Giselle Peasant Pas de Deux - 2006 - Emmanuel Thibault and Mirian Oulde-Barham

[@josemariafabianrodriguez5912]

Emmanuel Thibault a été le plus grand danseur français de ces dernières années. Il est dommage qu'il n'a pas été reconnue par les responsables de l'Opéra de Paris.

[@mikhailpekarovsky5928]

Good afternoon, Thank you for posting I saw Mr. Thibault , In my opinion is he the best . He deserve to be Etolie, It is very ad that he still principal dancer.

[@ballet701]

He has always been a favourite of mine.

[@Peter-CT]

He is wonderful. For anyone who wants an example of a "musical" dancer, he is it. Every aspect of the music, but especially the beats within a measure with or without rubato, is illustrated by his movements and phrasing. The music is deconstructed as he dances. For me, that quality of "musicality" is the bridge between the very good and the great. And phrasing, as in opera, is everything.

[@judithbooth4855]

Thanks for the comment -- and for subscribing --

[@judithbooth4855]

Have you seen this?? Emmanuel Thibault. Le Papillon 1/3. Paris 1994. He looks fairly young but I have no date --

[@Peter-CT]

judith booth No, I hadn't. But I have now. Super charming, the whole thing. Says it's 1994 and he's 19. I also got scattered.

[@judithbooth4855]

Oh cool -- and thanks for scattered -- not that it imminent but you never know -- I did post the entire Giselle from the POB if you have not seen it yet and I will keep my eye out for more Thibault. Any and all comments you wish to make are welcome but I am in dire need of an education on musicality -- just sayin'

[@hebcohen]

My favorite dancers for this wonderful pas de deluxe!!!

[@ukrainianballet_unofficial1344]

Light, beautiful, natural. He's an extraordinary talented guy. Always been. He makes the best PD3 from Pacquita EVER in my opinion :)

[@elizzy8754]

So true. Whenever I need a bit of a lift, I go and watch that Paquita PD3 - flawless, never been bettered.

[@mounie3941]

wwow he is miracle good.

[@judithbooth4855]

He is isn't he .. And see how musical he is .. Not just a jumper and spinner he feels the music, rides it flows through it .. Much of that is the training one gets at the POB .. Nureyev was an incredibly musical dancer!

[@bloodandwinearered]

Excellent. How refreshing. After T. Pas de deux by Balachine, this is the pas de deux I danced second most (38 performance a year of Nutcracker for 18 years excepted, for obvious reasons) I really liked this. Far more appropriate costumes, lighting and décor. His pas de chat in the entrada are "perfect" holding the turn out in the second leg and really reaching passe. His smile brings joy. His technique is excellent. Please note how he closes his asslemble fifth back in the air immediately at 04:07 Wonderful and most difficult at this point in the variation. Now note the very cute antiquity they put in. The very old preparation for his last pirouette in his first variation at 04:31. I can't tell you how this thrills me. He goes through 1st position and then does tondu FRONT to find his fourth to turn from. Oh the charm!

[@judithbooth4855]

Thanks. Glad you liked it! The test isn't for 2 1/2 months right? Lol

[@susannevollmer2347]

Myriam Ould-Braham is a beautiful talented ballerina!💐

[@好-c5s]

1:05　チボーはいいなぁ。すごく好きなダンサー。ウルドブラームも素敵です。7:05

[@reanimato1]

If i could take only one peasant pas to a deserted island with me, i would choose this one. I loved it in 2006 and i love it even more now. We will never forgive POB's administration for letting Emmanuel to retire as a principle (not as a etoile), will we?

[@magistrmga]

Great!!!!!!

[@jejerry535]

Emmanuel Thibault a pris sa "retraite" hier 13 juillet 2017 sous les ovations du public. Et sans jamais avoir été nommé Etoile. C'est incompréhensible et le public l'a bien fait remarquer par son ovation ô combien justifiée. www.francemusique.fr/actualite-musicale/melanie-hurel-et-emmanuel-thibault-ont-fait-leurs-adieux-la-scene-35823

[@balletfairy1938]

Wow he's good.

[@isamm5579]

First, thanks for uploading. Emmanuel Thibault was a marvel the POB never gave what he deserved. Is it for financial reasons (sponsorship)? when awfull dancers (male and female) have been promoted during the B Lefevre area? If it is for other reasons I don't see which ones. Today François ALU is receiving the same treatment, being a premier danseur since...2013, and being the best male dancer the POB has had for long. They should have kept Benjamin Millepied, (who named only one etoile: Laura Hecquet, which curiously does not dance a lot since AD is the new directrice de la danse). And A Dupont should do what she had said she would do when was going to retire : write books for children. The POB is going to die.

[@pediatrapaola]

HE IS GOOD

[@judithbooth4855]

He is -- thanks for posting -- like many dancers he has had a hard road -- he will be retiring soon and is still Principal not Etoile -- very sad................

[@pediatrapaola]

judith booth l know ,he deserved being etoile .

[@judithbooth4855]

pediatrapaola The story I heard about why he did not make Etoile is pretty appaling -- I won't go into it here since I am sure you have heard it as well -- sometimes I wonder about the POB!!

[@pediatrapaola]

judith booth l was told that was resposability of artistic director but nothing more

[@andrer.newcomb6516]

When they do these double dances the miracle is the guy . . . his strength and long limbs. They ought to do some rehearsing with 'her' behind him so that she can become VERY familiar with what's happening with him. There is often lack of synchronicity and HE'S the miracle that should dominate.

[@judithbooth4855]

For some reason YT marked your post as SPAM do not know why --

[@RahulKumar-qi8jv]

Can anyone tell me about the music at @06.00 ... cant seem to find it anywhere else...

[@alainspiteri502]

the only one j can known who made arrangements of ballets-music is John Lanchbery but it seems here an other ballet-music , dancers known but dont read Y Tube comments so impossible undersrand here .

[@alainspiteri502]

good question !

[@passionballettopfru]

they are just adorable! whose version is it? Thank you, Judith!

[@judithbooth4855]

This is from the POB the booklet that came with the DVD says "This DVD is based on the version performed at the POB in 1991 which is in turn based on the St Petersburg version of 1887 and was (adapted) by PATRICE BART and EUGENE POLYAKOV, two out-and-out Petipa specialists. The scenery is the work of Alexandre Benois from 1924; originally designed for Diaghliev's Ballet Russe, it heralded the re-emergence on Western programmes of the long absent Giselle and remains to this day the benchmark for the traditionalist version of the ballet."

[@passionballettopfru]

Thanks! I thougt of Patrice Bart. I like his La Scala version very much - with Ferri and Murru.

[@smithsthe8418]

04:50

[@Mercurio_volante]

Oh wow, he is impressive. But it's not a peasant dancing, it's a fairy.

[@judithbooth4855]

perhaps you could clarify this somewhat?

[@Mercurio_volante]

judith booth I found his dancing to be extremely light-footed, light-hearted and quick, as though he was from another world. In other "Giselle" I watched, the peasant dances were more heavy and slower. Maybe it's also because of the way the music is played.

[@judithbooth4855]

Thank you so much for that .. I think POB did not know what they had/have in Thibault .. Thanks again!!

[@PalacinkyPDX]

@@Mercurio_volante Being light-footed, and quick is what all the best classical ballet dancers aspire to. If you saw anything else previously, you attended a less-than premium performance. I've never seen this danced better than by Thibault, who was poorly used by the POB and whose artistry remains highly treasured even years after his retirement.