An excerpt from Act 3 of the Royal Ballet's Swan Lake (1980). Starring Sir Anthony Dowell and Natalia Makarova
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@rlatimer10 Жыл бұрын
Wow for both Markova and Dowell, but Dowell absolutely shone, what an incredibly elegant and memorable dancer he was. He and Markova brought a level of genuine acting and elegance to this ballet that is seldom seen today with the prevalent vulgar emphasis on gymnastics.
@minissa2009Ай бұрын
I had the great good fortune to see them together in this, Bayadere, and Giselle. Really a dream couple.
@simaraft737316 күн бұрын
Definitely one of the best productions and performances ever.
@____Ga Жыл бұрын
I just realised how talented she was. Amazing ballerina - she has everything: technique, artistry, musicality and beautiful look and proportions.
@minissa200916 күн бұрын
I have a 2nd generation copy of this, and especially in the White acts, her presence is so strong that you would swear she's a tall Balanchine-type dancer. You actually have to go out of your way to compare her to the corps dancers to see how tiny she is. I think in this generation with RB her height would actually have disqualified her from consideration.
@kyriaki49013 жыл бұрын
The amazing thing about this woman is that she was so passionate that she even knew where to look ,how amazing she placed her head,her face and eyes expressions are what made her so great,besides the fact she is a perfect ballet dancer,a one of a kind dancer❤🌠.no other dancer expresses herself the way she does❤
@ЛевладаРаевская6 ай бұрын
Великолепная Макарова с ее уникальным изысканным стилем! Каждое движение - произведение искусства!
@user-jc5ci8mp4u4 жыл бұрын
Makarova is a goddess! No one can compare with her in this ballet. She is able to cast a spell on everyone who sees her dance. And how she moves! She is floating!
@julannaml213 жыл бұрын
Look Uliana Lopatkina.she is the best of the best!!!she is top!!!
@etherealtb6021 Жыл бұрын
Agreed! I've never seen a better Odille. She's plays it flirty, fun, sexy and dangerous, not evil. She's also the sweetest and most innocent Odette. Truly, the most balanced White/Black Swan performance I've ever seen.
@talararuth4792 Жыл бұрын
Agree! A magnificent dancer, coach and person.. only rivals perhaps those she personally coached like Evelyn Hart.
@Artes20248 ай бұрын
Estoy de acuerdo con su opinión! Ella es una : Prima Ballerina Assoluta!!!
@EVZYL4 жыл бұрын
I saw them perform this very ballet in South Africa in 1976, sitting two rows from the stage. An unforgettable experience.
@juliaricks86984 жыл бұрын
God that chemistry!! And she's just the most incredible Odile, every movement no matter how small means everything in her interpretation. Like the way she moves her shoulder and she's so aware of her neck!
@emitch92133 жыл бұрын
What a moment to watch when a dancer meets that still center! All the years of perfecting. 🌹One word - Markarova! And wonderful Dowell as a consummate partner! ♥️
@etherealtb6021 Жыл бұрын
The best Odette/Odille I've ever seen. This should be required viewing for ballerinas first time playing those parts.
@valerieswindley86593 жыл бұрын
Oh Sir Anthony Dowell, the most elegant and perfect ´stepmeister¨ partner and performer- years of practice, again and again every day have made you the well deserved star that you are. xx
@VLind-uk6mb Жыл бұрын
He's fabulous. Did you notice that his grands pirouettes à la seconde were in the opposite direction to most dancers?
@Qwerty-db1js Жыл бұрын
@@VLind-uk6mb He's a left turner, wasn't he?
@YosvaniRamos-Ballet4 жыл бұрын
Out of this world both of them OMG
@nativevirginian83444 жыл бұрын
My favorite ballerina of all time. Thanks!💕
@rlatimer10 Жыл бұрын
Two legends! ❤❤❤
@Erin-el1gi2 жыл бұрын
She’s just breathtaking
@blanca1939 Жыл бұрын
Para mi la mejor version.
@elsaesteves2 жыл бұрын
Love love love love N. Makarova ❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣❣
@ewelinaszyktanc8733 Жыл бұрын
OmG! Odille's dance... Awesome! So light
@herrbrucvald63763 жыл бұрын
the violin and bassoon solos touch me to the bottom of my soul.
@v.britton44454 жыл бұрын
Dowell and Nagy were my favorite partners for her.
@dhurata122 жыл бұрын
She is amazing...what a technique and inimitable grace
@dariobb4954 Жыл бұрын
Her skillful ,was how she moved her arms as well as coordinate with her legs in swans lake pas de deux to
@maggieriley85255 жыл бұрын
Absolutely stunning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@chagorodriguez31275 жыл бұрын
Dos leyendas Mágicos Viva la lírica!
@pattymcintyre13504 жыл бұрын
Von Rothbart is waving his arms around like, she’s Odette, don’t let the black feathers fool you. Think of them as her evening wear.
