Ballet Evolved - Fanny Elssler 1810-1884

[@bubble8829]

Romany Pajdak is so very good in all these Ballet Evolved clips. She nails every style, so far as I can see.

[@elizzy8754]

True. She is a gorgeous classical dancer but she also has a special gift for the so-called character dances - Spanish, Hungarian, Polish, etc. Her épaulement and facial expression are exceptional.

[@RoyalBalletAndOpera]

We aren't sure precisely what the story was. What we do know is that this dance was first performed within a ballet called The Lady of the Lake in 1812 and then Fanny Elssler danced it in Le Diable Bateaux (1836) with choreography by Jean Coralli.

[@lefauteuilparesseux7971]

It spells le Diable BOITEUX

[@wrouillie]

I love the low sweeping movement with her hands, it is different.

[@paulagebhardt6018]

This dancer has a great facial performance as well!

[@MariellaOakesBooktopia]

that was absolutely lovely, loved everything and I am really in love with this series

[@myindigoblues5796]

I love watching Romany dance. She’s so engaging. Bravo 👏

[@radiantonion8615]

there are so many fabulous dancers at the Royal ballet. I haven't seen much of Romany but she's really lovely!

[@juliette3597]

Thank you so, so much for this entire series. I have been a fan of the Royal Ballet video series since the first videos emerged showing coaching of Odette and Carabosse. Thank you so, so much for documenting these histories for the dance world and presenting them publicly for free in such a professional and lovely way. I have shared them with many of my students and it's an enormous benefit to dancers for so many reasons. I love revisiting them, and each time I discover some new aspect.

[@richardcleveland8549]

Elegant - very elegant, indeed. There's a reference in one of the G&S operettas - "Gondoliers," I think - to dancing the Cachucca, which certainly represents the popularity of the dance in that period.

[@GiselleTolentino88]

This was great! Feels like I’m watching a time capsule in motion. That’s pretty special.

[@user-on6db4rf4s]

This is beautiful! I loved the torso movements, it added life and flow to the dance, unlike in my place where ballet is taught as a lifeless blocky thing made up of strict movements

[@juanjosefarina]

One huge problem with many ballet teachers... They think ballet has no torso movement, and it's so wrong. It has, and should have even more.

[@seasands9644]

juan Farina TRUE...

[@sarahkatecochran446]

Perhaps you grew up with a very strict method? I teach Ceccetti and we use a great deal of torso movement, but there is always more that can be done.😊

[@notyourtypicalwatchreview2563]

You’re being taught wrong.

[@lalrinnghetisonset9072]

Still watching now ❤️ love every magical movement

[@mrscuddlesworth]

The dance is very flirtatious.

[@BytomGirl]

Wonderful... and I LOVE this beautiful dress

[@katiekawaii]

Her expressions are captivating.

[@PieterHanja]

great series, with great dancers, thanks

[@altongrimes]

pretty Romany and beautifully done !

[@Carambanoazul]

It is a Romani dance, first adopted by the Spanish and interpreted in their style, and eventually caming to be known as “bolero” dancing, probably a Romani word itself, having to do with the word “bol/bolo”, meaning rythmic syllable, used profusely in Gipsy dancing across the world.

[@stefannydvorak7919]

@@Carambanoazul The name of the dancer is Romany...

[@williamwoolhouse3702]

I remember seeing Merle Park dance The Cachucca at a Gala at The Royal Opera House way back in the 70s.She bought the house down as you can well imagine.

[@TheFossilSisters]

Oh! She is just lovely!

[@mml0082]

She’s stunning 😍

[@ramaajagadeesan2400]

Wow how beautiful 👌🏻 she has such calm yet vibrant expression in her face that just blends so seamlessly with her swishing movements. 😊😊😊😊

[@aspid21]

This is fascinating, really love the series

[@kirachandesuu]

am i the only one who likes the long skirt(?)s more? like they look so swizhy and flowy >

[@carolinagonzalez4057]

I couldn’t stop starring at her facial expression and feet omg perfect dancer so magical

[@herrbrucvald6376]

I'd like to see Pajdak in an evening-length role. Beautiful. I've just read the choreography for the first 'white', Romantic ballet, the 'Ballet of the Nuns' in Act 3 of the opera 'Robert le Diable', was written down by Bournonville, the choreographer, in 1841. ...So when is the RB going to recreate this ballet??...

