2003 Maya Plisetskaya & Charles Jude - Afternoon of a Faun

The legendary Russian ballerina, Maya Plisetskaya, at 78 years, performs Afternoon of a Faun with Charles Jude. Charles Jude was a danseur étoile of the Paris Opéra Ballet. This performance took place in a 2003 gala called 'Muse of Ballet' honouring Plisetskaya.

[@Royalbrettania]

absolutely astounding !! Thanks BunduB !!! I would just wish you would give her her full well deserved title .. Prima Ballerina Assouluta :)

[@НетНет-ш7ч]

Нет, не понравилась Плисецкая. Её драматизм совсем неуместен, совсем нет ансамбля с фавном, она танцует как обычно делает в других балетах. Могли бы внешность её изменить------её длинное лицо вносит драматизм, а не экзотику. Не смогла создать.

[@Taisiya87]

Еще "Фавна" потрясающе станцевал Нуриев!

[@DieFlabbergast]

Yes, yes, it's amazing that Plisetskaya should be able to dance like this at 78 years of age, but what about Charles Jude? Let's hear a round of applause for the main performer of this wonderful piece. He was 50 when he performed this - no spring chicken any more, but this was almost as good as in his earlier performance, also on KZbin.

[@anniemihn]

+DieFlabbergast He was fifty in this? WOW. He's spectacular in it. Besides Nijinsky, the best Faun in history for sure.

[@Dicedude]

I think I would put Nureyev ahead of Jude, though.

[@DieFlabbergast]

De gustibus non disputandum est.

[@Dicedude]

Verum ipsum!

[@pedinurse1]

she was amazing

[@eugenesheshenin2060]

Plissetskaya and Jude in this - is amazing pairing of two extraordinary dancers uniquely sensual and elegant , whose art defies age and conventions. Maya is a personal idol - she was that incredible amalgam of refinement, musicality, eroticism and elevated sense of style from the get go. She have had posessed that magic - whatever she touched was transformed and became personal. There are precious few with similar abilities - Sylvie Guillem comes to mind. Maya is at home in this piece - her territory of expressive performance, requiring dancer's taste, tact and intelligence. Jude is a worty partner for her here. This is art.

[@vasilisakojina447]

Спасибо за чарующее исполнение! Мистическая музыка,страстность, невероятный талант исполнителей, всё слилось воедино! Браво!

[@pricla777]

I've always found Debussy's score mesmerizing.

[@iamlayfhacer]

Невероятно, в 78 лет!

[@ЛарисаГриценко-н9р]

Кто сказал , что 78?

[@pearlypetals]

amazing! she was lovely, brilliant and perfect, the greatest of all ballerinas. R.I.P.

[@watrgrl2]

This was my favorite version of this ballet ever. I loved Charles Jude’s performance.

[@vaslav030547]

Charles Jude's performance is much more than sensual and erotic, purveying an hypnotic opium trancelike quality. The movements are smoother and more catlike than Nureyev. The music of Debussy entombs the encounter in a translucent bubble.

[@barbj9785]

Jude's performance here is superior to Nureyev's. Some people will disagree but if you compare the two its easy to see. Maya is sensational here for her age.

[@gregoryblaska1586]

@@barbj9785 While I've thoroughly enjoyed Nureyev in many things, everything about his Faune performance is exteriorized. To my eye and sensibility, he cheapened the original intent of this ballet. His performance has none of the interiorization that Nijinsky (based on the photographs and descriptions) and Jude (here and in his Paris Opera Ballet performance) bring to the proceedings. The whole-body physicality is completely missing in Nureyev; he does not understand Nijinsky's very specific physicality which is intrinsically married to the choreography Charles Jude most certainly does. It's an immaculately detailed performance. It also manages to be historically responsible without ever becoming moribund. Patrick Dupond who was a supreme Nijinsky-style exponent was probably also an excellent Faune if he ever chanced to perform it

[@AnyaV]

Very interesting to watch different variants from different performers.

[@gregoryblaska1586]

Charles Jude remains my favorite Faune, hands down. Jude maintains a withheld self-enclosure which seems close in alignment to what remains documented concerning Nijinsky's original performance and choreographic intent. There is a beautiful feral "otherness" about his presentation.

[@TheBunduBallerina]

Well-said

[@AnyaV]

Just saw how this did Liepa and Tsiskaridze . Each dancer bring their own personality.

[@susannevollmer2347]

Marvelous Albrecht and Giselle(who is she?) ! And my favorit Sprit of the rose is my dearest Patrick, of course!

[@sana11sana19]

Страшный полуеозел получеловек!😯воображение!наверное и люди есть такого рода

[@BrianJosephMorgan]

Bravo!

[@jonnarobinson7541]

I was fortunate enough to view the original footage of Nijinsky dancing this role. It was unbelievable. Everything else pales in comparison.

[@georgebarbosaesilva79]

Where bro?

[@LadyWamp]

Это которые восстановлены по фотографиям? Или реальный архив был?

[@adiksadiatabs]

why do people lie?

[@gregoryblaska1586]

There is NO original footage of Nijinsky dancing. There is a sliver of a clip of his standing on the street long after he left the Ballet Russes. What you probably saw are the cleverly morphed and "melded" stills from the ballet which give a near-convincing APPEARANCE of snippets the original choeographed movement. They've been circulating on KZbin and the internet for years presenting themselves as actual snippets from the actual historical performance. Fraudulent as they are, they are food for thought concerning how things might originally have appeared.

[@cliffhughes6010]

There is a clip on KZbin of Nijinsky's original performance in 1910. Parts of the performance are reconstructed from stills, but it is essentially exactly the same. Astonishing. And the music must be the most sensual and erotic ever written.

[@arminhanik4207]

The whole clip is created from stills. Not just parts. There IS no film of Nijinsky, Daliev made sure of that.

[@gregoryblaska1586]

There is NO original footage of Nijinsky dancing. However, there is a sliver of a clip of his standing on a street long after he left the Ballet Russes. What you probably saw are the cleverly morphed and "melded" stills from the ballet which give a near-convincing APPEARANCE of snippets the original choeographed movement. They've been circulating on KZbin and the internet for years presenting themselves as actual snippets from the actual historical performance. Fraudulent as they are, they are food for thought concerning how things might originally have appeared.

[@MrAdrianaangel]

A really good jumper in her day. This is an odd role for her.

[@Ballet-ester235]

Una joya!

[@HellenaAnt]

Лучшее исполнение! Браво!!!

[@fatovamingus]

It's just hard to watch.

[@АйаСулуу]

Вообще не то, Вацлав и Нуриев блестяще станцевали , а Майя танцует классику, это не тот стиль

[@violetta47]

He is amazing elegant

[@violetabugrova6513]

Старая плисецкая! 😢 И Charlie Jude не молод! И это очень видно! Они слишком возрастные для этой версии