@sandragreen93382 жыл бұрын
Yah...Von Rothbart crowding these two sublime dancers...interfering with/obscuring their exquisite shapes in space..I may be presumptuous in saying, but whose idea to have him hovering like that??
@minissa2009Ай бұрын
Wow, how do you have such a clear copy of this? Can you post the rest? This is, for me, the definitive production. No silly endings like Siegfried marrying Odile or both the lovers dying with no "resurrection" scene or only Odette throwing herself into the lake. Their recostumed nightmare with Von Rothbart looking like Quasimodo still had good Swan Lake-y choreography, although I think that production omitted the Moody Prince bit in Act 1. Thanks for posting!
@annicarbone66437 ай бұрын
Divina❤ Braccia "parlanti" ❤
@merrymuskrat7 жыл бұрын
great chemistry :)
@marialuisa42272 жыл бұрын
Beautiful 😍
@JohnDoe-lp2dz6 жыл бұрын
IMHO,, unmatched.
@kimdodd66772 жыл бұрын
😍🌹thanks Anne xx that's my exercise for the week xx brilliant
@pininfarinarossa81123 жыл бұрын
5:45 - Incredible! She spells pure magic...
@dmmchugh37143 жыл бұрын
Makarova: petite but powerful !
@v.britton44455 жыл бұрын
Only a few partnerships are as great as theirs
@salonivonnetoledo6 жыл бұрын
nunca vi tanta perfeccion extraordinario
@avesraggiana8 жыл бұрын
Perhaps not the most technically brilliant or secure Odile, but definitely the most dramatically gripping. Watch her eyes harden at 1:00 minute, as she faces the Prince for the first time. And again at 14:55 when she vanishes literally into thin air.
@attitude-devant95307 жыл бұрын
Technique? Aren't we talking about art? Nowadays technique is mistaken with over extensions and contortionims... that is NOT ballet dear, Mr. Aves. But THIS performance is... It is all that ballet is about. For more information: www.attitude-devant.com
@philipcondenzio10357 жыл бұрын
Bravo, to you!!!
@avesraggiana7 жыл бұрын
+attitude - devant. Oh, I’m completely with you, believe me. I just finished writing another post where I described how Makarova’s fouettes fell apart about halfway through, in the one live performance I was very fortunate to see her. But her indifferent fouettes were nothing, compared to the remarkable and thoroughly compelling reading of Odile that she gave. Bewitching, beguiling, menacing, her hold over the character of Odile and over her audience never wavering. I’ve watched many, many Odiles, including the vaunted Cynthia Gregory, Olga Chenchikova, Altynai Asylmuratova, Galina Mezentseva, Darcey Bussell and Uliana Lopatkina, to name a few. In spite of their stronger technique, none of them gave as riveting or as memorable performance as Makarova did on that night. Truly a singular theatrical experience, and this recording with Sir Anthony Dowell and the Royal Ballet captures a little of it.
@mingdynasty1126 жыл бұрын
The speed at which Makarova performs the entire pas de deux and the demands that places on her are what make this truly exciting and difficult to do. I think it's a masterful performance. I don't need stunt fouettes with double and triple pirouettes between fouettes that slow down the music to thrill me--that type of thing is just 7 seconds of pleasure--a kind of obscenity--we don't seek at the ballet unless we've arrived very late in the game and as "attitude-devant" says, represents "technique" that is "mistaken" for "contortions" of all kinds. Dowell was one of the greatest technicians of his day and is also completely present on stage and a wonderful partner. They do a marvelous Odile/Albrecht. Makarova has so many different interpretations of Swan Lake and I love seeing her so lithe and lean in this one. It's unusual for her and I think she's the bomb!
@etherealtb6021 Жыл бұрын
@@attitude-devant9530 Yes! Her technique is impeccable - except for a wee wobble on that solo arabesque balance.
@CharlotteinWeimar2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately this seems to have been compressed width-wise and the distortion makes everyone look taller and skinnier than they really are. Please can you correct this
@julizubkova81025 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@AlessandraSilva-wk1jr2 жыл бұрын
Lindóoooo demais um sonho
@theresa42213 Жыл бұрын
Consummate, consistent, and marvellous! What can you say about Makarova's dancing that is negative? :)
@conradmartinez417510 ай бұрын
YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING NEGATIVE SHE WAS THE "ULTIMATE ODILE"
@theresa4221310 ай бұрын
@@conradmartinez4175 ~ She didn't cheat with her fuoettes either. She did the full ones.
@conradmartinez417510 ай бұрын
@theresa42213 THANK YOU THAT'S RIGHT! BUT THE ARM MOVEMENTS LIKE WINGS, AND HER SASSY ODILE LOOK ON HER FACE WAS A GOOD ADDED FACTOR.
@rocco71317 жыл бұрын
Love Makarova, he have a dramatic intention in every role. Dowel excelent. But...are various and splendid etoile dancing black swan. Perhaps too many for to name in this occasion.
@casteretpollux2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful production and dancing. Wondering if Makarova was carrying a lower back injury - just a little constraint?
