One of the most expressive dancers that ever lived. She floated, defied gravity, became part of the music.
@faun070Ай бұрын
Such precious material. Thank you for sharing!!
@joanneaurica31892 ай бұрын
I always was in awe of Gelsey's footwork. Her feet seemed to rarely touch the floor, she seemed to make contact enough for gravity. All the rest was up-up-up of the floor, low or high. Her acting is exquisite, every movement imbued with emotion. Her Giselle mad scene is one of the most legitimate.
@lisam84023 ай бұрын
Thank you! 🙏
@viki56k884 ай бұрын
Абсолютно волшебная балерина. Нет никого лучше❤
@flightydancer5 ай бұрын
As close to perfection as a dancer can be! Gelsey is a gift from God.
@peterdamato23595 ай бұрын
Gregory I saw many times live and she was always sublime. She was elegant and athletic. Her Swan Lake was both lyrical and a she hit every movement with such clarity. It was she was painting pictures as she moved.
@peterdamato23595 ай бұрын
Gregory I saw many times live and she was always sublime. She was elegant and athletic. Her Swan Lake was both lyrical and a she hit every movement with such clarity. It was she was painting pictures as she moved.
@Ленд-лиз6 ай бұрын
Это , что ?. Большая проблема озвучить ?. Дизлайк!,
@Marta443397 ай бұрын
Gelsey's Giselle even without music is wonderful. What a gift it would be to see more of it, and with sound.
@misspomerol9 ай бұрын
The only person on the planet that I can think of that can do the rose adagio like this is Marianela Nuñez. But that’s in 2024. Gregory was banging this out in the 80’s. Now to be fair, I can do without the pirouettes brought to you by the number 4, but everything else is pretty much perfect.
@kerrytakashi12 Жыл бұрын
Wow. Why wasn't Kirkland filmed professionally in everything she danced? It could only be two things; either she refused to be involved in professional filming of her repertoire or the powers that were deliberately refused to film her dancing.
@tonio7367 Жыл бұрын
Cynthia was one of our best American ballerinas of the 20th Century. What a joy!
@Hans6789-j9t Жыл бұрын
She just makes it look soooooo easy ….like a 16 year old ❤
@giuliorenzobighin8165 Жыл бұрын
Ottima impressione di naturalezza esecutiva d'acchito da parte di entrambi ed ottimo il convolo elanista ed aereo della ballerina come metafora vittoriosa della levità e bellezza .MOLTO bravi Tutti anche per la cura dell'ambientazione.Bighin GIULIO RENZO
@АлександрНовиков-х8э7х Жыл бұрын
Божественно!!!!!
@antoniorosario94922 жыл бұрын
Where’s the rest????? Please upload if you have more 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@havenization2 жыл бұрын
please someone with skills put music to this :)
@anastasialenkova-molchalin58742 жыл бұрын
She was wonderful, but can we appreciate dancers of past without tearing down dancers of today? They all used to be dancers of today, it is ALWAYS today, just different today.
@kerrytakashi122 жыл бұрын
Why should we accept mediocrity? This video clearly shows a devolution in the art and how it is performed by today's dancers. Do you know why Gregory gets those exquisite roll downs through the foot and perfect balance? Because she is not using over extensions of the leg. Pushing the leg up to the ear (the Russians are the worst practitioners), pushes the hip off the plumb line. So the dancer over indulging for a two second impressive, pretty picture gives up body integrity and plasticity of movement. This horrible practice could be stopped this second. The audience didn't ask for it. So the pushing of it is due to the ballet industry.
@Теле2-щ6о2 жыл бұрын
Сокровище
@giangualbertopi73812 жыл бұрын
After Fonteyn, she is the best Aurora. so lovely! ❤
@deniseimageryskincaretotal50742 жыл бұрын
Breath taking! Such elegance! Thank you for letting me share!!
@ОльгаП-б2ь2 жыл бұрын
Тысячу раз Браво!!!
@casteretpollux3 жыл бұрын
Wow! She's really good!
@АнгелаКрис3 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🕊🙂❤🙌
@superrubble71173 жыл бұрын
The beauty at 7:02 stuns me every time…
@revivalharpsichord50783 жыл бұрын
Incomparable!
@valliemackrell12283 жыл бұрын
Très belle, très magnifique. Brava, brava!!
@joeimbesi993 жыл бұрын
Born 1912 film released 1962 AGED 49 YEARS HERE WHAT EASE HE HAD!
@m.mcguire96833 жыл бұрын
Cynthia and Margot Fonteyn danced the best rose adagios! Even if they didn't have the crazy extensions like today's dancers, the artistry and pure emotion they brought to their performances is unmatched!
@APrimbun23 күн бұрын
I believe Cynthia Gregory's full extension was higher than you might realize. What she is doing here is a form of restraint-- it is what the choreography, style and period of the ballet required.
@Elemenohpea4407 күн бұрын
She could have flung her leg higher, but chose not to for artistic considerations. Much like baroque opera where singers don’t add insane high notes
@sedekiman3 жыл бұрын
Does not give the impression of a 16 year old, too mature looking. Technically very correct but a princess about to blossom? No. Fonteyn is the keeper of this role. And that tutu looks so heavy.
