Borodin - Polovtsian Dances Bolshoi Genius 1951

"Prince Igor", Polovtsian Dances Episode composed by Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (1833-1887) - Bolshoi ballet,1951, choreographed by Asaf Messerer, featuring Olga Lepeshinskaya and Vladimir Preobrahzhenski. Magnificent technique, choreography and performance by immortal artists of the Bolshoi.

[@QuickMadeUpName]

this is where words fail...Thank you for posting!

[@pushkin4894]

Hold on! This is Borodin's Boris Godunov. Not Prince Igor. The choreography for the Polovtsian Dances performed at the debut performance in around 1904 was created by Michel Fokine with Nijinsky and is the the standard version performed by the Kirov, now Mariinsky Theatre. The Bolshoi has done the Messerer choreography. Compare the two performances and Dance Companies. Both Genius. So different. Watching the 1951 performance above I feel I have died and gone to St. Petersburg, a trip I hope to make in this life to see the two Ballet companies.

[@walterbenjamin1386]

I'm confused by your comment. This is from a film of a concert from 1951 and is most definitely Prince Igor. Mussorgsky wrote Boris Godunov, which was then edited by Rimsky-Korsakov and later by Shostakovich.

[@vertigopull]

Which character did Nijinsky play?

[@billiecrouse8002]

The very best of the best Polovtsian Dances.

[@vertigopull]

Is Messerer's choreography a standard for Prince Igor? I mean, is it the same choreography still today?

[@HelgaMaq]

No. This is Kasian Goleizovsky"'s choreography. Now it isnot exist more in BT because Gergiiev dragged to Msc the SPb performances.