[@bogwitch268]

Hi, apologies for coming in a year late to your comment, but I'm doing my masters thesis on ballet from this period! Where did you find the ballet of the nuns choreography, I can't seem to get hold of it?

[@mary.bx19]

My name is Fanny for this reason

[@henkknaap3940]

Lovely danced !! The Royal Ballet does wonderful dance-education work !, with top quality !! Thank you for this.

[@26LGL26]

I think that it's Le Diable Boiteux instead of Le Diable Bateaux (wich means absolutely nothing). Romany is really beautiful in this. Thank you for uploding!

[@melikatalks7676]

Why is nobody asking about the shoes? What are those called? Why did they wear them? What are they made of? I have so many questions

[@Schokokuchnx33]

I love this Series :)

[@persuasionausten]

I agree! This series is great. :)

[@hurluby]

She supposedly had classes with the bolero dancer Dolores Serral, I think in Paris.

[@SilverInsanity]

I've seen a couple pictures of this piece, I think done by the Mariinsky Ballet (assuming it's the same thing?), and they always seem to be wearing character shoes. I guess it's just how it is.

[@jamjalll]

Great ! I 've thought that this choreography has desappeared

[@metacarpitan]

so good!!

[@mgabrielaestrada]

Wonderful work! Just a note. There is a typo on the dance variation's title of "La Cachucha" in the reference by Fanny Elsslers lithograph at the 0:16 mark (the "h" is missing after the "c," showing the title as Cachuca instead of Cachucha.

[@unaanguila]

Thanks for sharing!

[@sweetaliena]

Me too. There's a clip of Komleva doing La Cachucha with castanets.

[@nevroth]

Much like Escuela Bolera. Did Elssler study in Spain at all?

[@SpringerA1984]

Wow that's an odd drippy move. 🤔 Nice for a back stretch but almost vertigo in body shift. Interesting!!

[@sunnyballet]

brilliant

[@yutubero]

BRAVO

[@Dutchfruitjar]

I could have done ballet back then. Now days, "Ok, now down and touch your toes." Me, "Well, this was fun while it lasted." lol

[@KaiGraceSings]

What are those shoes? This question sounds rude but I swear I am curious as I've never seen dancing shoes like those

[@ainsliemarg7071]

kai varnals they are called character shoes!

[@juanjosefarina]

It maybe out of this little fragment of the seminar, but why you don't mention Friedrich Albert Zorn, his work in notation, and his book where you actually extracted the notated choreography for La Cachucha and showed it on screen ? I find it very insulting to his lifework, I really hope you do mentioned him but it got out of this fragment.

[@tammystiletto]

Would she have worn a corset back then??

[@ducadimantua1]

Steps alone won't do. I wonder why she is wearing character shoes and I wonder why she has no castanets.

[@lefauteuilparesseux7971]

感觉最后那一下好像样板戏的亮相…李奶奶

[@notyourtypicalwatchreview2563]

Considering the whale bone corsets of the time, I doubt Ellsler touched the floor.

[@Kolly_er]

clean pair of sneaks

[@LindaCasey]

I was Fanny Elssler ...

[@maryann83ify]

"..сначала он сыграл ей Качучу.."

[@stebembiandthetrees4523]

I fell asleep watching youtube. how tf did I get here...?

[@yvonnenc18]

UGH idk, this reminds me more of a Russian style🤔

[@MAGICDANCEPOPOVA]

Спасибо, очень интересно. Но у танцоров конечно уровень ниже русских и французов

[@kierralea6721]

I don't know anything about Ballet but I love the torso thing . It's very feminine