to be there within. Has to be the soul that needs awaking. As an adult ballet dancer who wants to find that equal, where passion meets forefilling that vision. Good place to start, accepting where we are and where we are going. Thank you for this video.

Great to see Darcey on stage and off stage, with her freshness, and discipline. I can see that she owes her high working level to her stubborness. And I owe Darcey so much gratitude for her Pilates exercises, in her book. For many years, I've worked through her book, choosing exercises that I recorded with my voice, and practiced them every morning. Every now and than I changed the exercises, in that 30 minute work-out for me. I respect her choice to be with her children more, and their growing up in life, while, I'm sure, she will never stop dancing. And teaching others who are as stubborn as she is. Bless your heart and soul, Darcey! 😉👩🖐🧙‍♀

I like Darcey very,very ,very much,but I love Jonathan

"Not a classical ballerina look"? In what world? Christ, what do they want? Good grief.

Beautiful woman, person, and dancer.. Thank you for this documentary. It was an incredible honour; I was asked to coach Darcy and Roberto on the main Forsythe "In the Middle Somewhat Elevated" pas de deux for her farewell performance in 2007. She (they) were so open. It was a beautiful collaboration. I will never forget it.

Its strange to hear her think of her calves as being bulky, never understood why female dancers think this.

My beautiful brother was a ballet dancer. I adore ballet.

Fascinating to see how the great choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, fresh back from America, compares Darcey to American dancers, who have a strong attack, and an enormous jump. Darcey he says, dances like the American dancers he's seen. That's what Balanchine technique teaches. Don't hold back, what are you saving it for? typical Balanchine. This cross-fertilization is so interesting!

Sadly her voice is unbearable and I wish they’d stop trotting her out introducing ballets.

Did you not marry a banker D'Arcy?

What an incredible human. Beautiful person inside and out.

I've always loved this dancer. So down to earth. My great grand daughter, Heidi-Rose, has begun ballet lessons with a retired professional ballerina. Before lessons, when she was only 3, she'd look at her shadow on a sunny wall to make sure her arms were poised properly. Such sweet dedication.

THANK YOU for placing this video !!!!!!! Loved Darcey for years and years !!!!!!!!

Beautiful dancer

Excellent documentary … thanks for sharing. Am a boomer who studied ballet and grateful my mom was not a ballet mom but a surfing mom in the 50’s 60’s … because the ballet world back then was so insanely sick … just read Gelsey Kirkland’s “Dancing on My Grave” … at 37 I had an opportunity to finally study ballet with a very well known ballet master where I got it into my heart & bones … along with a deep appreciation for how freaking hard this art form is that the professionals make look so easy. I was fortunate to befriend Magali Messac a famous ballerina at the end of her career … being supportive of how hard it is to end one’s most intimate connection with Source is hell for most … but maybe not so much for Darcey due to her unique personality … and as she really broke so many old traditional molds … and was so fortunate to have had Macmillian!

So basically everything that made her THE British Ballerina was everything that was considered atypical British at the time :)))

Thank you for this documentary from 2005! The first time I heard of Darcey was when she was a guest star on an episode of the "Vicar of Dibley." Despite her fame, Darcey comes across as approachable and even relatable. She must've been pretty lonely though being so successful at such a young age. Probably the other dancers were envious of her. I hope I'm wrong. Thank you for the upload!

what a Beautiful strong and gifted woman Beautiful inside and out ..wish I had met someone like her years ago ..a true role model ...once seen never to be forgotten ..thanks for posting !

Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the evil in this world, God is full of justice, mercy and love. Justice said we broke His perfect law - causing the world's previous perfection to be destroyed - and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don't think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing - regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others - which is murder in God's perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says "the soul that sins shall die" - if we break one in thought/word/deed it's as if we're guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans . The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom. If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us into His image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. We cannot purify ourselves, but Christ lived that perfect sinless, pure life and then allotted it to our "account". That's where our righteousness comes from. Not from any good, works that you or I could do. It is not based on the amount of good works we do. God starts the changes, He carries it on, and He completes it in those who let Him. It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him, again, through His power and instruction). He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if YOU had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place. He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, forgiveness, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it. He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way. NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER If you have any questions let me know

She is one of my favourite dancers but I didn't know she was so tall. She doesn't have the typical physique of a ballerina as she looks healthy and very athletic rather then anorexic. Pity her career was short but she went on to write children's books and live in Australia before returning to the UK I believe.

Such a tough life - they make it look so effortless, but it's pretty much hell on the body.

She’s a treasure.

9:58 just so lovely together

She is beautiful in so many ways.

Are there any men wanting to be female ballerinas???.

brilliant sublime lightness and pleasure to watch

She made them fire Claudia Dean because she had sex with pedo Andrew