@conradmartinez417510 ай бұрын
NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNEW THAT. I NOTICED A FEW NEGATIVE COMMENTS ABOUT BALANCE MOVES AND LINE EXTENSIONS I HAVE SEEN HER AT HER BEST AND EITHER WAY SHE WAS THE ULTIMATE "ODILE"
@elisacantos2421 Жыл бұрын
I was so mesmerized that I did not notice, Sorry.
@vincentpacifico77644 жыл бұрын
meravigliosa
@AlessandraSilva-wk1jr2 жыл бұрын
Maravilhosa
@Dane_Youssef8 жыл бұрын
Of all the partners she ever really had, Dowell was perhaps the only one she ever really fell in love with. She had real genuine romantic feelings for him... but like many good men in ballet, he personally goes the other way. She was... somewhat broken. Huh. How many other ladies in the field of ballet personally really did go through this themselves?
@Qwerty-db1js Жыл бұрын
When exactly did she fall for him? Am really extremely curious to know 😬
@itsaboutlife98295 жыл бұрын
Came to his video to see how Makarova (whom I thought would be very precise) would sweep the leg back into attitude derrière at 1:17 only to find that she went with a développé. I wonder if she changed it because of that awkward moment going through 1st to get to attitude.
@lgomez32682 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!!
@elisacantos2421 Жыл бұрын
Where are the famous 32 fouettes?
@gudrunw72688 ай бұрын
11:50
@karenkaren31895 жыл бұрын
Too much of the big guy in the robe, got very distracted by him....but loved Dowell and Makarova.
@karenkaren31895 жыл бұрын
Dowell, especially....his partnering, his turns and jumps, the look of sheer joy on his face at 12:30.
@karenkaren31895 жыл бұрын
I always loved the sweet look of humble gratitude on Sir Anthony’s face when he acknowledged applause.
@karenkaren31895 жыл бұрын
He doesn’t look that muscular but apparently all his partners said he was as strong as steel.
@sandragreen93382 жыл бұрын
Exactly! The big guy in the big bathrobe: who invited him??
@gudrunw72682 жыл бұрын
that is Derek Rencher and he is playing Rothbart.
@petitsaule622 Жыл бұрын
In 16/9 please.
@nursegrace74925 жыл бұрын
So in the plot, why are they engaged in a dance off?
@FredMaus Жыл бұрын
It's how pas de deux work. The plot has to wait a bit.
@melenatorr9 ай бұрын
@@FredMaus But there's still some character work going on in how Siegfried expresses his joy in his solo, and how Odile builds on her persona and seduction.
@ketrinalehsina14472 жыл бұрын
Hei hei hei
@elisabetta36153 жыл бұрын
we don't see anymore cetain finesses...
@annakardar76876 жыл бұрын
Not a lot of warmth in this partnership and why oh why does she insist on holding that wobbly balance at 5.37 on much better to finish quickly and cleanly
@liobu30975 жыл бұрын
LID ROGERS The artist behind it is responsible for it. Makarova just follows what the choreographer wants.
@FredMaus Жыл бұрын
She is an imposter, wickedly fooling him, and I think her radiance with an undertone of malice is perfect here. Watch more to see how different her Odette is.
@scottfw1193 Жыл бұрын
Musicality
@Mrturytury16 жыл бұрын
I expected more from her technically..........
@matina_angel6 жыл бұрын
if this is the only thing you found to say by watching this, then you have no idea what ballet is.
@bw37473 жыл бұрын
@@matina_angel Technic has everything to do with it..
@matina_angel3 жыл бұрын
@@bw3747 actually Makarova is one of the best technical dancers ever, she can do the steps while doing the most difficult and expressing port de bras. So yes, technique is everything, and she has surpass it.
@Qwerty-db1js Жыл бұрын
I get what u mean. Her turns can be wobbly, but her intensity/stage presence and upper body movements are sublime.
@alielaliel39983 жыл бұрын
Ноги-да, но руки... Грабли
@user-mf3td9iw6f3 жыл бұрын
Обвисшие...
@vakhv24933 жыл бұрын
She doesn't have the energy, posture and those magical hands that Maya Plisetskaya had. Just one more confirmation that Plisetksaya was the best of the best.
@sandragreen93382 жыл бұрын
?? best perhaps for you...both great artists, but two different characteristic energies, personalities, eras, differing styles & training, different body types...
@Konstantin_Ledum3 жыл бұрын
Редакция Горского более красива ...
@serenitypeaceandcomfort36693 жыл бұрын
When I see her chest bones protruding it's so disturbing. Starving for art.☹
@VLind-uk6mb Жыл бұрын
She put on a bit of weight in the west and danced the better for it. But she has those wonderful Kirov arms -- best in the world.
@emitch92133 жыл бұрын
What a moment to watch when a dancer meets that still center! All the years of perfecting. 🌹One word - Markarova! And wonderful Dowell as a consummate partner! ♥️