Natalia Makarova 'Prelude' from 'Les Sylphides'

Perna na orelha, piruetas frenéticas, pé que coça a cabeça, salto incrivelmente alto. Será que são mais importantes que a suavidade e a leveza? Mme. Mararoka responde aqui nesse vídeo.

[@suzyanscombe8246]

My favourite piece of music. It is a really stormy evening tonight so I have come to the studio to learn this variation. I thought it looked like a lovely emotional, technically simple variation. How wrong I was. To make every movement fluid, gentle... and how hard it is to do a 45 degree arabesque as opposed to shooting the leg up to balance, and to come straight into 5th.... it is such a hard dance. Just hope I can dance it as a professional one day 💓

[@user-zo9es7bf2m]

Огромное спасибо! Невероятная балерина!

[@judithemtage7673]

Can't get enough of this, absolutely breathtaking. My favourite piece of music as well

[@gemmavice2243]

The control is amazing!

[@iomediastudio]

Makarova did this perfectly from face, hands, arms in time with the music and she is so beautiful as a swan swimming in a lake with a full moon! Chopin would cry at this perfect match of music and dance!

[@jinnyemelo4608]

io media studio I agree! 😘

[@mariarosariaditroia9624]

I agree ❤️

[@giuliorenzobighin8165]

Leggerezza estatica ed eterea in questa fluente decorrenza dei passi sulle punte in eundo della ballerina. Ottima riconduzione dei passi a musica in piena grazia all'euritmia melodica. MOLTO BRAVA E CONVINCENTE. BIGHIN GIULIO RENZO

[@charlesramos4294]

Beautiful!! ❤️🌹🌹My all time favorite classical piece by Chopin!

[@ballet_by_neila6606]

Absolutely gorgeous! Muito mais lindo que perna na orelha! Such artistry and fluidity of movements! Thanks for sharing! Obrigada por compartilhar!

[@user-zl3df2qw3g]

Волшебная пластика!!!!!!

[@user-mf3td9iw6f]

Божественная пластика!!! Как дуновение ветра и шелест листвы.

[@judithemtage7673]

Brilliant oh so sensitive and fluid

[@jayld5396]

Natalia Makarova is the archetype of the modern ballerina. She is the only Odette that I would recognize as brilliant , and the wrist are suppose to be flex, you people dont think she knows that? She is technically sound, yet, she transcends technique. She is living as if she is the character she performs. Being super flexible and having unreal extensions does not make a ballerina an artist.this is another example of brilliant performance, and lazy critique from haters and wannabes

[@Marta44339]

Very well said. thank you!

[@judithemtage7673]

Simply brilliant can watch it over and over again

[@kristinmoreno9203]

🌹Natalia Makarova is one of the Greatest of All Time Ballerinas. A True Legend🌹🌹🌹

[@gavrinmahaffey3656]

Exquisite!!

[@dennischiapello7243]

Perfection.

[@iomediastudio]

Just thought of another romantic story of a nymph entering a big window and visiting Chopin while sleeping, as moonlight streams into his bedroom...or maybe that's La Sylphide.

[@francinewaldman6206]

Correct...That's La Sylphide

[@mariaellis2882]

I don’t think there’s any story to this

[@mitzivirginiamichita5700]

Realmente

[@anniemihn]

These pedestrians criticising Makarova's port de bras. I pity them. :D

[@sedekiman]

Watch Fonteyn dancing this then you will see beautiful port de bras! Hers here are stiff and angular and she leaves her hands hanging not completing the line of the arm which I think is a common trait through the Russian School.

[@sedekiman]

Also to add, too much emotion is as bad as too little. Here it looks forced-less is more.

[@mariaellis2882]

@@sedekiman good point!

[@user-od8yi7lm3t]

Точно- Сильфида, именно такая

[@77057577]

La música per somiar

[@iomediastudio]

The sheer wings could maybe be attached to the arms as they move?

[@sedekiman]

David watch Fonteyn dancing the Prelude-beautiful simple port de bras and no dead hands. Michele he hit the nail on the head-look at the Russian trained-dead hands I call them.

[@philipcondenzio1035]

The only thing suffering from death is your brain.

[@frankfarrar4877]

Be constructive Philip. So easy to be aggressive and not give an opinion on what you see in this performance. True she was a great dancer but in this case not so much.

[@philipcondenzio5987]

That level of idiocy merits aggression.

[@sedekiman]

I suppose it is a case of none so blind as those that cannot see.

[@sedekiman]

No opinion merits aggression-too much of that in the world.

[@micheleellis8666]

Mr. You sound as though you don't know what you are talking about. Just the way you are wording things, like the way her wrists are shows how little you really know

[@sedekiman]

If you cant see that her port de bras are stilted, angular, and with a tendency to be broken at the wrist then I can't obviously get you to see that. Because you don't want to.

[@shvartze]

Very great dancer but she does not do this well. Her arms are student level in this video at best. Stiff and very bad wrists. This is simply not her repertoire.

[@mkhmedinaglobal2]

Your comments are totally invalid and show that you have no understanding of the Fokine style and Mariinsky heritage. Who are you to criticize a dancer that is 10 times greater than you ever were.....

[@anniemihn]

LOL

[@Orfeus3000]

You could very well be the first person in history to call Natalia Makarova's port de bras student level. I am actually dumbfounded at your comment. Are you a student dancer?

[@Marta44339]

Mr Sukonick, you can't be serious. If you don't like the dancer, don't watch the clip. And don't intrude on the enjoyment of others who appreciate it.

[@sedekiman]

You have to watch the dancer to give an opinion and as David said here her arms are not good in fact the whole piece is much too slow, styalised and lacking in smoothness from one enchainement to another.