@nativevirginian83443 жыл бұрын
That beautiful, graceful woman! 💐🌹
@kellymac24044 жыл бұрын
she was my favorite -- thank you for posting this!
@deborahclem49014 жыл бұрын
Just watched this again...I'm saying these are easily some of the best Aurora balances around.
@MP-uc7pj4 жыл бұрын
What year?
@Графоманство2 жыл бұрын
1977
@melissaking60194 жыл бұрын
This performance by Cynthia Gregory made me a ballet fan back in 1979 when I watched the original broadcast.
@pattymcintyre13504 жыл бұрын
Goddess, from start to finish.
@kerrytakashi124 жыл бұрын
I've watched this clip so many times now, I can't get enough. The relaxed and perfect classicism in Gregory's dancing is so lovely. The balances are breathtaking but the beautifully controlled roll down through her foot after each extension has me awestruck. To see dancing of this caliber again would be wonderful. And I'm not in the circles that say it can't be done anymore. It can be, there are dancers out there who still know the old style and strive for it. They just aren't being chosen by the powers in charge now. THEY are dumbing down ballet by choosing less than sterling talent.
@kathrynfriedrich2764 жыл бұрын
My favorite ballerina <3
@barbaralemere51834 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Eric for posting this clip. It brought back many fond memories.
@DavidN3695 жыл бұрын
Perfection.
@minissa20095 жыл бұрын
I know I've commented on this thread before, but just rewatched and am sitting here with tears in my eyes. I know from watching Bolshoi's reconstruction that the penchee was how Aurora originally finished the balances, but I really like this better, esp when done so perfectly---but that was Cynthia. Also like the way ABT was doing the bourree turns at about 4:17. We had tickets for this performance but ended up in the ER when an older friend who was with us tripped on the stairs at the Met and conked her head! Do you have any more of this perf you could post?
@EricTaub5 жыл бұрын
I have the whole thing on VHS somewhere, but no longer the setup for digitizing. There are other bits of this on KZbin if you look.
@EricTaub5 жыл бұрын
minissa2009 Still haven’t seen Bolshoi/Ratmansky reconstruction, but have fond memories of the Mariinsky’s whacky 1998 reconstruction.
@JM-sx2gc4 жыл бұрын
@@EricTaub I'll pay you to find it and have it digitized! I really need more Cynthia in my life. She was my idol and inspiration when I was a ballet student. Thank you!!!
@EricTaub4 жыл бұрын
Judy Meinhold There is a fuzzy but marvelous clip on KZbin of Gregory doing a stunning solo from Grand Pas Classique. Not, alas, smoking a cigarette, but still.
@JM-sx2gc4 жыл бұрын
@@EricTaub I'm actually shocked that there is so little of her on film. I'll check that one out. She was my idol as a teen. I started ballet at 13 and at 17 moved to Los Angeles to study with all of her teachers.
@bobzeschin31545 жыл бұрын
From the NYT review of the performance I saw with CG & Ivan Nagy: "Tchaikovsky's miraculous score carried the ballerina to veritable heights of triumph...From the moment of her first run onstage, it was clear that the evening would be hers. She started at the top & only went upward...Light shone luminously through her dancing all evening...So radiant & so joyful, Aurora's name rang true as the essence of that dancing...The wedding pas de deux was marked by a glitter & clarity of movement that made the whole performance one big wave into crescendo. Rarely has she danced better." Anna Kisselgoff also raved about Nagy's "astonishingly gallant Prince" and added that the two leads visibly inspired the soloists to put "their best feet forward." Every single dancer on that stage seemed at the very top of their game & their pointe shoes that night. I have a framed photo of Gregory in Act I over my desk as I write this to remind me of that magical night. Those were indeed the days, Eric!
@autumnbender40415 жыл бұрын
Her core control and balance, that she's seems to tease the audience with.... She brings those extensions to a point, that everyone strives for. She's always been my favorite.
@joeimbesi995 жыл бұрын
Was 47 to 48 years OLD HERE AMAZING!!!
@barbaralemere51836 жыл бұрын
Sigh. Cynthia Gregory's Rose Adagio is perfection. To think that ABT had Gregory, Makarova, and Gelsey Kirkland in the same company at that time. We were so spoiled. No to mention Baryshnikov, Ted Kivett, Ivan Nagy, and Fernando Bujones. All at the same time.
@dennischiapello72436 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Martine van Hamel, who is often overlooked.
@barbaralemere51836 жыл бұрын
@@dennischiapello7243 You are so right Dennis, Martine Van Hamel was another wonderful ballerina during that era. I had the pleasure of seeing her dance many times. I loved her in La Bayadere
@APrimbun6 жыл бұрын
She was my idol and to this day I am floored by her. So precise, so strong with intelligence coming right through to the audience.
@pedinurse16 жыл бұрын
she was an absolute miracle on stage
@JM-sx2gc6 жыл бұрын
Perfection.
@mlal83146 жыл бұрын
The ballet is certainly very good but THAT ORCHESTRA. OMG.