Ballet Evolved - Auguste Vestris 1760-1842

[@katiekawaii]

He has so much personality! I could watch him for hours.

[@Dancing4Me33]

He is ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful dancing. Just brilliant.

[@jenchantress13]

NOM

[@shirleykarrutheos7392]

Superb, Valentino certainly has that super something ie Talent. Delighted to hear Choreography is his niche. For ages I never understood why his Promotion to Principal was never forthcoming. Choreography is a tremendous skill in itself. All the very best Valentino. Even more reason to follow your career.

[@znamoperu]

This solo is difficult as hell.

[@MissEirinii]

OMG he is amazing! It's such a difficult solo!

[@princepeterwolf]

He makes everything looks so effortless and light =O

[@AskForDoodles]

That was such a sassy dance :D

[@RememberRox]

He is amazing! And his legs are so beautiful

[@ellicooper2323]

Let Michael Flatley beat that!

[@et4751]

Wonder how many piano students look at ballet and decide two hours a day surrounded by beautiful dancers was better than becoming a concerts or rock star 🙂 absolut best way to while away quarantine these videos 🤗

[@augustalavenderblue7353]

I don’t know, but as a ballet dancer I’m grateful :) the pianists who play for ballet classes are mind bendingly *insanely* talented. Teachers will just be like "tendus please" and then "uhhh a little bit faster with more of a 3/4" and somehow the pianist just like.....plays the song from nothing? It’s amazing to me

[@KawaiiStars]

​@@augustalavenderblue7353 i know right, they've got so much patience and are so talented 😭😭😭

[@kayleecromling7132]

toooootally thought he was going to fall....psyched me out so hard haha (p.s. that guy was a beast.)

[@carlosvisintin3154]

GREAT!!!It's very nice to learn about BOY ballet history =D

[@myindigoblues5796]

What a beautiful dancer. Wow, he’s so mesmerizing 😍👏🧡

[@LuizFilipeLucchiari]

Valentino is so musical. Love watching him.

[@miguelaltunagajr6379]

God knows how hard is that variation!! hands down to Valentino!

[@susanmulloy4059]

Was the focus on men rather than women dancers in the early stages of ballet? I really enjoyed this performance and it seems more interesting than a lot of men's choreography in the 20th century.

[@lakenvelder0pandora]

That was quite charming. :)

[@carlottabrianza7372]

he is so gorgeous and a pleasure to watch !

[@AlejandroGarcia-ek3uy]

Why can't the cameraman stay put? I hate it when he cuts half of the dancer's image.

[@kerrieabrown157]

Omg, just, ahhh.... I miss dancing and acrobatics, & YOUTH so, SO much! Yet watching this just makes me so grateful there are a bunch of such amazing young dancers, whose careers I get to watch with such JOY, I just know one day ..their names, will be the ones being talked about, also. I've been watching it and the others in the series and I'm just so excited for the younger generation, the next.. generation. ✌,💖& 💡, From Down Under!!🐨💫🌟

[@nelsonjoseperez-sosa8809]

He is such a musical dancer! Fantastic!

[@sharonkeogh7036]

Valentino is always excellent ❣

[@unaanguila]

How incredible! Thanks for sharing.

[@BrokenPointeShoes]

lovely! what a cool style of choreography.

[@beatapogorzelska1241]

A very good pianist.Underestimated usually.

[@hrh4961]

I've watched a lot of rehearsals on YT and the pianists at the ROH have been, without exception, superb.

[@dsanchezbrett]

Valentino! that was fantastic

[@marycrawley3828]

"le dieu de la danse" - no wonder Nurejew put those double ronds des jambes for himself everywhere!!

[@roliboom]

Amazing!!

[@gabooper]

I just studied Gaetan and Auguste Vestris in my Dance History class :)

[@МарияНиколаева-ч9в]

Bravo

[@baekondo6531]

the sass at 2:56 get it boii

[@ludovicleprinceroyal8721]

Who was the composer of this piece? Such an interesting period in the arts.

[@elenarodriguez9497]

Awesome!!!

