Suzanne Farrell, the last Goddess

[@ThirzaLynetteClarke-ku9dq]

I was fortunate to see her dance in Bloemfontein South Africa and she autographed my program which I still have at age 73 years

[@laimmaculata777]

Proud alum of Exploring Ballet with Suzanne Farrell - what a privilege to have been taught by an absolute legend. Peter Martins really seemed to envy her

[@Balletpro1]

I am very grateful to have known her in my early years because of my ballet teacher Romana Kryzanowska. Suzanne was always kind and genorous which only made her artistry more spactacular!!! My idol.......

[@Mr_Haze_NL]

Its 2023

[@jeffrytrefry2469]

I don't know ballet but I do recognize BEAUTY! Her lines are gorgeous, and obviously, Balanchine, was a genius! Thanks

[@mishabartofficialchannel]

She for sure is the NYC Ballet Icon, Beauty, Divinity and Goddess!❤❤❤

[@ChristopherIGomes]

SHE IS SO MAGICAL, MYSTICAL... I REMEMBER SEEING HER ON TV AS A KID IN MARYLAND AND WAS IN AWE... OF A WOMAN... WITH LONG FLOWING HAIR... DANCING WITH ARTHUR MILLER... IT WAS LIKE A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE FOR ME... GEORGE BALLANCHINE, TANAQUIL LECLERCQ, JACQUES D'AMBOISE, AND SUZANNE FARRELL ARE LEGENDARY DANCERS... I NEED A MOVIE ASAP!!! I WANT TO SEE ALL THAT HISTORY IN A THEATRE ON A BIG SCREEN... IT'S TOO GOOD OF A STORY, AND MY GOD, IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED... WHAT IS BETTER THAN THAT!!! #HOLLYWOODHEAVIES #LETSGO

[@kathymyers7279]

It hurts my heart to think how she paid such a price for being herself and then was cast aside and not valued. But she ran her own race with curate and deserves the honor (such as the Kennedy Center medal) she got. Always was and will be a class act.

[@beccakennedy311]

She is just stunning. Effortless beauty...

[@nan2kaye]

There’s simply no one .... & I do mean no one.... who has yet to match her extraordinary talent/beauty/serenity/natural ability/musicality/ ...she had it all ... in spades. I don’t think NYCB brought her back to coach after last year. But I’ve seen her coaching out in AZ for Tempe West. She’ll be 75 in August. A National Treasure. A World Treasure.

[@normamimosa5991]

Not true. Suzanne Farrell, highly talented and beautiful, and most importantly, from all the interviews with her that I have watched, a very nice, engaging, straight-forward, yet discreet, person - a spirit of inspiration; however, there are dancers in Russia who far surpass her in technique, line, flexibility, fluidity and clean, quick allegro when dancing Balanchine pieces.

[@kathymyers7279]

Nancy Kaye wt@ is wrong with those people

[@kathymyers7279]

Norma Mimosa she admitted to not excelling in one of these areas. Of not being a standout as far as technique. HOWEVER it’s NOT what Mr B saw in her. It’s not what she was KNOWN FOR and what made her a great dancer. I could say the same about Dame Margot or MAYA PLISETSKIYA

[@tarantellalarouge7632]

@@kathymyers7279 exactly, those beautiful dancers from the past, are maybe not matching the technicalities of modern dancers but their interpretations and artistic skills are still recognized by people who don't think that dance is a kind of gymnastic, a sport, it's an art. Sylvie Guillem loved Maia Plissetskaia because she knows what personality and interpretation means. For example, in the Bolero, from Maurice Béjart, even if Sylvie Guillem is astonishing, the version of Maia Plissetskaia is a "firework" to me.

[@running179]

Mr. Galante, I am SO happy now to know that Suzanne is back at NYCB, coaching Kowroski and Mearns in DIAMONDS. THERE IS JUSTICE after all!! That jerk is out, and she's back, and I hope that Wendy and Jonathan keep her around. This news has made my year. Are u happy??

[@Jayjen35]

SHE IS???? That is phenomenal! I am so glad to hear that!

[@spacetabby]

WOW!!! That's the best news from NYCB in, like, 30 years!!!

[@kathymyers7279]

Running 17 amen!

[@Qacc6]

Jayjen35 Yeah the NYT did a piece on her coaching sessions.

[@evelynlee9308]

She put her own unique stamp on every role!