[@sonata-md]

What's the name of the step in 3:17? I know it like grand soubresaut

[@moveandstretch9982]

Bravo!!!

[@Rafael-108]

Splendid! i don t know if that angst expression on the teacher just at the end was because of the dancer effort (preocupation about him and his satisfaction) or because of the last move,... that express from my point of view very well the Vestris´s egotistical part and that worried the teacher, so if it s like that, someone had to tell it: Don t worry, seem a good guy, he s not like Vestris Hehehe i don t know if it was this vestris or another, who said: " There is 3 important men in the world, king , napoleon, and me." I think even when a person dominates himself (In some points) and elevates his conciousness and technique he can seem as ugly as the begining when he only thinks in himself. So if the teacher was worried because he did vestris pose, nobody said it, i say it, he seems a good guy, dont worry. Hehe

[@SuperEfexor]

Bravissimo.

[@sian2337]

Wonderful

[@sleepysaiken3984]

HA i can do that!.........In my dreams. ;-;

[@mnmleung]

Could someone share the name of the piece and the composer, please?

[@Penumbras1919]

Bravo! Zuchetti!

[@RaeynaFicst]

wow.

[@FiorellaCalderonCardenas]

Me encsnts como vuela

[@ebsarnico]

bravoooo!! non sembra nemmeno che tu faccia fatica

[@hozde]

Very successful

[@marilynsitaker4198]

So tell me, ballet wizards, was this type of dancing the historical precedent for Balanchine's Tarantella? Or was that dance mainly folk dance inspired?

[@MMSPERTO]

ki coisinha bunitinha, poderia dançar aki na casa da mama.

[@herrbrucvald6376]

Fantastic dancer. These are the male soloists I appreciate most---completely masculine. There are famous male soloists around who project an off-putting effeminacy.

[@r.r.c7692]

What you call feminity is the standart of a noble dancer in 19th century russia. It comes from academic ballet. Here he's dancing the baroque style. And the so called "masculine" classic dancer of today are influenced by contemporary/modern ballet. Sorry for my poor english.

[@r.r.c7692]

The feminine/masculine perception of the dancer also depends of physical critieria. Valentino (which seem to be an awesome dancer, i discover him now) dont have a noble dancer body.

[@juanjosefarina]

I guess that's not the original choreography, right ? Seems too hard for that time, and I thought fouetté were done much later first by pierina legnani.

[@ejiroakamune6620]

juan Farina I believe it is the original, only perfected (or made popular) later

[@noblesetsentimentales]

Fouettés were not invented by Pierina Legnani, she was only the first one to do 32 of them on pointe. This solo is by De Valois as the ballet mistress said, but nevertheless the dancing for the man was highly technical as well at the time of Vestris, as his pupil Bournonville's choreography proves.

[@juanjosefarina]

@@noblesetsentimentales I think when I wrote this so many years ago I didn't heard that the choreograpy was by Ninette. I don't know yet anyway when tours fouettés were invented, if it wasn't by Legnani (I remember russian docs seem to think about her fouettés as something new)

[@noblesetsentimentales]

@@juanjosefarina They were likely referring to the series of 32 that Legnani introduced. Before her other Italian ballerinas, like Emma Bessone and Antonietta Dell'Era (the first Sugar Plum Fairy) were known for her fouettés, but they never did as many as Legnani in a row.

[@piznoctsauo8141]

Très dificil.

[@fitthickchic6732]

4:14 4:15 i was so scared he was gonna fall! Is that some kind of tombe?

[@nomadfromkarlsruhe8259]

It's called a ten du poisent (fish move) trying to imitate a fish jumping out of water

[@rosiebowers1671]

@@nomadfromkarlsruhe8259 *temps de poisson

[@nomadfromkarlsruhe8259]

@@rosiebowers1671 there we go. I guess I get an 'A' for effort. I never properly learned french pheonetics, so I always just guess

[@jowitajakubiak7341]

Amazing!

[@PaulKapow]

Wow.

[@hozde]

Very successful