[@mercygrrl]

Even hailing a bus on W74th St. [1:21mark, with an encore at 7:31]

[@user-vn7sj5ig8w]

Thank you for posting this video! I rarely see pictures of Ms Suzanne Farrell of her many dance pieces. Something about the Balanchine trust prohibits to show more. Beautiful!

[@kathymyers7279]

Still giving her the shaft...

[@marymohagheghi4875]

OMG adjust beautifully done … thank you🎉🎉🎉💐💐💐

[@pedinurse1]

I saw her perform several times in NYC, had no idea she was famous then. All the dancers there were so incredibly wonderful, I really could not pick a favorite. NYCBallet is was making history when I had season tickets

[@rd3271]

Reminds me of Audrey Hepburn. She too was a ballerina in he early years.

[@paxwallacejazz]

Had no idea just heard Fred Hersch jazz pianist wrote a piece inspired by her while recovering from a coma in 2009.

[@botquinbotquin4887]

Si vede subito, la classe, bellezza, talento, grazia,

[@jeffrytrefry2469]

She is to ballet what Casals was to cello and Dennis Brain was to french horn

[@mirta8091]

She's perfect

[@simaraft7373]

How very very beautiful

[@karenkaren3189]

Exquisite

[@karenkaren3189]

Thank you so much for posting this. Could you do one each for Gelsey Kirkland and Patricia McBride also?❤️

[@gforcestp]

No wonder He was obsessed with her.

[@user-kb6xn6ig7k]

An incredibly lovely montage. Who was the man at 05:57 ? Possibly Paul Mejia ?

[@BalletBabyBoy]

That's me...not Paul :). I worked with her at one point.

[@dancer2189]

Can you post her symphony in c please!!!!

[@dancer2189]

Miguel Sanchez oh my goodness!!!! Can you describe that night more? Was the whole audience crying ? Was she ? Ugh I’d love to know more!

[@running179]

@Miguel Sanchez OMG I was there that Saturday night also. My BF and I arrivedat the theatre slightly late & didn't know that Balanchine had died. We were so knocked out by the performance that we left the theatre afterward on a high, bought the Sunday NY TIMES, & rode the subway all the way uptown goo-goo-ing about how great the dancers had been before we got home & saw on the front page that Mr B had died. **Shock**. THEN we were like....WHOA, *that's* why they were dancing like that. Suzanne was incredible in Symph in C, 2nd movement.

[@samarabarzane3016]

I saw her many times at the State Theater in NYC both before and after her banishment because of her marriage to Paul Mejia. Balanchine just couldn’t share his Goddess. She was wasted at Bejart Ballet. I saw her at City Center Theatre and cried my eyes out. She was invited back without Paul, because she sold tickets. And, ironically, their son is now a soloist with NYCB.

[@harmoniabalanza]

Farrell is roughly of my generation. We grew up faster into real adult women than girls do now, if they do at all, and NYC was part of that. The aesthetic and social sophistication and seriousness if you were in that milieu was mind boggling. Understanding human nature, how the world worked, how to dress beautifully, the importance of art, what can I say? The distance between that sublime model and the infantile sewer garbage that passes for culture now is as vast as a few galaxies.

[@running179]

NICE video, Marcus!! Well done. Are you guys still living at 484?

[@running179]

OMG, it's Brandon. You don't remember me from SAB? Jesus!! @Marcus G

[@marcela2672]

Única

[@harmoniabalanza]

She was glorious, but to my taste there were several other ballerinas of her generation who were superior overall AS ballerinas. Gelsey Kirkland comes right to mind. She was a handful and she saw through Balanchine and the male powers that were didn't like that, but SHE had IT. To the NTH.

[@BalletBabyBoy]

Allegra Kent for one

[@kathymyers7279]

Who's the dude with the mustache?

[@BalletBabyBoy]

If you mean in Don Q it's Richard Rapp

[@kathymyers7279]

markie polo Thankyou. Lol

[@patriciafoster3347]

I don’t agree. There were a lot of goddesses. She was great but so was Gelsey. And many more.

[@BalletBabyBoy]

Yes it's true...Allegra was here today an old friend and a true goddess. Gelsey is insane...brilliant artist but nuts

[@ellenspear50]

So still photos all the way down? What is this? The photos are beautiful, but no narration, no information, no insight?

[@KateKahn]

The broken wrists are horrifying.

[@patriciafoster3347]

She was not a goddess. She danced modern dance . NOT ballet. She could t hold a candle to Gelsey Kirkland or Alexandra Ferri. Not even close.

[@BalletBabyBoy]

Kirkland was a drunk drug addict and Ferri was a bore